Lead Developer Contracts in Manchester

Lead Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Manchester is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 93 130
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 3 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.21% 0.90% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.94% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 10
10th Percentile £550 - £70
25th Percentile £588 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £498
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.58% +15.36%
75th Percentile - £681 £534
90th Percentile - £688 £604
North West median daily rate £513 £557 £520
% change year-on-year -7.91% +7.02% +18.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,378 1,708 2,569
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.06% 97.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,271 1,999
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £661
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 48 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +12.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £40.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Manchester

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in Manchester

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in Manchester

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) AWS SAM
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform