Lead Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 104 128
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 13 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.84% 0.53% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.58% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £398 £583
25th Percentile £475 £450 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% -18.52% +25.00%
75th Percentile £564 £675 £722
90th Percentile £608 - £743
England median daily rate £600 £663 £600
% change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,403 1,883 2,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 91.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 1,274 1,494
10th Percentile £206 £250 £257
25th Percentile £360 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 136 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.22 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.82% +19.07%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £54.88
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham +11 6 £475 -13.64% 2
Solihull - 5 £575 -
Warwickshire - 3 - -
Shropshire - 1 £539 -
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Lead Developer 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Maven
2 6 (46.15%) JPA
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (46.15%) REST
2 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) TDD
2 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) JUnit
2 6 (46.15%) SOAP
2 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 5 (38.46%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
4 4 (30.77%) Mockito
4 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) Hibernate

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (23.08%) AWS KMS
3 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Route 53
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
3 3 (23.08%) Power BI
4 2 (15.38%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) Tableau
5 1 (7.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
1 6 (46.15%) JUnit
1 6 (46.15%) Maven
2 5 (38.46%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 4 (30.77%) Mockito
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.69%) DbUnit
4 1 (7.69%) jMock
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
2 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (46.15%) JPA
2 6 (46.15%) REST
2 6 (46.15%) SOAP
2 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (23.08%) Bootstrap
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) Spring Batch
4 3 (23.08%) Spring Integration
5 2 (15.38%) .NET
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (7.69%) PowerMock
6 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Microservices
1 6 (46.15%) Scrum
1 6 (46.15%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) R
5 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Jaspersoft