Lead Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 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 266 338 356
Rank change year-on-year +72 +18 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 83 122 288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.53% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 71 210
10th Percentile £405 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £513 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +13.85%
75th Percentile £888 £675 £738
90th Percentile - £750 £788
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Lead Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Developer.

Lead Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Developer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Lead Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Developer.

Lead Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 45 (54.22%) Java
2 39 (46.99%) JavaScript
2 39 (46.99%) Agile
3 37 (44.58%) AWS
4 35 (42.17%) Finance
5 33 (39.76%) GCP
6 32 (38.55%) TypeScript
7 31 (37.35%) Python
8 29 (34.94%) Software Engineering
8 29 (34.94%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (33.73%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (33.73%) Dremio
9 28 (33.73%) dbt
9 28 (33.73%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (33.73%) Protocol Buffers
9 28 (33.73%) Pandas
9 28 (33.73%) gRPC
9 28 (33.73%) Apache Airflow
9 28 (33.73%) Investment Banking
9 28 (33.73%) Banking
9 28 (33.73%) Asset Management
9 28 (33.73%) Derivative
9 28 (33.73%) Hedge funds
9 28 (33.73%) SciPy
9 28 (33.73%) NumPy
9 28 (33.73%) Fixed Income
9 28 (33.73%) Equities
9 28 (33.73%) Front Office
9 28 (33.73%) Apache
9 28 (33.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (33.73%) Apache
1 28 (33.73%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (44.58%) AWS
2 33 (39.76%) GCP
3 28 (33.73%) dbt
4 26 (31.33%) Snowflake
5 19 (22.89%) Azure
6 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) Serverless
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.61%) PaaS
9 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.41%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Batch
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.94%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (33.73%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (33.73%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (33.73%) Dremio
3 27 (32.53%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.41%) OLTP
7 1 (1.20%) Big Data
7 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.20%) Redis
7 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) JUnit
4 1 (1.20%) Moq
4 1 (1.20%) NUnit
4 1 (1.20%) Storybook
4 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (42.17%) Finance
2 28 (33.73%) Banking
2 28 (33.73%) Front Office
2 28 (33.73%) Investment Banking
3 7 (8.43%) Billing
3 7 (8.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.41%) Automotive
5 2 (2.41%) Electronics
5 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.41%) Marketing
5 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.20%) Advertising
6 1 (1.20%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.73%) gRPC
1 28 (33.73%) NumPy
1 28 (33.73%) Pandas
1 28 (33.73%) Protocol Buffers
1 28 (33.73%) SciPy
2 22 (26.51%) .NET
3 12 (14.46%) AngularJS
4 8 (9.64%) Web Services
5 7 (8.43%) .NET Core
5 7 (8.43%) React
6 6 (7.23%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.23%) HTML
7 5 (6.02%) CSS
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.82%) Spring
9 2 (2.41%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.41%) Django
9 2 (2.41%) JSON
9 2 (2.41%) Next.js
9 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.73%) Derivative
1 28 (33.73%) Equities
1 28 (33.73%) Fixed Income
1 28 (33.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 28 (33.73%) Hedge funds
2 3 (3.61%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
1 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.99%) Agile
2 29 (34.94%) Software Engineering
3 28 (33.73%) Asset Management
4 26 (31.33%) Line Management
5 17 (20.48%) DevOps
6 16 (19.28%) Investment Management
7 14 (16.87%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (12.05%) Microservices
9 7 (8.43%) Batch Processing
9 7 (8.43%) Data Mapping
9 7 (8.43%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.43%) Impact Analysis
9 7 (8.43%) Sequence Diagram
9 7 (8.43%) TDD
9 7 (8.43%) UML
10 6 (7.23%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.23%) Data Science
10 6 (7.23%) Insurtech
10 6 (7.23%) Mentoring
11 5 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) Java
2 39 (46.99%) JavaScript
3 32 (38.55%) TypeScript
4 31 (37.35%) Python
5 22 (26.51%) C#
6 6 (7.23%) SQL
7 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.41%) C++
8 2 (2.41%) Ruby
8 2 (2.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.82%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Guidewire
3 2 (2.41%) QNX
3 2 (2.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.20%) Adobe
4 1 (1.20%) mParticle