Lead Software Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Software Developer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the Midlands is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 317 344
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 9 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.077% 0.084% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.094% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 11
10th Percentile £70,500 £44,025 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +100.00% -56.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £88,000 - -
England median annual salary £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +16.13% -8.82% +21.43%

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 11,003 8,554 10,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 89.45% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,239 4,752 7,093
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,775 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,750
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 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the Midlands

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the Midlands

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the Midlands

Lead Software 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 Software Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands +37 8 £75,000 +57.07%
East Midlands -18 1 £65,000 -
Lead Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Node.js
2 4 (44.44%) React
2 4 (44.44%) Health Technology
2 4 (44.44%) Shopify
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
4 2 (22.22%) Mobile Games
4 2 (22.22%) Games
4 2 (22.22%) C
4 2 (22.22%) Game Development
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
4 2 (22.22%) Physics
4 2 (22.22%) QA
4 2 (22.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (22.22%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
5 1 (11.11%) SOLID
5 1 (11.11%) Fintech

Lead Software 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Health Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (22.22%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) gRPC
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile Games
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (22.22%) Game Development
2 2 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
2 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) Physics
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
3 1 (11.11%) Code Coverage
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Fintech
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) SOLID
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) C
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft