Lead Developer Jobs in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer salary in England is £71,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 322 311
Rank change year-on-year +69 -11 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 994 901 1,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.02% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.12% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 912 732 1,090
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £117,236 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,818 80,481 131,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,842 51,232 75,335
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
London +61 371 £90,000 -2.70% 69
North of England +119 262 £62,500 -10.71% 23
North West +84 163 £70,000 -3.45% 12
South East -16 128 £75,000 +1.69% 14
Midlands +50 117 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +71 97 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South West +5 75 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Yorkshire +84 72 £57,500 -17.86% 8
East of England +7 37 £65,000 +13.04% 5
North East +6 27 £70,000 +46.84% 3
East Midlands -23 20 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 296 (29.78%) Agile
2 290 (29.18%) C#
3 286 (28.77%) .NET
4 263 (26.46%) JavaScript
5 258 (25.96%) AWS
6 223 (22.43%) Azure
7 210 (21.13%) Mentoring
8 196 (19.72%) Finance
9 189 (19.01%) Full Stack Development
10 183 (18.41%) Java
11 174 (17.51%) TypeScript
12 160 (16.10%) React
13 159 (16.00%) Software Engineering
14 158 (15.90%) SQL
15 130 (13.08%) DevOps
16 119 (11.97%) Degree
17 116 (11.67%) Python
18 108 (10.87%) Microsoft
18 108 (10.87%) HTML
18 108 (10.87%) CSS
19 103 (10.36%) Social Skills
20 95 (9.56%) Microservices
21 90 (9.05%) SQL Server
22 89 (8.95%) Web Development
23 88 (8.85%) Docker
23 88 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
24 82 (8.25%) TDD
25 81 (8.15%) Banking
26 79 (7.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 75 (7.55%) GCP

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 70 (7.04%) Apache
2 52 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 30 (3.02%) CMS
5 24 (2.41%) Drupal
6 20 (2.01%) IIS
7 12 (1.21%) WordPress
8 11 (1.11%) Appian
9 7 (0.70%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.50%) Confluence
10 5 (0.50%) Mendix
11 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.31%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Magento
2 4 (0.40%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.20%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 258 (25.96%) AWS
2 223 (22.43%) Azure
3 75 (7.55%) GCP
4 54 (5.43%) dbt
5 51 (5.13%) Snowflake
6 48 (4.83%) SaaS
7 47 (4.73%) Power Platform
8 38 (3.82%) Serverless
9 33 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.92%) Power Automate
10 29 (2.92%) PowerApps
11 25 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (2.11%) GitHub
14 15 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.31%) PaaS
16 12 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 9 (0.91%) Amazon S3
19 8 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.91%) DNS
1 19 (1.91%) Firewall
1 19 (1.91%) SSL
1 19 (1.91%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.91%) Intranet
3 7 (0.70%) Network Security
4 6 (0.60%) HTTP
4 6 (0.60%) Internet
5 3 (0.30%) MQTT
6 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 67 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 59 (5.94%) MySQL
4 52 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
4 52 (5.23%) Apache Arrow
4 52 (5.23%) Apache Ignite
4 52 (5.23%) Dremio
5 49 (4.93%) Data Lake
6 34 (3.42%) Power BI
7 23 (2.31%) Tableau
8 22 (2.21%) Redis
9 17 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.51%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.21%) Big Data
12 10 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (0.91%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.80%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.70%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 55 (5.53%) Git
2 27 (2.72%) Visual Studio
3 14 (1.41%) NUnit
4 12 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.21%) TeamCity
5 11 (1.11%) GitLab
6 9 (0.91%) Selenium
6 9 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (0.70%) Checkstyle
7 7 (0.70%) Jasmine
7 7 (0.70%) JUnit
7 7 (0.70%) Maven
7 7 (0.70%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.50%) gulp
8 5 (0.50%) JIRA
8 5 (0.50%) Postman
9 4 (0.40%) MSTest
10 3 (0.30%) Gradle
10 3 (0.30%) Moq
General
1 196 (19.72%) Finance
2 103 (10.36%) Social Skills
3 81 (8.15%) Banking
4 73 (7.34%) Front Office
5 55 (5.53%) Investment Banking
6 53 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.62%) Games
8 32 (3.22%) Marketing
9 25 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (2.31%) Law
11 18 (1.81%) Tech for Good
12 14 (1.41%) Retail
13 12 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.91%) Advertising
14 9 (0.91%) Police
15 8 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.50%) iGaming
17 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.30%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (28.77%) .NET
2 160 (16.10%) React
3 108 (10.87%) CSS
3 108 (10.87%) HTML
4 74 (7.44%) AngularJS
5 67 (6.74%) .NET Core
5 67 (6.74%) REST
5 67 (6.74%) Vue
6 63 (6.34%) ASP.NET
7 60 (6.04%) RESTful
8 55 (5.53%) Laravel
9 54 (5.43%) NumPy
9 54 (5.43%) Pandas
10 52 (5.23%) gRPC
10 52 (5.23%) Protocol Buffers
10 52 (5.23%) SciPy
11 48 (4.83%) Web Services
12 43 (4.33%) .NET Framework
13 41 (4.12%) jQuery
14 35 (3.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 68 (6.84%) Hedge funds
3 65 (6.54%) Derivative
4 62 (6.24%) Fixed Income
5 60 (6.04%) Equities
6 33 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (2.92%) Client/Server
8 28 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.31%) Mobile App
10 22 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.81%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.61%) Digital Media
13 14 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.11%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.01%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.01%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.53%) Linux
2 40 (4.02%) Windows
3 15 (1.51%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.11%) Android
5 8 (0.80%) Unix
6 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (29.78%) Agile
2 210 (21.13%) Mentoring
3 189 (19.01%) Full Stack Development
4 159 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 130 (13.08%) DevOps
6 95 (9.56%) Microservices
7 89 (8.95%) Web Development
8 88 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (8.25%) TDD
10 73 (7.34%) Computer Science
11 71 (7.14%) Code Quality
11 71 (7.14%) Line Management
12 66 (6.64%) Design Patterns
13 65 (6.54%) Front End Development
14 64 (6.44%) CI/CD
15 63 (6.34%) Asset Management
16 61 (6.14%) Roadmaps
17 60 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
18 59 (5.94%) Fintech
19 57 (5.73%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 290 (29.18%) C#
2 263 (26.46%) JavaScript
3 183 (18.41%) Java
4 174 (17.51%) TypeScript
5 158 (15.90%) SQL
6 116 (11.67%) Python
7 61 (6.14%) PHP
8 45 (4.53%) C++
9 22 (2.21%) C
10 19 (1.91%) Scala
10 19 (1.91%) XAML
11 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
11 18 (1.81%) Ruby
12 16 (1.61%) T-SQL
13 14 (1.41%) PowerShell
14 11 (1.11%) Swift
15 10 (1.01%) Rust
16 9 (0.91%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.80%) Bicep
18 5 (0.50%) Ada
Qualifications
1 119 (11.97%) Degree
2 45 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (2.72%) Security Cleared
4 18 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.70%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.20%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.23%) QA
2 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 88 (8.85%) Docker
2 8 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.21%) Terraform
3 7 (0.70%) MIIS
4 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.10%) Kiali
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 108 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.72%) ServiceNow
3 13 (1.31%) Aderant
3 13 (1.31%) iManage
4 8 (0.80%) Databricks
4 8 (0.80%) Google
4 8 (0.80%) Salesforce
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle
6 4 (0.40%) SAP
7 3 (0.30%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.30%) Mercator
7 3 (0.30%) Northgate
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe
8 2 (0.20%) Computacenter
8 2 (0.20%) Zend
9 1 (0.10%) IBM
9 1 (0.10%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.10%) Murex
9 1 (0.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.10%) Xamarin