City of London Lead Designer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Lead Designer role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Lead Designer
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Cheltenham City of London England Gloucestershire Hampshire Home Counties London Newport South East South Wales South West Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	200	196
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.028 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£383
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7155	6541
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.17 %	6.606 %
Daily rates quoted	3878	2689
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£443
Average daily rate	£444	£471
% change on same period last year	-5.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£499
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	310	235
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.47	£23.09
Average hourly rate	£24.30	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.14	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Lead Designer London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Lead Designer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lead Designer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Designer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Designer across the City of London region.

Lead Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lead Designer across the City of London region.

Lead Designer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Lead Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 2 2 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Asset Management 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 2 (66.67 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (66.67 %) RDBMS 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (33.33 %) Intranet 3 1 (33.33 %) Extranet 3 1 (33.33 %) WPS 3 1 (33.33 %) Logistics 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere

3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE

Lead Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Lead Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) WPS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Intranet 1 1 (33.33 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) Datawarehouse 1 2 (66.67 %) RDBMS 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 10g
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Asset Management 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 1 (33.33 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 2 2 (66.67 %) PL/SQL	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle