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 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 272 394 386
Rank change year-on-year +122 -8 -163
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 746 386 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.70% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.78% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 683 315 482
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,850
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £94,000 £86,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £79,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.95% +6.00% +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 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 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 10 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 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
North of England +139 269 £65,000 -7.14% 26
North West +66 160 £70,000 -3.45% 12
South East +8 144 £70,000 -6.67% 14
Midlands +44 130 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +61 101 £65,000 +8.33% 10
South West +18 84 £57,500 -14.81% 13
Yorkshire +113 80 £55,173 -21.18% 8
East of England 0 44 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Wales +46 42 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Scotland -42 31 £65,500 +0.77% 3
North East -1 29 £70,000 +46.84% 6
East Midlands -36 29 £52,500 -16.00% 7
Northern Ireland +14 2 £100,000 +66.67% 1
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 237 (31.77%) .NET
2 233 (31.23%) C#
3 204 (27.35%) Agile
4 174 (23.32%) JavaScript
5 152 (20.38%) Azure
6 149 (19.97%) Mentoring
7 128 (17.16%) AWS
8 120 (16.09%) React
9 115 (15.42%) SQL
10 109 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
11 107 (14.34%) TypeScript
12 96 (12.87%) Microsoft
13 94 (12.60%) CSS
13 94 (12.60%) Finance
14 92 (12.33%) HTML
15 89 (11.93%) DevOps
16 82 (10.99%) Java
17 81 (10.86%) Web Development
18 78 (10.46%) SQL Server
19 75 (10.05%) Degree
20 71 (9.52%) Software Engineering
20 71 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
20 71 (9.52%) Social Skills
21 68 (9.12%) Microservices
22 64 (8.58%) ASP.NET
23 62 (8.31%) Docker
24 61 (8.18%) REST
25 60 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
26 59 (7.91%) .NET Core
27 58 (7.77%) Public Sector

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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.68%) IIS
3 16 (2.14%) Apache
4 12 (1.61%) WordPress
5 11 (1.47%) CMS
6 8 (1.07%) Appian
6 8 (1.07%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.67%) Drupal
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) Confluence
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.21%) Shopify
2 3 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 152 (20.38%) Azure
2 128 (17.16%) AWS
3 44 (5.90%) SaaS
4 36 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.02%) Power Platform
6 24 (3.22%) Serverless
7 20 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (2.41%) PowerApps
9 15 (2.01%) Power Automate
10 13 (1.74%) GCP
10 13 (1.74%) PaaS
11 12 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.21%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.94%) Pulumi
16 6 (0.80%) GitHub
16 6 (0.80%) Google Analytics
17 5 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.68%) SSL
2 19 (2.55%) DNS
2 19 (2.55%) Firewall
2 19 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.21%) Intranet
4 7 (0.94%) Network Security
5 6 (0.80%) Internet
6 3 (0.40%) HTTP
6 3 (0.40%) MQTT
7 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.57%) MySQL
3 47 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 13 (1.74%) DynamoDB
5 12 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.47%) Power BI
6 11 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.21%) Redis
9 5 (0.67%) Couchbase
9 5 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.40%) Tableau
11 2 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.13%) Big Data
12 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (4.02%) Visual Studio
2 25 (3.35%) Git
3 11 (1.47%) GitLab
3 11 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 10 (1.34%) NUnit
4 10 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.07%) Selenium
6 7 (0.94%) Jasmine
6 7 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.67%) gulp
7 5 (0.67%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.67%) Maven
8 4 (0.54%) Postman
9 3 (0.40%) Gradle
9 3 (0.40%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) GitKraken
10 1 (0.13%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.13%) JIRA
10 1 (0.13%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (12.60%) Finance
2 71 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 58 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 25 (3.35%) Marketing
5 21 (2.82%) Banking
6 19 (2.55%) Games
6 19 (2.55%) Retail
7 13 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.21%) Police
9 8 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.07%) Law
10 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 5 (0.67%) iGaming
12 4 (0.54%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Aviation
13 3 (0.40%) Front Office
13 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.27%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (31.77%) .NET
2 120 (16.09%) React
3 94 (12.60%) CSS
4 92 (12.33%) HTML
5 64 (8.58%) ASP.NET
6 61 (8.18%) REST
7 59 (7.91%) .NET Core
8 57 (7.64%) Vue
9 49 (6.57%) AngularJS
9 49 (6.57%) Laravel
10 43 (5.76%) Node.js
10 43 (5.76%) RESTful
11 40 (5.36%) Web Services
12 37 (4.96%) .NET Framework
13 36 (4.83%) Tailwind CSS
14 33 (4.42%) jQuery
15 30 (4.02%) WPF
16 28 (3.75%) OpenID
17 27 (3.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 26 (3.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.69%) Mobile App
2 30 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.28%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.14%) Digital Media
6 16 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.61%) IoT
8 11 (1.47%) Client/Server
8 11 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) Augmented Reality
10 9 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
13 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.67%) Online Games
14 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.54%) Kindle
14 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.50%) Windows
2 29 (3.89%) Linux
3 21 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.74%) Android
5 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (27.35%) Agile
2 149 (19.97%) Mentoring
3 109 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
4 89 (11.93%) DevOps
5 81 (10.86%) Web Development
6 71 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (9.52%) Software Engineering
7 68 (9.12%) Microservices
8 60 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
9 57 (7.64%) Coaching
9 57 (7.64%) TDD
10 53 (7.10%) Code Quality
11 50 (6.70%) CI/CD
11 50 (6.70%) MVC
12 48 (6.43%) Design Patterns
13 45 (6.03%) Front End Development
14 44 (5.90%) Scrum
15 43 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (5.36%) Computer Science
16 40 (5.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 233 (31.23%) C#
2 174 (23.32%) JavaScript
3 115 (15.42%) SQL
4 107 (14.34%) TypeScript
5 82 (10.99%) Java
6 42 (5.63%) PHP
7 36 (4.83%) C++
8 32 (4.29%) Python
9 23 (3.08%) C
10 19 (2.55%) XAML
11 16 (2.14%) Swift
12 14 (1.88%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.61%) Scala
14 11 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.21%) PowerShell
15 9 (1.21%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.94%) Ada
16 7 (0.94%) Bicep
17 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.54%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 75 (10.05%) Degree
2 38 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 11 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.07%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.40%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.13%) PMP
10 1 (0.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.57%) QA
2 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.54%) WCAG
3 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (8.31%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.01%) Terraform
3 7 (0.94%) MIIS
4 1 (0.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Kiali
4 1 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 96 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.14%) ServiceNow
3 11 (1.47%) Oracle
4 8 (1.07%) Google
5 6 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.40%) Hotjar
6 3 (0.40%) Northgate
7 2 (0.27%) Computacenter
7 2 (0.27%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.27%) SAP
7 2 (0.27%) Zend
8 1 (0.13%) IBM
8 1 (0.13%) Xamarin