Lead Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, 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 316 352 391
Rank change year-on-year +36 +39 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 53 61 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.31% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 79
10th Percentile £400 £403 £425
25th Percentile £503 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.08% +1.33%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £594
90th Percentile £650 £722 £678
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £585
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £66.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £67.25
75th Percentile £53.75 - £68.38
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £47.12
% change year-on-year - - +50.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +53 22 £625 +13.64% 12
North of England +24 11 £550 +2.23% 16
West Midlands +9 10 £550 -18.52% 4
Midlands +7 10 £550 -15.38% 5
Yorkshire +22 9 £544 +1.16% 4
South West +21 6 £556 -16.04% 4
North West +15 2 £604 +12.27% 10
Wales +6 2 £526 +154.23% 1
Scotland +14 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £363 - 5
Lead Developer
UK

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 15 (28.30%) Agile
3 13 (24.53%) .NET
4 12 (22.64%) Java
5 11 (20.75%) JavaScript
5 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
5 11 (20.75%) DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
5 11 (20.75%) Serverless
6 10 (18.87%) Entra ID
6 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.87%) C#
6 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
7 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
7 9 (16.98%) B2C
7 9 (16.98%) SAML
7 9 (16.98%) OAuth
7 9 (16.98%) OpenID
7 9 (16.98%) User Experience
7 9 (16.98%) OAuth2
7 9 (16.98%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (15.09%) React
8 8 (15.09%) Azure Functions
8 8 (15.09%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (15.09%) API Management
8 8 (15.09%) Azure API Management
8 8 (15.09%) SSL
8 8 (15.09%) ASP.NET
9 7 (13.21%) Python

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (7.55%) CMS
1 4 (7.55%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
2 1 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Exstream
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.89%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) Serverless
3 10 (18.87%) Entra ID
4 8 (15.09%) Azure API Management
4 8 (15.09%) Azure Functions
4 8 (15.09%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (11.32%) AWS
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.77%) GitHub
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.89%) Apigee
10 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.89%) GCP
10 1 (1.89%) SaaS
10 1 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JMeter
2 2 (3.77%) JUnit
3 1 (1.89%) Babel
3 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) Maven
3 1 (1.89%) Moq
3 1 (1.89%) Postman
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.89%) webpack
General
1 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Finance
2 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.77%) Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Billing
3 2 (3.77%) Retail
4 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) .NET
2 9 (16.98%) OAuth
2 9 (16.98%) OAuth2
2 9 (16.98%) OpenID
2 9 (16.98%) SAML
3 8 (15.09%) ASP.NET
3 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Graph
3 8 (15.09%) React
4 5 (9.43%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (7.55%) CSS
5 4 (7.55%) HTML
6 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.66%) Spring
6 3 (5.66%) Vue
7 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.77%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.77%) JSON
7 2 (3.77%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (3.77%) REST
7 2 (3.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) NHS
3 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.89%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Android
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Agile
2 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
2 11 (20.75%) DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
3 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.98%) B2C
4 9 (16.98%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (16.98%) User Experience
5 8 (15.09%) API Management
6 7 (13.21%) MVC
7 6 (11.32%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (7.55%) Migration
9 4 (7.55%) Service Delivery
9 4 (7.55%) Software Architecture
9 4 (7.55%) Software Engineering
9 4 (7.55%) TDD
9 4 (7.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) Java
2 11 (20.75%) JavaScript
3 10 (18.87%) C#
4 7 (13.21%) Python
5 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.77%) PHP
6 2 (3.77%) SQL
7 1 (1.89%) C
7 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
1 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.77%) Kibana
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.66%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.77%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.77%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.77%) OpenText
4 2 (3.77%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.89%) Brio
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Juniper
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.89%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.89%) WSO2