Lead Developer Contracts in the South East

Lead Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the South East is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 193 242
Rank change year-on-year +4 +49 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 13 32 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.57% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 12
10th Percentile £425 £473 £403
25th Percentile - £600 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £556
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +16.85% +14.10%
75th Percentile £769 £675 £606
90th Percentile £850 £688 £625
England median daily rate £644 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +5.10% +2.04% +9.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,204 5,592 7,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.30% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,891 5,110
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 238 336
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Surrey - 7 £500 -
Thames Valley -8 4 £638 -1.92% 2
Berkshire -9 3 £600 +18.23% 1
Hampshire -2 1 £415 -32.24% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 -
Sussex - 1 £450 -
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 South East region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 4 (30.77%) Batch Processing
1 4 (30.77%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (30.77%) Sequence Diagram
1 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Guidewire
1 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
1 4 (30.77%) UML
1 4 (30.77%) Billing
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Insurtech
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Logistics
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Kanban
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) BDD

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 4 (30.77%) Billing
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Batch Processing
1 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
1 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
1 4 (30.77%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (30.77%) Sequence Diagram
1 4 (30.77%) UML
2 3 (23.08%) Insurtech
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) BDD
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Logistics
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Guidewire
2 1 (7.69%) IFS