Lead Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 271 388 377
Rank change year-on-year +117 -11 -157
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 731 422 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.84% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 674 337 478
10th Percentile £48,039 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,102
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £79,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.23% +6.33% +7.14%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Developer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +148 271 £65,000 -7.14% 20
North West +83 165 £70,000 -1.75% 13
South East +2 138 £72,500 -3.33% 18
Midlands +51 125 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +58 100 £65,000 +8.33% 11
South West +7 82 £60,000 -11.11% 8
Yorkshire +99 78 £55,173 -21.18% 5
Wales +44 42 £65,000 +30.00%
East of England +3 40 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Scotland -50 31 £65,500 +0.77%
North East +4 28 £70,000 +46.84% 2
East Midlands -23 25 £52,500 -12.50% 6
Northern Ireland +17 2 £100,000 +66.67%
Lead Developer
UK

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 235 (32.15%) .NET
2 229 (31.33%) C#
3 202 (27.63%) Agile
4 169 (23.12%) JavaScript
5 154 (21.07%) Azure
6 149 (20.38%) Mentoring
7 121 (16.55%) AWS
8 118 (16.14%) React
9 115 (15.73%) SQL
10 106 (14.50%) Full Stack Development
11 105 (14.36%) TypeScript
12 96 (13.13%) Microsoft
13 95 (13.00%) Finance
14 91 (12.45%) CSS
15 90 (12.31%) HTML
16 89 (12.18%) DevOps
17 87 (11.90%) Degree
18 82 (11.22%) Java
18 82 (11.22%) Social Skills
19 81 (11.08%) Web Development
20 79 (10.81%) SQL Server
21 70 (9.58%) Software Engineering
22 68 (9.30%) Microservices
23 65 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
24 64 (8.76%) ASP.NET
25 63 (8.62%) Docker
26 61 (8.34%) REST
27 58 (7.93%) Coaching
27 58 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
27 58 (7.93%) .NET Core

Lead 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 35 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.74%) IIS
3 17 (2.33%) Apache
4 12 (1.64%) WordPress
5 11 (1.50%) CMS
6 8 (1.09%) Appian
6 8 (1.09%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.68%) Drupal
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.14%) Confluence
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.23%) Shopify
2 3 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 154 (21.07%) Azure
2 121 (16.55%) AWS
3 43 (5.88%) SaaS
4 36 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.10%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.15%) Serverless
7 20 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (2.33%) PowerApps
9 15 (2.05%) GCP
10 14 (1.92%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.78%) PaaS
12 12 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.23%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.96%) Pulumi
17 6 (0.82%) GitHub
17 6 (0.82%) Google Analytics
18 5 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.60%) DNS
1 19 (2.60%) Firewall
1 19 (2.60%) SSL
1 19 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.23%) Intranet
3 7 (0.96%) Network Security
4 6 (0.82%) Internet
5 3 (0.41%) HTTP
5 3 (0.41%) MQTT
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 48 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 47 (6.43%) MySQL
4 14 (1.92%) Tableau
5 13 (1.78%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.50%) Power BI
6 11 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.23%) Redis
9 5 (0.68%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.14%) Big Data
13 1 (0.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 29 (3.97%) Visual Studio
2 26 (3.56%) Git
3 12 (1.64%) TeamCity
4 11 (1.50%) GitLab
5 10 (1.37%) NUnit
5 10 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.09%) Selenium
7 7 (0.96%) Jasmine
7 7 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.68%) gulp
9 5 (0.68%) Maven
10 4 (0.55%) Postman
11 3 (0.41%) Gradle
11 3 (0.41%) Subversion
12 1 (0.14%) GitKraken
12 1 (0.14%) JetBrains Rider
12 1 (0.14%) JIRA
12 1 (0.14%) ReSharper
12 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 95 (13.00%) Finance
2 82 (11.22%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 25 (3.42%) Marketing
5 21 (2.87%) Banking
6 18 (2.46%) Games
7 16 (2.19%) Retail
8 13 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.23%) Law
9 9 (1.23%) Police
10 8 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.68%) iGaming
14 4 (0.55%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.41%) Aviation
15 3 (0.41%) Front Office
15 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.27%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (32.15%) .NET
2 118 (16.14%) React
3 91 (12.45%) CSS
4 90 (12.31%) HTML
5 64 (8.76%) ASP.NET
6 61 (8.34%) REST
7 58 (7.93%) .NET Core
8 54 (7.39%) Vue
9 48 (6.57%) Laravel
10 47 (6.43%) AngularJS
11 45 (6.16%) RESTful
12 40 (5.47%) Node.js
12 40 (5.47%) Web Services
13 37 (5.06%) .NET Framework
14 35 (4.79%) Tailwind CSS
15 33 (4.51%) jQuery
16 30 (4.10%) WPF
17 28 (3.83%) OpenID
18 27 (3.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 26 (3.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 29 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.19%) Digital Media
5 16 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.64%) IoT
7 11 (1.50%) Client/Server
7 11 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.37%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
10 8 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
12 4 (0.55%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.55%) Kindle
12 4 (0.55%) Online Games
12 4 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.61%) Windows
2 28 (3.83%) Linux
3 20 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.78%) Android
5 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (27.63%) Agile
2 149 (20.38%) Mentoring
3 106 (14.50%) Full Stack Development
4 89 (12.18%) DevOps
5 81 (11.08%) Web Development
6 70 (9.58%) Software Engineering
7 68 (9.30%) Microservices
8 65 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (7.93%) Coaching
9 58 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
10 56 (7.66%) TDD
11 53 (7.25%) Code Quality
12 51 (6.98%) CI/CD
13 50 (6.84%) MVC
14 49 (6.70%) Design Patterns
15 45 (6.16%) Scrum
16 43 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (5.88%) Front End Development
17 41 (5.61%) Computer Science
18 39 (5.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 229 (31.33%) C#
2 169 (23.12%) JavaScript
3 115 (15.73%) SQL
4 105 (14.36%) TypeScript
5 82 (11.22%) Java
6 41 (5.61%) PHP
7 34 (4.65%) C++
8 32 (4.38%) Python
9 22 (3.01%) C
10 19 (2.60%) XAML
11 16 (2.19%) Swift
12 14 (1.92%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.37%) Scala
15 9 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 9 (1.23%) VB.NET
16 8 (1.09%) Bicep
17 6 (0.82%) Ada
18 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.55%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 87 (11.90%) Degree
2 39 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.50%) AWS Certification
4 11 (1.50%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.96%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.41%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.27%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.29%) QA
2 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.55%) WCAG
3 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (8.62%) Docker
2 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.19%) Terraform
3 7 (0.96%) MIIS
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Kiali
4 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 96 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.19%) ServiceNow
3 11 (1.50%) Oracle
4 9 (1.23%) Google
5 6 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.41%) Hotjar
6 3 (0.41%) Northgate
7 2 (0.27%) Computacenter
7 2 (0.27%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.27%) SAP
7 2 (0.27%) Zend
8 1 (0.14%) IBM
8 1 (0.14%) Xamarin