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 £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2024.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 315 299
Rank change year-on-year +138 -16 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 269 111 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.34% 0.71% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.79% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 250 87 138
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +9.80% +15.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £71,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% - +10.71%

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 19,059 14,033 18,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.31% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 7,943 10,955
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

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 June 2024.

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 June 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
North West +68 159 £70,000 -3.45% 16
Yorkshire +110 80 £55,173 -21.18% 10
North East -2 30 £70,000 +46.84% 7
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 June 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 North of England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 91 (33.83%) .NET
2 79 (29.37%) C#
3 65 (24.16%) SQL
4 62 (23.05%) Agile
5 61 (22.68%) Azure
6 60 (22.30%) AWS
7 58 (21.56%) Mentoring
8 54 (20.07%) JavaScript
9 50 (18.59%) Full Stack Development
10 41 (15.24%) TypeScript
11 35 (13.01%) TDD
12 33 (12.27%) React
13 31 (11.52%) DevOps
14 30 (11.15%) Software Engineering
14 30 (11.15%) MySQL
15 29 (10.78%) CSS
15 29 (10.78%) Social Skills
16 28 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (10.41%) HTML
16 28 (10.41%) Web Development
17 27 (10.04%) REST
18 26 (9.67%) Java
18 26 (9.67%) Finance
19 25 (9.29%) Microsoft
19 25 (9.29%) Degree
19 25 (9.29%) Microservices
19 25 (9.29%) .NET Core
19 25 (9.29%) Design Patterns
20 24 (8.92%) Web Services
21 23 (8.55%) SQL Server

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 17 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.95%) Apache
3 4 (1.49%) CMS
3 4 (1.49%) IIS
4 3 (1.12%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
2 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (22.68%) Azure
2 60 (22.30%) AWS
3 12 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (4.46%) SaaS
4 9 (3.35%) Serverless
5 8 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.60%) GCP
6 7 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.60%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.60%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.86%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.86%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 5 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.49%) GitHub
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.23%) Intranet
2 4 (1.49%) DNS
2 4 (1.49%) Firewall
2 4 (1.49%) SSL
2 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.15%) MySQL
2 23 (8.55%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.69%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.97%) Redis
4 8 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.86%) Couchbase
5 5 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.86%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) Big Data
8 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Maven
2 3 (1.12%) Git
2 3 (1.12%) GitLab
2 3 (1.12%) Gradle
2 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.37%) Selenium
3 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (10.78%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.67%) Finance
3 20 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.95%) Retail
5 15 (5.58%) Marketing
6 14 (5.20%) Games
7 6 (2.23%) Police
8 4 (1.49%) Banking
8 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.49%) Law
9 2 (0.74%) Back Office
9 2 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Electronics
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (33.83%) .NET
2 33 (12.27%) React
3 29 (10.78%) CSS
4 28 (10.41%) HTML
5 27 (10.04%) REST
6 25 (9.29%) .NET Core
7 24 (8.92%) Web Services
8 21 (7.81%) Node.js
9 20 (7.43%) RESTful
10 18 (6.69%) .NET Framework
11 16 (5.95%) Apache NiFi
11 16 (5.95%) Laravel
11 16 (5.95%) OAuth
11 16 (5.95%) STL
12 15 (5.58%) Vue
13 14 (5.20%) AngularJS
14 12 (4.46%) ASP.NET
14 12 (4.46%) WPF
15 11 (4.09%) OpenID
16 9 (3.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.32%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.35%) Client/Server
4 9 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.12%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.12%) NHS
7 3 (1.12%) Online Games
8 2 (0.74%) e-Health
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.37%) FPGA
9 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.95%) Linux
2 14 (5.20%) Apple iOS
3 13 (4.83%) Windows
4 4 (1.49%) Android
5 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.05%) Agile
2 58 (21.56%) Mentoring
3 50 (18.59%) Full Stack Development
4 35 (13.01%) TDD
5 31 (11.52%) DevOps
6 30 (11.15%) Software Engineering
7 28 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (10.41%) Web Development
8 25 (9.29%) Design Patterns
8 25 (9.29%) Microservices
9 23 (8.55%) SOLID
9 23 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (7.81%) CI/CD
10 21 (7.81%) Code Quality
11 20 (7.43%) MVC
12 16 (5.95%) OOP
13 14 (5.20%) Coaching
13 14 (5.20%) Mobile Application Development
14 13 (4.83%) Computer Science
14 13 (4.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (29.37%) C#
2 65 (24.16%) SQL
3 54 (20.07%) JavaScript
4 41 (15.24%) TypeScript
5 26 (9.67%) Java
6 21 (7.81%) PHP
7 17 (6.32%) C++
8 12 (4.46%) Scala
9 10 (3.72%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.35%) Python
11 8 (2.97%) Swift
12 5 (1.86%) Ada
13 4 (1.49%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.49%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.49%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.49%) XAML
14 3 (1.12%) C
14 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (9.29%) Degree
2 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
2 7 (2.60%) Azure Certification
2 7 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.12%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.58%) QA
2 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (6.32%) Docker
2 6 (2.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.97%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.97%) Terraform
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) Kiali
2 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.12%) Northgate
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle