The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex 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 17 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank - 89 101
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 0 22 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex - 1.579% 0.233%
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.626% 0.246%
Number of salaries quoted 0 19 3
Average salary - £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
927 1353 1221
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.48% 97.13% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 802 1096 1007
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Lead Developer
East of England

Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Lead Developer Salary Trend

Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Ajax
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) Android
3 3 (60.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) .NET
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) WinForms
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) Change Control
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (20.00%) VB6

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) Ajax
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) .NET
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) WinForms
5 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) XSL
5 1 (20.00%) XHTML
5 1 (20.00%) VXML
5 1 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ICM
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (20.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) RIA
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) VB
4 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Tcl
4 1 (20.00%) VB6
4 1 (20.00%) XPath
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) DevExpress