Lead Developer Jobs in the South West

Lead Developer
England > South West

The median Lead Developer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 203 219
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 73 75 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.79% 1.09% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.22% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 70 58 73
10th Percentile £47,450 £49,925 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,346 £52,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% +7.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £73,750 £76,520
90th Percentile £84,500 £95,000 £83,500
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,830 6,152 7,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 89.16% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,458 3,853 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the South West

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the South West

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the South West

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Bristol +21 39 £65,000 -10.34% 3
Dorset -11 17 £60,000 +4.35%
Gloucestershire -28 6 £75,000 +36.36%
Wiltshire -15 5 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Devon -15 4 £55,173 +37.08%
Somerset +4 2 £46,050 -30.49% 3
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 West region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 37 (50.68%) Agile
2 24 (32.88%) Full Stack Development
3 22 (30.14%) AWS
4 21 (28.77%) Azure
5 18 (24.66%) Java
6 17 (23.29%) Scrum
7 14 (19.18%) Mentoring
8 13 (17.81%) DevOps
9 12 (16.44%) Laravel
9 12 (16.44%) JavaScript
9 12 (16.44%) SQL
9 12 (16.44%) .NET
9 12 (16.44%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (15.07%) Degree
10 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (13.70%) HTML
11 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
11 10 (13.70%) React
11 10 (13.70%) Code Quality
12 9 (12.33%) Alpine.js
12 9 (12.33%) CSS
12 9 (12.33%) TDD
13 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
13 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
14 7 (9.59%) Open Source
14 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
14 7 (9.59%) C#
14 7 (9.59%) User Experience
15 6 (8.22%) GitLab
15 6 (8.22%) Private Cloud

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (4.11%) IIS
2 2 (2.74%) Mule
2 2 (2.74%) WordPress
3 1 (1.37%) Drupal
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.14%) AWS
2 21 (28.77%) Azure
3 4 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.11%) GCP
4 3 (4.11%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.11%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.11%) PowerApps
4 3 (4.11%) SaaS
5 2 (2.74%) PaaS
5 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.37%) npm
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) DNS
1 3 (4.11%) Firewall
1 3 (4.11%) SSL
1 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.48%) MySQL
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.74%) Power BI
6 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) GitLab
2 3 (4.11%) Git
3 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (8.22%) Finance
1 6 (8.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.48%) Law
3 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.11%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.37%) Banking
4 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) .NET
1 12 (16.44%) Laravel
1 12 (16.44%) Tailwind CSS
2 10 (13.70%) HTML
2 10 (13.70%) React
3 9 (12.33%) Alpine.js
3 9 (12.33%) CSS
4 6 (8.22%) REST
4 6 (8.22%) Spring
5 5 (6.85%) Node.js
5 5 (6.85%) RESTful
5 5 (6.85%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.85%) Web Services
6 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.48%) Vue
7 3 (4.11%) jQuery
7 3 (4.11%) OAuth
7 3 (4.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (4.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Mobile App
1 6 (8.22%) Private Cloud
2 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) PropTech
5 1 (1.37%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 3 (4.11%) Android
3 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.68%) Agile
2 24 (32.88%) Full Stack Development
3 17 (23.29%) Scrum
4 14 (19.18%) Mentoring
5 13 (17.81%) DevOps
6 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.70%) Code Quality
8 9 (12.33%) TDD
9 7 (9.59%) Open Source
9 7 (9.59%) User Experience
10 6 (8.22%) Front End Development
10 6 (8.22%) MVC
10 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.22%) Requirements Analysis
10 6 (8.22%) UX Design
11 5 (6.85%) Coaching
11 5 (6.85%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (6.85%) Microservices
11 5 (6.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) Java
2 12 (16.44%) JavaScript
2 12 (16.44%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
4 7 (9.59%) C#
5 4 (5.48%) PHP
6 3 (4.11%) XAML
7 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.74%) Swift
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) Formula Language
8 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Degree
2 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.11%) WCAG
2 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Google
3 1 (1.37%) Xamarin