Lead Developer Jobs in Bristol

Lead Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Developer salary in Bristol is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 147 169
Rank change year-on-year +19 +22 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 39 25 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.26% 0.94% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.02% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39 20 26
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,833 £51,875
25th Percentile £52,147 £63,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £71,640
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -0.54% +14.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,438 £76,520
90th Percentile £85,500 £117,236 £80,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,009 2,463 3,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 92.70% 97.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 1,548 2,211
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,905 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +9.02% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,776 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Bristol

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Bristol

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

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

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Bristol

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

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

1 14 (35.90%) Java
1 14 (35.90%) Agile
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (28.21%) Azure
4 10 (25.64%) SQL
4 10 (25.64%) Degree
5 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Scrum
6 7 (17.95%) .NET
7 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
7 6 (15.38%) C#
7 6 (15.38%) CSS
7 6 (15.38%) TDD
7 6 (15.38%) Spring
7 6 (15.38%) React
8 5 (12.82%) Microservices
8 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
8 5 (12.82%) API Development
8 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.82%) RESTful
8 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
8 5 (12.82%) HTML
8 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (10.26%) Law
9 4 (10.26%) Migration
9 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.26%) Web Development
9 4 (10.26%) AngularJS

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (5.13%) Mule
3 1 (2.56%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) npm
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) SSL
1 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (10.26%) Law
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Tech for Good
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.56%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) .NET
2 6 (15.38%) CSS
2 6 (15.38%) React
2 6 (15.38%) Spring
3 5 (12.82%) HTML
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
3 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
4 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (7.69%) jQuery
5 3 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (7.69%) Vue
5 3 (7.69%) WPF
6 2 (5.13%) Node.js
7 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.56%) PropTech
3 1 (2.56%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.95%) Scrum
6 6 (15.38%) TDD
7 5 (12.82%) API Development
7 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (12.82%) Microservices
7 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.26%) Coaching
8 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
8 4 (10.26%) Migration
8 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.26%) Web Development
9 3 (7.69%) Data Modelling
9 3 (7.69%) MVC
9 3 (7.69%) Software Architecture
9 3 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) XAML
5 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.13%) Swift
6 1 (2.56%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 3 (7.69%) WCAG
2 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.56%) Google
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft