Lead Software Developer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Lead Software Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Software Developer daily rate in Manchester is £572, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £542 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile £574 - -
North West median daily rate £572 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,179 966 1,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.70% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 611 1,086
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £381 £396 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -2.81%
75th Percentile £570 £565 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 31 78
10th Percentile £18.26 £15.90 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.25 £13.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +64.56% -51.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £33.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £60.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £29.52 £29.50
% change year-on-year +42.10% +0.05% +13.46%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Software Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Lead Software Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Lead Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Software Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Software Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Lead Software Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DocumentDB
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Mocha
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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