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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 556 644
Rank change year-on-year +21 +88 +161
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 15 18 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.042% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.049% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 31
10th Percentile £348 £443 £450
25th Percentile £409 £559 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £527 £675 £695
90th Percentile £549 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £556
% change year-on-year +13.89% -19.10% -3.05%
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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in the UK

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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 5 July 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 +49 14 £475 -25.49% 49
UK excluding London +42 8 £513 +13.89% 30
Work from Home +34 8 £494 +9.72% 27
London +47 6 £438 -30.00% 29
South East +37 6 £478 +6.22% 4
Midlands +9 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £530 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Serverless
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Firebase
3 1 (6.67%) Flurry Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.67%) Mixpanel
1 1 (6.67%) ObjectStore
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) Celery
4 1 (6.67%) Django
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) LangChain
4 1 (6.67%) NumPy
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) pytest
4 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) DTCC
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (26.67%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Kanban
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Service Management
3 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (26.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (26.67%) Sprint Review
3 4 (26.67%) User Research
3 4 (26.67%) User Stories
3 4 (26.67%) Validation
3 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) ITGC
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Palantir
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Dataiku
3 1 (6.67%) DataRobot
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle