Lean Software Development Contract Job Trends in London

Lean Software Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Lean Software Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 362 380
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +139
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% 0.007% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.008% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £543
25th Percentile - - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile - - £656
90th Percentile - - £668
England median daily rate £430 £540 £588
% change year-on-year -20.46% -8.09% -2.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Lean Software Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,144 12,678 15,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.30% 90.34% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,697 8,106 11,397
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 261
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.01%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.45 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

Lean Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lean Software Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Lean Software Development job vacancy trend in London

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Lean Software Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Lean Software Development

Lean Software Development
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Software Development within the London region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 1 - - 1
Lean Software Development
England

Lean Software Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Development Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Digital Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Development Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow