Lead Designer Contracts
 
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 Designer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Designer 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 currently tracked.

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 Designer
Rank 496 546 562
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Designer 34 32 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.073% 0.055% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.059% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 17
Average daily rate £394 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £385 £408
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £490 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Lead Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lead Designer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Designer within the UK.

Lead Designer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lead Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lead Designer within the UK.

Lead Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Lead Designer
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Designer within the UK 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
England +39 23 £393 -12.77%
London +23 13 £393 -10.28%
South East +25 7 £475 -
Scotland - 7 £398 -
Edinburgh - 7 £398 -
Berkshire +19 4 £550 -
Hampshire -7 3 £400 -
Wokingham - 2 - -
Southampton - 2 £400 -
Worcestershire - 2 £315 -
West Midlands - 2 £315 -
North West +13 1 £435 -5.94%
Cheshire +6 1 £435 -
Havant +1 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Worcester - 1 £325 -
Belfast - 1 - -
County Antrim - 1 - -

Lead Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Lead Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 13 (28.26%) Adobe
2 11 (23.91%) CSS
3 9 (19.57%) XHTML
3 9 (19.57%) E-Commerce
3 9 (19.57%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (17.39%) HTML
5 7 (15.22%) Photoshop
6 6 (13.04%) Digital Media
6 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
7 5 (10.87%) HTML5
7 5 (10.87%) OmniGraffle
7 5 (10.87%) Axure RP
7 5 (10.87%) Android
7 5 (10.87%) Finance
7 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.696%) VMware
8 4 (8.696%) Multimedia
8 4 (8.696%) Marketing
8 4 (8.696%) Cisco
8 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
8 4 (8.696%) Apple iOS
9 3 (6.522%) Oracle
9 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
9 3 (6.522%) B2B
9 3 (6.522%) Flash
9 3 (6.522%) iDTV
9 3 (6.522%) jQuery
9 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.522%) SC Cleared
9 3 (6.522%) Security Cleared

Lead Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Lead Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (23.91%) CSS
2 9 (19.57%) XHTML
3 8 (17.39%) HTML
4 5 (10.87%) HTML5
5 3 (6.522%) jQuery
5 3 (6.522%) Flash
6 2 (4.348%) .NET
7 1 (2.174%) J2EE
7 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.174%) Middleware
7 1 (2.174%) Ajax
7 1 (2.174%) Apache Flex
7 1 (2.174%) Adobe AIR
7 1 (2.174%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.174%) Cairngorm
7 1 (2.174%) BlazeDS
7 1 (2.174%) Robotlegs
7 1 (2.174%) Parsley
7 1 (2.174%) Web Services
7 1 (2.174%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.348%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.174%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Photoshop
2 5 (10.87%) OmniGraffle
3 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
4 1 (2.174%) CATIA
4 1 (2.174%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (2.174%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) PeopleSoft HRMS
1 1 (2.174%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.174%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.174%) ENOVIA
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (2.174%) OLAP
3 1 (2.174%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.174%) PeopleTools
2 1 (2.174%) CruiseControl
2 1 (2.174%) Maven
2 1 (2.174%) JIRA
General
1 5 (10.87%) Finance
2 4 (8.696%) Multimedia
2 4 (8.696%) Marketing
3 3 (6.522%) Games
4 2 (4.348%) Banking
4 2 (4.348%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.174%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.174%) Billing
5 1 (2.174%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.174%) Legal
5 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.174%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Digital Media
1 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.522%) iDTV
3 2 (4.348%) Speech Recognition
3 2 (4.348%) Smartphone
3 2 (4.348%) Open Source
3 2 (4.348%) Video on Demand
4 1 (2.174%) SaaS
4 1 (2.174%) Social Network
4 1 (2.174%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Android
2 4 (8.696%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
3 2 (4.348%) Windows
4 1 (2.174%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) E-Commerce
1 9 (19.57%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (6.522%) TDD
3 3 (6.522%) B2B
3 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (4.348%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (4.348%) Data Mapping
4 2 (4.348%) User Experience Design
4 2 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (4.348%) SOA
4 2 (4.348%) Content Management
4 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (4.348%) UML
4 2 (4.348%) CRM
4 2 (4.348%) Asset Management
4 2 (4.348%) Scrum
4 2 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.174%) Web Design
5 1 (2.174%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.348%) C
2 2 (4.348%) PHP
2 2 (4.348%) Java
2 2 (4.348%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.174%) SQL
3 1 (2.174%) Ada
3 1 (2.174%) PeopleCode
3 1 (2.174%) Ruby
3 1 (2.174%) C++
3 1 (2.174%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (6.522%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.522%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.174%) CCNP
2 1 (2.174%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.522%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.348%) XenApp
2 2 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Adobe
2 4 (8.696%) Cisco
2 4 (8.696%) VMware
3 3 (6.522%) Oracle
4 2 (4.348%) HP
4 2 (4.348%) Citrix
4 2 (4.348%) IronPort
4 2 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.348%) Verint
4 2 (4.348%) webMethods
5 1 (2.174%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.174%) IBM
5 1 (2.174%) Ektron
5 1 (2.174%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.174%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (2.174%) SAP
5 1 (2.174%) JBoss
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