Lead Developer Jobs in the South East

Lead Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Developer salary in the South East is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 266 278
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 28 130 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.78% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.83% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 26 125 104
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 7,942 15,742 13,372
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.39% 93.93% 90.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,491 11,330 8,376
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 May 2025. 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
Hampshire +26 8 £67,500 -3.57% 5
East Sussex +28 7 £82,500 +3.13% 1
Thames Valley +13 7 £70,000 -22.22% 8
Surrey +47 6 £70,000 -12.50% 4
Berkshire +8 5 £70,000 -33.33% 6
Oxfordshire +26 1 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Buckinghamshire +20 1 £70,000 +12.60%
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 South East region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 21 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (60.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (57.14%) React
4 12 (42.86%) AngularJS
4 12 (42.86%) DevOps
5 11 (39.29%) HTML
6 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (35.71%) .NET
6 10 (35.71%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) TypeScript
7 9 (32.14%) TDD
7 9 (32.14%) CSS
8 8 (28.57%) C#
8 8 (28.57%) Microservices
8 8 (28.57%) REST
8 8 (28.57%) AWS
9 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
9 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
10 6 (21.43%) Redux
10 6 (21.43%) React Native
10 6 (21.43%) Front End Development
10 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
10 6 (21.43%) QA
10 6 (21.43%) SaaS
10 6 (21.43%) Degree
10 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (21.43%) Docker
11 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
11 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
11 5 (17.86%) Azure

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) SaaS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) JUnit
2 2 (7.14%) Maven
2 2 (7.14%) Mockito
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
2 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 2 (7.14%) Subversion
2 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.57%) DbUnit
3 1 (3.57%) jMock
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Tech for Good
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) React
2 12 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 11 (39.29%) HTML
4 10 (35.71%) .NET
5 9 (32.14%) CSS
6 8 (28.57%) REST
7 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
8 6 (21.43%) React Native
8 6 (21.43%) Redux
9 5 (17.86%) Blazor
10 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
11 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
11 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
11 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
12 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
12 2 (7.14%) JPA
12 2 (7.14%) SOAP
12 2 (7.14%) Spring
12 2 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) FMCG
3 1 (3.57%) FPGA
3 1 (3.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (42.86%) DevOps
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (32.14%) TDD
5 8 (28.57%) Microservices
6 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Front End Development
8 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
8 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.71%) BDD
9 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
9 3 (10.71%) MVC
9 3 (10.71%) Physics
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
10 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
10 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 2 (7.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 8 (28.57%) C#
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) C
5 3 (10.71%) C++
6 2 (7.14%) Python
6 2 (7.14%) SQL
7 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) PhD
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Grafana
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Jaspersoft