Lead Software Developer Jobs in South Wales

Lead Software Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Lead Software Developer salary in South Wales is £83,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 2 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.14% - 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.50%
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 - -
Wales median annual salary £83,750 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,276 1,030 1,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 89.33% 97.55%
Number of salaries quoted 844 586 874
10th Percentile £27,068 £30,000 £30,650
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,476 £48,757
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -6.73% +8.35%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,866 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,925
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.74%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in South Wales

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in South Wales

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in South Wales over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in South Wales

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cardiff - 2 £83,750 -
Lead Software Developer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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