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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Team Leader role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Team Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkTeam Lead
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank192182163
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10Down-19
Matching contract IT job ads383322782
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.792 %0.810 %0.958 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.866 %0.886 %1.029 %
Daily rates quoted14683228
Average daily rate£463£363£381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.58 %-4.910 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£150£237
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£570£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£295£345£352
% change year-on-year
-14.49 %-1.980 %
Hourly rates quoted183657
Average hourly rate£22.00£22.50£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.220 %-18.18 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£13.25£16.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£39.00£43.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£19.00£27.75
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %-31.53 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
442443633176008
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.49 %91.40 %93.07 %
Daily rates quoted201801157423442
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£213£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted253630426701
Average hourly rate£19.50£20.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.500 %-9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.60£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-12.00 %-9.090 %

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.

Team Leader
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Team Leader within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Team Leader Demand Trend

Team Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

Team Leader Daily Rate Trend

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Team Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

Team Leader Daily Rate Histogram

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Team Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Team Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

Team Leader Hourly Rate Histogram

Team Leader
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 Team Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-18340£475+26.66 %
LondonDown-1205£550+29.41 %
City of LondonDown-4359£550+4.76 %
South EastDown-1953£313-21.87 %
BerkshireUp+1428£400-
WalesUp+2025£488+48.57 %
South WestNo change021£445+4.70 %
East of EnglandDown-1017£150-
Canary WharfNew entry-16£475-
ScotlandDown-514£290-21.35 %
ReadingUp+1113£400-17.94 %
SwanseaNew entry-13£500-
West WalesNew entry-13£500-
EssexDown-911£150-
HampshireDown-510£325-
West MidlandsUp+119£230-16.36 %
North WestDown-129£303-24.84 %
South WalesUp+88£425+29.52 %
BuckinghamshireDown-68£284-12.42 %
North EastUp+157--
Milton KeynesUp+27£284-12.42 %
YorkshireDown-107£250-
Tyne and WearUp+186--
HertfordshireUp+16--
East MidlandsNo change06£150-60.52 %
BristolNew entry-6--
Docklands, LondonDown-35£450-
EdinburghDown-165£325-11.86 %
BirminghamUp+124£230-39.47 %
GloucestershireUp+104£115-70.32 %

Team Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Team 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 Team Leader in their job title.

1142 (19.97 %)Finance
2124 (17.44 %)Java
3121 (17.02 %)Banking
4112 (15.75 %)SQL
5102 (14.35 %)Windows
686 (12.10 %)C#
782 (11.53 %)Front Office
881 (11.39 %)Oracle
970 (9.845 %).NET
1066 (9.283 %)Investment Banking
1165 (9.142 %)SQL Server
1264 (9.001 %)Security Cleared
1361 (8.579 %)ITIL
1460 (8.439 %)SAP
1557 (8.017 %)UNIX
1654 (7.595 %)Derivative
1750 (7.032 %)Linux
1849 (6.892 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1947 (6.610 %)SC Cleared
2041 (5.767 %)Migration
2138 (5.345 %)Hibernate
2138 (5.345 %)XML
2236 (5.063 %)Spring
2335 (4.923 %)Equities
2433 (4.641 %)Project Management
2532 (4.501 %)Sybase
2631 (4.360 %)OO
2631 (4.360 %)Microsoft
2631 (4.360 %)Active Directory
2730 (4.219 %)MS Excel

Team Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Team 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 Team Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
170 (9.845 %).NET
238 (5.345 %)Hibernate
238 (5.345 %)XML
336 (5.063 %)Spring
430 (4.219 %)WinForms
529 (4.079 %)HTML
625 (3.516 %)AJAX
724 (3.376 %)ASP.NET
724 (3.376 %)CSS
823 (3.235 %)Web Services
823 (3.235 %)J2EE
919 (2.672 %)Struts
1016 (2.250 %)WCF
1112 (1.688 %)JMS
1210 (1.406 %)WebWork
1210 (1.406 %)Middleware
1210 (1.406 %).NET Framework
1210 (1.406 %)jQuery
139 (1.266 %)Swing
139 (1.266 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
124 (3.376 %)Tomcat
219 (2.672 %)SharePoint
311 (1.547 %)MS Exchange
49 (1.266 %)Lotus Domino
57 (0.985 %)Confluence
57 (0.985 %)SAS
65 (0.703 %)BizTalk Server
65 (0.703 %)ArcGIS
74 (0.563 %)WebLogic
74 (0.563 %)Lotus Notes
74 (0.563 %)Apache
83 (0.422 %)Exchange Server 2007
83 (0.422 %)WebSphere Process Server
92 (0.281 %)ATG Dynamo
92 (0.281 %)WebSphere Application Server
92 (0.281 %)MQSeries
92 (0.281 %)SharePoint Server 2007
92 (0.281 %)AquaLogic
92 (0.281 %)Exchange Server 2003
92 (0.281 %)SAP Portal
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
130 (4.219 %)MS Excel
211 (1.547 %)MS Office
35 (0.703 %)MS Visio
44 (0.563 %)MS Project
53 (0.422 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.281 %)AutoCAD
71 (0.141 %)Spreadsheet
71 (0.141 %)Photoshop
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
112 (1.688 %)SAP HR
29 (1.266 %)Endur
37 (0.985 %)Global One
37 (0.985 %)Summit
46 (0.844 %)SAP Payroll
46 (0.844 %)Oracle EBS
46 (0.844 %)SAP FI
55 (0.703 %)Oracle EBS R12
55 (0.703 %)SAP FI/CO
55 (0.703 %)SAP CO
64 (0.563 %)SAP CRM
64 (0.563 %)Hyperion Planning
73 (0.422 %)SAP SRM
73 (0.422 %)SAP MM
73 (0.422 %)SAP R/3
82 (0.281 %)Oracle Applications
82 (0.281 %)Oracle Financials
82 (0.281 %)SAP APO
82 (0.281 %)CODA-Financials
82 (0.281 %)Kondor+
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
124 (3.376 %)Firewall
29 (1.266 %)DNS
29 (1.266 %)Internet
29 (1.266 %)VPN
37 (0.985 %)SAN
37 (0.985 %)Wireless
46 (0.844 %)LDAP
46 (0.844 %)WAN
55 (0.703 %)LAN
55 (0.703 %)Intrusion Detection
64 (0.563 %)VoIP
64 (0.563 %)TCP/IP
73 (0.422 %)VLAN
73 (0.422 %)SNMP
73 (0.422 %)SSL
73 (0.422 %)SMTP
73 (0.422 %)DHCP
73 (0.422 %)Ethernet
82 (0.281 %)BIG-IP
82 (0.281 %)HTTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
165 (9.142 %)SQL Server
216 (2.250 %)BusinessObjects
315 (2.110 %)DB2
414 (1.969 %)ETL
414 (1.969 %)SAP BW
414 (1.969 %)SQL Server 2005
511 (1.547 %)Datawarehouse
610 (1.406 %)Essbase
79 (1.266 %)Oracle 10g
87 (0.985 %)RDBMS
87 (0.985 %)Crystal Reports
87 (0.985 %)GIS
95 (0.703 %)Oracle 8/8i
95 (0.703 %)OLAP
104 (0.563 %)MySQL
104 (0.563 %)MS Access
104 (0.563 %)TOAD
104 (0.563 %)DataStage
104 (0.563 %)Reference Data
113 (0.422 %)SAP BI
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
116 (2.250 %)LoadRunner
214 (1.969 %)JUnit
312 (1.688 %)QuickTest Pro
411 (1.547 %)Subversion
510 (1.406 %)IntelliJ
69 (1.266 %)CruiseControl
78 (1.125 %)Ant
78 (1.125 %)Eclipse
78 (1.125 %)TestDirector
87 (0.985 %)JIRA
87 (0.985 %)WinRunner
87 (0.985 %)Maven
96 (0.844 %)Team Foundation Server
105 (0.703 %)ClearCase
105 (0.703 %)Visual Studio
114 (0.563 %)NUnit
114 (0.563 %)TeamCity
123 (0.422 %)EasyMock
123 (0.422 %)Selenium
123 (0.422 %)FitNesse
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1142 (19.97 %)Finance
2121 (17.02 %)Banking
382 (11.53 %)Front Office
466 (9.283 %)Investment Banking
524 (3.376 %)Government
622 (3.094 %)Telecoms
719 (2.672 %)Insurance
816 (2.250 %)Retail
911 (1.547 %)Back Office
108 (1.125 %)Health
108 (1.125 %)Financial Institution
117 (0.985 %)Law
126 (0.844 %)Retail Banking
135 (0.703 %)Education
144 (0.563 %)Military
144 (0.563 %)Manufacturing
153 (0.422 %)Auditing
153 (0.422 %)Pensions
153 (0.422 %)Police
162 (0.281 %)Home Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
154 (7.595 %)Derivative
249 (6.892 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
335 (4.923 %)Equities
421 (2.954 %)Equity Derivative
513 (1.828 %)Multithreading
612 (1.688 %)Fixed Income
711 (1.547 %)Statistics
87 (0.985 %)FMCG
87 (0.985 %)Contract for Difference
87 (0.985 %)Wiki
87 (0.985 %)Blackberry
96 (0.844 %)Thin Client
96 (0.844 %)HACMP
96 (0.844 %)Fat Client
96 (0.844 %)Credit Risk
105 (0.703 %)Spanish Language
105 (0.703 %)NHS
105 (0.703 %)N-Tier
105 (0.703 %)Replication
114 (0.563 %)Grid Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1102 (14.35 %)Windows
257 (8.017 %)UNIX
350 (7.032 %)Linux
416 (2.250 %)Solaris
513 (1.828 %)Windows XP
612 (1.688 %)Windows Server 2003
79 (1.266 %)Windows Server 2008
88 (1.125 %)AIX
97 (0.985 %)Windows 2000
106 (0.844 %)Windows Vista
113 (0.422 %)SUSE
122 (0.281 %)Windows 2000 Server
122 (0.281 %)Red Hat Linux
131 (0.141 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
131 (0.141 %)HPUX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
161 (8.579 %)ITIL
241 (5.767 %)Migration
333 (4.641 %)Project Management
431 (4.360 %)OO
528 (3.938 %)Agile Software Development
627 (3.797 %)MVC
627 (3.797 %)Change Management
627 (3.797 %)Web Development
724 (3.376 %)Business Intelligence
821 (2.954 %)E-Commerce
919 (2.672 %)SOA
1018 (2.532 %)Data Migration
1116 (2.250 %)Service Delivery
1116 (2.250 %)User Acceptance Testing
1215 (2.110 %)Project Planning
1215 (2.110 %)Performance Management
1314 (1.969 %)Algorithmic Trading
1413 (1.828 %)Performance Testing
1413 (1.828 %)TDD
1512 (1.688 %)Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1124 (17.44 %)Java
2112 (15.75 %)SQL
386 (12.10 %)C#
425 (3.516 %)JavaScript
524 (3.376 %)C
621 (2.954 %)C++
717 (2.391 %)Perl
812 (1.688 %)VB
99 (1.266 %)PL/SQL
108 (1.125 %)COBOL
116 (0.844 %)T-SQL
116 (0.844 %)JCL
125 (0.703 %)PHP
125 (0.703 %)VBA
125 (0.703 %)VB6
134 (0.563 %)Ruby
134 (0.563 %)Shell Script
143 (0.422 %)Groovy
143 (0.422 %)Korn
143 (0.422 %)Python
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
164 (9.001 %)Security Cleared
247 (6.610 %)SC Cleared
327 (3.797 %)ISEB
413 (1.828 %)Degree
512 (1.688 %)DV Cleared
69 (1.266 %)Cisco Certification
77 (0.985 %)ISTQB
77 (0.985 %)ITIL Certification
86 (0.844 %)ISEB Practitioner
86 (0.844 %)CCNA
95 (0.703 %)Microsoft Certification
95 (0.703 %)MCSE
104 (0.563 %)CCIE
104 (0.563 %)CCNP
104 (0.563 %)BC Cleared
113 (0.422 %)CCDP
113 (0.422 %)Citrix Certification
113 (0.422 %)JNCIS
122 (0.281 %)Oracle Certification
122 (0.281 %)CTC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
130 (4.219 %)QA
220 (2.813 %)SLA
31 (0.141 %)ISO9001
31 (0.141 %)TickIT
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
131 (4.360 %)Active Directory
28 (1.125 %)VMware Infrastructure
33 (0.422 %)NFS
41 (0.141 %)XenApp
41 (0.141 %)Xen
41 (0.141 %)Oracle RAC
41 (0.141 %)VMware ESX
41 (0.141 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.703 %)CiscoWorks
24 (0.563 %)Netcool
24 (0.563 %)MSI
24 (0.563 %)Netcool/Proviso
33 (0.422 %)EMC NetWorker
42 (0.281 %)OpenView
42 (0.281 %)OpenView Configuration Management
51 (0.141 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.141 %)Data Guard
51 (0.141 %)Norton AntiVirus
51 (0.141 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
51 (0.141 %)ARCserve
51 (0.141 %)CONTROL-M
51 (0.141 %)Cisco IPCC
51 (0.141 %)OVSD
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
181 (11.39 %)Oracle
260 (8.439 %)SAP
332 (4.501 %)Sybase
431 (4.360 %)Microsoft
528 (3.938 %)Cisco
627 (3.797 %)IBM
725 (3.516 %)HP
819 (2.672 %)Citrix
917 (2.391 %)CheckPoint
1016 (2.250 %)Business Objects
1114 (1.969 %)Juniper
1213 (1.828 %)VMware
1311 (1.547 %)Sun
149 (1.266 %)Hyperion
149 (1.266 %)Lotus
149 (1.266 %)Cognos
158 (1.125 %)Calypso
158 (1.125 %)Remedy
158 (1.125 %)Algorithmics
167 (0.985 %)Informatica