Lean Software Development Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Lean Software Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Lean Software Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 120 134
Rank change year-on-year -56 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.053% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.059% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £645 - -
England median daily rate £540 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - - £33.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,236 1,698 2,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.29% 89.27% 82.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,042 1,118 1,517
10th Percentile £290 £202 £234
25th Percentile £400 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +2.70% -3.65%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £678 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £14.14
Median hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -14.70% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.83 £37.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £35.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

Lean Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Lean Software Development job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Software Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in the Midlands

Lean Software Development
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 Lean Software Development within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
West Midlands - 11 £430 - 1
Lean Software Development
England

Lean Software Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Apache
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
1 8 (72.73%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Eclipse
1 8 (72.73%) Git
1 8 (72.73%) IntelliJ
1 8 (72.73%) JUnit
1 8 (72.73%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Development Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Python Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Software Development Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Software Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) EJB
1 8 (72.73%) Hibernate
1 8 (72.73%) HTML
1 8 (72.73%) HTML5
1 8 (72.73%) J2EE
1 8 (72.73%) J2SE
1 8 (72.73%) JSON
1 8 (72.73%) Play Framework
1 8 (72.73%) REST
1 8 (72.73%) SOAP
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
1 8 (72.73%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Educational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (90.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (90.91%) Mentoring
3 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure Automation
3 9 (81.82%) Microservices
3 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
4 8 (72.73%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (72.73%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (72.73%) Open Source
4 8 (72.73%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) AI
6 2 (18.18%) B2B
6 2 (18.18%) B2C
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Puppet
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) webMethods