Lead Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 449 542
Rank change year-on-year +131 +93 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 27 21 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.086% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.090% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 8 46
10th Percentile - £504 £583
25th Percentile £763 £523 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £888 £625 £866
90th Percentile - £663 £888
UK median daily rate £825 £650 £700
% change year-on-year +26.92% -7.14% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.12 £62.09 -
Median hourly rate £67.79 £66.69 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% - -
75th Percentile £72.45 £71.28 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.79 £62.09 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.17% +77.41% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Lead Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Software Engineer.

Lead Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Lead Software Engineer 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 Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (96.30%) GCP
2 26 (96.30%) Apache Arrow
2 26 (96.30%) Hedge funds
2 26 (96.30%) SciPy
2 26 (96.30%) NumPy
2 26 (96.30%) Protocol Buffers
2 26 (96.30%) TypeScript
2 26 (96.30%) Pandas
2 26 (96.30%) gRPC
2 26 (96.30%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (96.30%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (96.30%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (96.30%) Dremio
2 26 (96.30%) dbt
2 26 (96.30%) Agile
2 26 (96.30%) Banking
2 26 (96.30%) Asset Management
2 26 (96.30%) Investment Banking
2 26 (96.30%) Derivative
2 26 (96.30%) AWS
2 26 (96.30%) Front Office
2 26 (96.30%) Finance
2 26 (96.30%) Fixed Income
2 26 (96.30%) Equities
2 26 (96.30%) Apache
2 26 (96.30%) Python
2 26 (96.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (96.30%) Java
2 26 (96.30%) JavaScript

Lead Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (96.30%) Apache
1 26 (96.30%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (96.30%) AWS
1 26 (96.30%) dbt
1 26 (96.30%) GCP
2 24 (88.89%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (96.30%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (96.30%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (96.30%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (96.30%) Dremio
2 24 (88.89%) Data Lake
General
1 26 (96.30%) Banking
1 26 (96.30%) Finance
1 26 (96.30%) Front Office
1 26 (96.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (96.30%) gRPC
1 26 (96.30%) NumPy
1 26 (96.30%) Pandas
1 26 (96.30%) Protocol Buffers
1 26 (96.30%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (96.30%) Derivative
1 26 (96.30%) Equities
1 26 (96.30%) Fixed Income
1 26 (96.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 26 (96.30%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (96.30%) Agile
2 26 (96.30%) Asset Management
3 24 (88.89%) Line Management
4 16 (59.26%) Investment Management
5 2 (7.41%) Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) Data Architecture
5 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.41%) Product Management
6 1 (3.70%) UML
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) Java
1 26 (96.30%) JavaScript
1 26 (96.30%) Python
1 26 (96.30%) TypeScript
2 2 (7.41%) Ruby
2 2 (7.41%) Scala
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