The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Programmer
Rank 819 832 819
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Programmer 25 37 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.025% 0.033% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.034% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 25 34 33
Average salary £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.41% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £37,500 £36,800
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £56,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -15.78%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
96088 107696 114482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.37% 95.02% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80815 93104 97727
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Lead Programmer
UK

Lead Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Lead Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Programmer
Salary Trend

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

England Lead Programmer Salary Trend

Lead Programmer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Programmer across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Lead Programmer Salary Histogram

Lead Programmer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Programmer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +40 17 £55,000 -8.33% 3
East of England 0 6 £60,000 +50.00% 3
South East +15 2 £48,500 +29.33%
Lead Programmer
UK

Lead Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Lead Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 21 (52.50%) TDD
2 20 (50.00%) Java
3 17 (42.50%) CSS
4 16 (40.00%) Web Services
4 16 (40.00%) MVC
4 16 (40.00%) Spring
5 15 (37.50%) HTML
5 15 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 15 (37.50%) jQuery
6 14 (35.00%) JavaScript
7 13 (32.50%) MySQL
7 13 (32.50%) Unit Testing
8 12 (30.00%) JSP
8 12 (30.00%) J2EE
9 10 (25.00%) XML
9 10 (25.00%) PHP
9 10 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (25.00%) Spring MVC
10 9 (22.50%) XSLT
10 9 (22.50%) Apache
10 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
11 8 (20.00%) Tomcat
11 8 (20.00%) JMS
11 8 (20.00%) Code Coverage
11 8 (20.00%) Mercator
11 8 (20.00%) Struts
11 8 (20.00%) SQL
11 8 (20.00%) Squid
11 8 (20.00%) JSTL
11 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared

Lead Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Lead Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (42.50%) CSS
2 16 (40.00%) Web Services
2 16 (40.00%) Spring
3 15 (37.50%) HTML
3 15 (37.50%) jQuery
4 12 (30.00%) JSP
4 12 (30.00%) J2EE
5 10 (25.00%) XML
5 10 (25.00%) Spring MVC
6 9 (22.50%) XSLT
7 8 (20.00%) JMS
7 8 (20.00%) Struts
7 8 (20.00%) JSTL
7 8 (20.00%) RESTful
8 7 (17.50%) .NET
9 6 (15.00%) Ajax
9 6 (15.00%) Symfony
10 5 (12.50%) LAMP
11 4 (10.00%) Hibernate
11 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 9 (22.50%) Apache
2 8 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (7.500%) WordPress
3 3 (7.500%) Drupal
4 2 (5.000%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.000%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.000%) Exstream Dialogue
4 2 (5.000%) GlassFish
4 2 (5.000%) Joomla!
4 2 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (5.000%) Magento
5 1 (2.500%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.000%) Photoshop
2 2 (5.000%) DOC1
2 2 (5.000%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.500%) HTTP
2 2 (5.000%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (32.50%) MySQL
3 8 (20.00%) MarkLogic
4 2 (5.000%) Informix
4 2 (5.000%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (5.000%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.500%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Subversion
1 2 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.500%) Git (software)
2 1 (2.500%) WebDriver
2 1 (2.500%) PHPUnit
2 1 (2.500%) Selenium
2 1 (2.500%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.500%) JUnit
General
1 5 (12.50%) Retail
2 4 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (5.000%) Finance
3 2 (5.000%) Law
4 1 (2.500%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Semantic Web
2 3 (7.500%) iPad
3 2 (5.000%) N-Tier
3 2 (5.000%) BBC
3 2 (5.000%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.000%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.000%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.500%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) UNIX
2 3 (7.500%) Windows
3 2 (5.000%) Solaris
3 2 (5.000%) Linux
4 1 (2.500%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.500%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) TDD
2 16 (40.00%) MVC
3 13 (32.50%) Unit Testing
4 10 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (20.00%) Code Coverage
6 7 (17.50%) BDD
7 6 (15.00%) Pair Programming
7 6 (15.00%) Web Application Development
8 5 (12.50%) Change Management
9 4 (10.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (7.500%) Project Management
10 3 (7.500%) OO
10 3 (7.500%) B2B
11 2 (5.000%) OOP
11 2 (5.000%) Scrum
11 2 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
11 2 (5.000%) Refactoring
12 1 (2.500%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Java
2 14 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.00%) PHP
4 8 (20.00%) SQL
5 7 (17.50%) C#
6 3 (7.500%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.000%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.500%) Lua
8 1 (2.500%) PHP5
8 1 (2.500%) C++
8 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Squid
2 2 (5.000%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.000%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Mercator
3 7 (17.50%) HP
4 6 (15.00%) Zend
5 5 (12.50%) Sybase
6 4 (10.00%) JBoss
6 4 (10.00%) Sony
7 3 (7.500%) Oracle
8 2 (5.000%) IBM
8 2 (5.000%) XMPie
8 2 (5.000%) hybris
9 1 (2.500%) Perforce
9 1 (2.500%) Intel
London
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery... However, you will ideally also understand how to design elements...
TRG
Salary: 75000 Per Annum excellent benefits
Posted: 2 June 2013
London
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery... Essential Experience: * 8+ years hands on Java experience * Spring * Hibernate *...
TRG
Salary: £80000 Per Annum excellent benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
As a highly skilled Java Developer you will lead a small focused project team which is responsible for innovation and development of new product strategies. The team is...
TRG
Salary: £80,000 Per Annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
As a highly skilled Java lead Developer you will be part of a small focused project team which is responsible for innovation and development of new product strategies...
TRG
Salary: 60000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 5 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. In addition, to the usual technical responsibilities the client is...
TRG
Salary: 65000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 9 June 2013
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
TRG
Salary: £65000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013