Development Team Leader Contracts

Development Team Lead
UK

The median Development Team Lead daily rate in the UK is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 576 699
Rank change year-on-year +61 +123 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 5 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.014% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.015% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £612 £508 £563
25th Percentile £614 £584 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £775 £590
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% +31.36% +12.38%
75th Percentile £672 £838 £610
90th Percentile £681 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £624 £463 -
% change year-on-year +34.86% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.50 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Development Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Team Leader.

Daily rate trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Team Leader.

Hourly rate trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +55 4 £656 -15.32% 28
UK excluding London +63 3 £624 +34.86% 25
Work from Home +39 2 £675 -12.90% 19
London +37 2 £675 -15.63% 7
South East +46 1 - - 5
North of England +19 1 £638 +37.84% 10
North West +17 1 £638 +37.84% 9
Scotland - 1 £610 -

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Development Team Leader 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 featuring Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Captivate
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP