Lead Software Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 650 707
Rank change year-on-year +107 +57 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 19 120 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.17% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.18% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15 112 53
10th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £54,700
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £73,125 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £112,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.67% -11.76%

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 34,463 66,724 54,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.80% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,670 47,232 31,095
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software 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 Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Midlands +51 5 £65,000 -13.33% 4
East Midlands +48 5 £65,000 - 4
South East +48 4 £70,000 -8.20% 3
North of England +33 4 £72,500 +3.57% 3
Wales +39 3 £65,000 -22.39%
North West -7 3 £75,000 +7.14% 1
South West +106 1 £50,000 -31.03%
Yorkshire +71 1 £60,000 - 2
East of England +37 1 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Northern Ireland +37 1 - -
Lead Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Lead Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) C#
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Retail
3 7 (36.84%) HTML
3 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
3 7 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (31.58%) SDLC
4 6 (31.58%) Azure
4 6 (31.58%) .NET
5 5 (26.32%) Delphi
5 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
5 5 (26.32%) ERP
5 5 (26.32%) EPoS
5 5 (26.32%) SaaS
5 5 (26.32%) Logistics
5 5 (26.32%) Performance Management
5 5 (26.32%) Data Privacy
5 5 (26.32%) Line Management
5 5 (26.32%) Magento
5 5 (26.32%) Shopify
5 5 (26.32%) Front End Development
5 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (26.32%) BigCommerce
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
6 4 (21.05%) SQL

Lead Software 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Magento
1 5 (26.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) BigCommerce
2 5 (26.32%) SaaS
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
2 2 (10.53%) Modbus
2 2 (10.53%) MQTT
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Retail
3 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) HTML
2 6 (31.58%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 3 (15.79%) React
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.26%) Java EE
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) EPoS
2 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Device Driver
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
4 6 (31.58%) SDLC
5 5 (26.32%) Data Privacy
5 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
5 5 (26.32%) ERP
5 5 (26.32%) Front End Development
5 5 (26.32%) Line Management
5 5 (26.32%) Logistics
5 5 (26.32%) Performance Management
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
7 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Physics
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) C#
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) Delphi
3 4 (21.05%) C
3 4 (21.05%) C++
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (10.53%) PhD
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) IEC 62304
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Intel