Lead Developer Jobs in Reading

Lead Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Lead Developer salary in Reading is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 115 117
Rank change year-on-year +49 +2 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 3 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.57% 0.41% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.43% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 9
10th Percentile - £56,250 £75,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £98,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 -
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £105,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +31.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 431 1,613 1,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.57% 94.72% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 243 1,025 803
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £68,750 £75,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Reading

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Reading region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Mockito
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 1 (33.33%) jMock
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Biometrics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
6 Lead Developer jobs in Berkshire