Lead Developer Jobs in Bristol

Lead Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Developer salary in Bristol is £58,523 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 147 180
Rank change year-on-year +16 +33 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 36 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.02% 0.41% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.44% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 36 9 22
10th Percentile - £61,367 £51,625
25th Percentile £47,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,523 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +6.87% +4.80%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £76,520
90th Percentile £84,500 £78,250 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,273 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,438 2,275 3,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.15% 92.55% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,517 1,445 2,162
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £53,412
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +8.23% +12.45%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,647 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Bristol

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Bristol

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 Bristol region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 10 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 9 (25.00%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) C#
4 6 (16.67%) .NET
5 5 (13.89%) CSS
5 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 5 (13.89%) Scrum
5 5 (13.89%) React
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.11%) TDD
6 4 (11.11%) Law
6 4 (11.11%) Migration
6 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (11.11%) HTML
6 4 (11.11%) Spring
6 4 (11.11%) Web Development
7 3 (8.33%) WPF
7 3 (8.33%) WCAG
7 3 (8.33%) jQuery
7 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
1 3 (8.33%) SSL
1 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (5.56%) Finance
2 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (13.89%) CSS
2 5 (13.89%) React
3 4 (11.11%) HTML
3 4 (11.11%) Spring
3 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (8.33%) jQuery
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (8.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (8.33%) Vue
4 3 (8.33%) WPF
5 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Android
2 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.89%) Scrum
4 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 4 (11.11%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) TDD
4 4 (11.11%) Web Development
5 3 (8.33%) API Development
5 3 (8.33%) Batch Processing
5 3 (8.33%) Coaching
5 3 (8.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (8.33%) MVC
5 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (5.56%) Progressive Web App
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) XAML
5 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.56%) Swift
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.33%) WCAG
2 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes