The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 19 June 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 West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Lead
Rank 95 123 120
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 6 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.299% 0.288% 0.264%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.320% 0.306% 0.283%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 3
Average daily rate - £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.11 £25.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year
+52.44% -42.19%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1876 2937 2830
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.38% 93.92% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1118 1762 1405
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £485 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 175 256
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% -1.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.58 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Technical Leader Daily Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Leader across the South West region.

South West Technical Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bristol +18 1 - - 3
Somerset - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 4 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Advertising
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (8.333%) C#
4 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.333%) MVC
4 1 (8.333%) Workflow
4 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Azure
4 1 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (8.333%) Memcached
4 1 (8.333%) AppFabric
4 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (8.333%) Redis
4 1 (8.333%) User Stories
4 1 (8.333%) NHibernate
4 1 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis

Technical Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (8.333%) Memcached
3 1 (8.333%) AppFabric
3 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (8.333%) NHibernate
3 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.333%) WCF
3 1 (8.333%) LINQ
3 1 (8.333%) Spring
3 1 (8.333%) JTA
3 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.333%) EJB
3 1 (8.333%) JSP
3 1 (8.333%) Servlets
3 1 (8.333%) Struts
3 1 (8.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Azure
1 1 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (8.333%) GlassFish
1 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
1 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Internet
1 1 (8.333%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.333%) Redis
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (8.333%) Subversion
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (8.333%) Banking
3 1 (8.333%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.333%) Solaris
3 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
2 1 (8.333%) Workflow
2 1 (8.333%) User Stories
2 1 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
2 1 (8.333%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (8.333%) Use Case
2 1 (8.333%) Six Sigma
2 1 (8.333%) UML
2 1 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (8.333%) OO
2 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.333%) C#
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
1 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
1 1 (8.333%) CCNP
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) ATG
2 1 (8.333%) VMware
2 1 (8.333%) JBoss
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