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 £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 666 764
Rank change year-on-year +17 +98 -174
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 125 61 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 112 58 74
10th Percentile £53,750 £59,625 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,750 £55,168
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +24.62% +2.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £80,875
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.09% +22.22%

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 75,349 49,280 72,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 88.83% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 52,720 29,285 42,723
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 10 June 2024.

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 10 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
South East +10 53 £70,000 -6.67% 1
North of England +50 42 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North West +9 30 £70,000 +7.69% 2
East of England -3 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -31 10 £75,000 +15.38% 2
West Midlands -4 9 £75,000 +57.07% 1
Yorkshire +74 6 £60,000 -20.00%
North East -10 6 £65,000 -
South West -27 4 £72,500 +9.43% 1
Wales +11 2 £83,750 +21.82%
Scotland -59 2 £83,750 +39.58%
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 -
East Midlands -45 1 - - 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 10 June 2024, 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 80 (64.00%) C#
2 70 (56.00%) .NET
3 57 (45.60%) Agile
4 40 (32.00%) JavaScript
5 34 (27.20%) Software Engineering
6 30 (24.00%) SQL
6 30 (24.00%) Finance
7 27 (21.60%) Azure
7 27 (21.60%) Docker
8 26 (20.80%) Kubernetes
8 26 (20.80%) NoSQL
9 24 (19.20%) Java
10 23 (18.40%) React
11 22 (17.60%) Visual Studio
12 21 (16.80%) DevOps
12 21 (16.80%) Propensity Modelling
13 20 (16.00%) Degree
13 20 (16.00%) Computer Science
14 19 (15.20%) C
14 19 (15.20%) Mentoring
15 18 (14.40%) Multithreading
16 17 (13.60%) AWS
16 17 (13.60%) Artificial Intelligence
16 17 (13.60%) TypeScript
16 17 (13.60%) Computer Science Degree
17 16 (12.80%) Microservices
17 16 (12.80%) SQL Server
18 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
18 15 (12.00%) Unit Testing
18 15 (12.00%) Test Automation

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.40%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.60%) Azure
2 17 (13.60%) AWS
3 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (6.40%) SaaS
4 7 (5.60%) Pulumi
5 5 (4.00%) PaaS
6 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.40%) Serverless
7 1 (0.80%) GCP
7 1 (0.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.80%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) Network Security
2 6 (4.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.80%) NoSQL
2 16 (12.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.80%) MySQL
4 4 (3.20%) Redis
5 3 (2.40%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (17.60%) Visual Studio
2 11 (8.80%) Git
3 7 (5.60%) Jasmine
3 7 (5.60%) NUnit
3 7 (5.60%) Selenium
3 7 (5.60%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (5.60%) TeamCity
3 7 (5.60%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.20%) Maven
5 3 (2.40%) Gradle
6 1 (0.80%) GitKraken
6 1 (0.80%) GitLab
6 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.80%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.80%) ReSharper
6 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (24.00%) Finance
2 12 (9.60%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.00%) Banking
4 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.00%) Games
6 4 (3.20%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Electronics
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (56.00%) .NET
2 23 (18.40%) React
3 15 (12.00%) .NET Core
4 11 (8.80%) ASP.NET
4 11 (8.80%) CSS
4 11 (8.80%) JSON
5 9 (7.20%) .NET Framework
5 9 (7.20%) HTML
5 9 (7.20%) RESTful
6 8 (6.40%) Entity Framework
7 7 (5.60%) ARM Templates
7 7 (5.60%) HTML5
7 7 (5.60%) OpenID
8 5 (4.00%) LINQ
8 5 (4.00%) Node.js
8 5 (4.00%) WPF
9 4 (3.20%) REST
9 4 (3.20%) Vue
10 3 (2.40%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.40%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Digital Media
2 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.80%) IoT
2 6 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.00%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.20%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (3.20%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.60%) e-Health
6 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.60%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.80%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.60%) Windows
2 6 (4.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.60%) Agile
2 34 (27.20%) Software Engineering
3 21 (16.80%) DevOps
3 21 (16.80%) Propensity Modelling
4 20 (16.00%) Computer Science
5 19 (15.20%) Mentoring
6 18 (14.40%) Multithreading
7 17 (13.60%) Artificial Intelligence
8 16 (12.80%) Microservices
9 15 (12.00%) Test Automation
9 15 (12.00%) Unit Testing
10 12 (9.60%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 11 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.00%) Fintech
12 10 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
12 10 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (7.20%) Design Patterns
13 9 (7.20%) Project Management
13 9 (7.20%) Web Development
14 8 (6.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.00%) C#
2 40 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 30 (24.00%) SQL
4 24 (19.20%) Java
5 19 (15.20%) C
6 17 (13.60%) TypeScript
7 14 (11.20%) C++
8 7 (5.60%) Bicep
8 7 (5.60%) Python
9 4 (3.20%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.60%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (16.00%) Degree
2 17 (13.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (21.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (20.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.40%) Terraform
3 7 (5.60%) MIIS
4 1 (0.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.80%) Kiali
4 1 (0.80%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle
3 1 (0.80%) Google