Lean Software Development Contracts

Lean Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 511 562 681
Rank change year-on-year +51 +119 +105
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 9 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.046% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.053% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 30
10th Percentile £373 £383 £450
25th Percentile £417 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +6.38% -2.16%
75th Percentile £524 £675 £698
90th Percentile £530 - £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £570
% change year-on-year +20.59% -25.44% +23.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £33.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Lean Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lean Software Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Software Development in the UK

Lean Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lean Software Development.

Daily rate trend for Lean Software Development in the UK

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in the UK

Lean Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lean Software Development.

Hourly rate trend for Lean Software Development in the UK

Lean Software Development
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 Lean Software Development 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 +46 9 £513 -18.00% 10
UK excluding London +60 6 £513 +20.59% 4
Work from Home +44 6 £513 +13.89% 10
South East +45 4 £478 +12.47% 4
London +36 3 £456 -22.34% 9
Midlands +22 1 - -
East of England - 1 £530 -
East Midlands - 1 - -

Lean Software Development
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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) ObjectStore
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Java Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Celery
2 1 (11.11%) Django
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) pytest
2 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) DTCC
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Review
3 4 (44.44%) User Research
3 4 (44.44%) User Stories
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 4 (44.44%) Wireframes
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) MLOps
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ITGC
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Palantir
2 1 (11.11%) Dataiku
2 1 (11.11%) DataRobot
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle