Lead Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, 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 346 355 380
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 55 75 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.35% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 59 82
10th Percentile £425 £409 £403
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +8.80% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £688 £675
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year - +131.65% -55.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +7 16 £650 +16.80% 31
South East +4 15 £500 -18.37% 11
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
Scotland +45 2 £600 +33.33% 5
Wales +19 1 £550 +150.00% 6
Lead Developer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 19 (34.55%) Java
2 14 (25.45%) DevOps
3 13 (23.64%) Agile
4 12 (21.82%) Software Engineering
4 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
5 10 (18.18%) React
6 9 (16.36%) Microservices
6 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
6 9 (16.36%) Finance
6 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
6 9 (16.36%) Git
6 9 (16.36%) Azure
6 9 (16.36%) AWS
7 8 (14.55%) Coaching
7 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
8 7 (12.73%) AngularJS
8 7 (12.73%) Guidewire
8 7 (12.73%) Serverless
8 7 (12.73%) Batch Processing
8 7 (12.73%) Sequence Diagram
8 7 (12.73%) Impact Analysis
8 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
8 7 (12.73%) Data Mapping
8 7 (12.73%) Billing
8 7 (12.73%) Spring
8 7 (12.73%) TDD
8 7 (12.73%) Web Services
8 7 (12.73%) UML
8 7 (12.73%) Data Modelling

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.82%) JBoss
1 1 (1.82%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) AWS
1 9 (16.36%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) Serverless
3 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
4 3 (5.45%) PaaS
5 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 2 (3.64%) SonarCloud
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Firewall
1 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.82%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) JUnit
3 2 (3.64%) Moq
3 2 (3.64%) NUnit
4 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.82%) JMeter
4 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (16.36%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Billing
3 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Retail
4 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Electronics
6 1 (1.82%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) React
2 7 (12.73%) AngularJS
2 7 (12.73%) Spring
2 7 (12.73%) Web Services
3 6 (10.91%) .NET
4 5 (9.09%) REST
4 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.27%) CSS
5 4 (7.27%) Hibernate
5 4 (7.27%) HTML
5 4 (7.27%) JPA
5 4 (7.27%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (7.27%) Laravel
5 4 (7.27%) Vue
6 3 (5.45%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.64%) Kafka
7 2 (3.64%) Node.js
8 1 (1.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Android
1 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) DevOps
2 13 (23.64%) Agile
3 12 (21.82%) Software Engineering
4 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
4 9 (16.36%) Microservices
4 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (14.55%) Coaching
6 7 (12.73%) Batch Processing
6 7 (12.73%) Data Mapping
6 7 (12.73%) Data Modelling
6 7 (12.73%) Impact Analysis
6 7 (12.73%) Sequence Diagram
6 7 (12.73%) TDD
6 7 (12.73%) UML
7 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.91%) Insurtech
7 6 (10.91%) Unit Testing
8 5 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (9.09%) High Availability
8 5 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Java
2 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
3 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.09%) C#
4 5 (9.09%) Python
5 4 (7.27%) PHP
5 4 (7.27%) SQL
6 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Scala
6 1 (1.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) Degree
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Guidewire
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) IFS
3 4 (7.27%) Splunk
4 3 (5.45%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.82%) SAP