Lead Developer Jobs in Cardiff

Lead Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Lead Developer salary in Cardiff is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 58 75
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 21 7 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.12% 1.26% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% 1.38% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 21 7 17
10th Percentile - £42,425 £60,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,125 £87,500
90th Percentile - £73,750 -
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 631 508 841
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 91.53% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 548 392 619
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,513 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,192 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,375 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,099 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.21% -8.00% +11.11%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Cardiff

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Cardiff

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Cardiff region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
2 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 9 (42.86%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 8 (38.10%) SharePoint
3 8 (38.10%) .NET Core
3 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
4 7 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 7 (33.33%) Banking
4 7 (33.33%) Finance
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) CSS
4 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (33.33%) C#
4 7 (33.33%) HTML
5 6 (28.57%) Oracle
5 6 (28.57%) QA
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (28.57%) Code Optimisation
5 6 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Azure
7 3 (14.29%) MVC
7 3 (14.29%) Java
7 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 2 (9.52%) Intranet
8 2 (9.52%) Python
8 2 (9.52%) TDD
8 2 (9.52%) AWS

Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
2 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) GitKraken
1 1 (4.76%) JetBrains Rider
1 1 (4.76%) ReSharper
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) .NET
1 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET
2 8 (38.10%) .NET Core
3 7 (33.33%) CSS
3 7 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (9.52%) React
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) Blazor
5 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.76%) Kafka
5 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 6 (28.57%) Code Optimisation
3 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (14.29%) MVC
5 2 (9.52%) Coaching
5 2 (9.52%) Fintech
5 2 (9.52%) Microservices
5 2 (9.52%) TDD
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.76%) Containerisation
6 1 (4.76%) Design Patterns
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (4.76%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
148 Lead Developer jobs Nationwide