Lead Developer Contracts in London

Lead Developer
England > London

The median Lead Developer daily rate in London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 378 361
Rank change year-on-year +86 -17 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 101 116 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.45% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.48% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 75 197
10th Percentile £475 £495 £512
25th Percentile £563 £561 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £614 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.08% -5.54% -
75th Percentile £888 £738 £750
90th Percentile - £883 £825
England median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% -0.04% +5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.98
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year - +131.65% -57.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +22 9 £550 -24.14% 2
West London - 1 £600 - 1
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 59 (58.42%) Agile
2 51 (50.50%) Finance
3 50 (49.50%) Java
4 41 (40.59%) JavaScript
4 41 (40.59%) Software Engineering
4 41 (40.59%) AWS
5 39 (38.61%) TypeScript
5 39 (38.61%) Python
6 33 (32.67%) Banking
6 33 (32.67%) Derivative
6 33 (32.67%) GCP
7 32 (31.68%) Investment Banking
7 32 (31.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (29.70%) Front Office
9 29 (28.71%) Fixed Income
9 29 (28.71%) Protocol Buffers
9 29 (28.71%) Apache Airflow
10 28 (27.72%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (27.72%) gRPC
10 28 (27.72%) Apache Ignite
10 28 (27.72%) Dremio
10 28 (27.72%) dbt
10 28 (27.72%) Apache Arrow
10 28 (27.72%) Pandas
10 28 (27.72%) Hedge funds
10 28 (27.72%) SciPy
10 28 (27.72%) NumPy
10 28 (27.72%) Equities
10 28 (27.72%) Asset Management
10 28 (27.72%) Apache

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (28.71%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (27.72%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) CMS
4 1 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.59%) AWS
2 33 (32.67%) GCP
3 28 (27.72%) dbt
4 26 (25.74%) Snowflake
5 16 (15.84%) Azure
6 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.95%) Serverless
7 4 (3.96%) Azure API Management
7 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.96%) npm
7 4 (3.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (3.96%) Yarn
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.97%) PaaS
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.72%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (27.72%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (27.72%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (27.72%) Dremio
2 27 (26.73%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.97%) Power BI
6 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.99%) Big Data
7 1 (0.99%) OLTP
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (13.86%) Git
2 4 (3.96%) JUnit
2 4 (3.96%) Postman
2 4 (3.96%) webpack
3 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.97%) JIRA
4 2 (1.98%) GitLab
4 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.99%) Babel
5 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 51 (50.50%) Finance
2 33 (32.67%) Banking
3 32 (31.68%) Investment Banking
4 30 (29.70%) Front Office
5 9 (8.91%) Social Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Marketing
6 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Back Office
8 1 (0.99%) Electronics
8 1 (0.99%) Local Government
8 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.99%) Publishing
8 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (28.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 28 (27.72%) gRPC
2 28 (27.72%) NumPy
2 28 (27.72%) Pandas
2 28 (27.72%) SciPy
3 14 (13.86%) .NET
4 12 (11.88%) React
5 10 (9.90%) AngularJS
5 10 (9.90%) CSS
6 9 (8.91%) Spring
7 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.92%) Web Services
8 6 (5.94%) REST
9 5 (4.95%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.95%) HTML
9 5 (4.95%) Kafka
9 5 (4.95%) Swagger
10 4 (3.96%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.96%) JPA
11 3 (2.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (32.67%) Derivative
2 32 (31.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (28.71%) Fixed Income
4 28 (27.72%) Equities
4 28 (27.72%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.96%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.99%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Android
1 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
2 1 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (58.42%) Agile
2 41 (40.59%) Software Engineering
3 28 (27.72%) Asset Management
4 26 (25.74%) Line Management
5 17 (16.83%) CI/CD
5 17 (16.83%) TDD
6 16 (15.84%) DevOps
6 16 (15.84%) Investment Management
6 16 (15.84%) Microservices
7 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
8 11 (10.89%) Coaching
8 11 (10.89%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (8.91%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.92%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (7.92%) CRM
10 8 (7.92%) Web Development
11 7 (6.93%) Migration
12 6 (5.94%) Scrum
12 6 (5.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.50%) Java
2 41 (40.59%) JavaScript
3 39 (38.61%) Python
3 39 (38.61%) TypeScript
4 15 (14.85%) C#
5 13 (12.87%) SQL
6 3 (2.97%) Ruby
6 3 (2.97%) Swift
7 2 (1.98%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.98%) C
7 2 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.98%) Scala
8 1 (0.99%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.99%) Perl
8 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (7.92%) Degree
2 7 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.99%) ISO 15022
1 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
1 1 (0.99%) MiFID
1 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (2.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.97%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle
4 2 (1.98%) Siebel
5 1 (0.99%) IBM
5 1 (0.99%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.99%) SAP
5 1 (0.99%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.99%) Virgin Media