Lead Developer Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 advertised for the West Midlands 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank 89 99 90
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 6 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.361% 0.178% 0.107%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.390% 0.191% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £475 £250 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+90.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £418 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.17% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-15.35% +33.33%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1538 2089 1727
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.54% 92.80% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 956 785
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 172 146
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.49 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.30% -8.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Lead Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Developer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Lead Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lead Developer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Lead Developer Hourly 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Shropshire - 4 £475 -
Birmingham +8 1 £475 +90.00%
Solihull 0 1 £350 -
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 8 (61.54%) OO
1 8 (61.54%) Pega
1 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
2 7 (53.85%) RUP
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle
4 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) UNIX
5 4 (30.77%) J2EE
5 4 (30.77%) Java
5 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
6 3 (23.08%) Validation
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 2 (15.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (15.38%) Web 2.0
7 2 (15.38%) Web Development
7 2 (15.38%) Perl
7 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
7 2 (15.38%) Photoshop
7 2 (15.38%) Business Objects
7 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
7 2 (15.38%) Flash
7 2 (15.38%) XHTML
7 2 (15.38%) BEA
7 2 (15.38%) Middleware
7 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (15.38%) CSS
7 2 (15.38%) OmniGraffle

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) J2EE
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) Flash
2 2 (15.38%) XHTML
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (15.38%) CSS3
3 1 (7.692%) .NET
3 1 (7.692%) HTML5
3 1 (7.692%) WSDL
3 1 (7.692%) BAPI
3 1 (7.692%) MDX
3 1 (7.692%) jQuery
3 1 (7.692%) SOAP
3 1 (7.692%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Photoshop
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (15.38%) OmniGraffle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.692%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.692%) QlikView
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (7.692%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) ClearCase
1 1 (7.692%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (7.692%) LSMW
1 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Web 2.0
2 1 (7.692%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) OO
1 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
2 7 (53.85%) RUP
3 3 (23.08%) Validation
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Web Development
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Industrial Design
5 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.692%) Workflow
5 1 (7.692%) Migration
5 1 (7.692%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.692%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
1 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.692%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Pega
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Business Objects
3 2 (15.38%) BEA
4 1 (7.692%) webMethods
4 1 (7.692%) SAP
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
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