Lead Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Developer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Developer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 215 289
Rank change year-on-year +37 +74 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 136 72 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.17% 0.95% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.05% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 122 70 63
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,813 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +20.93%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £77,375 £78,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +6.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 10,958 6,838 11,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.04% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,238 4,339 7,425
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,004 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the Midlands

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
West Midlands +63 106 £60,000 -0.83% 5
East Midlands -35 30 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 39 (28.68%) C#
2 36 (26.47%) JavaScript
3 32 (23.53%) React
4 27 (19.85%) .NET
5 23 (16.91%) Web Development
6 19 (13.97%) Vue
7 18 (13.24%) Social Skills
7 18 (13.24%) Agile
8 17 (12.50%) SaaS
8 17 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
9 16 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.76%) AWS
10 15 (11.03%) QA
10 15 (11.03%) HTML
10 15 (11.03%) CSS
10 15 (11.03%) Laravel
10 15 (11.03%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (10.29%) Azure
12 13 (9.56%) SQL
12 13 (9.56%) Full Stack Development
13 12 (8.82%) Roadmaps
13 12 (8.82%) Microservices
13 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
13 12 (8.82%) Node.js
13 12 (8.82%) jQuery
14 11 (8.09%) Workflow
14 11 (8.09%) Coaching
14 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.62%) IIS
1 9 (6.62%) WordPress
2 8 (5.88%) Appian
3 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.94%) CMS
5 3 (2.21%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.50%) SaaS
2 16 (11.76%) AWS
3 14 (10.29%) Azure
4 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.15%) Serverless
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (2.21%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.47%) dbt
8 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.74%) Firebase
8 1 (0.74%) GCP
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) DNS
1 9 (6.62%) Firewall
1 9 (6.62%) SSL
1 9 (6.62%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.21%) HTTP
2 3 (2.21%) MQTT
3 1 (0.74%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.62%) MySQL
3 7 (5.15%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.74%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (2.21%) gulp
2 3 (2.21%) Subversion
3 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.88%) Finance
3 8 (5.88%) Games
4 7 (5.15%) Marketing
5 3 (2.21%) iGaming
6 2 (1.47%) Automotive
6 2 (1.47%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.74%) Police
7 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.53%) React
2 27 (19.85%) .NET
3 19 (13.97%) Vue
4 17 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 15 (11.03%) CSS
5 15 (11.03%) HTML
5 15 (11.03%) Laravel
6 12 (8.82%) jQuery
6 12 (8.82%) Node.js
7 9 (6.62%) ASP.NET
7 9 (6.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (6.62%) REST
7 9 (6.62%) Tailwind CSS
7 9 (6.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 9 (6.62%) WPF
8 8 (5.88%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 4 (2.94%) HTML5
10 4 (2.94%) JSON
10 4 (2.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 8 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.41%) Augmented Reality
3 6 (4.41%) e-Learning
3 6 (4.41%) Virtual Reality
4 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.21%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.21%) IoT
5 3 (2.21%) Social Media
6 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.47%) Online Games
6 2 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.62%) Windows
2 6 (4.41%) Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Android
3 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.91%) Web Development
2 18 (13.24%) Agile
3 16 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 15 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (9.56%) Full Stack Development
6 12 (8.82%) Microservices
6 12 (8.82%) Roadmaps
7 11 (8.09%) Coaching
7 11 (8.09%) Workflow
8 10 (7.35%) Software Engineering
8 10 (7.35%) Tech Ops
9 9 (6.62%) API Development
9 9 (6.62%) DevOps
9 9 (6.62%) Event-Driven
9 9 (6.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (6.62%) Line Management
9 9 (6.62%) Migration
9 9 (6.62%) MVC
10 8 (5.88%) ITIL
10 8 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.68%) C#
2 36 (26.47%) JavaScript
3 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 13 (9.56%) SQL
5 9 (6.62%) XAML
6 8 (5.88%) Java
6 8 (5.88%) PHP
7 6 (4.41%) Python
8 4 (2.94%) Ruby
9 3 (2.21%) C++
10 2 (1.47%) Ada
10 2 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.47%) Swift
11 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.74%) R
11 1 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) Degree
4 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (8.09%) ServiceNow
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.94%) Google
4 3 (2.21%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.74%) IBM
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle