Lead Developer Contracts in the South East

Lead Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the South East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 210 245
Rank change year-on-year +53 +35 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 22 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.16% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.17% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 17
10th Percentile £500 £490 £425
25th Percentile £519 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £650 £569 £575
90th Percentile £651 £588 £639
England median daily rate £625 £628 £589
% change year-on-year -0.40% +6.58% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.25
75th Percentile - - £68.38
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £47.12
% change year-on-year - - -48.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,850 5,162 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 94.51% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,317 3,436 5,181
10th Percentile £250 £210 £225
25th Percentile £400 £381 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +1.35% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £613
90th Percentile £686 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 251 285
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £12.85
25th Percentile £27.00 £21.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £57.79 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% +53.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £73.29 £66.84 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.16 £76.53 £72.50
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
East Sussex - 10 - -
Thames Valley +20 9 £650 +30.00% 5
Berkshire - 9 £650 - 3
Surrey - 2 £500 - 2
West Sussex +15 1 £400 -30.43% 1
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 South East region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) OAuth2
2 9 (40.91%) OAuth
2 9 (40.91%) OpenID
2 9 (40.91%) SAML
2 9 (40.91%) B2C
2 9 (40.91%) Entra ID
2 9 (40.91%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Graph
3 8 (36.36%) Serverless
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Functions
3 8 (36.36%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) SSL
3 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (36.36%) User Experience
4 7 (31.82%) .NET
4 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
4 7 (31.82%) API Management
4 7 (31.82%) Azure API Management
4 7 (31.82%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (27.27%) C#
6 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
7 4 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (18.18%) CMS
1 4 (18.18%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.55%) JBoss
2 1 (4.55%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Entra ID
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Functions
3 8 (36.36%) Serverless
4 7 (31.82%) Azure API Management
4 7 (31.82%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.55%) Couchbase
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JMeter
1 1 (4.55%) JUnit
General
1 2 (9.09%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) OAuth
1 9 (40.91%) OAuth2
1 9 (40.91%) OpenID
1 9 (40.91%) SAML
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (31.82%) .NET
3 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
4 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (9.09%) Web Services
6 1 (4.55%) Kafka
6 1 (4.55%) Spring
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.55%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) B2C
1 9 (40.91%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (36.36%) User Experience
3 7 (31.82%) API Management
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) MVC
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 4 (18.18%) Software Architecture
5 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) Coaching
7 2 (9.09%) Data Mapping
7 2 (9.09%) Insurtech
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) C
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Sitecore
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk