Lead Developer Jobs in the East Midlands

Lead Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Lead Developer salary in the East Midlands is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 169 147
Rank change year-on-year +35 -22 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 11 20 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.45% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.48% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 28
10th Percentile £61,875 £40,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -10.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,073 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,625 £66,600 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,517 4,157 2,499
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 94.50% 88.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 3,020 1,352
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the East Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the East Midlands

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire +21 5 £67,500 +22.73% 3
Lincolnshire - 5 £65,000 - 3
Northamptonshire -16 1 £67,500 +28.57% 2
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Front End Development
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) Logistics
3 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) HTML
4 6 (54.55%) C#
4 6 (54.55%) Delphi
4 6 (54.55%) EPoS
4 6 (54.55%) E-Commerce
4 6 (54.55%) ERP
4 6 (54.55%) Retail
4 6 (54.55%) Degree
4 6 (54.55%) Performance Management
4 6 (54.55%) Magento
4 6 (54.55%) SaaS
4 6 (54.55%) Shopify
4 6 (54.55%) Data Privacy
4 6 (54.55%) Line Management
4 6 (54.55%) SDLC
4 6 (54.55%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
4 6 (54.55%) BigCommerce
5 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (27.27%) React
7 2 (18.18%) Sketch
7 2 (18.18%) Figma
7 2 (18.18%) Jest
7 2 (18.18%) Enzyme
7 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
7 2 (18.18%) Agile

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Sketch
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe XD
2 1 (9.09%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Magento
1 6 (54.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) BigCommerce
1 6 (54.55%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Figma
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Google Play
3 1 (9.09%) npm
3 1 (9.09%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Babel
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 6 (54.55%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Retail
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Enzyme
3 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) WebSockets
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS3
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Front End Development
2 8 (72.73%) Logistics
3 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
4 6 (54.55%) Data Privacy
4 6 (54.55%) E-Commerce
4 6 (54.55%) ERP
4 6 (54.55%) Line Management
4 6 (54.55%) Performance Management
4 6 (54.55%) SDLC
5 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
6 2 (18.18%) UX Design
7 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 1 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) Delphi
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe
1 1 (9.09%) Apple
1 1 (9.09%) Google