Lead Developer Jobs in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 349 314
Rank change year-on-year +107 -35 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 1,077 767 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.15% 0.93% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.01% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 975 641 1,064
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £119,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 88,935 75,643 138,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 91.23% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 65,011 49,623 75,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
London +74 405 £90,000 -2.70% 56
North of England +130 268 £65,000 -7.14% 26
North West +76 160 £70,000 -3.45% 12
South East +15 143 £71,250 -5.00% 11
Midlands +33 130 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +67 101 £65,000 +8.33% 11
South West +10 84 £57,500 -14.81% 12
Yorkshire +110 79 £55,173 -21.18% 9
East of England -2 43 £60,000 +4.35% 5
North East -1 29 £70,000 +46.84% 5
East Midlands -32 29 £52,500 -16.00% 6
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 311 (28.88%) Agile
2 293 (27.21%) C#
3 288 (26.74%) .NET
4 282 (26.18%) AWS
5 280 (26.00%) JavaScript
6 211 (19.59%) Azure
7 207 (19.22%) Finance
8 206 (19.13%) Mentoring
9 198 (18.38%) Java
10 190 (17.64%) TypeScript
11 188 (17.46%) Full Stack Development
12 174 (16.16%) Software Engineering
13 163 (15.13%) SQL
14 158 (14.67%) React
15 132 (12.26%) Python
16 129 (11.98%) DevOps
17 114 (10.58%) Microsoft
18 110 (10.21%) CSS
19 108 (10.03%) HTML
20 99 (9.19%) Degree
21 97 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
22 93 (8.64%) Banking
23 92 (8.54%) Microservices
24 89 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 88 (8.17%) Line Management
26 87 (8.08%) Web Development
27 86 (7.99%) SQL Server
27 86 (7.99%) Docker
28 84 (7.80%) TDD
28 84 (7.80%) Social Skills

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 83 (7.71%) Apache
2 66 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 29 (2.69%) CMS
5 25 (2.32%) Drupal
6 20 (1.86%) IIS
7 12 (1.11%) WordPress
8 11 (1.02%) Appian
9 5 (0.46%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.46%) Confluence
9 5 (0.46%) Mendix
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.21%) Shopify
2 4 (0.37%) Magento
2 4 (0.37%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 282 (26.18%) AWS
2 211 (19.59%) Azure
3 83 (7.71%) GCP
4 67 (6.22%) dbt
5 64 (5.94%) Snowflake
6 54 (5.01%) SaaS
7 47 (4.36%) Power Platform
8 37 (3.44%) Serverless
9 33 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (2.69%) Power Automate
10 29 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (1.95%) GitHub
13 18 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.30%) PaaS
16 9 (0.84%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.76%) DNS
1 19 (1.76%) Firewall
1 19 (1.76%) SSL
1 19 (1.76%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.84%) Intranet
3 7 (0.65%) Network Security
4 6 (0.56%) HTTP
4 6 (0.56%) Internet
5 3 (0.28%) MQTT
6 1 (0.093%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.99%) SQL Server
2 66 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (6.13%) Apache Arrow
2 66 (6.13%) Apache Ignite
2 66 (6.13%) Dremio
3 64 (5.94%) NoSQL
4 63 (5.85%) Data Lake
5 62 (5.76%) MySQL
6 33 (3.06%) Power BI
7 21 (1.95%) Redis
8 16 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.39%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.93%) Big Data
12 9 (0.84%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.56%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.46%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 54 (5.01%) Git
2 28 (2.60%) Visual Studio
3 13 (1.21%) NUnit
4 12 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.02%) GitLab
5 11 (1.02%) TeamCity
6 10 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (0.84%) Selenium
8 7 (0.65%) Jasmine
8 7 (0.65%) Maven
8 7 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.46%) Checkstyle
9 5 (0.46%) gulp
9 5 (0.46%) JIRA
9 5 (0.46%) JUnit
9 5 (0.46%) Postman
9 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.28%) Moq
10 3 (0.28%) MSTest
10 3 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 207 (19.22%) Finance
2 93 (8.64%) Banking
3 84 (7.80%) Social Skills
4 83 (7.71%) Front Office
5 69 (6.41%) Investment Banking
6 54 (5.01%) Public Sector
7 38 (3.53%) Games
8 31 (2.88%) Marketing
9 24 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (1.86%) Law
10 20 (1.86%) Retail
10 20 (1.86%) Tech for Good
11 12 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.84%) Advertising
12 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.84%) Police
13 8 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.46%) iGaming
15 5 (0.46%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (26.74%) .NET
2 158 (14.67%) React
3 110 (10.21%) CSS
4 108 (10.03%) HTML
5 71 (6.59%) AngularJS
6 70 (6.50%) .NET Core
7 68 (6.31%) NumPy
7 68 (6.31%) Pandas
7 68 (6.31%) REST
8 66 (6.13%) gRPC
8 66 (6.13%) Protocol Buffers
8 66 (6.13%) SciPy
9 65 (6.04%) Vue
10 61 (5.66%) ASP.NET
11 57 (5.29%) RESTful
12 55 (5.11%) Laravel
13 49 (4.55%) Web Services
14 42 (3.90%) .NET Framework
15 40 (3.71%) jQuery
15 40 (3.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 78 (7.24%) Hedge funds
3 75 (6.96%) Derivative
4 72 (6.69%) Fixed Income
5 71 (6.59%) Equities
6 35 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.51%) Client/Server
8 27 (2.51%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 18 (1.67%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.49%) Digital Media
12 14 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
14 11 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.02%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.18%) Linux
2 40 (3.71%) Windows
3 19 (1.76%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.11%) Android
5 8 (0.74%) Unix
6 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (28.88%) Agile
2 206 (19.13%) Mentoring
3 188 (17.46%) Full Stack Development
4 174 (16.16%) Software Engineering
5 129 (11.98%) DevOps
6 97 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (8.54%) Microservices
8 88 (8.17%) Line Management
9 87 (8.08%) Web Development
10 84 (7.80%) TDD
11 74 (6.87%) Asset Management
12 71 (6.59%) Front End Development
13 70 (6.50%) Computer Science
14 69 (6.41%) Code Quality
15 64 (5.94%) CI/CD
15 64 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (5.76%) Design Patterns
17 57 (5.29%) MVC
17 57 (5.29%) SOLID
18 56 (5.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 293 (27.21%) C#
2 280 (26.00%) JavaScript
3 198 (18.38%) Java
4 190 (17.64%) TypeScript
5 163 (15.13%) SQL
6 132 (12.26%) Python
7 62 (5.76%) PHP
8 45 (4.18%) C++
9 27 (2.51%) Scala
10 22 (2.04%) C
11 19 (1.76%) Kotlin
11 19 (1.76%) XAML
12 18 (1.67%) Ruby
13 16 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 15 (1.39%) PowerShell
15 12 (1.11%) Swift
16 10 (0.93%) Rust
17 9 (0.84%) VB.NET
18 7 (0.65%) Ada
18 7 (0.65%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 99 (9.19%) Degree
2 44 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (2.88%) Security Cleared
4 18 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 8 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.28%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.093%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.093%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.093%) PhD
12 1 (0.093%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.83%) QA
2 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.37%) WCAG
4 1 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 86 (7.99%) Docker
2 8 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.95%) Terraform
3 7 (0.65%) MIIS
4 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.093%) Kiali
5 1 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 114 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.51%) ServiceNow
3 13 (1.21%) Aderant
3 13 (1.21%) iManage
3 13 (1.21%) Salesforce
4 8 (0.74%) Databricks
5 7 (0.65%) Google
6 6 (0.56%) Bloomberg
6 6 (0.56%) Reuters
7 5 (0.46%) Oracle
7 5 (0.46%) Progress
8 4 (0.37%) SAP
9 3 (0.28%) Hotjar
9 3 (0.28%) Mercator
9 3 (0.28%) Northgate
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe
10 2 (0.19%) Computacenter
10 2 (0.19%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.19%) Zend
11 1 (0.093%) Cloudera