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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 364 383
Rank change year-on-year +86 +19 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 688 477 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.81% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.90% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 644 375 488
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,125 £76,520
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,750 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.56% +6.67% +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 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +119 262 £62,500 -10.71% 25
North West +74 163 £70,000 -3.45% 11
South East 0 127 £75,000 - 33
Midlands +43 117 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +79 97 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South West -4 76 £60,000 -11.11% 8
Yorkshire +92 72 £57,500 -17.86% 10
Wales +42 38 £65,000 - 2
East of England +7 37 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Scotland -55 29 £65,500 +0.77% 2
North East +12 27 £70,000 +46.84% 4
East Midlands -29 20 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Northern Ireland +23 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 20 May 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.

1 226 (32.85%) .NET
2 221 (32.12%) C#
3 194 (28.20%) Agile
4 164 (23.84%) JavaScript
5 154 (22.38%) Azure
6 145 (21.08%) Mentoring
7 117 (17.01%) React
8 107 (15.55%) SQL
9 105 (15.26%) AWS
10 101 (14.68%) TypeScript
10 101 (14.68%) Full Stack Development
11 97 (14.10%) Degree
12 94 (13.66%) Microsoft
13 93 (13.52%) Finance
14 90 (13.08%) HTML
14 90 (13.08%) Social Skills
15 89 (12.94%) CSS
16 86 (12.50%) DevOps
17 81 (11.77%) Web Development
18 79 (11.48%) SQL Server
19 77 (11.19%) Java
20 69 (10.03%) Microservices
21 68 (9.88%) Software Engineering
22 64 (9.30%) ASP.NET
23 63 (9.16%) Docker
24 59 (8.58%) REST
25 58 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
26 57 (8.28%) Coaching
26 57 (8.28%) Public Sector
27 55 (7.99%) .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 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.91%) IIS
3 17 (2.47%) Apache
4 12 (1.74%) CMS
4 12 (1.74%) WordPress
5 8 (1.16%) Appian
5 8 (1.16%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.73%) Drupal
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Confluence
8 1 (0.15%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.31%) Shopify
2 3 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 154 (22.38%) Azure
2 105 (15.26%) AWS
3 39 (5.67%) SaaS
4 35 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.22%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.34%) Serverless
7 20 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (2.47%) PowerApps
9 14 (2.03%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (1.74%) GCP
10 12 (1.74%) PaaS
11 10 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.02%) Pulumi
15 6 (0.87%) GitHub
15 6 (0.87%) Google Analytics
16 5 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.76%) DNS
1 19 (2.76%) Firewall
1 19 (2.76%) SSL
1 19 (2.76%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.31%) Intranet
3 7 (1.02%) Network Security
4 6 (0.87%) Internet
5 3 (0.44%) HTTP
5 3 (0.44%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 49 (7.12%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.40%) MySQL
4 24 (3.49%) Tableau
5 13 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.45%) Power BI
7 10 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.31%) Redis
9 5 (0.73%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 29 (4.22%) Visual Studio
2 26 (3.78%) Git
3 12 (1.74%) TeamCity
4 11 (1.60%) GitLab
5 10 (1.45%) NUnit
6 9 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.16%) Selenium
8 7 (1.02%) Jasmine
8 7 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.73%) gulp
9 5 (0.73%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.73%) Maven
10 4 (0.58%) Postman
11 3 (0.44%) Gradle
11 3 (0.44%) Subversion
12 1 (0.15%) GitKraken
12 1 (0.15%) JetBrains Rider
12 1 (0.15%) JIRA
12 1 (0.15%) ReSharper
12 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (13.52%) Finance
2 90 (13.08%) Social Skills
3 57 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 25 (3.63%) Marketing
5 21 (3.05%) Banking
6 16 (2.33%) Games
7 13 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (1.74%) Retail
9 11 (1.60%) Law
10 9 (1.31%) Police
11 8 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.16%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.73%) iGaming
14 4 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.44%) Aviation
15 3 (0.44%) Front Office
16 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.29%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (32.85%) .NET
2 117 (17.01%) React
3 90 (13.08%) HTML
4 89 (12.94%) CSS
5 64 (9.30%) ASP.NET
6 59 (8.58%) REST
7 55 (7.99%) .NET Core
7 55 (7.99%) Vue
8 49 (7.12%) Laravel
9 47 (6.83%) AngularJS
10 45 (6.54%) RESTful
11 38 (5.52%) Web Services
12 36 (5.23%) Node.js
13 35 (5.09%) .NET Framework
14 33 (4.80%) jQuery
14 33 (4.80%) Tailwind CSS
15 28 (4.07%) OpenID
15 28 (4.07%) WPF
16 26 (3.78%) OAuth
16 26 (3.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 26 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.33%) Digital Media
5 16 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.60%) Client/Server
7 11 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.45%) IoT
8 10 (1.45%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.31%) Augmented Reality
10 7 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (0.73%) Virtual Reality
12 4 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.58%) Kindle
12 4 (0.58%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.44%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.96%) Windows
2 28 (4.07%) Linux
3 18 (2.62%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.89%) Android
5 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (28.20%) Agile
2 145 (21.08%) Mentoring
3 101 (14.68%) Full Stack Development
4 86 (12.50%) DevOps
5 81 (11.77%) Web Development
6 69 (10.03%) Microservices
7 68 (9.88%) Software Engineering
8 58 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (8.28%) Coaching
10 55 (7.99%) Technical Leadership
11 52 (7.56%) TDD
12 51 (7.41%) Code Quality
13 50 (7.27%) MVC
14 46 (6.69%) CI/CD
14 46 (6.69%) Design Patterns
15 45 (6.54%) Scrum
16 42 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (5.96%) Computer Science
18 39 (5.67%) Front End Development
19 38 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 221 (32.12%) C#
2 164 (23.84%) JavaScript
3 107 (15.55%) SQL
4 101 (14.68%) TypeScript
5 77 (11.19%) Java
6 42 (6.10%) PHP
7 33 (4.80%) C++
8 29 (4.22%) Python
9 22 (3.20%) C
10 19 (2.76%) XAML
11 15 (2.18%) Swift
12 14 (2.03%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.31%) VB.NET
15 8 (1.16%) Bicep
15 8 (1.16%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.73%) Ada
17 4 (0.58%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.44%) Scala
18 3 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (14.10%) Degree
2 39 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.63%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.60%) AWS Certification
4 11 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 6 (0.87%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.29%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.40%) QA
2 4 (0.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.58%) WCAG
3 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (9.16%) Docker
2 6 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.33%) Terraform
3 7 (1.02%) MIIS
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Kiali
4 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 94 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.33%) ServiceNow
3 11 (1.60%) Oracle
4 9 (1.31%) Google
5 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.44%) Hotjar
6 3 (0.44%) Northgate
7 2 (0.29%) Computacenter
7 2 (0.29%) SAP
7 2 (0.29%) Zend
8 1 (0.15%) IBM
8 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.15%) Xamarin