Lead Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Developer salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 239 201
Rank change year-on-year +89 -38 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 93 37 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.31% 0.54% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 0.60% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 85 33 50
10th Percentile £47,400 £45,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,346 £50,000 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £77,850 £72,500
England median annual salary £74,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,646 6,198 6,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 90.07% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,104 3,390 4,835
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £63,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham +21 48 £60,000 - 7
Warwickshire - 25 £70,000 - 1
Staffordshire -12 4 £61,250 +10.86%
Shropshire - 3 £60,000 -
Coventry +31 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 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 West Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 24 (25.81%) C#
2 23 (24.73%) JavaScript
2 23 (24.73%) React
3 20 (21.51%) .NET
3 20 (21.51%) Agile
4 15 (16.13%) Microservices
4 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
5 14 (15.05%) QA
6 13 (13.98%) Azure
6 13 (13.98%) Social Skills
6 13 (13.98%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (12.90%) Event-Driven
7 12 (12.90%) Node.js
7 12 (12.90%) Finance
8 11 (11.83%) Workflow
8 11 (11.83%) Migration
8 11 (11.83%) Laravel
8 11 (11.83%) AngularJS
9 10 (10.75%) ServiceNow
9 10 (10.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
9 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
9 10 (10.75%) Java
9 10 (10.75%) SaaS
9 10 (10.75%) Web Development
10 9 (9.68%) Design Patterns
10 9 (9.68%) Tech Ops
10 9 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (9.68%) Line Management

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (8.60%) Appian
2 6 (6.45%) WordPress
3 5 (5.38%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.23%) IIS
5 1 (1.08%) CMS
5 1 (1.08%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Shopify
2 1 (1.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.98%) Azure
2 10 (10.75%) SaaS
3 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (8.60%) Serverless
4 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.38%) AWS
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.15%) dbt
7 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) DNS
1 3 (3.23%) Firewall
1 3 (3.23%) HTTP
1 3 (3.23%) MQTT
1 3 (3.23%) SSL
1 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.45%) MySQL
4 5 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.38%) Power BI
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.15%) Tableau
7 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) Subversion
3 2 (2.15%) gulp
3 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.08%) Maven
General
1 13 (13.98%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Finance
3 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.30%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.23%) Games
6 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (2.15%) iGaming
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.73%) React
2 20 (21.51%) .NET
3 12 (12.90%) Node.js
4 11 (11.83%) AngularJS
4 11 (11.83%) Laravel
5 8 (8.60%) .NET Core
5 8 (8.60%) CSS
5 8 (8.60%) HTML
5 8 (8.60%) Vue
6 7 (7.53%) REST
7 6 (6.45%) jQuery
7 6 (6.45%) JSON
8 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.38%) RESTful
9 4 (4.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 3 (3.23%) Apache Cordova
10 3 (3.23%) CSS3
10 3 (3.23%) HTML5
10 3 (3.23%) Silex
10 3 (3.23%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Low-Code
1 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.23%) IoT
4 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.15%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.15%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile Games
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.08%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Android
3 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.51%) Agile
2 15 (16.13%) Microservices
3 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
4 13 (13.98%) Full Stack Development
5 12 (12.90%) Event-Driven
6 11 (11.83%) Migration
6 11 (11.83%) Workflow
7 10 (10.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
7 10 (10.75%) Web Development
8 9 (9.68%) Design Patterns
8 9 (9.68%) Line Management
8 9 (9.68%) Tech Ops
8 9 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.60%) Coaching
9 8 (8.60%) Customer Service
9 8 (8.60%) DevOps
9 8 (8.60%) Innovative Thinking
9 8 (8.60%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.81%) C#
2 23 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.75%) Java
5 8 (8.60%) Python
5 8 (8.60%) SQL
6 5 (5.38%) PHP
7 4 (4.30%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.23%) R
8 3 (3.23%) Ruby
8 3 (3.23%) XAML
9 2 (2.15%) C
9 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.15%) Swift
9 2 (2.15%) VB
9 2 (2.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (5.38%) Degree
2 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
1 10 (10.75%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (1.08%) IBM