The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank 169 186 218
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 41 26 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.605% 0.336% 0.330%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.654% 0.367% 0.359%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 28
Average daily rate £500 £475 £613
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -22.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £384 £385 £406
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £715 £708
UK excluding London average daily rate £423 £385 £376
% change year-on-year
+9.74% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 £40.00 £28.42
% change year-on-year
-11.95% +40.77%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Lead Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Lead Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 39 (44.83%) Java
2 27 (31.03%) E-Commerce
3 25 (28.74%) SQL
4 20 (22.99%) Agile Software Development
5 18 (20.69%) C#
5 18 (20.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (19.54%) Oracle
7 16 (18.39%) SQL Server
7 16 (18.39%) Scrum
8 13 (14.94%) TIBCO
8 13 (14.94%) Finance
8 13 (14.94%) Banking
8 13 (14.94%) OO
8 13 (14.94%) Multithreading
9 12 (13.79%) Unit Testing
10 11 (12.64%) Degree
10 11 (12.64%) 29West
10 11 (12.64%) JMS
10 11 (12.64%) .NET
10 11 (12.64%) J2EE
10 11 (12.64%) JavaScript
10 11 (12.64%) CSS
11 10 (11.49%) Retail
11 10 (11.49%) HTML
11 10 (11.49%) PHP
11 10 (11.49%) jQuery
12 9 (10.34%) Windows
12 9 (10.34%) Cognos
13 8 (9.195%) HTML5
14 7 (8.046%) Spring

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 11 (12.64%) JMS
1 11 (12.64%) .NET
1 11 (12.64%) J2EE
1 11 (12.64%) CSS
2 10 (11.49%) HTML
2 10 (11.49%) jQuery
3 8 (9.195%) HTML5
4 7 (8.046%) Spring
4 7 (8.046%) Rendezvous
4 7 (8.046%) WinForms
5 6 (6.897%) XML
5 6 (6.897%) Flash
5 6 (6.897%) XHTML
5 6 (6.897%) REST
5 6 (6.897%) WPF
6 5 (5.747%) WCF
6 5 (5.747%) NHibernate
6 5 (5.747%) RESTful
7 4 (4.598%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.747%) TIBCO EMS
1 5 (5.747%) Drupal
2 3 (3.448%) Magento
3 2 (2.299%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (1.149%) SugarCRM
4 1 (1.149%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.149%) CMS
4 1 (1.149%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.149%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.149%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.149%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.448%) Cognos Planning
1 3 (3.448%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.598%) Internet
2 3 (3.448%) RFID
3 1 (1.149%) HTTP
3 1 (1.149%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.046%) MySQL
3 6 (6.897%) DataStage
4 5 (5.747%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (4.598%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.598%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (4.598%) SQLite
6 3 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.149%) QlikView
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.149%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.149%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.149%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.149%) Essbase
7 1 (1.149%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (8.046%) Subversion
2 6 (6.897%) Maven
3 5 (5.747%) JUnit
4 4 (4.598%) Ant
4 4 (4.598%) Git (software)
4 4 (4.598%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.149%) Selenium
5 1 (1.149%) JIRA
5 1 (1.149%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.149%) Mockito
General
1 13 (14.94%) Finance
1 13 (14.94%) Banking
2 10 (11.49%) Retail
3 6 (6.897%) Front Office
4 5 (5.747%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.448%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.299%) Publishing
6 2 (2.299%) Back Office
6 2 (2.299%) Marketing
7 1 (1.149%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.149%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (6.897%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.747%) Derivative
4 4 (4.598%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.598%) Open Source
4 4 (4.598%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (3.448%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.299%) Equities
6 2 (2.299%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.149%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.149%) Statistics
7 1 (1.149%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.149%) Data Extraction
7 1 (1.149%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.149%) Heroku
7 1 (1.149%) Social Media
7 1 (1.149%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.149%) E-Learning
7 1 (1.149%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (1.149%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Windows
2 5 (5.747%) UNIX
3 4 (4.598%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.448%) Android
4 3 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.03%) E-Commerce
2 20 (22.99%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (18.39%) Scrum
4 13 (14.94%) OO
4 13 (14.94%) Multithreading
5 12 (13.79%) Unit Testing
6 7 (8.046%) MVC
7 6 (6.897%) Migration
7 6 (6.897%) Electronic Trading
8 5 (5.747%) Kimball Methodology
8 5 (5.747%) TDD
8 5 (5.747%) OOD
8 5 (5.747%) ETL
8 5 (5.747%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (5.747%) OOP
9 4 (4.598%) Content Management
9 4 (4.598%) Web Development
10 3 (3.448%) Workflow
10 3 (3.448%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (2.299%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) Java
2 25 (28.74%) SQL
3 18 (20.69%) C#
4 11 (12.64%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.49%) PHP
6 4 (4.598%) C++
7 3 (3.448%) Python
8 2 (2.299%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.299%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.149%) Ruby
9 1 (1.149%) VB6
9 1 (1.149%) VB
9 1 (1.149%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.149%) VBA
9 1 (1.149%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.299%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.149%) QA
2 1 (1.149%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.299%) Splunk
1 2 (2.299%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) TIBCO
3 11 (12.64%) 29West
4 9 (10.34%) Cognos
5 7 (8.046%) Siebel
6 6 (6.897%) IBM
6 6 (6.897%) ATG
7 5 (5.747%) hybris
8 4 (4.598%) Zend
9 3 (3.448%) Sybase
10 2 (2.299%) BMC
10 2 (2.299%) DevExpress
10 2 (2.299%) Syncfusion
10 2 (2.299%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.149%) Tableau
11 1 (1.149%) Teradata
11 1 (1.149%) TOWER Software
11 1 (1.149%) Perforce
11 1 (1.149%) Informatica
11 1 (1.149%) Microsoft
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