The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Canary Wharf region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank - 42 58
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 0 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 1.832% 0.583%
As % of the Job Titles category - 2.000% 0.621%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 3
Average daily rate - £572 £700
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+17.24% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.95% +33.33%
All Job Titles
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
358 350 483
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 92.03% 91.62% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 214 375
Average daily rate £525 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £350 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -13.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Developer
London

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lead Developer across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Canary Wharf Lead Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Developer across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Lead Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region that cited Lead Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Lead Developer in their job title.

1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Perforce
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Credit Risk
2 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) WPF
3 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Front Office
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
4 1 (16.67%) Reuters
4 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region that cited Lead Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Lead Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) WCF
1 2 (33.33%) WPF
1 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Struts
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) TIBCO EMS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 4 (66.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Perforce
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 1 (16.67%) Reuters
3 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) 29West