Lead Developer Contract Job Trends in Swansea
Lead Developer
West Wales > Swansea
The median Lead Developer daily rate in Swansea is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 8 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 17 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract Lead Developer jobs | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Swansea | 1.89% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 2.08% | - | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | - | - |
| West Wales median daily rate | £500 | - | - |
All Contract IT Job Roles
Swansea
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in Swansea matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 8 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in Swansea matching a recognised job title | 48 | 28 | 28 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 90.57% | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 42 | 25 | 26 |
| 10th Percentile | £363 | £194 | £173 |
| 25th Percentile | £383 | £206 | £436 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £425 | £475 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -10.53% | -5.00% | +122.22% |
| 75th Percentile | £500 | £488 | £550 |
| 90th Percentile | £573 | £638 | £575 |
| West Wales median daily rate | £425 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | -10.53% | -5.00% | +122.22% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £16.65 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £16.01 | £17.06 | £21.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £17.12 | £18.50 | £22.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -7.49% | -17.78% | +45.96% |
| 75th Percentile | £18.22 | £19.38 | £23.75 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £19.45 | - |
| West Wales median hourly rate | £17.40 | £17.63 | £22.50 |
| % change year-on-year | -1.28% | -21.67% | +45.96% |
Lead Developer Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Lead Developer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.
Lead Developer Daily Rate Trend in Swansea
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Developer job vacancies in Swansea.
Lead Developer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea
For the 6 months to 8 November 2026, Lead Developer contract job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract Lead Developer job ads across the Swansea region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agile | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Amazon EKS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Amazon RDS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Amazon S3 | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Amazon SQS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Batch Processing | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Bitbucket | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | CI/CD | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Confluence | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Database Tuning | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Grafana | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Incident Response | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Infrastructure as Code | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Java | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | JIRA | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | JPA | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Kanban | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Mentoring | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Migration | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Observability | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Open Source | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | PostgreSQL | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | SC Cleared | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Scrum | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Security Cleared | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Service Migration | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | SOAP | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Splunk | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Spring | 100.0% | 1 |
Lead Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lead Software Developer | 100.0% | 1 |