Lead Developer Jobs in South Wales

Lead Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Lead Developer salary in South Wales is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 99 91
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 34 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.36% 0.87% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 0.97% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 34 9 20
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,650 £60,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,875 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,862 £73,750 £81,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £87,500
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,307 1,026 1,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 89.45% 97.42%
Number of salaries quoted 864 584 868
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,604 £45,476 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -7.19% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in South Wales

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in South Wales

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in South Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in South Wales

Lead Developer
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cardiff +14 20 £68,750 +10.00% 4
Newport +18 14 £64,000 -14.67%
Lead Developer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Wales region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 24 (70.59%) Mentoring
2 21 (61.76%) Public Sector
3 16 (47.06%) Coaching
4 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 10 (29.41%) C#
5 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 9 (26.47%) .NET
5 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET
6 8 (23.53%) .NET Core
7 7 (20.59%) CSS
7 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
7 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
7 7 (20.59%) HTML
7 7 (20.59%) Banking
7 7 (20.59%) Finance
7 7 (20.59%) Azure
7 7 (20.59%) Software Architecture
8 6 (17.65%) QA
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (17.65%) Oracle
8 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 6 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (17.65%) Code Optimisation
8 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
9 5 (14.71%) PowerApps
9 5 (14.71%) Microservices
10 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
10 4 (11.76%) Scrum

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
2 5 (14.71%) PowerApps
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) GitKraken
1 1 (2.94%) JetBrains Rider
1 1 (2.94%) ReSharper
1 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (61.76%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.59%) Banking
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) .NET
1 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET
2 8 (23.53%) .NET Core
3 7 (20.59%) CSS
3 7 (20.59%) HTML
4 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (5.88%) React
5 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.94%) Blazor
5 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.94%) Kafka
5 1 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Mentoring
2 16 (47.06%) Coaching
3 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Software Architecture
5 6 (17.65%) Code Optimisation
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (14.71%) Microservices
7 4 (11.76%) DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
8 3 (8.82%) CRM
8 3 (8.82%) MVC
8 3 (8.82%) SOA
9 2 (5.88%) Fintech
9 2 (5.88%) TDD
9 2 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
10 1 (2.94%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) C#
2 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce