Lead Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Developer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Developer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 264 259
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 116 66 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.99% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.78% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 109 59 64
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £40,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.80% +4.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,850 £72,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,059 8,497 10,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 89.68% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,265 4,764 7,115
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,526
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,054
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +86 96 £65,000 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -22 20 £52,500 -8.70% 7
Lead Developer
England

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

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

1 32 (27.59%) React
2 31 (26.72%) C#
2 31 (26.72%) JavaScript
3 29 (25.00%) .NET
4 25 (21.55%) Web Development
5 23 (19.83%) Agile
6 19 (16.38%) AngularJS
7 18 (15.52%) Azure
7 18 (15.52%) CSS
7 18 (15.52%) HTML
8 17 (14.66%) QA
8 17 (14.66%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.79%) TypeScript
9 16 (13.79%) SQL
9 16 (13.79%) Full Stack Development
10 15 (12.93%) SQL Server
10 15 (12.93%) jQuery
11 14 (12.07%) MVC
11 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
11 14 (12.07%) Finance
11 14 (12.07%) Microservices
11 14 (12.07%) Laravel
11 14 (12.07%) REST
11 14 (12.07%) Vue
11 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
12 12 (10.34%) Node.js
12 12 (10.34%) MySQL
12 12 (10.34%) ASP.NET
13 11 (9.48%) Java
13 11 (9.48%) Migration

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (7.76%) IIS
1 9 (7.76%) WordPress
2 8 (6.90%) Appian
3 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.45%) CMS
5 3 (2.59%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.86%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.86%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.52%) Azure
2 9 (7.76%) SaaS
3 8 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.90%) Serverless
4 6 (5.17%) AWS
5 5 (4.31%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.59%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.72%) dbt
7 2 (1.72%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) DNS
1 9 (7.76%) Firewall
1 9 (7.76%) SSL
1 9 (7.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.59%) HTTP
2 3 (2.59%) MQTT
3 1 (0.86%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.34%) MySQL
3 8 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.17%) Power BI
5 5 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.59%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.72%) Tableau
8 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.86%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 10 (8.62%) Git
2 5 (4.31%) gulp
3 3 (2.59%) Subversion
4 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.86%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 14 (12.07%) Finance
1 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.62%) Marketing
4 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.31%) iGaming
6 4 (3.45%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.59%) Games
8 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.86%) Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.59%) React
2 29 (25.00%) .NET
3 19 (16.38%) AngularJS
4 18 (15.52%) CSS
4 18 (15.52%) HTML
5 15 (12.93%) jQuery
6 14 (12.07%) Laravel
6 14 (12.07%) REST
6 14 (12.07%) Vue
7 12 (10.34%) ASP.NET
7 12 (10.34%) Node.js
8 10 (8.62%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (8.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 9 (7.76%) .NET Core
9 9 (7.76%) Tailwind CSS
9 9 (7.76%) WPF
10 6 (5.17%) CSS3
10 6 (5.17%) HTML5
10 6 (5.17%) JSON
10 6 (5.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.90%) Low-Code
2 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Digital Media
3 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.59%) IoT
5 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.59%) Social Media
6 2 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.72%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 8 (6.90%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Android
3 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.55%) Web Development
2 23 (19.83%) Agile
3 17 (14.66%) Mentoring
4 16 (13.79%) Full Stack Development
5 14 (12.07%) Microservices
5 14 (12.07%) MVC
6 11 (9.48%) Event-Driven
6 11 (9.48%) Migration
6 11 (9.48%) Roadmaps
6 11 (9.48%) Workflow
7 10 (8.62%) API Development
7 10 (8.62%) Design Patterns
7 10 (8.62%) DevOps
7 10 (8.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (8.62%) Tech Ops
7 10 (8.62%) User Experience
8 9 (7.76%) Coaching
8 9 (7.76%) Line Management
8 9 (7.76%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (6.90%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.72%) C#
1 31 (26.72%) JavaScript
2 16 (13.79%) SQL
2 16 (13.79%) TypeScript
3 11 (9.48%) Java
4 9 (7.76%) XAML
5 8 (6.90%) PHP
5 8 (6.90%) Python
6 4 (3.45%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.59%) R
7 3 (2.59%) Ruby
8 2 (1.72%) C
8 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.72%) Swift
8 2 (1.72%) VB
8 2 (1.72%) VB6
9 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.31%) Degree
1 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.48%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.59%) Google
3 3 (2.59%) Hotjar
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle
4 2 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (0.86%) IBM