Lead Developer Jobs in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 226 347
Rank change year-on-year -187 +121 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 311 1,067 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.59% 1.22% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.29% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 221 972 586
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,050 £54,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,335 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +0.26%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,456 82,605 68,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 94.69% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26,456 59,020 47,752
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
London -75 144 £90,000 -5.26% 39
North of England -99 60 £70,000 +7.69% 35
South East -29 42 £73,750 +5.36% 34
North West -94 37 £72,500 +3.57% 14
Midlands -37 29 £67,500 +12.50% 20
South West +35 25 £56,250 +6.46% 18
Yorkshire -12 20 £68,750 +24.80% 16
West Midlands -35 19 £68,750 +14.58% 11
East Midlands +20 10 £66,250 +20.45% 9
East of England +1 8 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North East +20 3 £80,000 +15.52% 6
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 126 (40.51%) JavaScript
2 114 (36.66%) Agile
3 103 (33.12%) AWS
4 96 (30.87%) Azure
5 94 (30.23%) C#
6 84 (27.01%) React
7 79 (25.40%) Mentoring
8 77 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (24.44%) TypeScript
10 75 (24.12%) .NET
11 71 (22.83%) Finance
11 71 (22.83%) Software Engineering
12 69 (22.19%) SQL
13 68 (21.86%) Python
13 68 (21.86%) DevOps
14 67 (21.54%) CI/CD
15 65 (20.90%) Docker
15 65 (20.90%) Java
16 62 (19.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 58 (18.65%) Microservices
18 57 (18.33%) Social Skills
19 53 (17.04%) Node.js
20 48 (15.43%) AngularJS
21 44 (14.15%) Front End Development
21 44 (14.15%) TDD
22 43 (13.83%) SQL Server
22 43 (13.83%) Microsoft
22 43 (13.83%) Kubernetes
23 42 (13.50%) Containerisation
24 40 (12.86%) CSS

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.22%) Confluence
3 8 (2.57%) CMS
4 4 (1.29%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Mule
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.64%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.64%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) DNN
7 1 (0.32%) Drupal
7 1 (0.32%) Kentico
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (4.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (3.22%) Shopify
3 8 (2.57%) Magento
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 103 (33.12%) AWS
2 96 (30.87%) Azure
3 37 (11.90%) Power Platform
4 32 (10.29%) SaaS
5 25 (8.04%) Serverless
6 22 (7.07%) PowerApps
7 20 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (6.43%) GCP
7 20 (6.43%) Power Automate
8 16 (5.14%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (4.82%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.82%) GitHub
10 14 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.54%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.57%) AWS KMS
12 8 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (2.57%) BigCommerce
12 8 (2.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) Broadband
2 2 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.83%) SQL Server
2 37 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (9.97%) MongoDB
4 26 (8.36%) NoSQL
4 26 (8.36%) Power BI
5 14 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.54%) MySQL
6 11 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.25%) Tick Data
9 6 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.61%) Big Data
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.29%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.96%) Tableau
13 2 (0.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (9.97%) Git
2 18 (5.79%) JIRA
3 13 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.86%) Maven
5 10 (3.22%) JUnit
6 9 (2.89%) Mockito
6 9 (2.89%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (2.57%) DbUnit
7 8 (2.57%) jMock
8 6 (1.93%) Grunt
8 6 (1.93%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.93%) Mocha
8 6 (1.93%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.93%) webpack
9 5 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.29%) NUnit
10 4 (1.29%) Vite
11 3 (0.96%) MSTest
11 3 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 71 (22.83%) Finance
2 57 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (9.00%) Marketing
5 27 (8.68%) Retail
6 22 (7.07%) Law
7 20 (6.43%) Front Office
8 16 (5.14%) Banking
9 14 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.86%) Public Sector
11 11 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.57%) Games
12 8 (2.57%) Legal
13 6 (1.93%) Back Office
13 6 (1.93%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.93%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.96%) Automotive
14 3 (0.96%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.01%) React
2 75 (24.12%) .NET
3 53 (17.04%) Node.js
4 48 (15.43%) AngularJS
5 40 (12.86%) CSS
6 38 (12.22%) HTML
7 34 (10.93%) RESTful
8 30 (9.65%) .NET Core
9 28 (9.00%) REST
9 28 (9.00%) Vue
10 27 (8.68%) GraphQL
11 25 (8.04%) Redux
12 24 (7.72%) Kafka
13 22 (7.07%) Web Services
14 20 (6.43%) SOAP
15 19 (6.11%) Bootstrap
16 17 (5.47%) ASP.NET
16 17 (5.47%) Spring
17 16 (5.14%) Spring Boot
18 13 (4.18%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.14%) Fixed Income
2 16 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.57%) EPoS
4 8 (2.57%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.93%) Clustering
6 6 (1.93%) Derivative
7 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.61%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.61%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.29%) Equities
8 4 (1.29%) IoT
8 4 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.29%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.72%) Linux
2 7 (2.25%) Unix
3 5 (1.61%) Android
4 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.64%) Windows
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (36.66%) Agile
2 79 (25.40%) Mentoring
3 77 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (22.83%) Software Engineering
5 68 (21.86%) DevOps
6 67 (21.54%) CI/CD
7 62 (19.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 58 (18.65%) Microservices
9 44 (14.15%) Front End Development
9 44 (14.15%) TDD
10 42 (13.50%) Containerisation
11 36 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (10.61%) SDLC
13 31 (9.97%) Test Automation
14 29 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence
16 26 (8.36%) Scrum
17 25 (8.04%) Clean Code
17 25 (8.04%) Roadmaps
18 24 (7.72%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 126 (40.51%) JavaScript
2 94 (30.23%) C#
3 76 (24.44%) TypeScript
4 69 (22.19%) SQL
5 68 (21.86%) Python
6 65 (20.90%) Java
7 18 (5.79%) Go
8 17 (5.47%) PHP
8 17 (5.47%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.18%) C++
10 12 (3.86%) C
11 8 (2.57%) Delphi
12 6 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.61%) Ruby
14 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.96%) Swift
15 3 (0.96%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 34 (10.93%) Degree
2 25 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.29%) PhD
6 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.75%) QA
2 6 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) HL7
System Software
1 65 (20.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Firmware
2 1 (0.32%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.82%) Terraform
3 3 (0.96%) Argo
4 2 (0.64%) Grafana
4 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 43 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.57%) Atlassian
3 7 (2.25%) Google
3 7 (2.25%) Oracle
4 5 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.29%) Databricks
5 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.29%) Splunk
6 3 (0.96%) IFS
6 3 (0.96%) Solace
7 2 (0.64%) Adobe
7 2 (0.64%) Informatica
7 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.32%) Apple
8 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.32%) Dell
8 1 (0.32%) IBM
8 1 (0.32%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.32%) Pardot
8 1 (0.32%) Sitecore