Lead Developer Contracts in the South West

Lead Developer
England > South West

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the South West is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 166 159
Rank change year-on-year +18 -7 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 2 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.062% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £559 £494
25th Percentile £538 £610 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £573
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.54% +11.71%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £590
90th Percentile - - £685
England median daily rate £636 £600 £608
% change year-on-year +6.04% -1.23% +10.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,002 3,405 3,579
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 92.33% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,949 2,544 2,545
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £706 £713 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 282 197
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.50 £51.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.60 £83.75 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the South West

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the South West

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the South West

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bristol +12 2 £575 - 3
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 West region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SAP