Lead Developer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Developer
England > North of England

The median Lead Developer salary in the North of England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 160 294
Rank change year-on-year -135 +134 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 44 265 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 1.50% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 1.58% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 37 255 111
10th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £51,833
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,346 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £97,328
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% -10.63% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,838 16,798 15,094
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.98% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,779 12,989 8,081
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West -121 37 £72,500 +3.57% 53
Yorkshire -3 6 £70,000 +21.74% 25
North East +15 1 £80,000 +14.29% 8
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 North of England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 25 (56.82%) .NET
2 19 (43.18%) C#
3 18 (40.91%) AWS
4 14 (31.82%) Agile
4 14 (31.82%) Azure
5 13 (29.55%) DevOps
5 13 (29.55%) .NET Core
5 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
6 12 (27.27%) Docker
7 11 (25.00%) TypeScript
7 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 10 (22.73%) React
9 9 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (20.45%) Event-Driven
9 9 (20.45%) TDD
9 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
9 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
10 8 (18.18%) Line Management
10 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
10 8 (18.18%) CSS
10 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
11 7 (15.91%) Terraform
11 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
11 7 (15.91%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
11 7 (15.91%) Python
11 7 (15.91%) E-Commerce
11 7 (15.91%) SQL
12 6 (13.64%) Technical Architecture

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (13.64%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Magento
1 6 (13.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 14 (31.82%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) Serverless
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Games
3 1 (2.27%) Automotive
3 1 (2.27%) Electronics
3 1 (2.27%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Legal
3 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.27%) Marketing
3 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.27%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (56.82%) .NET
2 13 (29.55%) .NET Core
3 10 (22.73%) React
4 8 (18.18%) CSS
5 6 (13.64%) HTML
6 5 (11.36%) .NET Framework
6 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET
6 5 (11.36%) Node.js
6 5 (11.36%) WPF
7 4 (9.09%) Blazor
7 4 (9.09%) Kafka
7 4 (9.09%) WinForms
8 3 (6.82%) CSS3
8 3 (6.82%) HTML5
8 3 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.82%) REST
9 2 (4.55%) RESTful
10 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
10 1 (2.27%) D3.js
10 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Clustering
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Agile
2 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
2 13 (29.55%) DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) Event-Driven
3 9 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
3 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
3 9 (20.45%) TDD
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (18.18%) Line Management
5 7 (15.91%) E-Commerce
5 7 (15.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.64%) Microservices
6 6 (13.64%) Requirements Workshops
6 6 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (11.36%) User Experience
8 4 (9.09%) Design Patterns
8 4 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) C#
2 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (15.91%) Python
3 7 (15.91%) SQL
4 4 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.55%) PHP
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) ReasonML
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.27%) IEC 62304
1 1 (2.27%) ISO 13485
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.27%) Intel