Lead Developer Jobs in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer salary in England is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 334 301
Rank change year-on-year +87 -33 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 998 944 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.02% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.12% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 921 770 1,089
10th Percentile £50,250 £51,833 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,457 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,236 £120,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +8.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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
London +73 375 £90,000 - 63
North of England +133 259 £62,500 -10.71% 26
North West +98 166 £70,000 -3.45% 15
South East +19 134 £72,500 +1.75% 15
Midlands +62 116 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +86 96 £65,000 +8.33% 9
South West -28 74 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Yorkshire +100 68 £57,500 -17.86% 7
East of England +15 35 £65,000 +13.04% 4
North East +4 25 £66,250 +38.97% 4
East Midlands -22 20 £52,500 -8.70% 7
Lead Developer
UK

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

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

1 299 (29.96%) C#
2 295 (29.56%) .NET
3 293 (29.36%) Agile
4 266 (26.65%) JavaScript
5 262 (26.25%) AWS
6 237 (23.75%) Azure
7 216 (21.64%) Mentoring
8 192 (19.24%) Finance
9 191 (19.14%) Full Stack Development
10 184 (18.44%) Java
11 172 (17.23%) TypeScript
12 168 (16.83%) React
13 161 (16.13%) SQL
14 156 (15.63%) Software Engineering
15 137 (13.73%) DevOps
16 134 (13.43%) Degree
17 115 (11.52%) HTML
17 115 (11.52%) Social Skills
18 114 (11.42%) CSS
19 113 (11.32%) Microsoft
20 107 (10.72%) Python
21 105 (10.52%) Microservices
22 97 (9.72%) SQL Server
23 95 (9.52%) Web Development
24 93 (9.32%) Docker
25 91 (9.12%) TDD
26 88 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
27 81 (8.12%) AngularJS
28 80 (8.02%) Computer Science
29 74 (7.41%) Banking

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 62 (6.21%) Apache
2 44 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 32 (3.21%) CMS
5 24 (2.40%) Drupal
6 20 (2.00%) IIS
7 12 (1.20%) WordPress
8 11 (1.10%) Appian
9 8 (0.80%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.50%) Confluence
10 5 (0.50%) Mendix
11 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) Mule
12 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.30%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Magento
2 4 (0.40%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.20%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 262 (26.25%) AWS
2 237 (23.75%) Azure
3 72 (7.21%) GCP
4 49 (4.91%) SaaS
5 48 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 46 (4.61%) dbt
7 43 (4.31%) Snowflake
8 42 (4.21%) Serverless
9 36 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (3.11%) PowerApps
11 30 (3.01%) Power Automate
12 26 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (2.40%) GitHub
14 23 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (1.50%) PaaS
17 12 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
18 9 (0.90%) Amazon S3
18 9 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
19 8 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.90%) DNS
1 19 (1.90%) Firewall
1 19 (1.90%) SSL
1 19 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.90%) Intranet
3 7 (0.70%) Network Security
4 6 (0.60%) HTTP
4 6 (0.60%) Internet
5 3 (0.30%) MQTT
6 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 68 (6.81%) NoSQL
3 60 (6.01%) MySQL
4 44 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (4.41%) Apache Arrow
4 44 (4.41%) Apache Ignite
4 44 (4.41%) Dremio
5 41 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 33 (3.31%) Power BI
7 30 (3.01%) Tableau
8 22 (2.20%) Redis
9 18 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.50%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.30%) Big Data
13 11 (1.10%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.90%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.80%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 59 (5.91%) Git
2 28 (2.81%) Visual Studio
3 15 (1.50%) NUnit
4 13 (1.30%) TeamCity
5 11 (1.10%) GitLab
5 11 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.90%) Selenium
6 9 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (0.80%) Checkstyle
7 8 (0.80%) JUnit
7 8 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.70%) Jasmine
8 7 (0.70%) Maven
8 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.50%) gulp
9 5 (0.50%) JIRA
9 5 (0.50%) Postman
10 4 (0.40%) Gradle
10 4 (0.40%) MSTest
11 3 (0.30%) Moq
General
1 192 (19.24%) Finance
2 115 (11.52%) Social Skills
3 74 (7.41%) Banking
4 68 (6.81%) Front Office
5 52 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.71%) Investment Banking
7 35 (3.51%) Games
8 32 (3.21%) Marketing
9 24 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (2.30%) Law
11 20 (2.00%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.60%) Retail
13 12 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.90%) Advertising
14 9 (0.90%) Police
15 8 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.50%) iGaming
17 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.30%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (29.56%) .NET
2 168 (16.83%) React
3 115 (11.52%) HTML
4 114 (11.42%) CSS
5 81 (8.12%) AngularJS
6 72 (7.21%) REST
7 71 (7.11%) Vue
8 68 (6.81%) .NET Core
9 66 (6.61%) ASP.NET
9 66 (6.61%) RESTful
10 54 (5.41%) Laravel
11 51 (5.11%) Web Services
12 46 (4.61%) NumPy
12 46 (4.61%) Pandas
13 45 (4.51%) gRPC
14 44 (4.41%) Protocol Buffers
14 44 (4.41%) SciPy
15 43 (4.31%) .NET Framework
16 41 (4.11%) jQuery
17 39 (3.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (6.51%) Hedge funds
3 60 (6.01%) Derivative
4 59 (5.91%) Fixed Income
5 54 (5.41%) Equities
6 34 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (3.01%) Client/Server
8 29 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 27 (2.71%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (2.30%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.90%) Cloud Native
13 16 (1.60%) Digital Media
14 15 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.40%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.20%) Low-Code
17 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
18 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
18 10 (1.00%) IoT
18 10 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.61%) Linux
2 40 (4.01%) Windows
3 15 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.10%) Android
5 6 (0.60%) Unix
6 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (29.36%) Agile
2 216 (21.64%) Mentoring
3 191 (19.14%) Full Stack Development
4 156 (15.63%) Software Engineering
5 137 (13.73%) DevOps
6 105 (10.52%) Microservices
7 95 (9.52%) Web Development
8 91 (9.12%) TDD
9 88 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (8.02%) Computer Science
11 70 (7.01%) CI/CD
11 70 (7.01%) Code Quality
11 70 (7.01%) Front End Development
12 66 (6.61%) Design Patterns
13 65 (6.51%) Line Management
13 65 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (6.11%) Fintech
15 60 (6.01%) SOLID
16 57 (5.71%) Analytics
16 57 (5.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 299 (29.96%) C#
2 266 (26.65%) JavaScript
3 184 (18.44%) Java
4 172 (17.23%) TypeScript
5 161 (16.13%) SQL
6 107 (10.72%) Python
7 63 (6.31%) PHP
8 45 (4.51%) C++
9 22 (2.20%) C
10 19 (1.90%) XAML
11 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
11 18 (1.80%) Ruby
12 17 (1.70%) T-SQL
13 16 (1.60%) PowerShell
13 16 (1.60%) Scala
14 11 (1.10%) Swift
15 9 (0.90%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.80%) Bicep
16 8 (0.80%) Rust
17 5 (0.50%) Ada
Qualifications
1 134 (13.43%) Degree
2 52 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 18 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.70%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.10%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.71%) QA
2 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 93 (9.32%) Docker
2 9 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.40%) Terraform
3 7 (0.70%) MIIS
4 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.10%) Kiali
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 113 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.71%) ServiceNow
3 13 (1.30%) Aderant
3 13 (1.30%) iManage
4 8 (0.80%) Databricks
5 7 (0.70%) Google
5 7 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.60%) Oracle
7 4 (0.40%) SAP
8 3 (0.30%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.30%) Mercator
8 3 (0.30%) Northgate
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe
9 2 (0.20%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.10%) IBM
10 1 (0.10%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.10%) Murex
10 1 (0.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.10%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.10%) Zend