The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Leader 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 Technical Leader 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Lead
Rank 166 193 230
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 35 20 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.556% 0.257% 0.163%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.601% 0.281% 0.177%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 10
Average daily rate £550 £700 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +36.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £452 £411
10% offered a daily rate of more than £713 £790 £605
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £419 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.53% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £42.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 - £37.50
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
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 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Leader
London

Technical Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Leader across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Technical Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Leader across the City of London region.

City of London Technical Leader Daily Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Leader across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Technical Leader Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Leader across the City of London region.

City of London Technical Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical Leader 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 Technical Leader in their job title.

1 33 (45.83%) Java
2 21 (29.17%) Finance
3 16 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (22.22%) Oracle
4 15 (20.83%) C#
5 14 (19.44%) Scrum
6 12 (16.67%) Banking
7 10 (13.89%) Migration
7 10 (13.89%) SQL Server
7 10 (13.89%) .NET
7 10 (13.89%) CRM
8 9 (12.50%) QA
8 9 (12.50%) Multithreading
9 8 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (11.11%) OO
9 8 (11.11%) Front Office
10 7 (9.722%) Investment Banking
10 7 (9.722%) Summit
10 7 (9.722%) SQL
10 7 (9.722%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (9.722%) Android
10 7 (9.722%) 29West
10 7 (9.722%) Apple iOS
11 6 (8.333%) Big Data
11 6 (8.333%) Mobile App
11 6 (8.333%) Mobile Application Development
11 6 (8.333%) Feature Driven Development
11 6 (8.333%) UNIX
11 6 (8.333%) JMS
11 6 (8.333%) Project Management

Technical Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical Leader 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 Technical Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (13.89%) .NET
2 6 (8.333%) JMS
3 5 (6.944%) CSS
3 5 (6.944%) HTML
3 5 (6.944%) WPF
4 4 (5.556%) WinForms
4 4 (5.556%) XML
5 3 (4.167%) NHibernate
5 3 (4.167%) WF
5 3 (4.167%) WCF
6 2 (2.778%) Silverlight
6 2 (2.778%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.778%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.778%) Java EE
6 2 (2.778%) Spring
6 2 (2.778%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.778%) J2EE
6 2 (2.778%) ASP
7 1 (1.389%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.389%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.944%) Rendezvous
1 5 (6.944%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (4.167%) TeamSite
3 2 (2.778%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.778%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.389%) Apache
4 1 (1.389%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.389%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (1.389%) WorkSite
4 1 (1.389%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.389%) Force.com
4 1 (1.389%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 3 (4.167%) MS Office
2 1 (1.389%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (9.722%) Summit
2 2 (2.778%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.389%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.556%) LAN
2 3 (4.167%) Internet
3 2 (2.778%) HTTP
3 2 (2.778%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.389%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.389%) WAN
4 1 (1.389%) Extranet
4 1 (1.389%) MPLS
4 1 (1.389%) Firewall
4 1 (1.389%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.333%) Big Data
3 5 (6.944%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.944%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.556%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.167%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.167%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (4.167%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.778%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (2.778%) Essbase
6 2 (2.778%) OLAP
6 2 (2.778%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (2.778%) QlikView
6 2 (2.778%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.389%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.389%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.389%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.389%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.556%) Subversion
2 3 (4.167%) OpenDeploy
3 1 (1.389%) Ant
3 1 (1.389%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.389%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.389%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (1.389%) Hudson
3 1 (1.389%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (29.17%) Finance
2 12 (16.67%) Banking
3 8 (11.11%) Front Office
4 7 (9.722%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.167%) Back Office
6 1 (1.389%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.389%) Law
6 1 (1.389%) Legal
6 1 (1.389%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (8.333%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.778%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.778%) iPad
3 2 (2.778%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.778%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.778%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.778%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.778%) Derivative
3 2 (2.778%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.389%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.389%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.389%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.389%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.389%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (1.389%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (1.389%) SaaS
4 1 (1.389%) PaaS
4 1 (1.389%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.722%) Android
1 7 (9.722%) Apple iOS
2 6 (8.333%) UNIX
3 5 (6.944%) Windows
4 2 (2.778%) Linux
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.389%) Solaris
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.389%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (19.44%) Scrum
3 10 (13.89%) Migration
3 10 (13.89%) CRM
4 9 (12.50%) Multithreading
5 8 (11.11%) OO
6 7 (9.722%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (8.333%) Project Management
7 6 (8.333%) Feature Driven Development
7 6 (8.333%) Mobile Application Development
8 5 (6.944%) Configuration Management
8 5 (6.944%) E-Commerce
9 4 (5.556%) ETL
10 3 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (4.167%) Workflow
10 3 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (4.167%) Web Development
10 3 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (2.778%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (2.778%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.83%) Java
2 15 (20.83%) C#
3 7 (9.722%) SQL
4 5 (6.944%) C++
5 4 (5.556%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.556%) VB
6 3 (4.167%) C
6 3 (4.167%) VB6
6 3 (4.167%) Perl
7 2 (2.778%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.389%) VBScript
8 1 (1.389%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.167%) CCNP
1 3 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (4.167%) DV Cleared
1 3 (4.167%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.778%) Degree
3 1 (1.389%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.389%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.389%) MCP
3 1 (1.389%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.389%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.389%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.389%) XenApp
1 1 (1.389%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.389%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Oracle
2 7 (9.722%) 29West
3 5 (6.944%) TIBCO
3 5 (6.944%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.556%) Sybase
5 3 (4.167%) Siebel
5 3 (4.167%) Informatica
6 2 (2.778%) Citrix
6 2 (2.778%) Cisco
6 2 (2.778%) SAP
6 2 (2.778%) VMware
6 2 (2.778%) Teradata
6 2 (2.778%) Syncfusion
6 2 (2.778%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.389%) Talend
7 1 (1.389%) StreamBase
7 1 (1.389%) AppSense
7 1 (1.389%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.389%) IBM
7 1 (1.389%) Avaya
City of London
Job Title: Senior C++ Developer / Technical LeadLocation: LondonContract: 6 months+Rate: £700-800 per day Senior C++ Developer / Technical lead to work on a number of migration projects...
Rate: £650 - £800 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
City of London
You will be required to handle web development of rich user interfaces & web applications. You must be 100% confident with Client side scripting, Javascript & Jquery... I have supplied...
Pioneer Consulting
Rate: excellent
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
You will be required to handle web development of rich user interfaces & web applications. You must be 100% confident with Client side scripting, Javascript & Jquery... I have supplied...
Pioneer Consulting
Rate: exceptional + long project
Posted: 16 May 2013