Lead Developer Jobs in the South East

Lead Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Developer salary in the South East is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 276 356
Rank change year-on-year +13 +80 -192
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 133 134 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.90% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.99% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 128 104 104
10th Percentile £55,875 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,671 13,511 19,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.53% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,327 8,466 12,622
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +41 57 £90,000 +12.50% 7
Hampshire -15 51 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Berkshire +32 36 £105,000 +31.25% 4
Buckinghamshire -11 13 £61,084 +6.23% 3
East Sussex +26 12 £80,000 +35.59% 2
Oxfordshire +20 8 £57,500 -23.59%
Surrey -15 8 £80,000 +14.29%
West Sussex - 3 £90,000 -
Kent -7 2 £100,000 +66.67% 2
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Lead Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 83 (62.41%) C#
2 82 (61.65%) .NET
3 57 (42.86%) Agile
4 43 (32.33%) JavaScript
5 38 (28.57%) Azure
5 38 (28.57%) React
6 36 (27.07%) TypeScript
7 33 (24.81%) Docker
7 33 (24.81%) Kubernetes
8 32 (24.06%) Microsoft
9 31 (23.31%) Finance
9 31 (23.31%) AWS
10 28 (21.05%) NoSQL
11 27 (20.30%) Artificial Intelligence
11 27 (20.30%) SQL Server
11 27 (20.30%) Visual Studio
12 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
12 25 (18.80%) Degree
12 25 (18.80%) Computer Science
12 25 (18.80%) Propensity Modelling
12 25 (18.80%) Microservices
12 25 (18.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (17.29%) Java
14 22 (16.54%) Mentoring
15 21 (15.79%) DevOps
15 21 (15.79%) HTML
15 21 (15.79%) CSS
16 19 (14.29%) ASP.NET
17 18 (13.53%) Multithreading
18 17 (12.78%) C++

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.01%) CMS
2 3 (2.26%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.57%) Azure
2 31 (23.31%) AWS
3 10 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (7.52%) PaaS
4 7 (5.26%) Pulumi
5 6 (4.51%) SaaS
6 5 (3.76%) Serverless
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.50%) IaaS
9 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.75%) GCP
10 1 (0.75%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) Network Security
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.26%) SSL
2 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 27 (20.30%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.26%) MariaDB
4 3 (2.26%) MySQL
4 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Visual Studio
2 11 (8.27%) NUnit
3 9 (6.77%) Git
3 9 (6.77%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (5.26%) Jasmine
4 7 (5.26%) Selenium
4 7 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.01%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
General
1 31 (23.31%) Finance
2 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.01%) Banking
4 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.26%) Aviation
6 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (61.65%) .NET
2 38 (28.57%) React
3 21 (15.79%) CSS
3 21 (15.79%) HTML
4 19 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 15 (11.28%) .NET Framework
5 15 (11.28%) RESTful
6 14 (10.53%) .NET Core
7 13 (9.77%) AngularJS
8 12 (9.02%) JSON
9 10 (7.52%) Vue
10 7 (5.26%) ARM Templates
10 7 (5.26%) Entity Framework
10 7 (5.26%) HTML5
10 7 (5.26%) OpenID
10 7 (5.26%) WPF
11 6 (4.51%) jQuery
11 6 (4.51%) REST
12 5 (3.76%) Spring
12 5 (3.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Digital Media
2 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.01%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (3.01%) Kindle
3 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Windows
2 6 (4.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.86%) Agile
2 27 (20.30%) Artificial Intelligence
3 25 (18.80%) Computer Science
3 25 (18.80%) Microservices
3 25 (18.80%) Propensity Modelling
3 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
4 22 (16.54%) Mentoring
5 21 (15.79%) DevOps
6 18 (13.53%) Multithreading
7 13 (9.77%) Unit Testing
7 13 (9.77%) Web Development
8 12 (9.02%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 12 (9.02%) CI/CD
9 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (7.52%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (7.52%) Test Automation
11 9 (6.77%) Coaching
12 8 (6.02%) OWASP
13 7 (5.26%) Scrum
13 7 (5.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 83 (62.41%) C#
2 43 (32.33%) JavaScript
3 36 (27.07%) TypeScript
4 23 (17.29%) Java
5 17 (12.78%) C++
5 17 (12.78%) SQL
6 11 (8.27%) Python
7 9 (6.77%) C
8 7 (5.26%) Bicep
9 4 (3.01%) PHP
10 3 (2.26%) XAML
11 2 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.50%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (18.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 25 (18.80%) Degree
2 5 (3.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 33 (24.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (24.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.26%) MIIS
2 7 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow