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The table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Lead Developer
Location
3 months to
15 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank4254
Rank change on same period last yearUp+12
Matching contract IT job ads22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.002 %
As % of the category below0.515 %0.329 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£377£372
% change on same period last year+1.39 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£43.38£39.88
% change on same period last year+8.77 %
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads388607
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.553 %0.628 %
Daily rates quoted79102
Average minimum daily rate£316£291
Average daily rate£338£305
% change on same period last year+10.58 %
Average maximum daily rate£359£319
UK excluding London average daily rate£354£353
% change on same period last year+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted109118
Average minimum hourly rate£23.43£23.17
Average hourly rate£24.46£24.91
% change on same period last year-1.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.50£26.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.64£25.03
% change on same period last year-5.56 %
Lead Developer YorkshireLead Developer
Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Lead Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lead Developer across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South Yorkshire Lead Developer Demand Trend

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Developer across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Lead Developer Daily 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
SheffieldUp+72--
Lead Developer YorkshireLead Developer
Yorkshire

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

13 (60.00 %).NET
22 (40.00 %)J2EE
22 (40.00 %)JUnit
22 (40.00 %)ASP.NET
22 (40.00 %)CSS
22 (40.00 %)JSP
22 (40.00 %)Struts
22 (40.00 %)XML
22 (40.00 %)UML
22 (40.00 %)RSS
22 (40.00 %)LDAP
22 (40.00 %)Eclipse
22 (40.00 %)C#
22 (40.00 %)HTML
22 (40.00 %)Java
22 (40.00 %)SQL
22 (40.00 %)Government
22 (40.00 %)Hibernate
22 (40.00 %)JSTL
22 (40.00 %)HttpUnit
22 (40.00 %)WCF
22 (40.00 %)WPF
22 (40.00 %)Silverlight
22 (40.00 %)Content Management
22 (40.00 %)Lucene
22 (40.00 %)Spring
22 (40.00 %)AJAX
31 (20.00 %)Web 2.0
31 (20.00 %)Technical Architecture
31 (20.00 %)Degree

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
13 (60.00 %).NET
22 (40.00 %)J2EE
22 (40.00 %)ASP.NET
22 (40.00 %)CSS
22 (40.00 %)JSP
22 (40.00 %)Struts
22 (40.00 %)XML
22 (40.00 %)RSS
22 (40.00 %)Hibernate
22 (40.00 %)Lucene
22 (40.00 %)Spring
22 (40.00 %)AJAX
22 (40.00 %)JSTL
22 (40.00 %)WCF
22 (40.00 %)WPF
22 (40.00 %)Silverlight
22 (40.00 %)HTML
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12 (40.00 %)LDAP
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (40.00 %)JUnit
12 (40.00 %)Eclipse
12 (40.00 %)HttpUnit
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (40.00 %)Government
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (20.00 %)Web 2.0
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (40.00 %)UML
12 (40.00 %)Content Management
21 (20.00 %)Technical Architecture
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (40.00 %)C#
12 (40.00 %)Java
12 (40.00 %)SQL
South Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (20.00 %)Degree