Lead Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Lead Developer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 160 171
Rank change year-on-year +37 +11 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 10 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.12% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.13% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 19
10th Percentile £503 £566 £383
25th Percentile £600 £572 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +25.00% +27.50%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £540
90th Percentile £679 £736 £635
England median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,507 3,198 4,784
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 94.70% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,252 3,504
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £328 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 124 167
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.15 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.07 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.36 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.18
90th Percentile £52.45 £62.75 £34.70
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
West Midlands +33 10 £650 -3.70% 7
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Git
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (20.00%) NUnit
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Moq
4 2 (20.00%) SonarCloud
4 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Code Quality

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Moq
2 2 (20.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) SOA
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce