Lead Developer Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Lead Developer was £500 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Lead Developer UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	382	368	368
Rank change year-on-year	-14	0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer	237	311	305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.50%	0.58%	0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.53%	0.61%	0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted	166	217	218
Median daily rate	£500	£478	£488
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.71%	-2.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£390	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£450
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	0
Median hourly rate	£55.00	£33.50	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+64.17%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£55.00	£33.50	-
% change year-on-year	+64.17%	-

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44656	51218	52310
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.78%	94.87%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	28833	33387	32903
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£245
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£568
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1389	1533	1989
Median hourly rate	£18.10	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.42%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.44	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.50	£16.14
% change year-on-year	-	+8.42%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Lead Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the UK

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Lead Developer.

Contractor daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the UK

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Lead Developer over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the UK

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the UK

Lead Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-36	226	£513	+7.89%	187
London	-3	152	£530	-3.63%	91
City of London	+17	35	£600	+9.09%	24
South East	0	19	£525	-	29
East of England	+9	14	£613	+25.64%	8
Scotland	+40	10	£450	-10.00%	4
South West	+8	9	£405	-11.95%	17
North West	+3	9	£355	-19.08%	17
West Midlands	-16	8	£523	+25.97%	8
Essex	-	8	£613	-	1
Manchester	+11	7	£355	-16.47%	13
Berkshire	+27	6	£525	+5.00%	4
Edinburgh	+25	5	£388	+3.33%	1
Yorkshire	+21	5	£438	-2.77%	13
Somerset	0	5	£403	-	2
Oxfordshire	-3	5	£600	-7.83%
East Midlands	-6	5	£425	-5.55%	3
Glasgow	-	5	£450	-	3
Reading	+22	4	£525	+5.00%
Telford	+3	4	£550	+32.53%
Shropshire	-1	4	£550	+32.53%
Hertfordshire	-3	4	-	-	4
Oxford	-	4	£600	-
Derbyshire	-12	3	£425	-5.55%
Taunton	-	3	£400	-	1
York	-	3	£438	-
North Yorkshire	-	3	£438	-
Midlands	-	3	-	-	12
Worthing	+8	2	-	-
Hampshire	+6	2	£513	+2.50%	7

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, Lead Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1	221 (46.82%)	Agile Software Development
2	169 (35.81%)	Java
3	162 (34.32%)	JavaScript
4	136 (28.81%)	.NET
5	127 (26.91%)	HTML
6	120 (25.42%)	TDD
7	110 (23.31%)	C#
8	109 (23.09%)	CSS
9	96 (20.34%)	Finance
10	85 (18.01%)	Scrum
10	85 (18.01%)	AngularJS
11	82 (17.37%)	Git (software)
12	79 (16.74%)	SQL
13	74 (15.68%)	MVC
14	72 (15.25%)	HTML5

15	61 (12.92%)	SQL Server
16	59 (12.50%)	Web Services
17	57 (12.08%)	Banking
17	57 (12.08%)	DevOps
17	57 (12.08%)	Greenfield Project
18	55 (11.65%)	ASP.NET
19	53 (11.23%)	Node.js
20	52 (11.02%)	Spring
21	50 (10.59%)	Continuous Integration
21	50 (10.59%)	SOA
21	50 (10.59%)	User Experience
22	49 (10.38%)	XML
23	48 (10.17%)	CSS3
24	47 (9.96%)	React
24	47 (9.96%)	Oracle

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	25 (5.30%)	CMS
2	17 (3.60%)	Elasticsearch
2	17 (3.60%)	Oracle SOA Suite
3	14 (2.97%)	Apache
4	12 (2.54%)	SharePoint
5	10 (2.12%)	Apache Spark
5	10 (2.12%)	Mule
6	9 (1.91%)	Sitecore CMS
7	8 (1.69%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	8 (1.69%)	Confluence
7	8 (1.69%)	WebSphere
8	7 (1.48%)	Oracle Service Bus
9	6 (1.27%)	Drupal
9	6 (1.27%)	NServiceBus
9	6 (1.27%)	WebLogic
10	5 (1.06%)	EPiServer
10	5 (1.06%)	JBoss
10	5 (1.06%)	nginx
10	5 (1.06%)	Tomcat
10	5 (1.06%)	WordPress

Applications
1	8 (1.69%)	Photoshop
2	5 (1.06%)	Microsoft Office
3	2 (0.42%)	Adobe Illustrator
3	2 (0.42%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.21%)	Doxygen
4	1 (0.21%)	GIMP

Business Applications
1	16 (3.39%)	Dynamics CRM
2	12 (2.54%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.85%)	Eloqua
4	2 (0.42%)	Dynamics NAV
4	2 (0.42%)	Magento
4	2 (0.42%)	Shopify
4	2 (0.42%)	Siebel CRM
5	1 (0.21%)	ION MarketView
5	1 (0.21%)	Oracle Applications
5	1 (0.21%)	Oracle BPM
5	1 (0.21%)	SAP CO
5	1 (0.21%)	SAP FI
5	1 (0.21%)	SAP FI/CO
5	1 (0.21%)	SAP S/4HANA
5	1 (0.21%)	SessionCam
5	1 (0.21%)	Social Studio

Cloud Services
1	43 (9.11%)	Microsoft Azure
2	31 (6.57%)	Amazon AWS
3	14 (2.97%)	GitHub
4	10 (2.12%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
5	5 (1.06%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
6	4 (0.85%)	SaaS
7	3 (0.64%)	Amazon EC2
8	2 (0.42%)	Amazon S3
8	2 (0.42%)	CloudFront
8	2 (0.42%)	Route 53
9	1 (0.21%)	Adobe Analytics
9	1 (0.21%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	1 (0.21%)	CloudSense
9	1 (0.21%)	Dynamics 365
9	1 (0.21%)	Google Analytics
9	1 (0.21%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	1 (0.21%)	IaaS
9	1 (0.21%)	TestFlight

Communications & Networking
1	14 (2.97%)	HTTP
2	11 (2.33%)	Internet
3	5 (1.06%)	DNS
4	4 (0.85%)	Firewall
4	4 (0.85%)	SSL
5	3 (0.64%)	TCP/IP
6	2 (0.42%)	HTTPS
7	1 (0.21%)	Asterisk PBX
7	1 (0.21%)	Skype
7	1 (0.21%)	Unified Communications
7	1 (0.21%)	X.509

Database & Business Intelligence
1	61 (12.92%)	SQL Server
2	43 (9.11%)	NoSQL
3	36 (7.63%)	MongoDB
4	22 (4.66%)	Big Data
5	20 (4.24%)	MySQL
5	20 (4.24%)	Relational Database
6	17 (3.60%)	Data Warehouse
7	14 (2.97%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	12 (2.54%)	Apache Cassandra
8	12 (2.54%)	Hadoop
8	12 (2.54%)	QlikView
8	12 (2.54%)	SQL Server Integration Services
9	11 (2.33%)	PostgreSQL
10	10 (2.12%)	Oracle Database
10	10 (2.12%)	SQL Server 2012
11	9 (1.91%)	SQL Server 2008
12	8 (1.69%)	Hazelcast
12	8 (1.69%)	Oracle Database 11g
13	5 (1.06%)	Apache Hive
13	5 (1.06%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	82 (17.37%)	Git (software)
2	29 (6.14%)	JIRA
3	25 (5.30%)	Jenkins
4	24 (5.08%)	JUnit
4	24 (5.08%)	Visual Studio
5	21 (4.45%)	Maven
6	19 (4.03%)	gulp
6	19 (4.03%)	Subversion
6	19 (4.03%)	Team Foundation Server
7	18 (3.81%)	Mockito
8	16 (3.39%)	Eclipse
8	16 (3.39%)	Grunt
8	16 (3.39%)	Selenium
8	16 (3.39%)	TeamCity
9	12 (2.54%)	Cucumber
10	9 (1.91%)	Atlassian Bamboo
10	9 (1.91%)	Bitbucket
10	9 (1.91%)	Gradle
11	8 (1.69%)	Mocha
12	6 (1.27%)	Jasmine

General
1	96 (20.34%)	Finance
2	57 (12.08%)	Banking
3	34 (7.20%)	Marketing
4	27 (5.72%)	Front Office
5	19 (4.03%)	Investment Banking
6	13 (2.75%)	Telecoms
7	12 (2.54%)	Electronics
7	12 (2.54%)	Manufacturing
8	9 (1.91%)	Retail
9	7 (1.48%)	Advertising
10	5 (1.06%)	Financial Institution
11	4 (0.85%)	Games
12	3 (0.64%)	Automotive
12	3 (0.64%)	Legal
12	3 (0.64%)	Publishing
13	2 (0.42%)	Pharmaceutical
13	2 (0.42%)	Wholesale Banking
14	1 (0.21%)	Back Office
14	1 (0.21%)	Law
14	1 (0.21%)	Local Government

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	136 (28.81%)	.NET
2	127 (26.91%)	HTML
3	109 (23.09%)	CSS
4	85 (18.01%)	AngularJS
5	72 (15.25%)	HTML5
6	59 (12.50%)	Web Services
7	55 (11.65%)	ASP.NET
8	53 (11.23%)	Node.js
9	52 (11.02%)	Spring
10	49 (10.38%)	XML
11	48 (10.17%)	CSS3
12	47 (9.96%)	React
13	45 (9.53%)	jQuery
13	45 (9.53%)	RESTful
14	41 (8.69%)	JSON
15	38 (8.05%)	REST
16	36 (7.63%)	SOAP
17	33 (6.99%)	ASP.NET Web API
18	31 (6.57%)	ASP.NET MVC
19	30 (6.36%)	Sass

Miscellaneous
1	57 (12.08%)	Greenfield Project
2	50 (10.59%)	User Experience
3	25 (5.30%)	Fixed Income
3	25 (5.30%)	Mobile App
4	23 (4.87%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
5	17 (3.60%)	Equities
6	16 (3.39%)	Derivative
7	14 (2.97%)	Enterprise Software
7	14 (2.97%)	Virtual Team
8	12 (2.54%)	Computer Science
9	7 (1.48%)	Client/Server
10	6 (1.27%)	Algorithms
10	6 (1.27%)	Analytical Skills
10	6 (1.27%)	Equity Derivative
11	5 (1.06%)	Fintech
11	5 (1.06%)	Hedge funds
11	5 (1.06%)	Linux Command Line
11	5 (1.06%)	Management Information System
12	4 (0.85%)	iPad
12	4 (0.85%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	43 (9.11%)	Linux
2	28 (5.93%)	Android
3	26 (5.51%)	Unix
4	16 (3.39%)	Windows
5	12 (2.54%)	Apple iOS
6	9 (1.91%)	Mac OS X
7	2 (0.42%)	Oracle Linux
7	2 (0.42%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	1 (0.21%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	221 (46.82%)	Agile Software Development
2	120 (25.42%)	TDD
3	85 (18.01%)	Scrum
4	74 (15.68%)	MVC
5	57 (12.08%)	DevOps
6	50 (10.59%)	Continuous Integration
6	50 (10.59%)	SOA
7	46 (9.75%)	Front End Development
8	44 (9.32%)	BDD
9	41 (8.69%)	Data Modelling
9	41 (8.69%)	Microservices
10	34 (7.20%)	Business Intelligence
10	34 (7.20%)	E-Commerce
11	32 (6.78%)	Mentoring
11	32 (6.78%)	Open Source
12	29 (6.14%)	Test Automation
13	28 (5.93%)	OO
14	27 (5.72%)	Web Development
15	26 (5.51%)	CRM
16	25 (5.30%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	169 (35.81%)	Java
2	162 (34.32%)	JavaScript
3	110 (23.31%)	C#
4	79 (16.74%)	SQL
5	28 (5.93%)	Python
6	20 (4.24%)	Scala
7	16 (3.39%)	Ruby
8	15 (3.18%)	ES6
8	15 (3.18%)	Shell Script
9	12 (2.54%)	C++
9	12 (2.54%)	PHP
10	10 (2.12%)	VB.NET
11	9 (1.91%)	Apex Code
11	9 (1.91%)	C
11	9 (1.91%)	T-SQL
11	9 (1.91%)	XPath
12	8 (1.69%)	SOQL
13	6 (1.27%)	Objective-C
13	6 (1.27%)	PowerShell
13	6 (1.27%)	TypeScript

Qualifications
1	23 (4.87%)	Security Cleared
2	20 (4.24%)	Degree
3	12 (2.54%)	SC Cleared
4	6 (1.27%)	Microsoft Certification
5	3 (0.64%)	BPSS Clearance
5	3 (0.64%)	Computer Science Degree
5	3 (0.64%)	MCITP
5	3 (0.64%)	MCSE
6	2 (0.42%)	HNC
6	2 (0.42%)	Master's Degree
6	2 (0.42%)	Oracle Certification
7	1 (0.21%)	CFA
7	1 (0.21%)	DBS Check
7	1 (0.21%)	DV Cleared
7	1 (0.21%)	MCP
7	1 (0.21%)	Postgraduate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (4.45%)	QA
2	14 (2.97%)	MiFID
3	9 (1.91%)	Data Quality
4	3 (0.64%)	ISO 14001
4	3 (0.64%)	ISO 9001
5	2 (0.42%)	EMIR
6	1 (0.21%)	ISO 20022

System Software
1	23 (4.87%)	Docker
2	3 (0.64%)	Apache ZooKeeper
3	2 (0.42%)	Apache Flume
3	2 (0.42%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	1 (0.21%)	Active Directory
4	1 (0.21%)	Oracle RAC
4	1 (0.21%)	Varnish
4	1 (0.21%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	8 (1.69%)	Kibana
2	6 (1.27%)	Puppet
3	5 (1.06%)	MOM
3	5 (1.06%)	Opscode Chef
4	4 (0.85%)	Ansible
4	4 (0.85%)	Kubernetes
5	3 (0.64%)	cPanel
5	3 (0.64%)	Oozie
6	2 (0.42%)	Nagios
6	2 (0.42%)	Oracle Identity Management
6	2 (0.42%)	vRealize
7	1 (0.21%)	Marathon
7	1 (0.21%)	Mesos
7	1 (0.21%)	Oracle RMAN
7	1 (0.21%)	TeamSite
7	1 (0.21%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	47 (9.96%)	Oracle
2	46 (9.75%)	Microsoft
3	27 (5.72%)	ServiceNow
4	15 (3.18%)	Salesforce.com
4	15 (3.18%)	SAP
5	12 (2.54%)	Sitecore
6	11 (2.33%)	IBM
7	10 (2.12%)	Google
7	10 (2.12%)	WSO2
8	9 (1.91%)	Tableau
9	8 (1.69%)	Adobe
9	8 (1.69%)	TIBCO
10	6 (1.27%)	hybris
11	5 (1.06%)	Informatica
11	5 (1.06%)	ION Trading
11	5 (1.06%)	Marketo
11	5 (1.06%)	Red Hat
12	4 (0.85%)	Apigee
12	4 (0.85%)	Cloudera
12	4 (0.85%)	HP