Lead Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts across the UK 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 Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chesterfield City of London Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Peterborough Potters Bar Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Telford UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	417	477
Rank change on same period last year	+60
Matching contract IT job ads	147	162
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.209 %	0.168 %
As % of the category below	0.236 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	44	58
Average minimum daily rate	£411	£419
Average daily rate	£443	£439
% change on same period last year	+0.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£474	£459
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.00	£38.75
Average hourly rate	£43.38	£39.88
% change on same period last year	+8.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.75	£41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.38	£39.88
% change on same period last year	+8.77 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	62170	88312
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.60 %	91.33 %
Daily rates quoted	20074	26422
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£388
Average daily rate	£396	£413
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	5732	7812
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.72	£23.70
Average hourly rate	£24.20	£25.26
% change on same period last year	-4.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.69	£26.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lead Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Lead Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lead Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Lead Developer
Top 30 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 UK 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.

Location	Rank 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
England	+78	143	£446	-0.53 %
London	+46	59	£465	-3.64 %
South East	+33	22	£403	+0.15 %
South West	+40	22	-	-
Yorkshire	+30	14	-	-
East of England	+37	13	£375	+12.78 %
Devon	-	12	-	-
Leeds	+11	11	-	-
West Sussex	+17	11	-	-
West Yorkshire	+11	11	-	-
Bristol	+16	10	-	-
City of London	-18	10	£494	-11.43 %
Gatwick	+9	9	-	-
West Midlands	-	9	£331	-
Cambridgeshire	-	7	£300	-
Hertfordshire	+21	6	£450	+35.33 %
Crawley	+13	6	-	-
Cambridge	-	4	-	-
Hampshire	+9	4	£413	+5.49 %
Herefordshire	-	3	-	-
Berkshire	-	3	£392	-
Staffordshire	-	3	£375	-
Hemel Hempstead	-	3	-	-
Potters Bar	-	3	-	-
Sheffield	+7	2	-	-
Peterborough	-	2	-	-
Birmingham	-	2	-	-
Surrey	+20	2	£425	+8.28 %
Docklands, London	+30	2	-	-
East Midlands	+1	2	£400	-

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 128 (44.60 %) Java 2 95 (33.10 %) XML 3 94 (32.75 %) .NET 4 89 (31.01 %) J2EE 5 77 (26.83 %) C# 6 76 (26.48 %) OO 7 70 (24.39 %) SQL 8 56 (19.51 %) Oracle 9 54 (18.82 %) HTML 10 53 (18.47 %) SQL Server 10 53 (18.47 %) Ant 11 48 (16.72 %) Extranet 12 46 (16.03 %) WebServices 13 44 (15.33 %) Shell Script 14 40 (13.94 %) Finance

14 40 (13.94 %) ASP.NET 14 40 (13.94 %) Sun Certification 15 39 (13.59 %) HTTP 15 39 (13.59 %) Banking 16 38 (13.24 %) ATG Dynamo 16 38 (13.24 %) ATG 16 38 (13.24 %) Solaris 17 37 (12.89 %) Sun 18 32 (11.15 %) JSP 19 28 (9.756 %) Spring 20 27 (9.408 %) Investment Banking 21 25 (8.711 %) WinForms 22 24 (8.362 %) Hibernate 23 23 (8.014 %) Windows 23 23 (8.014 %) Microsoft

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 95 (33.10 %) XML 2 94 (32.75 %) .NET 3 89 (31.01 %) J2EE 4 54 (18.82 %) HTML 5 46 (16.03 %) WebServices 6 40 (13.94 %) ASP.NET 7 32 (11.15 %) JSP 8 28 (9.756 %) Spring 9 25 (8.711 %) WinForms 10 24 (8.362 %) Hibernate 11 20 (6.969 %) Struts 11 20 (6.969 %) XSD 12 19 (6.620 %) JMS 13 17 (5.923 %) CSS 14 15 (5.226 %) EJB 15 14 (4.878 %) XSLT 15 14 (4.878 %) WebSphere 16 13 (4.530 %) Castor 16 13 (4.530 %) AJAX 17 12 (4.181 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 38 (13.24 %) ATG Dynamo 2 21 (7.317 %) WebLogic 3 18 (6.272 %) Tomcat 4 10 (3.484 %) SharePoint 5 7 (2.439 %) Apache 6 6 (2.091 %) BizTalk Server 6 6 (2.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 5 (1.742 %) WPS 7 5 (1.742 %) MTS 8 4 (1.394 %) IIS 9 3 (1.045 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 2 (0.697 %) CICS 10 2 (0.697 %) Commerce Server 10 2 (0.697 %) JBoss 10 2 (0.697 %) ESB 10 2 (0.697 %) WebLogic Integration 10 2 (0.697 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 1 (0.348 %) Office Communications Server 11 1 (0.348 %) CMS 11 1 (0.348 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 13 (4.530 %) MS Excel 2 4 (1.394 %) InfoPath 3 3 (1.045 %) MS Office 4 2 (0.697 %) Spreadsheet 4 2 (0.697 %) Photoshop 4 2 (0.697 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.348 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.348 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (0.697 %) Endur 1 2 (0.697 %) assyst 2 1 (0.348 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (0.348 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.348 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 48 (16.72 %) Extranet 2 39 (13.59 %) HTTP 3 8 (2.787 %) Intranet 3 8 (2.787 %) Internet 4 3 (1.045 %) LDAP 5 1 (0.348 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (18.47 %) SQL Server 2 20 (6.969 %) Oracle 9i 3 12 (4.181 %) SQL Server 2005 4 11 (3.833 %) Oracle 10g 5 10 (3.484 %) DB2 6 8 (2.787 %) SQL Server 2000 7 7 (2.439 %) Datawarehouse 8 6 (2.091 %) ETL 8 6 (2.091 %) DB2 UDB 9 5 (1.742 %) MySQL 10 4 (1.394 %) RDBMS 11 3 (1.045 %) MS Access 11 3 (1.045 %) Crystal Reports 11 3 (1.045 %) BusinessObjects 11 3 (1.045 %) DataStage 12 2 (0.697 %) QualityStage 12 2 (0.697 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 2 (0.697 %) Oracle Reports 12 2 (0.697 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 2 (0.697 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 53 (18.47 %) Ant 2 17 (5.923 %) Eclipse 3 12 (4.181 %) ClearCase 4 8 (2.787 %) JUnit 5 7 (2.439 %) Visual Studio 6 5 (1.742 %) Oracle Forms 6 5 (1.742 %) Flash 7 2 (0.697 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.697 %) IntelliJ 7 2 (0.697 %) HttpUnit 8 1 (0.348 %) ReSharper 8 1 (0.348 %) Selenium 8 1 (0.348 %) FitNesse 8 1 (0.348 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.348 %) CruiseControl 8 1 (0.348 %) Subversion 8 1 (0.348 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 40 (13.94 %) Finance 2 39 (13.59 %) Banking 3 27 (9.408 %) Investment Banking 4 20 (6.969 %) Front Office 5 16 (5.575 %) Government 6 7 (2.439 %) Health 6 7 (2.439 %) Back Office 7 4 (1.394 %) Telecoms 8 3 (1.045 %) Education 9 2 (0.697 %) Retail 9 2 (0.697 %) Insurance 9 2 (0.697 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.348 %) Pensions 10 1 (0.348 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.348 %) Animation 10 1 (0.348 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.348 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.348 %) Construction 10 1 (0.348 %) Law 10 1 (0.348 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 12 (4.181 %) Equities 1 12 (4.181 %) Derivative 2 11 (3.833 %) Fixed Income 3 9 (3.136 %) Credit Risk 4 6 (2.091 %) Market Risk 4 6 (2.091 %) Mainframe 4 6 (2.091 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 4 (1.394 %) Credit Derivative 5 4 (1.394 %) Web 2.0 6 3 (1.045 %) N-Tier 6 3 (1.045 %) IBM Mainframe 6 3 (1.045 %) DataPower 7 2 (0.697 %) Mathematics 7 2 (0.697 %) Computer Science 7 2 (0.697 %) Fat Client 7 2 (0.697 %) Equity Derivative 7 2 (0.697 %) Thin Client 7 2 (0.697 %) Grid Computing 8 1 (0.348 %) NPfIT 8 1 (0.348 %) Biometrics	Operating Systems 1 38 (13.24 %) Solaris 2 23 (8.014 %) Windows 3 22 (7.666 %) UNIX 4 13 (4.530 %) Windows NT 5 6 (2.091 %) Linux 6 3 (1.045 %) AIX 7 2 (0.697 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (0.697 %) Windows XP 8 1 (0.348 %) MVS 8 1 (0.348 %) Windows Mobile 8 1 (0.348 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (0.348 %) Windows Server 2008 8 1 (0.348 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (0.348 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 76 (26.48 %) OO 2 20 (6.969 %) SOA 3 18 (6.272 %) UML 4 13 (4.530 %) OOD 4 13 (4.530 %) Extreme Programming 5 12 (4.181 %) E-Commerce 6 11 (3.833 %) Project Management 6 11 (3.833 %) Unit Testing 7 10 (3.484 %) Web Development 7 10 (3.484 %) Risk Management 8 9 (3.136 %) Agile Software Development 8 9 (3.136 %) EAI 9 8 (2.787 %) OOA/OOD 9 8 (2.787 %) RUP 9 8 (2.787 %) TDD 10 7 (2.439 %) Configuration Management 10 7 (2.439 %) OOP 10 7 (2.439 %) Security Cleared 11 6 (2.091 %) SC Cleared 11 6 (2.091 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 128 (44.60 %) Java 2 77 (26.83 %) C# 3 70 (24.39 %) SQL 4 44 (15.33 %) Shell Script 5 22 (7.666 %) C++ 6 20 (6.969 %) VB.NET 7 18 (6.272 %) VB 8 16 (5.575 %) JavaScript 8 16 (5.575 %) VB6 9 14 (4.878 %) PL/SQL 10 13 (4.530 %) XPath 11 9 (3.136 %) COBOL 12 8 (2.787 %) VBA 13 7 (2.439 %) PHP 14 6 (2.091 %) Ruby 15 5 (1.742 %) ActionScript 16 4 (1.394 %) C 16 4 (1.394 %) Perl 17 3 (1.045 %) VC++ 17 3 (1.045 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 40 (13.94 %) Sun Certification 2 7 (2.439 %) Degree 3 6 (2.091 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (1.394 %) MCSD 5 1 (0.348 %) PhD 5 1 (0.348 %) Siebel Certification 5 1 (0.348 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.348 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.742 %) QA 2 1 (0.348 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (1.045 %) AquaLogic 2 2 (0.697 %) Active Directory 3 1 (0.348 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (0.348 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 56 (19.51 %) Oracle 2 38 (13.24 %) ATG 3 37 (12.89 %) Sun 4 23 (8.014 %) Microsoft 5 22 (7.666 %) Sybase 6 11 (3.833 %) IBM 7 8 (2.787 %) DataSynapse 8 7 (2.439 %) BEA 9 6 (2.091 %) Tangosol 10 5 (1.742 %) TIBCO 11 4 (1.394 %) Bloomberg 11 4 (1.394 %) Tradeweb 12 3 (1.045 %) Ascential 12 3 (1.045 %) Business Objects 12 3 (1.045 %) Adobe 13 2 (0.697 %) Siebel 13 2 (0.697 %) Sage 13 2 (0.697 %) Murex 13 2 (0.697 %) Triple Point 13 2 (0.697 %) GigaSpaces