Lead Software Engineer Contracts

Lead Software Engineer
UK

The median Lead Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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

 6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 674 749
Rank change year-on-year +125 +75 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 51 42 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.071% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.075% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 19 79
10th Percentile £558 £523 £483
25th Percentile £594 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -1.89% +26.19%
75th Percentile £888 £806 £800
90th Percentile - £825 £878
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £56.83 -
25th Percentile £63.12 £57.71 -
Median hourly rate £67.79 £62.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +77.41% -
75th Percentile £72.45 £68.15 -
90th Percentile - £70.02 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.79 £62.09 -
% change year-on-year +9.17% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK

Lead Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the UK

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK

Lead Software Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +137 45 £825 +26.92% 108
London +140 36 £825 +3.13% 58
Work from Home +126 22 £825 +37.50% 62
UK excluding London +55 13 £675 +12.50% 61
South East +28 7 - - 18
Northern Ireland - 3 £675 - 3
South West +22 1 £675 +17.39% 6
East of England - 1 £600 - 6
Scotland - 1 £400 - 6

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Lead Software Engineer 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 Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 31 (60.78%) Python
3 30 (58.82%) AWS
4 29 (56.86%) JavaScript
5 27 (52.94%) Java
6 26 (50.98%) Agile
7 25 (49.02%) TypeScript
8 22 (43.14%) GCP
8 22 (43.14%) Finance
9 21 (41.18%) Apache Airflow
10 20 (39.22%) gRPC
10 20 (39.22%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (39.22%) Apache Ignite
10 20 (39.22%) Dremio
10 20 (39.22%) dbt
10 20 (39.22%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (39.22%) Hedge funds
10 20 (39.22%) SciPy
10 20 (39.22%) NumPy
10 20 (39.22%) Protocol Buffers
10 20 (39.22%) Pandas
10 20 (39.22%) Fixed Income
10 20 (39.22%) Equities
10 20 (39.22%) Banking
10 20 (39.22%) Asset Management
10 20 (39.22%) Investment Banking
10 20 (39.22%) Derivative
10 20 (39.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (39.22%) Front Office
10 20 (39.22%) Apache

Lead Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (41.18%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (39.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) AWS
2 22 (43.14%) GCP
3 20 (39.22%) dbt
4 18 (35.29%) Snowflake
5 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.84%) Serverless
6 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.92%) Azure
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
1 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (39.22%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (39.22%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (39.22%) Apache Ignite
1 20 (39.22%) Dremio
2 18 (35.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 22 (43.14%) Finance
2 20 (39.22%) Banking
2 20 (39.22%) Front Office
2 20 (39.22%) Investment Banking
3 4 (7.84%) Billing
4 3 (5.88%) Games
5 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) gRPC
1 20 (39.22%) NumPy
1 20 (39.22%) Pandas
1 20 (39.22%) Protocol Buffers
1 20 (39.22%) SciPy
2 10 (19.61%) React
3 6 (11.76%) CSS
4 5 (9.80%) .NET
4 5 (9.80%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.84%) Node.js
5 4 (7.84%) React Native
6 2 (3.92%) Kafka
6 2 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.96%) HTML
7 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.96%) RESTful
7 1 (1.96%) Spring
7 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (39.22%) Derivative
1 20 (39.22%) Equities
1 20 (39.22%) Fixed Income
1 20 (39.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 20 (39.22%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (50.98%) Agile
3 20 (39.22%) Asset Management
4 18 (35.29%) Line Management
5 16 (31.37%) Investment Management
6 14 (27.45%) Mentoring
7 7 (13.73%) Analytics
8 6 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.80%) Data Governance
9 5 (9.80%) LLM
9 5 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (7.84%) Coaching
10 4 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.84%) CRM
10 4 (7.84%) Minimum Viable Product
10 4 (7.84%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 31 (60.78%) Python
2 29 (56.86%) JavaScript
3 27 (52.94%) Java
4 25 (49.02%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.76%) SQL
6 5 (9.80%) C#
6 5 (9.80%) Rust
6 5 (9.80%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) Ruby
7 2 (3.92%) Scala
8 1 (1.96%) C++
8 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.96%) Databricks
2 1 (1.96%) Greenplum
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