The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank 46 37 32
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 1 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.344% 1.835% 0.508%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.375% 2.048% 0.546%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 1
Average salary £97,500 £95,000 £140,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.63% -32.14%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Job Titles
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
267 293 183
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 91.75% 89.60% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 203 243 139
Average salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Lead Developer
London

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Lead Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Lead Developer across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Lead Developer Salary Trend

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 IT job ads sampled with Lead Developer in their job title.

1 23 (67.65%) C#
2 21 (61.76%) Multithreading
3 19 (55.88%) Investment Banking
3 19 (55.88%) Banking
3 19 (55.88%) SQL
3 19 (55.88%) .NET
4 18 (52.94%) Oracle
4 18 (52.94%) Process Management
4 18 (52.94%) TOAD
4 18 (52.94%) SQLPlus
4 18 (52.94%) UML
4 18 (52.94%) OO
4 18 (52.94%) CruiseControl
4 18 (52.94%) BPEL
4 18 (52.94%) TDD
4 18 (52.94%) NUnit
4 18 (52.94%) Finance
4 18 (52.94%) Scrum
4 18 (52.94%) Technical Architecture
4 18 (52.94%) .NET Framework
4 18 (52.94%) WCF
4 18 (52.94%) BPMN
4 18 (52.94%) TeamCity
4 18 (52.94%) Rhino Mocks
4 18 (52.94%) Moq
5 10 (29.41%) Derivative
6 9 (26.47%) Front Office
7 6 (17.65%) Equities
8 5 (14.71%) Java
9 4 (11.76%) JavaScript

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 IT job ads sampled with Lead Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (55.88%) .NET
2 18 (52.94%) .NET Framework
2 18 (52.94%) WCF
3 4 (11.76%) WPF
3 4 (11.76%) HTML5
3 4 (11.76%) CSS
3 4 (11.76%) Ajax
3 4 (11.76%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) TOAD
1 18 (52.94%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (52.94%) NUnit
1 18 (52.94%) CruiseControl
1 18 (52.94%) TeamCity
1 18 (52.94%) Rhino Mocks
1 18 (52.94%) Moq
2 1 (2.941%) JIRA
General
1 19 (55.88%) Banking
1 19 (55.88%) Investment Banking
2 18 (52.94%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Derivative
2 6 (17.65%) Equities
3 4 (11.76%) Open Source
4 1 (2.941%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.941%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.941%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.941%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.941%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Android
1 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Multithreading
2 18 (52.94%) BPMN
2 18 (52.94%) Technical Architecture
2 18 (52.94%) UML
2 18 (52.94%) OO
2 18 (52.94%) Process Management
2 18 (52.94%) Scrum
2 18 (52.94%) TDD
2 18 (52.94%) BPEL
3 3 (8.824%) Analytics
4 1 (2.941%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (2.941%) Unit Testing
4 1 (2.941%) Data Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) Software Engineering
4 1 (2.941%) RAD
4 1 (2.941%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) C#
2 19 (55.88%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.941%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (2.941%) Degree
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.941%) Perforce