Lead Software Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 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 638 705 738
Rank change year-on-year +67 +33 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 118 57 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.093% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 110 55 78
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £65,313 £60,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,084
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.00% +4.92%
75th Percentile £98,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £80,375
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,563 54,796 67,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.22% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,186 31,100 42,983
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +40 54 £76,250 +1.67% 5
North of England +57 35 £70,000 - 7
North West +23 23 £70,000 +7.69% 4
East of England +20 9 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands +16 9 £75,000 +15.38%
West Midlands +37 8 £75,000 +57.07%
Yorkshire +94 6 £60,000 -22.58% 1
North East - 6 £65,000 - 2
South West -19 5 £72,500 +28.89%
Northern Ireland +30 2 £100,000 +66.67%
Scotland -51 2 £83,750 +39.58%
Wales - 2 £83,750 -
East Midlands -18 1 £65,000 -
Lead Software Developer
UK

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 76 (64.41%) C#
2 68 (57.63%) .NET
3 61 (51.69%) Agile
4 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
5 32 (27.12%) Software Engineering
5 32 (27.12%) Docker
6 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
7 30 (25.42%) Finance
8 28 (23.73%) Azure
8 28 (23.73%) NoSQL
9 27 (22.88%) React
10 25 (21.19%) Propensity Modelling
10 25 (21.19%) SQL
11 24 (20.34%) Degree
11 24 (20.34%) Computer Science
12 22 (18.64%) Java
12 22 (18.64%) Visual Studio
12 22 (18.64%) TypeScript
13 21 (17.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (17.80%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (16.95%) DevOps
14 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
15 18 (15.25%) Multithreading
15 18 (15.25%) AWS
15 18 (15.25%) C
16 17 (14.41%) SQL Server
17 16 (13.56%) Microsoft
17 16 (13.56%) Unit Testing
17 16 (13.56%) Microservices
18 14 (11.86%) Test Automation

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.73%) Azure
2 18 (15.25%) AWS
3 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.93%) Pulumi
5 5 (4.24%) SaaS
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.54%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.54%) PaaS
6 3 (2.54%) Serverless
7 1 (0.85%) GitHub
7 1 (0.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) Network Security
2 5 (4.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.73%) NoSQL
2 17 (14.41%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.08%) MySQL
4 4 (3.39%) Redis
5 3 (2.54%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (18.64%) Visual Studio
2 11 (9.32%) Git
3 7 (5.93%) Jasmine
3 7 (5.93%) NUnit
3 7 (5.93%) Selenium
3 7 (5.93%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (5.93%) TeamCity
3 7 (5.93%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.39%) Maven
5 3 (2.54%) Gradle
6 1 (0.85%) GitKraken
6 1 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.85%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.85%) ReSharper
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (25.42%) Finance
2 12 (10.17%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.47%) Banking
4 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.24%) Games
6 4 (3.39%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Electronics
9 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (57.63%) .NET
2 27 (22.88%) React
3 12 (10.17%) ASP.NET
3 12 (10.17%) CSS
4 11 (9.32%) .NET Core
4 11 (9.32%) JSON
5 10 (8.47%) HTML
6 9 (7.63%) .NET Framework
6 9 (7.63%) RESTful
7 8 (6.78%) Entity Framework
8 7 (5.93%) ARM Templates
8 7 (5.93%) HTML5
8 7 (5.93%) OpenID
9 6 (5.08%) Node.js
10 5 (4.24%) REST
11 3 (2.54%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.54%) Spring
11 3 (2.54%) Vue
12 2 (1.69%) EJB
12 2 (1.69%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Digital Media
2 6 (5.08%) IoT
2 6 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.24%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.39%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.39%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) e-Health
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) FPGA
7 1 (0.85%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Windows
2 6 (5.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (51.69%) Agile
2 32 (27.12%) Software Engineering
3 25 (21.19%) Propensity Modelling
4 24 (20.34%) Computer Science
5 21 (17.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 20 (16.95%) DevOps
6 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
7 18 (15.25%) Multithreading
8 16 (13.56%) Microservices
8 16 (13.56%) Unit Testing
9 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.17%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 11 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.47%) Fintech
12 10 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (7.63%) Full Stack Development
13 9 (7.63%) Project Management
13 9 (7.63%) Scrum
13 9 (7.63%) Web Development
14 8 (6.78%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 76 (64.41%) C#
2 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
3 25 (21.19%) SQL
4 22 (18.64%) Java
4 22 (18.64%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.25%) C
6 12 (10.17%) C++
7 7 (5.93%) Bicep
8 5 (4.24%) Python
9 4 (3.39%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.54%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (20.34%) Degree
2 21 (17.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (27.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.78%) Terraform
3 7 (5.93%) MIIS
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) Kiali
4 1 (0.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle