Lead Software Developer Contracts in the North of England

Lead Software Developer
England > North of England

The median Lead Software Developer daily rate in the North of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 - 199
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.051% - 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% - 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £564
25th Percentile £513 - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +721.43%
75th Percentile £538 - £584
90th Percentile - - £586
England median daily rate £800 £825 £575
% change year-on-year -3.03% +43.48% -17.86%

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 3,627 3,842 5,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.22% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,329 2,369 3,435
10th Percentile £251 £263 £263
25th Percentile £367 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 283 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.50 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.54 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +14.29% +30.40%
75th Percentile £46.65 £51.89 £44.64
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £56.24
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the North of England

Lead Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Software Developer in the North of England

Lead Software 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 Software Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 - 2 £525 - 4
Lead Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Lead Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

Lead Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker