Lead Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 390 433
Rank change year-on-year +139 +43 -192
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 652 322 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.67% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.75% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 590 285 447
10th Percentile £47,000 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +5.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 of England +115 213 £67,500 -6.90% 16
Midlands +37 136 £60,000 -6.25% 8
North West +79 135 £70,000 -3.45% 10
South East +34 122 £70,000 -3.45% 14
West Midlands +63 106 £60,000 -0.83% 5
South West +43 80 £52,500 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +85 62 £55,000 -24.14% 3
Wales +59 38 £67,500 +17.39% 2
East of England +7 34 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East Midlands -35 30 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Scotland -27 23 £65,000 - 1
North East -4 16 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Northern Ireland +25 6 £70,000 -17.65% 2
Lead Developer
UK

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 187 (28.68%) C#
2 175 (26.84%) .NET
3 157 (24.08%) Agile
4 138 (21.17%) JavaScript
5 121 (18.56%) Azure
6 115 (17.64%) AWS
7 107 (16.41%) Mentoring
8 96 (14.72%) React
9 90 (13.80%) SQL
10 81 (12.42%) Full Stack Development
11 80 (12.27%) CSS
11 80 (12.27%) Software Engineering
11 80 (12.27%) TypeScript
12 78 (11.96%) HTML
13 76 (11.66%) DevOps
13 76 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
14 69 (10.58%) Social Skills
15 60 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (9.20%) Web Development
16 59 (9.05%) SQL Server
16 59 (9.05%) Microsoft
17 58 (8.90%) Coaching
18 56 (8.59%) Java
19 55 (8.44%) ASP.NET
20 53 (8.13%) Microservices
20 53 (8.13%) Docker
21 52 (7.98%) Finance
22 51 (7.82%) Public Sector
23 48 (7.36%) Vue
24 47 (7.21%) .NET Core

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.07%) IIS
3 18 (2.76%) CMS
4 13 (1.99%) Apache
5 11 (1.69%) WordPress
6 8 (1.23%) Appian
6 8 (1.23%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.61%) Drupal
7 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Shopify
2 6 (0.92%) Magento
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 121 (18.56%) Azure
2 115 (17.64%) AWS
3 38 (5.83%) SaaS
4 31 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 19 (2.91%) Serverless
7 17 (2.61%) PowerApps
8 16 (2.45%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.99%) PaaS
11 12 (1.84%) dbt
12 11 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.23%) GCP
16 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 7 (1.07%) Google Analytics
16 7 (1.07%) Pulumi
17 5 (0.77%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.07%) SSL
2 19 (2.91%) DNS
2 19 (2.91%) Firewall
2 19 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.38%) Intranet
4 7 (1.07%) Network Security
5 4 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.46%) Internet
6 3 (0.46%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.75%) MySQL
3 29 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.84%) Power BI
5 11 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.53%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.77%) Redis
9 4 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.46%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.46%) Power Query
11 2 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.15%) Big Data
12 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.15%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 24 (3.68%) Visual Studio
2 23 (3.53%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) GitLab
3 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.23%) Selenium
5 7 (1.07%) Jasmine
5 7 (1.07%) NUnit
5 7 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (1.07%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.92%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.61%) Subversion
8 3 (0.46%) gulp
8 3 (0.46%) JIRA
9 2 (0.31%) GitKraken
9 2 (0.31%) JetBrains Rider
9 2 (0.31%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.15%) Maven
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (10.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.98%) Finance
3 51 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 18 (2.76%) Games
5 17 (2.61%) Retail
6 16 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.30%) Marketing
8 13 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.53%) Police
10 7 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.61%) Banking
12 4 (0.61%) Law
12 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.46%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.46%) iGaming
14 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.31%) Automotive
14 2 (0.31%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (26.84%) .NET
2 96 (14.72%) React
3 80 (12.27%) CSS
4 78 (11.96%) HTML
5 55 (8.44%) ASP.NET
6 48 (7.36%) Vue
7 47 (7.21%) .NET Core
7 47 (7.21%) Node.js
8 45 (6.90%) AngularJS
9 36 (5.52%) Laravel
9 36 (5.52%) REST
10 35 (5.37%) Tailwind CSS
11 29 (4.45%) .NET Framework
12 27 (4.14%) ASP.NET MVC
12 27 (4.14%) jQuery
12 27 (4.14%) RESTful
12 27 (4.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 27 (4.14%) WPF
13 20 (3.07%) JSON
14 17 (2.61%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.67%) Mobile App
2 33 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.15%) Digital Media
4 14 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (1.99%) Augmented Reality
5 13 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.84%) Virtual Reality
7 11 (1.69%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.38%) IoT
9 8 (1.23%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.92%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.61%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.61%) Kindle
12 4 (0.61%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.61%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.98%) Windows
2 18 (2.76%) Apple iOS
3 17 (2.61%) Linux
4 9 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (24.08%) Agile
2 107 (16.41%) Mentoring
3 81 (12.42%) Full Stack Development
4 80 (12.27%) Software Engineering
5 76 (11.66%) DevOps
5 76 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
6 60 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (9.20%) Web Development
7 58 (8.90%) Coaching
8 53 (8.13%) Microservices
9 42 (6.44%) TDD
10 40 (6.13%) CI/CD
11 38 (5.83%) Code Quality
12 35 (5.37%) Scrum
13 34 (5.21%) MVC
14 33 (5.06%) Design Patterns
15 32 (4.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (4.91%) E-Commerce
16 29 (4.45%) Line Management
16 29 (4.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 187 (28.68%) C#
2 138 (21.17%) JavaScript
3 90 (13.80%) SQL
4 80 (12.27%) TypeScript
5 56 (8.59%) Java
6 40 (6.13%) Python
7 32 (4.91%) C++
8 24 (3.68%) PHP
9 19 (2.91%) C
9 19 (2.91%) XAML
10 13 (1.99%) Scala
11 12 (1.84%) Swift
12 9 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.07%) Bicep
14 6 (0.92%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.77%) Ada
15 5 (0.77%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (6.75%) Degree
2 35 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.46%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.31%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PhD
9 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (0.31%) WCAG
3 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 53 (8.13%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.84%) Terraform
3 7 (1.07%) MIIS
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Kiali
4 1 (0.15%) Kibana
4 1 (0.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 59 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.15%) ServiceNow
3 9 (1.38%) Google
4 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.46%) Hotjar
5 3 (0.46%) MuleSoft
5 3 (0.46%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.46%) Zend
6 2 (0.31%) Northgate
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle
7 1 (0.15%) IBM
7 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.15%) Xamarin