Lead Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Lead Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Developer salary in Birmingham is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 113 130
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 48 25 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.78% 1.24% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.32% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 48 24 31
10th Percentile £47,700 £46,500 -
25th Percentile £52,539 £50,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £74,688 £71,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £124,750 £77,400 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,547 1,889 3,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 93.42% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,076 1,436 2,347
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,800 £70,150 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Birmingham

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Birmingham

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Birmingham region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
3 10 (20.83%) Agile
4 9 (18.75%) React
4 9 (18.75%) Node.js
5 8 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
5 8 (16.67%) Appian
5 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 8 (16.67%) Low-Code
5 8 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 7 (14.58%) Design Patterns
6 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (14.58%) Coaching
7 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.50%) Shopify
7 6 (12.50%) .NET
7 6 (12.50%) Java
7 6 (12.50%) jQuery
8 5 (10.42%) Web Development
8 5 (10.42%) MVC
8 5 (10.42%) SQL
8 5 (10.42%) CSS
8 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
8 5 (10.42%) HTML
8 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (10.42%) REST
8 5 (10.42%) Azure
8 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (16.67%) Appian
2 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.25%) IIS
4 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Shopify
2 1 (2.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) Amazon Kinesis
1 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (10.42%) Azure
1 5 (10.42%) Serverless
2 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.17%) dbt
3 2 (4.17%) SaaS
3 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.08%) AWS
4 1 (2.08%) GitHub
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) DNS
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
1 3 (6.25%) SSL
1 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.25%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) gulp
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Health Technology
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) iGaming
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) Node.js
1 9 (18.75%) React
2 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) jQuery
3 5 (10.42%) CSS
3 5 (10.42%) HTML
3 5 (10.42%) REST
4 4 (8.33%) RESTful
4 4 (8.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET
5 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (6.25%) Laravel
5 3 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (6.25%) Vue
5 3 (6.25%) WPF
6 2 (4.17%) CSS3
6 2 (4.17%) OAuth
6 2 (4.17%) Sass
6 2 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Digital Media
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Android
2 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
2 10 (20.83%) Agile
3 8 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 8 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
4 7 (14.58%) Coaching
4 7 (14.58%) Design Patterns
4 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven
6 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (10.42%) Microservices
6 5 (10.42%) MVC
6 5 (10.42%) Web Development
7 4 (8.33%) CRM
7 4 (8.33%) Data Integration
7 4 (8.33%) ERP
7 4 (8.33%) Migration
7 4 (8.33%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (12.50%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.42%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) C#
4 3 (6.25%) PHP
4 3 (6.25%) XAML
5 2 (4.17%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.17%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft