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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Developer
Rank 300 257 201
Rank change year-on-year
-43 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 135 202 272
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.612% 0.845% 1.143%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.645% 0.886% 1.208%
Number of salaries quoted 124 170 227
Average salary £48,000 £52,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.13% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20945 22788 22522
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.95% 95.35% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17397 19520 19460
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Lead Developer
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Lead Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Lead Developer Salary Trend

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram

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

South East Lead Developer Salary Histogram

Lead Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the South East 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
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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
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Job
Vacancies
Surrey +37 36 £48,000 -12.72% 2
Berkshire -70 20 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Hampshire -11 18 £42,500 -5.55% 2
East Sussex +2 15 £47,500 - 1
Oxfordshire -18 15 £46,455 +11.93% 1
Buckinghamshire +15 14 £55,000 +32.53% 1
West Sussex +6 14 £48,000 -23.20% 1
Kent -16 7 £47,500 +11.76% 1
Middlesex -1 2 - -
Home Counties - 1 £50,000 -
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Lead Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 141 (53.21%) JavaScript
2 126 (47.55%) CSS
3 99 (37.36%) HTML
4 93 (35.09%) .NET
5 92 (34.72%) Java
6 89 (33.58%) SQL Server
7 83 (31.32%) C#
7 83 (31.32%) XML
8 74 (27.92%) jQuery
9 68 (25.66%) PHP
10 65 (24.53%) OO
10 65 (24.53%) Microsoft
11 63 (23.77%) ASP.NET
11 63 (23.77%) MVC
12 62 (23.40%) SQL
13 56 (21.13%) MySQL
13 56 (21.13%) Ajax
14 47 (17.74%) Agile Software Development
15 45 (16.98%) Oracle
16 44 (16.60%) Spring
17 43 (16.23%) J2EE
17 43 (16.23%) WCF
18 41 (15.47%) UML
19 39 (14.72%) Degree
20 37 (13.96%) Open Source
20 37 (13.96%) Scrum
21 36 (13.58%) Finance
21 36 (13.58%) HTML5
22 35 (13.21%) TDD
22 35 (13.21%) Linux

Lead Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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
1 126 (47.55%) CSS
2 99 (37.36%) HTML
3 93 (35.09%) .NET
4 83 (31.32%) XML
5 74 (27.92%) jQuery
6 63 (23.77%) ASP.NET
7 56 (21.13%) Ajax
8 44 (16.60%) Spring
9 43 (16.23%) J2EE
9 43 (16.23%) WCF
10 36 (13.58%) HTML5
11 34 (12.83%) Hibernate
12 28 (10.57%) CSS3
13 26 (9.811%) JSP
14 25 (9.434%) Web Services
14 25 (9.434%) JMS
15 24 (9.057%) LAMP
16 22 (8.302%) JPA
16 22 (8.302%) XHTML
16 22 (8.302%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 23 (8.679%) CMS
2 22 (8.302%) Drupal
3 20 (7.547%) WordPress
3 20 (7.547%) Joomla!
4 18 (6.792%) Apache
5 15 (5.660%) Tomcat
6 13 (4.906%) Magento
7 10 (3.774%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (3.774%) SharePoint
8 8 (3.019%) BizTalk Server
9 7 (2.642%) ExpressionEngine
10 5 (1.887%) IBM Notes
10 5 (1.887%) Lotus Domino
10 5 (1.887%) WebLogic
10 5 (1.887%) IIS
10 5 (1.887%) WebSphere Message Broker
11 3 (1.132%) ESB
12 2 (0.755%) Windows Azure
12 2 (0.755%) Amazon AWS
12 2 (0.755%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (8.679%) MS Excel
2 11 (4.151%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.755%) MS Office
4 1 (0.377%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.509%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 3 (1.132%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.377%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.038%) HTTP
2 15 (5.660%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.642%) Broadband
4 6 (2.264%) Internet
5 4 (1.509%) Intranet
6 3 (1.132%) DNS
7 1 (0.377%) LDAP
7 1 (0.377%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.377%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.377%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (33.58%) SQL Server
2 56 (21.13%) MySQL
3 19 (7.170%) SQL Server 2005
4 18 (6.792%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (6.415%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (6.415%) SQL Server 2008
6 16 (6.038%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.774%) SQL Server 2012
8 8 (3.019%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.019%) DB2
9 6 (2.264%) Oracle ODI
9 6 (2.264%) Oracle OWB
9 6 (2.264%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (2.264%) MS Access
10 5 (1.887%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.132%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.132%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.755%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.755%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 2 (0.755%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 27 (10.19%) Subversion
2 26 (9.811%) JUnit
3 23 (8.679%) Maven
4 19 (7.170%) Ant
4 19 (7.170%) Visual Studio
5 16 (6.038%) Git (software)
6 7 (2.642%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.132%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (1.132%) Selenium
9 2 (0.755%) NUnit
10 1 (0.377%) JIRA
10 1 (0.377%) PhoneGap
10 1 (0.377%) Rhino Mocks
10 1 (0.377%) MSTest
General
1 36 (13.58%) Finance
2 20 (7.547%) Marketing
3 11 (4.151%) Games
4 7 (2.642%) Retail
5 6 (2.264%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.887%) Advertising
7 4 (1.509%) Legal
7 4 (1.509%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.132%) Banking
8 3 (1.132%) Automotive
9 1 (0.377%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.377%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.377%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.377%) Publishing
9 1 (0.377%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.96%) Open Source
2 13 (4.906%) Computer Science
2 13 (4.906%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.151%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.151%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.264%) Inversion of Control
4 6 (2.264%) Social Media
5 5 (1.887%) N-Tier
5 5 (1.887%) SaaS
6 3 (1.132%) BBC
7 2 (0.755%) Mathematics
7 2 (0.755%) SCORM
7 2 (0.755%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.755%) Ontologies
8 1 (0.377%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.377%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.377%) IPTV
8 1 (0.377%) Streaming Music
8 1 (0.377%) Derivative
8 1 (0.377%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.21%) Linux
2 18 (6.792%) Windows
3 13 (4.906%) UNIX
4 8 (3.019%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.019%) Android
5 7 (2.642%) Solaris
6 6 (2.264%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.755%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.377%) AIX
8 1 (0.377%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.377%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.53%) OO
2 63 (23.77%) MVC
3 47 (17.74%) Agile Software Development
4 41 (15.47%) UML
5 37 (13.96%) Scrum
6 35 (13.21%) TDD
7 32 (12.08%) E-Commerce
8 23 (8.679%) SOA
8 23 (8.679%) OOP
9 22 (8.302%) Web Development
10 21 (7.925%) Project Management
11 20 (7.547%) OOA/OOD
12 19 (7.170%) Software Architecture
13 17 (6.415%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (6.038%) Use Case
15 15 (5.660%) BDD
15 15 (5.660%) Time Management
16 13 (4.906%) Unit Testing
17 12 (4.528%) OOD
17 12 (4.528%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 141 (53.21%) JavaScript
2 92 (34.72%) Java
3 83 (31.32%) C#
4 68 (25.66%) PHP
5 62 (23.40%) SQL
6 25 (9.434%) VB.NET
7 11 (4.151%) PHP5
8 8 (3.019%) VB
9 7 (2.642%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.642%) VB6
10 5 (1.887%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.509%) Groovy
11 4 (1.509%) C
11 4 (1.509%) Python
12 2 (0.755%) XPath
12 2 (0.755%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.755%) VBA
13 1 (0.377%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.377%) Perl
13 1 (0.377%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (14.72%) Degree
2 8 (3.019%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.264%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.509%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.377%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.132%) QA
2 2 (0.755%) Dublin Core
3 1 (0.377%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.377%) Varnish
Vendors
1 65 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.98%) Oracle
3 18 (6.792%) Zend
4 13 (4.906%) JBoss
5 11 (4.151%) IBM
6 7 (2.642%) Adobe
7 6 (2.264%) Progress
8 5 (1.887%) SAP
8 5 (1.887%) Lotus
8 5 (1.887%) Cognos
9 4 (1.509%) Mercator
10 3 (1.132%) BEA
10 3 (1.132%) Sun
10 3 (1.132%) Google
10 3 (1.132%) Twitter
11 2 (0.755%) Alias
11 2 (0.755%) HP
11 2 (0.755%) Salesforce.com
11 2 (0.755%) Sony
12 1 (0.377%) Business Objects
West Sussex
The C# Lead Developer will be responsible for coordinating software development resources on development projects for Sciensus and ensureing that existing, bespoke IT developments are maintained in accordance...
Healthcare-at-Home.co.uk
Salary: £50,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
My client is looking for a lead developer who has experience of MS Dynamics CRM ideally with experience of Sharepoint integration. Comfortable working in an Agile environment you...
Sanderson
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Car, Health, Pension
Posted: 17 June 2013
Ashford, Kent
My client is looking for an experienced HTML/CSS/JavaScript developer to come in and take a leading role within their digital team. The right candidate must be...
Gregory James
Salary: Excellent Salary
Posted: 12 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
Required Knowledge and experience of creating complex queries in MySQL and/or MS SQL. Knowledge and experience of object-oriented programming for creating web applications using Python, PHP,...
Appoint Recruitment
Salary: £29000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
My large house hold name Client is urgently recruiting for a .NET Team Lead with strong technical and leadership skills, ideally proven through experience of leading a small...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £41565.00 - £51345.00 per annum + 8 Month Fixed Term Contract
Posted: 29 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + DOE
Posted: 15 June 2013
Thames Ditton, Surrey
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 55,000 to 65,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Portsmouth, South East
OPUS
Salary: GBP30000 to GBP45000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 55,000 + Benefits.
Posted: 17 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum + bonus + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Jonathan Garth
Salary: From £55,000 to £85,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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