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 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 345 365 383
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 53 82 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 64 81
10th Percentile £404 £410 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £589 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +9.03% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £688 £675
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +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% -57.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,265 21,604 29,212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,031 20,565
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,082 1,393
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.19
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

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 2 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 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
South East 0 17 £500 -20.00% 18
North of England +12 15 £650 +13.04% 21
Midlands +31 10 £650 +1.96% 16
West Midlands +22 10 £650 -3.70% 11
Yorkshire +18 8 £650 +13.04% 5
North West +1 6 £513 -7.91% 14
East of England - 4 £600 - 3
Scotland +38 3 £500 +11.11%
South West +5 3 £569 -5.01% 8
Wales +16 1 £550 +150.00%
North East - 1 - - 2
Lead Developer
UK

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 20 (37.74%) Java
2 14 (26.42%) DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) Agile
4 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
4 12 (22.64%) Azure
4 12 (22.64%) Microservices
5 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
5 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
6 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.98%) Finance
6 9 (16.98%) AWS
6 9 (16.98%) Git
6 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
7 8 (15.09%) Spring
7 8 (15.09%) .NET
7 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
7 8 (15.09%) Coaching
7 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
8 7 (13.21%) Guidewire
8 7 (13.21%) React
8 7 (13.21%) Serverless
8 7 (13.21%) Impact Analysis
8 7 (13.21%) Batch Processing
8 7 (13.21%) Sequence Diagram
8 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 7 (13.21%) Web Services
8 7 (13.21%) UML
8 7 (13.21%) TDD
8 7 (13.21%) Billing
8 7 (13.21%) Data Mapping

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 (1.89%) JBoss
1 1 (1.89%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) Serverless
4 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
5 3 (5.66%) PaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.77%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) SonarCloud
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.89%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.89%) DB2
4 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) JUnit
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) Moq
3 2 (3.77%) NUnit
4 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.89%) JMeter
4 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (16.98%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Billing
3 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.77%) Marketing
4 2 (3.77%) Retail
4 2 (3.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Electronics
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) .NET
1 8 (15.09%) Spring
2 7 (13.21%) React
2 7 (13.21%) Web Services
3 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
3 5 (9.43%) REST
3 5 (9.43%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.55%) Hibernate
4 4 (7.55%) JPA
4 4 (7.55%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.66%) CSS
5 3 (5.66%) HTML
5 3 (5.66%) Laravel
6 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.77%) Kafka
6 2 (3.77%) Node.js
6 2 (3.77%) Vue
7 1 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Android
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) DevOps
2 13 (24.53%) Agile
3 12 (22.64%) Microservices
3 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
4 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
5 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (15.09%) Coaching
6 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
7 7 (13.21%) Batch Processing
7 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 7 (13.21%) Data Mapping
7 7 (13.21%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (13.21%) Sequence Diagram
7 7 (13.21%) TDD
7 7 (13.21%) UML
8 6 (11.32%) Insurtech
8 6 (11.32%) Scrum
8 6 (11.32%) Unit Testing
9 5 (9.43%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (9.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Java
2 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.32%) C#
4 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 5 (9.43%) Python
6 3 (5.66%) PHP
7 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Guidewire
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.55%) IFS
3 4 (7.55%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.89%) mParticle
4 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.89%) SAP