Development Team Leader Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Team Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Team Lead daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 341 458
Rank change year-on-year +39 +117 +153
Contract jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 2 4 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.026% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.028% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £563
25th Percentile £663 £713 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £775 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +31.36% +38.82%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £610
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £638 £775 £590
% change year-on-year -17.74% +31.36% +12.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Development Team Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Development Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Development Team Leader trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Development Team Leader
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Development Team Leader.

Development Team Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Development Team Leader 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP