Lead Developer Job Trends in Liverpool

Lead Developer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Lead Developer salary in Liverpool is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 2 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.30% - 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - £28,960
25th Percentile £92,500 - £53,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £95,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +31.03% +3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 647 212 810
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 85.14% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 414 158 653
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,313 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.26%
75th Percentile £56,013 £62,188 £58,750
90th Percentile £79,375 £78,250 £75,000
Merseyside median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Liverpool.

Lead Developer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for Lead Developer job vacancies in Liverpool.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Developer job vacancies in Liverpool

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 8 April 2026, Lead Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Liverpool region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) HubSpot
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HubSpot