The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 198 217 218
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 25 30 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.320% 0.295% 0.325%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.345% 0.319% 0.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 13
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £338 £302
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £471
UK excluding London average daily rate £421 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+16.20% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-15.35% +33.33%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Buckinghamshire +6 7 £463 +32.14%
Hampshire -6 7 £400 -15.78%
Surrey - 4 £438 -
Berkshire +13 2 £375 +7.14%
Home Counties - 2 - -
West Sussex +17 1 £450 +33.33%
East Sussex - 1 £325 -
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 17 (36.96%) .NET
2 14 (30.43%) Java
3 13 (28.26%) HTML
3 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
3 13 (28.26%) CSS
3 13 (28.26%) Web Services
4 12 (26.09%) REST
5 11 (23.91%) SOAP
5 11 (23.91%) Oracle
5 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (23.91%) MVC
5 11 (23.91%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (21.74%) C#
6 10 (21.74%) J2EE
6 10 (21.74%) UML
6 10 (21.74%) jQuery
7 9 (19.57%) SQL
8 8 (17.39%) XML
8 8 (17.39%) Web Development
9 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
9 7 (15.22%) Oracle 11g
9 7 (15.22%) Oracle Service Bus
9 7 (15.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (15.22%) SOA
9 7 (15.22%) WSDL
9 7 (15.22%) Scrum
9 7 (15.22%) Middleware
9 7 (15.22%) BPEL
9 7 (15.22%) Spring
10 6 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 17 (36.96%) .NET
2 13 (28.26%) HTML
2 13 (28.26%) CSS
2 13 (28.26%) Web Services
3 12 (26.09%) REST
4 11 (23.91%) SOAP
5 10 (21.74%) J2EE
5 10 (21.74%) jQuery
6 8 (17.39%) XML
7 7 (15.22%) WSDL
7 7 (15.22%) Spring
7 7 (15.22%) Middleware
8 6 (13.04%) WCF
8 6 (13.04%) JMS
9 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
9 5 (10.87%) Java EE
9 5 (10.87%) JPA
9 5 (10.87%) HTML5
10 4 (8.696%) Spring Security
10 4 (8.696%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle Service Bus
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (10.87%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (8.696%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (4.348%) WebLogic
4 2 (4.348%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.174%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (2.174%) Drupal
5 1 (2.174%) Magento
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.174%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.174%) MS Project
2 1 (2.174%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.174%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) HTTP
1 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (6.522%) PowerCenter
6 2 (4.348%) QlikView
6 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (4.348%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.348%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Maven
2 5 (10.87%) Ant
2 5 (10.87%) JUnit
2 5 (10.87%) Git (software)
3 4 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (8.696%) JBehave
3 4 (8.696%) Mockito
3 4 (8.696%) Eclipse
3 4 (8.696%) JDeveloper
4 2 (4.348%) Selenium
5 1 (2.174%) JIRA
5 1 (2.174%) CruiseControl
General
1 3 (6.522%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.348%) Publishing
2 2 (4.348%) Retail
3 1 (2.174%) Marketing
3 1 (2.174%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.174%) Banking
3 1 (2.174%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Web 2.0
2 3 (6.522%) Open Source
3 2 (4.348%) Data Integration
3 2 (4.348%) W3C
3 2 (4.348%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.348%) Social Media
4 1 (2.174%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.174%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.522%) UNIX
2 2 (4.348%) Linux
3 1 (2.174%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) MVC
1 11 (23.91%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (21.74%) UML
3 8 (17.39%) Web Development
4 7 (15.22%) Scrum
4 7 (15.22%) BPEL
4 7 (15.22%) SOA
4 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
5 6 (13.04%) Software Architecture
6 5 (10.87%) ETL
7 4 (8.696%) Workflow
7 4 (8.696%) E-Commerce
7 4 (8.696%) OOD
7 4 (8.696%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (8.696%) BDD
8 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.522%) Content Management
8 3 (6.522%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (4.348%) Configuration Management
9 2 (4.348%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) Java
2 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
3 10 (21.74%) C#
4 9 (19.57%) SQL
5 5 (10.87%) XPath
6 4 (8.696%) XQuery
6 4 (8.696%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.696%) PHP
7 2 (4.348%) VB.NET
7 2 (4.348%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.174%) VB
8 1 (2.174%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.522%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.348%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.348%) WAI
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) JBoss
3 4 (8.696%) Twitter
4 3 (6.522%) Adobe
4 3 (6.522%) Informatica
5 2 (4.348%) hybris
5 2 (4.348%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.348%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.174%) SAP
6 1 (2.174%) Ektron
Reading, Thames Valley
A national media organisation are urgently seeking an experienced Lead Developer to come on board and lead the update of their customer membership system which is currently developed...
Brightred Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
The new system will be based on a .Net 4.5 framework with an SQL Server 2008R2 back end... Developing application using: .Net 4.5, WCF, SQL 2008R2.....
Brightred Resourcing Limited
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
You will need to have solid Oracle 11g SOA suite 11.1.3 - PS5 experience along with web service technologies (WSDL, REST, SOAP), Fusions middleware suite & SOA suite...
Hudson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 26 April 2013
Reading, Berkshire
The project is of critical importance and will need someone within extensive Windows mobile application experience... To be applicable this role you must have the following experience; -Windows...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 16 May 2013