Lead Developer Contracts in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 448 452
Rank change year-on-year +59 +4 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 162 190 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.43% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 133 280
10th Percentile £463 £463 £463
25th Percentile £550 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £888 £688 £725
90th Percentile - £775 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year - +131.65% -55.03%
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year - +131.65% -55.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +82 109 £763 +25.77% 59
North of England +7 16 £650 +16.80% 32
South East +4 15 £500 -18.37% 10
West Midlands +29 14 £650 -3.70% 13
Midlands +27 14 £650 +1.96% 20
Yorkshire +15 9 £650 +19.82% 8
North West +4 7 £550 -1.17% 17
East of England - 4 £600 - 5
South West -3 3 £569 -3.19% 14
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 79 (48.77%) Agile
2 78 (48.15%) Java
3 68 (41.98%) Finance
4 61 (37.65%) Software Engineering
5 60 (37.04%) JavaScript
6 58 (35.80%) AWS
7 54 (33.33%) TypeScript
8 53 (32.72%) Python
9 42 (25.93%) GCP
10 41 (25.31%) Banking
10 41 (25.31%) Derivative
11 40 (24.69%) Investment Banking
11 40 (24.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (24.07%) Front Office
13 37 (22.84%) Protocol Buffers
13 37 (22.84%) Fixed Income
13 37 (22.84%) Apache
13 37 (22.84%) Apache Airflow
13 37 (22.84%) Apache Arrow
14 36 (22.22%) Dremio
14 36 (22.22%) dbt
14 36 (22.22%) gRPC
14 36 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (22.22%) Apache Ignite
14 36 (22.22%) Pandas
14 36 (22.22%) Asset Management
14 36 (22.22%) Equities
14 36 (22.22%) Hedge funds
14 36 (22.22%) SciPy
14 36 (22.22%) NumPy

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 37 (22.84%) Apache
1 37 (22.84%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) JBoss
3 1 (0.62%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (35.80%) AWS
2 42 (25.93%) GCP
3 36 (22.22%) dbt
4 34 (20.99%) Snowflake
5 26 (16.05%) Azure
6 13 (8.02%) Serverless
7 10 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.94%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.09%) Azure API Management
10 5 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.09%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.09%) PaaS
10 5 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.09%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.47%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.84%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 36 (22.22%) Apache Ignite
2 36 (22.22%) Dremio
3 35 (21.60%) Data Lake
4 15 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (8.02%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.47%) Power BI
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.23%) Big Data
9 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.23%) OLTP
10 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.62%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (14.20%) Git
2 10 (6.17%) JUnit
3 4 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.47%) Postman
3 4 (2.47%) webpack
4 3 (1.85%) GitLab
4 3 (1.85%) JIRA
5 2 (1.23%) Moq
5 2 (1.23%) NUnit
5 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.62%) Babel
6 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.62%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.62%) JMeter
6 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.62%) Xcode
General
1 68 (41.98%) Finance
2 41 (25.31%) Banking
3 40 (24.69%) Investment Banking
4 39 (24.07%) Front Office
5 12 (7.41%) Social Skills
6 10 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.32%) Billing
8 6 (3.70%) Marketing
9 5 (3.09%) Retail
10 3 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Electronics
12 1 (0.62%) Back Office
12 1 (0.62%) Local Government
12 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.62%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.84%) Protocol Buffers
2 36 (22.22%) gRPC
2 36 (22.22%) NumPy
2 36 (22.22%) Pandas
2 36 (22.22%) SciPy
3 24 (14.81%) React
4 20 (12.35%) .NET
5 16 (9.88%) Spring
5 16 (9.88%) Web Services
6 15 (9.26%) AngularJS
6 15 (9.26%) CSS
7 13 (8.02%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.79%) REST
9 10 (6.17%) HTML
10 8 (4.94%) Hibernate
10 8 (4.94%) JPA
10 8 (4.94%) Kafka
11 6 (3.70%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.09%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (25.31%) Derivative
2 40 (24.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (22.84%) Fixed Income
4 36 (22.22%) Equities
4 36 (22.22%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.62%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.09%) Android
1 5 (3.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Unix
2 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (48.77%) Agile
2 61 (37.65%) Software Engineering
3 36 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 34 (20.99%) Line Management
5 29 (17.90%) DevOps
6 26 (16.05%) Microservices
7 25 (15.43%) TDD
8 23 (14.20%) CI/CD
8 23 (14.20%) Mentoring
9 20 (12.35%) Coaching
10 16 (9.88%) Full Stack Development
10 16 (9.88%) Investment Management
11 13 (8.02%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.41%) Computer Science
12 12 (7.41%) Unit Testing
13 11 (6.79%) Scrum
14 10 (6.17%) Migration
15 9 (5.56%) Pair Programming
15 9 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (5.56%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (48.15%) Java
2 60 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 54 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 53 (32.72%) Python
5 21 (12.96%) C#
5 21 (12.96%) SQL
6 4 (2.47%) PHP
6 4 (2.47%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.47%) Swift
7 3 (1.85%) Ruby
7 3 (1.85%) Scala
8 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.62%) C
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Haskell
9 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.62%) Perl
9 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.02%) Degree
3 11 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.23%) QA
2 1 (0.62%) ISO 15022
2 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.62%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (7.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.70%) Terraform
3 3 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.62%) Kibana
4 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.32%) Guidewire
3 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.47%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.47%) IFS
4 4 (2.47%) Reuters
4 4 (2.47%) Splunk
5 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.85%) OutSystems
5 3 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) SAP
6 2 (1.23%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.62%) IBM
7 1 (0.62%) Informatica
7 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle
7 1 (0.62%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.62%) Siebel
7 1 (0.62%) Sitecore