Lead Developer Contracts in Manchester

Lead Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Manchester is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 106 124
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 4 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.26% 0.58% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.60% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £534 £408 £400
25th Percentile £548 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% -20.00% +27.27%
75th Percentile £650 £430 £538
90th Percentile - £442 £588
North West median daily rate £550 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +30.95% -20.00% +23.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,470 1,836 2,512
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.70% 96.63% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,368 1,976
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £394 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £655 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 56 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.13 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £47.81 £22.90
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Manchester

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in Manchester

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in Manchester

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Altrincham - 1 £563 - 1
Lead Developer
North West

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) JPA
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) AWS SAM
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform