Lead Developer Jobs in the North West

Lead Developer
England > North West

The median Lead Developer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 229 243
Rank change year-on-year +83 +14 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 165 64 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.55% 0.87% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 0.97% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 157 58 66
10th Percentile £52,084 £61,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +23.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,520
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +54 101 £72,500 - 11
Merseyside - 20 £70,000 - 2
Cheshire -2 18 £59,500 -8.46%
Lancashire - 18 £52,084 -
Cumbria - 8 £90,000 -
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 North West region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 53 (32.12%) .NET
2 52 (31.52%) C#
3 41 (24.85%) SQL
4 38 (23.03%) Agile
5 37 (22.42%) Azure
6 32 (19.39%) JavaScript
7 31 (18.79%) Full Stack Development
8 27 (16.36%) AWS
8 27 (16.36%) Degree
8 27 (16.36%) Mentoring
9 26 (15.76%) TypeScript
10 25 (15.15%) Social Skills
11 24 (14.55%) DevOps
12 21 (12.73%) TDD
13 20 (12.12%) Design Patterns
14 19 (11.52%) React
15 18 (10.91%) REST
15 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (10.91%) Web Services
16 17 (10.30%) C++
17 16 (9.70%) HTML
17 16 (9.70%) Java
17 16 (9.70%) MySQL
17 16 (9.70%) CSS
17 16 (9.70%) Apache
17 16 (9.70%) STL
17 16 (9.70%) Apache NiFi
18 15 (9.09%) Analytics
19 14 (8.48%) Software Engineering
19 14 (8.48%) .NET Framework

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (9.70%) Apache
2 7 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.42%) CMS
4 3 (1.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.61%) Magento
2 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.42%) Azure
2 27 (16.36%) AWS
3 7 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.24%) GCP
3 7 (4.24%) SaaS
4 4 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.82%) PaaS
5 3 (1.82%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.82%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.82%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.61%) npm
6 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) Intranet
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) SSL
2 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.70%) MySQL
2 13 (7.88%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.27%) Tableau
4 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.21%) Git
2 2 (1.21%) GitLab
3 1 (0.61%) Maven
3 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
3 8 (4.85%) Finance
3 8 (4.85%) Marketing
4 7 (4.24%) Retail
5 6 (3.64%) Games
6 3 (1.82%) Police
7 2 (1.21%) Back Office
7 2 (1.21%) Banking
7 2 (1.21%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.61%) Electronics
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (32.12%) .NET
2 19 (11.52%) React
3 18 (10.91%) REST
3 18 (10.91%) Web Services
4 16 (9.70%) Apache NiFi
4 16 (9.70%) CSS
4 16 (9.70%) HTML
4 16 (9.70%) STL
5 14 (8.48%) .NET Framework
6 13 (7.88%) .NET Core
7 9 (5.45%) WPF
8 8 (4.85%) Node.js
8 8 (4.85%) RESTful
9 7 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.24%) Spring
10 6 (3.64%) MobX
10 6 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.64%) Redux
11 5 (3.03%) Laravel
11 5 (3.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Cloud Native
1 10 (6.06%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.24%) Video\Live Streaming
3 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.82%) Legacy Code
4 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.21%) e-Health
5 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.61%) FPGA
6 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.61%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.06%) Apple iOS
1 10 (6.06%) Linux
1 10 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (23.03%) Agile
2 31 (18.79%) Full Stack Development
3 27 (16.36%) Mentoring
4 24 (14.55%) DevOps
5 21 (12.73%) TDD
6 20 (12.12%) Design Patterns
7 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (9.09%) Analytics
9 14 (8.48%) CI/CD
9 14 (8.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (7.27%) Business Forecasting
10 12 (7.27%) Dashboard Development
10 12 (7.27%) Innovative Thinking
10 12 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (7.27%) Web Development
11 11 (6.67%) Code Quality
12 10 (6.06%) Microservices
12 10 (6.06%) Mobile Application Development
12 10 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (6.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (31.52%) C#
2 41 (24.85%) SQL
3 32 (19.39%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.76%) TypeScript
5 17 (10.30%) C++
6 16 (9.70%) Java
7 7 (4.24%) PHP
8 6 (3.64%) Swift
9 4 (2.42%) Objective-C
9 4 (2.42%) Python
10 3 (1.82%) C
10 3 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.82%) Scala
10 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.82%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) VB
12 1 (0.61%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (16.36%) Degree
2 7 (4.24%) AWS Certification
2 7 (4.24%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.82%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.45%) QA
2 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) Terraform
2 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
3 1 (0.61%) Kiali
3 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle