The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 45 52 56
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 7 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.365% 1.513% 0.335%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.449% 1.597% 0.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
Average daily rate £463 £350 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.14% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £350 £460
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £421 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+16.20% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-15.35% +33.33%
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
483 689 567
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 94.15% 94.77% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 288 220
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £484 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 72
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.76 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Lead Developer
Buckinghamshire

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Lead Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) SOA
2 7 (77.78%) WSDL
2 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) BPEL
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle Service Bus
2 7 (77.78%) REST
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (66.67%) XML
3 6 (66.67%) SOAP
4 5 (55.56%) .NET
4 5 (55.56%) C#
4 5 (55.56%) Ant
4 5 (55.56%) UML
4 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
4 5 (55.56%) XPath
4 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (55.56%) MVC
4 5 (55.56%) WCF
5 4 (44.44%) Workflow
5 4 (44.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 4 (44.44%) Web 2.0
5 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (44.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (44.44%) XSD
5 4 (44.44%) Eclipse

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (77.78%) Web Services
1 7 (77.78%) Middleware
1 7 (77.78%) WSDL
1 7 (77.78%) REST
2 6 (66.67%) SOAP
2 6 (66.67%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) WCF
4 4 (44.44%) XSD
5 2 (22.22%) JMS
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (11.11%) JPA
6 1 (11.11%) XML Schema
6 1 (11.11%) DHTML
6 1 (11.11%) Struts
6 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 1 (11.11%) Spring
6 1 (11.11%) Ajax
6 1 (11.11%) Dojo
6 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Service Bus
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (11.11%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Ant
2 4 (44.44%) Eclipse
2 4 (44.44%) JDeveloper
2 4 (44.44%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Web 2.0
2 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) SOA
1 7 (77.78%) BPEL
2 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 5 (55.56%) UML
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (44.44%) Workflow
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) BPMN
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) XPath
2 4 (44.44%) XQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica