Lead Developer Jobs in Yorkshire

Lead Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Developer salary in Yorkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 158 245
Rank change year-on-year +17 +87 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 6 65 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.22% 1.13% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 1.18% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5 65 48
10th Percentile £61,000 £39,800 £51,833
25th Percentile - £50,000 £59,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £82,500 £97,328
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,516 5,488 7,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 95.28% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,354 4,235 3,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £49,136 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -10.47% +9.76%
75th Percentile £69,938 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £80,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Yorkshire

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Yorkshire

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Yorkshire

Lead Developer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Yorkshire +37 3 £70,000 +3.70% 2
West Yorkshire +22 3 £85,000 +54.55% 5
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) Flask
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) Flask
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus