Lead Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Lead Developer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 154 185
Rank change year-on-year +27 +31 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 14 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.12% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.13% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £424 £566 £385
25th Percentile £506 £572 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +18.06% +35.00%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £563
90th Percentile - £736 £645
England median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
West Midlands +29 14 £650 -3.70% 12
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) MVC
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) OutSystems
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Git
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 2 (14.29%) SonarCloud
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (14.29%) Vue
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) React
4 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (14.29%) Laravel
4 2 (14.29%) Moq
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) NUnit
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) HTML

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
2 2 (14.29%) SonarCloud
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Moq
1 2 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) Laravel
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) Vue
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps
1 3 (21.43%) MVC
1 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
2 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 2 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (7.14%) API Integration
3 1 (7.14%) BDD
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.14%) CRM
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Microservices
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Scrum
3 1 (7.14%) SOA
3 1 (7.14%) Workflow
3 1 (7.14%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) OutSystems