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 to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 364 361
Rank change year-on-year +72 -3 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 672 519 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.84% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.94% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 634 403 482
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £39,150
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,250 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +9.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 April 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 25 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
North of England +109 252 £62,500 -10.71% 24
North West +89 162 £70,000 -3.45% 13
South East +16 130 £72,500 - 12
Midlands +57 116 £61,250 +2.08% 8
West Midlands +77 96 £65,000 +8.33% 7
South West -26 74 £60,000 +2.13% 5
Yorkshire +89 65 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Wales +32 37 £65,000 +4.00% 4
East of England +22 33 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Scotland -53 28 £66,000 +1.54% 3
North East +11 25 £66,250 +38.97% 5
East Midlands -22 20 £52,500 -8.70% 1
Northern Ireland +6 2 £100,000 +66.67% 1
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 223 (33.18%) .NET
2 219 (32.59%) C#
3 197 (29.32%) Agile
4 169 (25.15%) JavaScript
5 157 (23.36%) Azure
6 143 (21.28%) Mentoring
7 121 (18.01%) React
8 108 (16.07%) AWS
9 104 (15.48%) Degree
9 104 (15.48%) SQL
10 102 (15.18%) TypeScript
11 100 (14.88%) Social Skills
11 100 (14.88%) Full Stack Development
12 97 (14.43%) Microsoft
13 96 (14.29%) Finance
14 92 (13.69%) HTML
15 89 (13.24%) CSS
16 87 (12.95%) DevOps
17 84 (12.50%) SQL Server
18 80 (11.90%) Web Development
19 76 (11.31%) Microservices
20 74 (11.01%) Java
21 68 (10.12%) Software Engineering
22 67 (9.97%) Docker
23 66 (9.82%) ASP.NET
24 61 (9.08%) Problem-Solving
25 59 (8.78%) REST
26 58 (8.63%) Coaching
27 57 (8.48%) Vue
28 55 (8.18%) Technical Leadership

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 32 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.98%) IIS
3 17 (2.53%) Apache
4 14 (2.08%) CMS
4 14 (2.08%) WordPress
5 8 (1.19%) Appian
6 7 (1.04%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.60%) Drupal
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.45%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.30%) Mule
10 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.34%) Shopify
2 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 157 (23.36%) Azure
2 108 (16.07%) AWS
3 39 (5.80%) SaaS
4 34 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 25 (3.72%) Serverless
7 20 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (2.83%) PowerApps
9 15 (2.23%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (1.79%) PaaS
11 11 (1.64%) GCP
12 10 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.04%) Pulumi
16 6 (0.89%) GitHub
16 6 (0.89%) Google Analytics
17 5 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.83%) DNS
1 19 (2.83%) Firewall
1 19 (2.83%) SSL
1 19 (2.83%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.34%) Intranet
3 7 (1.04%) Network Security
4 5 (0.74%) Internet
5 3 (0.45%) HTTP
5 3 (0.45%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 45 (6.70%) MySQL
4 30 (4.46%) Tableau
5 13 (1.93%) DynamoDB
6 12 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.34%) Power BI
7 9 (1.34%) Redis
8 5 (0.74%) Couchbase
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.45%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (4.46%) Visual Studio
2 27 (4.02%) Git
3 12 (1.79%) TeamCity
4 11 (1.64%) GitLab
4 11 (1.64%) NUnit
5 8 (1.19%) Selenium
6 7 (1.04%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.74%) gulp
7 5 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.74%) Maven
8 4 (0.60%) Postman
9 3 (0.45%) Gradle
9 3 (0.45%) Subversion
10 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.15%) GitKraken
11 1 (0.15%) JetBrains Rider
11 1 (0.15%) JIRA
11 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 100 (14.88%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.29%) Finance
3 54 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 25 (3.72%) Marketing
5 21 (3.13%) Banking
6 16 (2.38%) Games
7 14 (2.08%) Retail
8 13 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (1.64%) Law
10 9 (1.34%) Police
11 8 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.19%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.74%) iGaming
14 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.45%) Aviation
15 3 (0.45%) Front Office
15 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (33.18%) .NET
2 121 (18.01%) React
3 92 (13.69%) HTML
4 89 (13.24%) CSS
5 66 (9.82%) ASP.NET
6 59 (8.78%) REST
7 57 (8.48%) Vue
8 52 (7.74%) .NET Core
9 51 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 50 (7.44%) Laravel
10 50 (7.44%) RESTful
11 39 (5.80%) Node.js
11 39 (5.80%) Web Services
12 35 (5.21%) .NET Framework
13 33 (4.91%) jQuery
13 33 (4.91%) Tailwind CSS
14 28 (4.17%) OpenID
15 26 (3.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 26 (3.87%) OAuth
15 26 (3.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 26 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.72%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.38%) Digital Media
5 16 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.93%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.64%) Client/Server
9 10 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.34%) IoT
11 8 (1.19%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
14 5 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
15 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.60%) Kindle
16 3 (0.45%) Algorithms
16 3 (0.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.10%) Windows
2 30 (4.46%) Linux
3 18 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.93%) Android
5 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (29.32%) Agile
2 143 (21.28%) Mentoring
3 100 (14.88%) Full Stack Development
4 87 (12.95%) DevOps
5 80 (11.90%) Web Development
6 76 (11.31%) Microservices
7 68 (10.12%) Software Engineering
8 61 (9.08%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (8.63%) Coaching
10 55 (8.18%) TDD
10 55 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (7.59%) MVC
12 50 (7.44%) Code Quality
13 46 (6.85%) CI/CD
13 46 (6.85%) Scrum
14 44 (6.55%) Design Patterns
15 43 (6.40%) Front End Development
16 42 (6.25%) Computer Science
16 42 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (5.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 219 (32.59%) C#
2 169 (25.15%) JavaScript
3 104 (15.48%) SQL
4 102 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 74 (11.01%) Java
6 43 (6.40%) PHP
7 34 (5.06%) C++
8 27 (4.02%) Python
9 21 (3.13%) C
10 19 (2.83%) XAML
11 15 (2.23%) Swift
12 14 (2.08%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.64%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.34%) VB.NET
15 8 (1.19%) Bicep
16 6 (0.89%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.74%) Ada
18 3 (0.45%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.45%) Objective-C
18 3 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (15.48%) Degree
2 40 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 10 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 6 (0.89%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.30%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.55%) QA
2 4 (0.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.60%) WCAG
3 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (9.97%) Docker
2 6 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.38%) Terraform
3 7 (1.04%) MIIS
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Kiali
4 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 97 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.38%) ServiceNow
3 11 (1.64%) Oracle
4 8 (1.19%) Google
5 3 (0.45%) Hotjar
5 3 (0.45%) Northgate
6 2 (0.30%) Computacenter
6 2 (0.30%) SAP
7 1 (0.15%) IBM
7 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.15%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.15%) Zend