The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 17 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 Cheshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank 57 - 69
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 4 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.554% - 0.402%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.607% - 0.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £421 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+16.20% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-15.35% +33.33%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
659 739 912
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.27% 91.46% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 381 506
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +61.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Lead Developer
North West

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Lead Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lead Developer across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Lead Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Lead Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Lead Developer
North West

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (75.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (75.00%) MVVM
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
4 1 (25.00%) EPiServer
4 1 (25.00%) Razor Risk

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) MVVM
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (25.00%) Razor Risk