The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 22 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 of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank 110 125 125
Rank change year-on-year
+15 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 6 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.276% 0.201% 0.191%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.295% 0.214% 0.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
Average daily rate £400 £363 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -14.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £418 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.17% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.86 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.95% +33.33%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2035 2803 2476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.48% 94.03% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1049 1310 1093
Average daily rate £345 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 292 315
Average hourly rate £23.68 £24.34 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.69% +28.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £11.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.05 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England Lead Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Essex - 4 £400 -
Norfolk - 1 £200 -
East Anglia - 1 £400 -
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 8 (47.06%) C#
1 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 5 (29.41%) Project Management
3 5 (29.41%) MVC
3 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
3 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
5 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (17.65%) J2EE
5 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
5 3 (17.65%) XML
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) TDD
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) AccuRev
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5
6 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
3 3 (17.65%) J2EE
3 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
3 3 (17.65%) XML
4 2 (11.76%) HTML5
4 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (11.76%) Node.js
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) CSS3
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (11.76%) NHibernate
4 2 (11.76%) Ajax
4 2 (11.76%) WCF
4 2 (11.76%) WPF
4 2 (11.76%) Silverlight
4 2 (11.76%) LINQ
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.882%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (11.76%) MSMQ
2 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (5.882%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) CMS
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (5.882%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.882%) MS Office
1 1 (5.882%) DOC1
1 1 (5.882%) PrintSoft PReS
1 1 (5.882%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.882%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.882%) Git (software)
1 1 (5.882%) Selenium
1 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Publishing
3 1 (5.882%) Automotive
3 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.882%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (11.76%) Windows 7
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Project Management
1 5 (29.41%) MVC
1 5 (29.41%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
3 3 (17.65%) TDD
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
4 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Content Management
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) CRM
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) OO
4 2 (11.76%) SOA
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.882%) SEO
5 1 (5.882%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.882%) C++
5 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.882%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) AccuRev
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) HP
3 1 (5.882%) Elastic Path