Home Counties Lead Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts within the Home Counties region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Lead Developer
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chesterfield City of London Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horley Kent Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Potters Bar Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	30
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£371
% change on same period last year	+4.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£38.80
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Job Titles Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	74	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.199 %
Daily rates quoted	20	21
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£336
Average daily rate	£409	£340
% change on same period last year	+20.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.33	£22.44
Average hourly rate	£18.83	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-19.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.33	£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Lead Developer South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Lead Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lead Developer across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Developer across the Home Counties region.

Lead Developer
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 1 (100.00 %) Web 2.0

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) J2EE	Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Web 2.0
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java