Lead Developer Jobs in the South East

Lead Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Developer salary in the South East is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 278 350
Rank change year-on-year +25 +72 -187
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 129 135 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.78% 0.90% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.99% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 124 103 100
10th Percentile £55,375 £56,250 £55,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the South East

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +25 54 £90,000 +12.50% 3
Hampshire -14 50 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Berkshire +28 33 £105,000 +31.25% 1
Buckinghamshire -13 13 £61,084 +6.23% 2
East Sussex +21 12 £80,000 +35.59% 3
Oxfordshire +18 8 £57,500 -0.86%
Surrey -6 8 £80,000 +14.29% 1
West Sussex - 3 £90,000 -
Kent -3 2 £100,000 +66.67%
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 East region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 82 (63.57%) C#
2 79 (61.24%) .NET
3 56 (43.41%) Agile
4 42 (32.56%) JavaScript
5 38 (29.46%) React
6 37 (28.68%) Azure
7 35 (27.13%) TypeScript
8 33 (25.58%) Docker
8 33 (25.58%) Kubernetes
9 32 (24.81%) Microsoft
10 31 (24.03%) Finance
11 29 (22.48%) AWS
12 27 (20.93%) NoSQL
12 27 (20.93%) SQL Server
12 27 (20.93%) Visual Studio
13 26 (20.16%) Artificial Intelligence
14 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
14 25 (19.38%) Degree
14 25 (19.38%) Computer Science
14 25 (19.38%) Microservices
14 25 (19.38%) Propensity Modelling
14 25 (19.38%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (17.05%) Mentoring
16 21 (16.28%) DevOps
16 21 (16.28%) Java
17 19 (14.73%) HTML
17 19 (14.73%) ASP.NET
18 18 (13.95%) CSS
18 18 (13.95%) Multithreading
19 17 (13.18%) C++

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.10%) CMS
2 3 (2.33%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (28.68%) Azure
2 29 (22.48%) AWS
3 10 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (7.75%) PaaS
4 7 (5.43%) Pulumi
5 6 (4.65%) SaaS
6 5 (3.88%) Serverless
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.55%) IaaS
9 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.55%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.78%) GCP
10 1 (0.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) Network Security
2 3 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (2.33%) Firewall
2 3 (2.33%) SSL
2 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.93%) NoSQL
1 27 (20.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.33%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.33%) MySQL
3 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (20.93%) Visual Studio
2 11 (8.53%) NUnit
3 9 (6.98%) Git
4 7 (5.43%) Jasmine
4 7 (5.43%) Selenium
4 7 (5.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (5.43%) TeamCity
4 7 (5.43%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (3.10%) Postman
6 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.78%) GitLab
General
1 31 (24.03%) Finance
2 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.10%) Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Aviation
5 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (61.24%) .NET
2 38 (29.46%) React
3 19 (14.73%) ASP.NET
3 19 (14.73%) HTML
4 18 (13.95%) CSS
5 15 (11.63%) .NET Framework
5 15 (11.63%) RESTful
6 14 (10.85%) .NET Core
7 13 (10.08%) AngularJS
8 12 (9.30%) JSON
9 10 (7.75%) Vue
10 7 (5.43%) ARM Templates
10 7 (5.43%) Entity Framework
10 7 (5.43%) HTML5
10 7 (5.43%) OpenID
10 7 (5.43%) WPF
11 6 (4.65%) jQuery
12 5 (3.88%) Spring
12 5 (3.88%) Web Services
13 4 (3.10%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.53%) Digital Media
2 5 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.10%) Kindle
3 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.85%) Windows
2 6 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.41%) Agile
2 26 (20.16%) Artificial Intelligence
3 25 (19.38%) Computer Science
3 25 (19.38%) Microservices
3 25 (19.38%) Propensity Modelling
3 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
4 22 (17.05%) Mentoring
5 21 (16.28%) DevOps
6 18 (13.95%) Multithreading
7 13 (10.08%) Unit Testing
8 12 (9.30%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 11 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (8.53%) Web Development
10 10 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (7.75%) Test Automation
11 9 (6.98%) CI/CD
11 9 (6.98%) Coaching
12 8 (6.20%) OWASP
13 7 (5.43%) Scrum
13 7 (5.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 82 (63.57%) C#
2 42 (32.56%) JavaScript
3 35 (27.13%) TypeScript
4 21 (16.28%) Java
5 17 (13.18%) C++
6 16 (12.40%) SQL
7 11 (8.53%) Python
8 9 (6.98%) C
9 7 (5.43%) Bicep
10 4 (3.10%) PHP
11 3 (2.33%) XAML
12 2 (1.55%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.55%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 25 (19.38%) Degree
2 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 33 (25.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.43%) MIIS
2 7 (5.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow