Lead Developer Jobs in Sunderland

Lead Developer
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median Lead Developer salary in Sunderland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 2 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 4.26% 5.70% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% 5.92% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £47,672
% change year-on-year +14.29% +46.84% -17.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sunderland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sunderland. 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 Sunderland with a recognized job title 46 152 44
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.87% 96.20% 62.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 126 31
10th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £77,500 £70,600
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Sunderland

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Sunderland

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Sunderland

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sunderland

For the 6 months to 7 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 Sunderland region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Games
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) iGaming
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sunderland 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL