Lead Developer Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 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 London 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 Developer
Rank 271 270 300
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 107 144 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.495% 0.535% 0.433%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.537% 0.578% 0.468%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 105 102
Average daily rate £465 £470 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.06% -6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £366 £400 £339
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £600 £723
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+17.24% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.95% +33.33%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 23 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
City of London +26 40 £450 -5.26%
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 78 (34.67%) Java
2 75 (33.33%) SQL
3 68 (30.22%) SQL Server
4 56 (24.89%) C#
5 51 (22.67%) .NET
6 49 (21.78%) OO
7 48 (21.33%) Finance
8 47 (20.89%) Oracle
9 40 (17.78%) Banking
10 37 (16.44%) E-Commerce
11 36 (16.00%) Scrum
12 35 (15.56%) JavaScript
13 33 (14.67%) TDD
14 32 (14.22%) Multithreading
15 31 (13.78%) Agile Software Development
15 31 (13.78%) MVC
15 31 (13.78%) HTML
16 29 (12.89%) CSS
17 28 (12.44%) jQuery
18 27 (12.00%) Front Office
18 27 (12.00%) ASP.NET
19 25 (11.11%) ETL
20 24 (10.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 24 (10.67%) Windows
20 24 (10.67%) HTML5
21 23 (10.22%) Unit Testing
21 23 (10.22%) Retail
22 21 (9.333%) WPF
22 21 (9.333%) REST
23 20 (8.889%) Degree

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 51 (22.67%) .NET
2 31 (13.78%) HTML
3 29 (12.89%) CSS
4 28 (12.44%) jQuery
5 27 (12.00%) ASP.NET
6 24 (10.67%) HTML5
7 21 (9.333%) WPF
7 21 (9.333%) REST
8 19 (8.444%) Web Services
9 17 (7.556%) RESTful
9 17 (7.556%) WinForms
9 17 (7.556%) Spring
9 17 (7.556%) XML
10 16 (7.111%) J2EE
10 16 (7.111%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (6.222%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.222%) WCF
12 12 (5.333%) JMS
12 12 (5.333%) JSON
13 10 (4.444%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (5.333%) ESB
2 10 (4.444%) CMS
3 9 (4.000%) TIBCO EMS
4 8 (3.556%) Rendezvous
4 8 (3.556%) Drupal
5 6 (2.667%) SharePoint
6 5 (2.222%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (1.778%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.778%) IIS
8 3 (1.333%) Magento
8 3 (1.333%) Apache
9 2 (0.889%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.889%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.889%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.889%) Adobe CQ
10 1 (0.444%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.444%) Kentico
10 1 (0.444%) GemFire
10 1 (0.444%) Force.com
10 1 (0.444%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (2.222%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.889%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.444%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.444%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.444%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (2.222%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 4 (1.778%) Cognos Planning
3 3 (1.333%) RMDS
3 3 (1.333%) Agresso
4 1 (0.444%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.444%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.444%) Maximo
4 1 (0.444%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.000%) HTTP
2 6 (2.667%) Internet
3 3 (1.333%) RFID
4 1 (0.444%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.444%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (30.22%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (7.111%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (6.222%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.333%) MySQL
6 9 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
7 8 (3.556%) DB2
7 8 (3.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (3.111%) Essbase
8 7 (3.111%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (2.667%) DataStage
9 6 (2.667%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.222%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (2.222%) SQLite
10 5 (2.222%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.222%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.333%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (1.333%) OLAP
12 2 (0.889%) KDB
12 2 (0.889%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (6.222%) JIRA
2 11 (4.889%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (4.444%) JUnit
4 9 (4.000%) Selenium
4 9 (4.000%) Subversion
4 9 (4.000%) Maven
5 7 (3.111%) Ant
6 5 (2.222%) Git (software)
6 5 (2.222%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.778%) Mercurial
7 4 (1.778%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.333%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.333%) Rhino Mocks
8 3 (1.333%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.889%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.889%) NUnit
9 2 (0.889%) CruiseControl
9 2 (0.889%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.444%) Hudson
10 1 (0.444%) NWDI
General
1 48 (21.33%) Finance
2 40 (17.78%) Banking
3 27 (12.00%) Front Office
4 23 (10.22%) Retail
5 17 (7.556%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.111%) Back Office
7 4 (1.778%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.778%) Publishing
8 3 (1.333%) Marketing
9 1 (0.444%) Games
9 1 (0.444%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.444%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (6.667%) Derivative
3 11 (4.889%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.556%) Open Source
4 8 (3.556%) SaaS
4 8 (3.556%) Computer Science
5 7 (3.111%) Credit Risk
5 7 (3.111%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.667%) EPoS
7 4 (1.778%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.778%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.778%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.333%) Social Media
8 3 (1.333%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.333%) Inversion of Control
8 3 (1.333%) IBM Mainframe
8 3 (1.333%) Equities
9 2 (0.889%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.889%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.889%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.67%) Windows
2 12 (5.333%) Apple iOS
3 11 (4.889%) UNIX
4 9 (4.000%) Android
4 9 (4.000%) Linux
5 1 (0.444%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.444%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (0.444%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.444%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.444%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.78%) OO
2 37 (16.44%) E-Commerce
3 36 (16.00%) Scrum
4 33 (14.67%) TDD
5 32 (14.22%) Multithreading
6 31 (13.78%) Agile Software Development
6 31 (13.78%) MVC
7 25 (11.11%) ETL
8 23 (10.22%) Unit Testing
9 20 (8.889%) Data Modelling
10 19 (8.444%) Migration
11 15 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (6.667%) BDD
12 13 (5.778%) Electronic Trading
12 13 (5.778%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (4.444%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (4.000%) MVVM
14 9 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (4.000%) Content Management
14 9 (4.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.67%) Java
2 75 (33.33%) SQL
3 56 (24.89%) C#
4 35 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.556%) PHP
6 14 (6.222%) C++
7 13 (5.778%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.000%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.222%) Perl
10 4 (1.778%) Python
10 4 (1.778%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.333%) C
11 3 (1.333%) XQuery
12 2 (0.889%) VBScript
12 2 (0.889%) Ruby
13 1 (0.444%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.444%) PHP5
13 1 (0.444%) XAML
13 1 (0.444%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.444%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 20 (8.889%) Degree
2 1 (0.444%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.333%) QA
2 2 (0.889%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.889%) Basel III
3 1 (0.444%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.444%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.444%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.444%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.444%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.889%) BladeLogic
1 2 (0.889%) Splunk
Vendors
1 47 (20.89%) Oracle
2 17 (7.556%) 29West
2 17 (7.556%) TIBCO
3 16 (7.111%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.111%) Cognos
4 11 (4.889%) IBM
5 10 (4.444%) DevExpress
5 10 (4.444%) Syncfusion
6 9 (4.000%) Siebel
7 7 (3.111%) Zend
7 7 (3.111%) webMethods
8 6 (2.667%) Hyperion
8 6 (2.667%) Business Objects
8 6 (2.667%) ATG
8 6 (2.667%) Perforce
9 5 (2.222%) hybris
9 5 (2.222%) Informatica
10 4 (1.778%) Sybase
11 3 (1.333%) UC4
11 3 (1.333%) Atlassian
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