Lead Software Developer Jobs in Cardiff

Lead Software Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Lead Software Developer salary in Cardiff is £83,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.30% - 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £69,625 - -
25th Percentile £74,688 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.68%
75th Percentile £92,188 - -
90th Percentile £96,875 - -
South Wales median annual salary £83,750 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 614 516 824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 90.53% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 532 390 620
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,738 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,013 £40,000 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,887 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,604 £45,476 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.48% -9.05% +11.11%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in Cardiff

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in Cardiff

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Lead Software 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 Cardiff region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
1 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Redis

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitKraken
1 1 (50.00%) JetBrains Rider
1 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft