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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 269 401
Rank change year-on-year -155 +132 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 157 755 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.99% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 130 689 311
10th Percentile £50,900 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,813 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -10.83% +4.67%

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 35,542 76,310 48,855
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 94.88% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,265 53,235 29,153
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 14 June 2025.

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 14 June 2025. 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 -118 45 £72,500 +7.41% 72
South East -11 35 £71,250 +1.79% 95
North West -91 33 £72,500 +3.57% 48
Midlands -23 28 £67,500 +12.50% 25
South West +58 26 £60,000 +5.18% 21
West Midlands -20 17 £70,000 +7.69% 20
East Midlands +36 11 £66,250 +26.19% 4
Yorkshire -6 11 £70,000 +26.87% 18
Wales +11 10 £75,000 +15.38% 3
East of England +8 7 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Scotland +88 6 £50,500 -22.90% 2
Northern Ireland +40 1 - - 5
North East +21 1 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 61 (38.85%) JavaScript
2 58 (36.94%) C#
3 56 (35.67%) Agile
4 53 (33.76%) AWS
5 50 (31.85%) Azure
5 50 (31.85%) Mentoring
6 47 (29.94%) .NET
7 43 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
8 38 (24.20%) Microservices
8 38 (24.20%) Software Engineering
9 37 (23.57%) React
9 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (21.66%) TDD
10 34 (21.66%) Java
11 33 (21.02%) DevOps
12 32 (20.38%) TypeScript
12 32 (20.38%) SQL
13 31 (19.75%) Docker
13 31 (19.75%) CI/CD
14 29 (18.47%) AngularJS
15 25 (15.92%) HTML
16 24 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (14.65%) Linux
17 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
18 21 (13.38%) CSS
18 21 (13.38%) E-Commerce
18 21 (13.38%) SQL Server
19 20 (12.74%) RESTful
19 20 (12.74%) Spring Boot

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 8 (5.10%) Confluence
2 7 (4.46%) CMS
3 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.27%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.64%) DNN
5 1 (0.64%) Kentico
5 1 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Moqups
1 1 (0.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (7.01%) Magento
1 11 (7.01%) Shopify
2 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.76%) AWS
2 50 (31.85%) Azure
3 17 (10.83%) SaaS
4 13 (8.28%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.37%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (5.10%) AWS KMS
6 8 (5.10%) BigCommerce
6 8 (5.10%) Route 53
7 7 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.82%) GitHub
9 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.91%) Serverless
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.37%) Network Security
2 8 (5.10%) Modbus
2 8 (5.10%) MQTT
2 8 (5.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.38%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.01%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.37%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (6.37%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.73%) DynamoDB
6 8 (5.10%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.46%) Power BI
8 6 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.55%) MySQL
10 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.27%) Power Query
10 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.64%) Redis
11 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Git
2 15 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.01%) JIRA
3 11 (7.01%) SonarQube
4 10 (6.37%) Maven
5 9 (5.73%) JUnit
5 9 (5.73%) Mockito
6 8 (5.10%) Bitbucket Server
6 8 (5.10%) DbUnit
6 8 (5.10%) jMock
7 3 (1.91%) Subversion
7 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.27%) Selenium
9 1 (0.64%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) Checkstyle
9 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.64%) GitLab
9 1 (0.64%) NUnit
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.19%) Retail
3 11 (7.01%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (5.73%) Games
6 8 (5.10%) Finance
7 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.82%) Law
8 6 (3.82%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.55%) Banking
9 4 (2.55%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.64%) Electronics
12 1 (0.64%) Legal
12 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.94%) .NET
2 37 (23.57%) React
3 29 (18.47%) AngularJS
4 25 (15.92%) HTML
5 21 (13.38%) CSS
6 20 (12.74%) .NET Core
6 20 (12.74%) RESTful
6 20 (12.74%) Spring Boot
7 19 (12.10%) Node.js
8 18 (11.46%) Spring
9 15 (9.55%) REST
10 13 (8.28%) Web Services
11 11 (7.01%) ASP.NET
11 11 (7.01%) Blazor
11 11 (7.01%) Kafka
12 10 (6.37%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (6.37%) SOAP
13 9 (5.73%) Bootstrap
13 9 (5.73%) JPA
14 8 (5.10%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.73%) Device Driver
2 9 (5.73%) IoT
3 8 (5.10%) EPoS
4 7 (4.46%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.18%) Clustering
7 4 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.55%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.55%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.27%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.65%) Linux
2 10 (6.37%) Windows
3 8 (5.10%) Unix
4 3 (1.91%) Android
5 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.67%) Agile
2 50 (31.85%) Mentoring
3 43 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (24.20%) Microservices
4 38 (24.20%) Software Engineering
5 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (21.66%) TDD
7 33 (21.02%) DevOps
8 31 (19.75%) CI/CD
9 21 (13.38%) E-Commerce
10 20 (12.74%) Front End Development
10 20 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (12.10%) Line Management
11 19 (12.10%) Scrum
12 17 (10.83%) SDLC
13 16 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (8.92%) Design Patterns
15 14 (8.92%) Logistics
16 13 (8.28%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (38.85%) JavaScript
2 58 (36.94%) C#
3 34 (21.66%) Java
4 32 (20.38%) SQL
4 32 (20.38%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.28%) C
5 13 (8.28%) C++
6 12 (7.64%) Python
7 8 (5.10%) Delphi
8 5 (3.18%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.55%) PHP
10 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.27%) Swift
12 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.83%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) PhD
5 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (19.75%) Docker
2 9 (5.73%) Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (10.19%) Kubernetes
1 16 (10.19%) Terraform
2 3 (1.91%) Grafana
2 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.10%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.91%) Google
3 3 (1.91%) IFS
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe
5 1 (0.64%) Apple
5 1 (0.64%) Databricks
5 1 (0.64%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.64%) Sitecore