Lean Software Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lean Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 298 342 461
Rank change year-on-year +44 +119 +143
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 6 3 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.020% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.022% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile £373 - £454
25th Percentile £434 - £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £585
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £519 - £688
90th Percentile £526 - £701
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -18.00% +6.38% -2.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Lean Software Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Lean Software Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lean Software Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lean Software Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lean Software Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lean Software Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) ObjectStore
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Celery
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (66.67%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Review
3 4 (66.67%) User Research
3 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 4 (66.67%) Wireframes
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Palantir