The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 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 Gloucestershire 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
Lead Developer
Rank 38 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.365% 0.144% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.383% 0.157% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £421 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+16.20% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-15.35% +33.33%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
261 638 401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.26% 91.93% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 362 158
Average daily rate £380 £400 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £270 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 67
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £23.34 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Lead Developer
South West

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Lead Developer Daily 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cheltenham - 1 - -
Lead Developer
South West

Lead Developer
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) REST

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) JSF
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) Java EE
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss