The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 21 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 East Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Lead
Rank - 80 66
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 0 5 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands - 0.366% 1.254%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.391% 1.347%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 11
Average daily rate - £525 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 - £37.50
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1159 1278 1262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 91.19% 93.49% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 644 496
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £179 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 96 129
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -35.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.90 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Technical Leader Daily Rate Trend

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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Technical Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008

Technical Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) EMC