The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 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 Leeds 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
Technical Lead
Rank - 66 55
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 0 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.225% 0.319%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.237% 0.336%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £413 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.86%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £419 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.53% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 - £37.50
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Leader
West Yorkshire

Technical Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Technical Leader Daily Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (44.44%) ASP
3 4 (44.44%) VB
3 4 (44.44%) COM+
3 4 (44.44%) MTS
3 4 (44.44%) MSMQ
3 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 4 (44.44%) VB6
3 4 (44.44%) Subversion
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (22.22%) SAP BW
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) SAP
4 2 (22.22%) Business Objects
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle

Technical Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (44.44%) ASP
1 4 (44.44%) COM+
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) GWT
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) MTS
1 4 (44.44%) MSMQ
2 1 (11.11%) GlassFish
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (22.22%) SAP BW
4 1 (11.11%) Xcelsius
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (44.44%) Subversion
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) PhoneGap
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Handset
2 1 (11.11%) iPhone
2 1 (11.11%) iPad
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) SOA
1 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Process Management
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) VB
2 4 (44.44%) VB6
3 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Business Objects
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Sun
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle