Development Team Leader Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Development Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Team Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 337 394
Rank change year-on-year -90 +57 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.023% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.025% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £611 -
25th Percentile £635 £612 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £624 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +34.86% -15.91%
75th Percentile £645 £645 £469
90th Percentile - £652 -
UK median daily rate £575 £638 £775
% change year-on-year -9.80% -17.74% +31.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £82.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 21,745 11,824 19,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 92.32% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,798 7,606 11,835
10th Percentile £275 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £598
90th Percentile £678 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,409 820 2,214
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £15.66
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%

Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Development Team Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Development Team Leader job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Development Team Leader
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Development Team Leader job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Development Team Leader job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Development Team Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Development Team Leader job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Development Team Leader job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Development Team Leader
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Team Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
Midlands - 2 £640 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £640 -
Development Team Leader
UK

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, Development Team Leader contract job roles required 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform