Software Team Leader Contracts

Software Team Lead
UK

The median Software Team Lead daily rate in the UK is £825, 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 544 693 840
Rank change year-on-year +149 +147 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 40 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.008% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 0 6
10th Percentile £720 - £513
25th Percentile £763 - £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - £715
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.43%
75th Percentile £888 - £728
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £36.80 £36.35
25th Percentile - £39.49 £38.37
Median hourly rate - £43.99 £42.49
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -
75th Percentile - £48.48 £47.36
90th Percentile - £51.17 £49.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Software Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Team Leader.

Daily rate trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Team Leader over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Team Leader.

Hourly rate trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Team Leader within the UK 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
England +124 40 £825 - 26
London +117 37 £825 - 7
Work from Home +150 36 £825 - 12
UK excluding London - 3 £600 - 25
North West - 1 £463 - 3
South West - 1 £700 - 2
North of England - 1 £463 - 5
East of England - 1 £600 -

Software Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Software Team Leader 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 featuring Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 38 (95.00%) Agile
1 38 (95.00%) Java
2 37 (92.50%) Finance
2 37 (92.50%) Python
2 37 (92.50%) Software Engineering
3 36 (90.00%) gRPC
3 36 (90.00%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (90.00%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (90.00%) Apache Ignite
3 36 (90.00%) Dremio
3 36 (90.00%) dbt
3 36 (90.00%) Hedge funds
3 36 (90.00%) SciPy
3 36 (90.00%) NumPy
3 36 (90.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (90.00%) TypeScript
3 36 (90.00%) GCP
3 36 (90.00%) Pandas
3 36 (90.00%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (90.00%) Banking
3 36 (90.00%) Asset Management
3 36 (90.00%) Investment Banking
3 36 (90.00%) AWS
3 36 (90.00%) Derivative
3 36 (90.00%) JavaScript
3 36 (90.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (90.00%) Fixed Income
3 36 (90.00%) Equities
3 36 (90.00%) Apache
3 36 (90.00%) Front Office

Software Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (90.00%) Apache
1 36 (90.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (90.00%) AWS
1 36 (90.00%) dbt
1 36 (90.00%) GCP
2 34 (85.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (90.00%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (90.00%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (90.00%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (90.00%) Dremio
2 34 (85.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (92.50%) Finance
2 36 (90.00%) Banking
2 36 (90.00%) Front Office
2 36 (90.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (90.00%) gRPC
1 36 (90.00%) NumPy
1 36 (90.00%) Pandas
1 36 (90.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 36 (90.00%) SciPy
2 4 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.50%) ADO
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (90.00%) Derivative
1 36 (90.00%) Equities
1 36 (90.00%) Fixed Income
1 36 (90.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 36 (90.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Agile
2 37 (92.50%) Software Engineering
3 36 (90.00%) Asset Management
4 34 (85.00%) Line Management
5 16 (40.00%) Investment Management
6 4 (10.00%) Migration
7 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.00%) Analytics
8 2 (5.00%) Data Architecture
8 2 (5.00%) Product Management
9 1 (2.50%) CI/CD
9 1 (2.50%) CRM
9 1 (2.50%) DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) Identity Management
9 1 (2.50%) Load Balancing
9 1 (2.50%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (2.50%) Scrum
9 1 (2.50%) SDLC
9 1 (2.50%) Software Architecture
9 1 (2.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 38 (95.00%) Java
2 37 (92.50%) Python
3 36 (90.00%) JavaScript
3 36 (90.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (5.00%) Ruby
5 2 (5.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.50%) C
6 1 (2.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (10.00%) Reuters
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft