Lead Developer Job Trends in Peterlee

Lead Developer
Durham > Peterlee

The median Lead Developer salary in Peterlee is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Peterlee 14.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 - -
75th Percentile £70,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median annual salary £68,500 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year +5.38% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Peterlee

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Peterlee. 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 Peterlee with a recognized job title 7 4 0
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 80.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £26,525 - -
25th Percentile £27,875 £48,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile - £56,250 -
90th Percentile £49,100 - -
Durham median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% -10.00% +27.16%

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Peterlee

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 Peterlee region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) WebAssembly
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) WebAssembly
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes