Lean Software Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lean Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Lean Software Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lean Software Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 390 442
Rank change year-on-year +60 +52 +64
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 6 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.043% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.051% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 19
10th Percentile £373 £383 £490
25th Percentile £434 £394 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £570
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -25.44% +23.24%
75th Percentile £530 £444 £670
90th Percentile - £448 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -18.00% +6.38% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £33.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Lean Software Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Lean Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Lean Software Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London

Lean Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London

Lean Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lean Software Development in the UK excluding London

Lean Software Development
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 Lean Software Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +45 4 £478 +12.47% 23
Midlands +22 1 - - 15
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
East of England - 1 £530 - 12
Lean Software Development
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Lean Software Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) ObjectStore
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Celery
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
3 3 (50.00%) User Research
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ITGC
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Palantir
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle