Lead Developer Jobs in the North West

Lead Developer
England > North West

The median Lead Developer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 227 211
Rank change year-on-year +86 -16 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 161 75 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.67% 0.93% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.05% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 156 68 83
10th Percentile £52,084 £53,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +22.92% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £76,520
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,250 £88,500
England median annual salary £73,250 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.44% +3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,159 7,156 9,071
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.14% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,051 4,142 5,508
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,978
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,941 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +4.65% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,450 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Manchester +41 86 £74,000 -1.33% 10
Lancashire - 34 £52,084 - 1
Cheshire 0 17 £59,500 -8.46% 4
Merseyside - 16 £70,000 - 2
Cumbria - 8 £90,000 -
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 West region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 42 (26.09%) .NET
1 42 (26.09%) Degree
2 41 (25.47%) C#
3 40 (24.84%) Social Skills
4 35 (21.74%) Azure
5 31 (19.25%) SQL
5 31 (19.25%) Analytics
6 30 (18.63%) Agile
7 28 (17.39%) Tableau
7 28 (17.39%) Dashboard Development
7 28 (17.39%) Business Forecasting
7 28 (17.39%) Innovative Thinking
8 27 (16.77%) Full Stack Development
8 27 (16.77%) JavaScript
9 23 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 23 (14.29%) TypeScript
10 20 (12.42%) AWS
10 20 (12.42%) DevOps
11 18 (11.18%) React
11 18 (11.18%) REST
12 17 (10.56%) C++
12 17 (10.56%) TDD
13 16 (9.94%) STL
13 16 (9.94%) Web Services
13 16 (9.94%) Apache
13 16 (9.94%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (9.32%) CSS
14 15 (9.32%) HTML
14 15 (9.32%) Design Patterns

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (9.94%) Apache
2 6 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.48%) CMS
4 3 (1.86%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.62%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.62%) Magento
2 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.74%) Azure
2 20 (12.42%) AWS
3 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.73%) GCP
4 4 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (2.48%) SaaS
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.86%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.86%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.86%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.62%) npm
7 1 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) Intranet
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.39%) Tableau
2 11 (6.83%) MySQL
2 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Git
1 2 (1.24%) GitLab
1 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.62%) Maven
2 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.97%) Finance
2 8 (4.97%) Marketing
2 8 (4.97%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.73%) Retail
4 5 (3.11%) Games
5 3 (1.86%) Police
6 2 (1.24%) Banking
6 2 (1.24%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.62%) Back Office
7 1 (0.62%) Electronics
7 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.09%) .NET
2 18 (11.18%) React
2 18 (11.18%) REST
3 16 (9.94%) Apache NiFi
3 16 (9.94%) STL
3 16 (9.94%) Web Services
4 15 (9.32%) CSS
4 15 (9.32%) HTML
5 12 (7.45%) .NET Framework
6 8 (4.97%) RESTful
7 7 (4.35%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.35%) Spring
8 6 (3.73%) MobX
8 6 (3.73%) Node.js
8 6 (3.73%) Redux
9 5 (3.11%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.11%) Laravel
9 5 (3.11%) OpenID
9 5 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 7 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.73%) Video\Live Streaming
3 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.24%) e-Health
5 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.24%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) FPGA
6 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.62%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.21%) Linux
1 10 (6.21%) Windows
2 7 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.25%) Analytics
2 30 (18.63%) Agile
3 28 (17.39%) Business Forecasting
3 28 (17.39%) Dashboard Development
3 28 (17.39%) Innovative Thinking
4 27 (16.77%) Full Stack Development
5 23 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 20 (12.42%) DevOps
7 17 (10.56%) TDD
8 16 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.32%) Design Patterns
10 12 (7.45%) Web Development
11 11 (6.83%) Software Engineering
12 10 (6.21%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.21%) Code Quality
12 10 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (5.59%) Scrum
14 8 (4.97%) MVC
14 8 (4.97%) Performance Optimisation
15 7 (4.35%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.47%) C#
2 31 (19.25%) SQL
3 27 (16.77%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 17 (10.56%) C++
6 10 (6.21%) Java
7 8 (4.97%) PHP
8 4 (2.48%) Swift
9 3 (1.86%) C
9 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.86%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.24%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.62%) Python
11 1 (0.62%) VB
11 1 (0.62%) XAML
Qualifications
1 42 (26.09%) Degree
2 6 (3.73%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.73%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.97%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.11%) Terraform
2 3 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) Kiali
3 1 (0.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.24%) Oracle