Lean Software Development Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lean Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Lean Software Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 353 405
Rank change year-on-year -18 +52 +96
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 9 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.068% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.082% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 14
10th Percentile £429 £410 £504
25th Percentile £430 £483 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% -1.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £453 £585 £588
90th Percentile £499 £599 £596
UK median daily rate £437 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -19.86% -5.22% -2.54%

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 13,610 14,676 19,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.16% 83.18% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,179 8,413 12,589
10th Percentile £235 £243 £262
25th Percentile £369 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,177 1,276
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +81.70%
75th Percentile £41.82 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £74.60 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.09% -0.72% +48.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lean Software Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lean Software Development

Lean Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lean Software Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lean Software Development

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 22 September 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
Midlands - 4 £430 -
West Midlands - 4 £430 -
South East +11 3 £444 -17.87% 13
Scotland - 1 £450 - 1
East of England - 1 £530 -
Lean Software Development
UK

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 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) JBoss
1 4 (44.44%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Eclipse
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) IntelliJ
1 4 (44.44%) JUnit
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Open Source Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior PMO
2 1 (11.11%) Senior PMO Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) EJB
1 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) HTML5
1 4 (44.44%) J2EE
1 4 (44.44%) J2SE
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) Play Framework
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) SOAP
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
1 4 (44.44%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
4 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Open Source
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Kanban
7 2 (22.22%) Coaching
7 2 (22.22%) Information Security
7 2 (22.22%) Network Design
7 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) Scala
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ITGC
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) webMethods
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Palantir
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow