Lead Developer Contracts in the North of England

Lead Developer
England > North of England

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the North of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 169 176
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 15 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.32% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.34% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 25
10th Percentile £493 £384 £410
25th Percentile £513 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £733 - £688
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +131.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,120 4,377 5,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.01% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,062 2,718 3,703
10th Percentile £236 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £595
90th Percentile £638 £671 £688
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 425 159
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.07 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.34 £12.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.36 £22.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -25.00% +54.16%
75th Percentile £46.89 £46.91 £48.29
90th Percentile £74.38 £64.50 £65.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +14 8 £525 -19.23% 14
North West +11 7 £675 +31.71% 45
North East +1 1 £635 - 6
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Node.js
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) Java
4 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) Docker
5 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 4 (26.67%) Spring
6 4 (26.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 4 (26.67%) Jest
6 4 (26.67%) BDD
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (20.00%) Serverless
8 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 2 (13.33%) DevOps
8 2 (13.33%) Unix
8 2 (13.33%) Git
8 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
8 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
8 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (6.67%) User Research

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Camunda
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Node.js
2 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (26.67%) Jest
3 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) CSS3
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) HTML5
4 1 (6.67%) jBPM
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) BDD
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) TDD
2 4 (26.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (6.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (6.67%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Control-M
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Istio
1 1 (6.67%) Kiali
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk
1 1 (6.67%) TIBCO
1 1 (6.67%) xMatters