The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Designer
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Designer 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.853% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.906% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £398 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
773 1019 1249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.15% 93.74% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 504 609
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £237 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.60 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Designer
Scotland

Lead Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Lead Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Designer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Lead Designer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (71.43%) HTML5
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
1 5 (71.43%) XHTML
1 5 (71.43%) Adobe
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Smartphone
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
4 2 (28.57%) Multimedia
4 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) PowerPivot
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (14.29%) IBM
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (14.29%) OLAP
5 1 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services

Lead Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (71.43%) HTML5
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
1 5 (71.43%) XHTML
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Flash
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) PowerPivot
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) OLAP
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Multimedia
1 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio