Lead Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Developer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Developer salary in the Midlands is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 257 259
Rank change year-on-year +55 +2 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 113 72 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.99% 0.73% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.82% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 105 63 63
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £39,568
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £79,000 £74,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £74,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +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 10,740 8,795 10,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.51% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,179 4,839 7,217
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £36,250
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 £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +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 18 April 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 18 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 +95 92 £65,000 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -24 21 £52,500 -10.64% 1
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 32 (28.32%) C#
1 32 (28.32%) JavaScript
1 32 (28.32%) React
2 30 (26.55%) .NET
3 26 (23.01%) Agile
4 24 (21.24%) Web Development
5 19 (16.81%) Azure
5 19 (16.81%) CSS
5 19 (16.81%) HTML
5 19 (16.81%) Mentoring
5 19 (16.81%) AngularJS
6 17 (15.04%) SQL
6 17 (15.04%) QA
7 16 (14.16%) SQL Server
7 16 (14.16%) TypeScript
7 16 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
8 15 (13.27%) Microservices
8 15 (13.27%) REST
8 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
8 15 (13.27%) MVC
8 15 (13.27%) jQuery
9 14 (12.39%) Finance
9 14 (12.39%) Laravel
9 14 (12.39%) Vue
9 14 (12.39%) Social Skills
10 13 (11.50%) ASP.NET
11 12 (10.62%) MySQL
11 12 (10.62%) Event-Driven
11 12 (10.62%) Node.js
12 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills

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 (7.96%) IIS
1 9 (7.96%) WordPress
2 8 (7.08%) Appian
3 4 (3.54%) CMS
3 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.65%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Shopify
2 1 (0.88%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.81%) Azure
2 10 (8.85%) SaaS
3 8 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (7.08%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.08%) Serverless
4 6 (5.31%) AWS
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.65%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.77%) dbt
8 2 (1.77%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) DNS
1 9 (7.96%) Firewall
1 9 (7.96%) SSL
1 9 (7.96%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.65%) HTTP
2 3 (2.65%) MQTT
3 1 (0.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.16%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.62%) MySQL
3 8 (7.08%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.31%) Power BI
5 5 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.77%) Tableau
8 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.88%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Git
2 5 (4.42%) gulp
3 3 (2.65%) Subversion
4 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) Maven
General
1 14 (12.39%) Finance
1 14 (12.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.96%) Marketing
4 5 (4.42%) iGaming
4 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.54%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.65%) Games
7 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.32%) React
2 30 (26.55%) .NET
3 19 (16.81%) AngularJS
3 19 (16.81%) CSS
3 19 (16.81%) HTML
4 15 (13.27%) jQuery
4 15 (13.27%) REST
5 14 (12.39%) Laravel
5 14 (12.39%) Vue
6 13 (11.50%) ASP.NET
7 12 (10.62%) Node.js
8 11 (9.73%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (8.85%) .NET Core
9 10 (8.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 9 (7.96%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (7.96%) WPF
11 6 (5.31%) CSS3
11 6 (5.31%) HTML5
11 6 (5.31%) JSON
11 6 (5.31%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.08%) Low-Code
2 8 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.42%) Digital Media
3 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.65%) IoT
5 3 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.65%) Social Media
6 2 (1.77%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.77%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.96%) Windows
2 8 (7.08%) Linux
3 2 (1.77%) Android
3 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.01%) Agile
2 24 (21.24%) Web Development
3 19 (16.81%) Mentoring
4 16 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
5 15 (13.27%) Microservices
5 15 (13.27%) MVC
6 12 (10.62%) Event-Driven
7 11 (9.73%) Design Patterns
7 11 (9.73%) DevOps
7 11 (9.73%) Migration
7 11 (9.73%) Roadmaps
7 11 (9.73%) Workflow
8 10 (8.85%) API Development
8 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.85%) Coaching
8 10 (8.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (8.85%) User Experience
9 9 (7.96%) Line Management
9 9 (7.96%) Tech Ops
9 9 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) C#
1 32 (28.32%) JavaScript
2 17 (15.04%) SQL
3 16 (14.16%) TypeScript
4 11 (9.73%) Java
5 9 (7.96%) XAML
6 8 (7.08%) PHP
6 8 (7.08%) Python
7 4 (3.54%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.65%) R
8 3 (2.65%) Ruby
9 2 (1.77%) C
9 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.77%) Swift
9 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.77%) VB
9 2 (1.77%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (4.42%) Degree
1 5 (4.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.04%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.65%) Google
3 3 (2.65%) Hotjar
3 3 (2.65%) Oracle
4 2 (1.77%) SAP
5 1 (0.88%) IBM