Lead Developer Jobs in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 344 316
Rank change year-on-year +108 -28 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 1,046 813 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.15% 0.96% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.06% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 950 676 1,055
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +1.29% +10.71%
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +82 386 £90,000 -4.00% 74
North of England +148 269 £65,000 -7.14% 21
North West +75 163 £70,000 -1.75% 14
South East -4 139 £73,750 -1.67% 18
Midlands +54 126 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +61 100 £65,000 +8.33% 12
South West +4 82 £60,000 -11.11% 8
Yorkshire +96 78 £55,173 -21.18% 5
East of England -1 40 £60,000 +4.35% 3
North East +3 28 £70,000 +46.84% 2
East Midlands -19 26 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Lead Developer
UK

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 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 England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 302 (28.87%) Agile
2 293 (28.01%) C#
3 290 (27.72%) .NET
4 270 (25.81%) AWS
5 268 (25.62%) JavaScript
6 216 (20.65%) Azure
7 207 (19.79%) Mentoring
8 198 (18.93%) Finance
9 189 (18.07%) Java
10 188 (17.97%) Full Stack Development
11 180 (17.21%) TypeScript
12 163 (15.58%) Software Engineering
13 161 (15.39%) SQL
14 157 (15.01%) React
15 131 (12.52%) DevOps
16 123 (11.76%) Python
17 111 (10.61%) Microsoft
18 108 (10.33%) CSS
19 107 (10.23%) HTML
19 107 (10.23%) Degree
20 93 (8.89%) Social Skills
20 93 (8.89%) Microservices
21 92 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
22 88 (8.41%) SQL Server
22 88 (8.41%) Web Development
23 87 (8.32%) Docker
24 85 (8.13%) TDD
25 84 (8.03%) Banking
26 81 (7.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 77 (7.36%) Line Management

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 74 (7.07%) Apache
2 56 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.35%) SharePoint
4 29 (2.77%) CMS
5 25 (2.39%) Drupal
6 20 (1.91%) IIS
7 12 (1.15%) WordPress
8 11 (1.05%) Appian
9 6 (0.57%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.48%) Confluence
10 5 (0.48%) Mendix
11 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Shopify
2 4 (0.38%) Magento
2 4 (0.38%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 270 (25.81%) AWS
2 216 (20.65%) Azure
3 76 (7.27%) GCP
4 58 (5.54%) dbt
5 55 (5.26%) Snowflake
6 54 (5.16%) SaaS
7 46 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 37 (3.54%) Serverless
9 34 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (2.58%) Power Automate
10 27 (2.58%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.01%) GitHub
13 15 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.34%) PaaS
15 12 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (0.86%) Amazon S3
18 8 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.82%) DNS
1 19 (1.82%) Firewall
1 19 (1.82%) SSL
1 19 (1.82%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.86%) Intranet
3 7 (0.67%) Network Security
4 6 (0.57%) HTTP
4 6 (0.57%) Internet
5 3 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.096%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 65 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 61 (5.83%) MySQL
4 56 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
4 56 (5.35%) Apache Arrow
4 56 (5.35%) Apache Ignite
4 56 (5.35%) Dremio
5 53 (5.07%) Data Lake
6 33 (3.15%) Power BI
7 22 (2.10%) Redis
8 17 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.15%) Tableau
11 11 (1.05%) Big Data
11 11 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.96%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (5.26%) Git
2 27 (2.58%) Visual Studio
3 13 (1.24%) NUnit
4 12 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 11 (1.05%) GitLab
6 10 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (0.86%) Selenium
8 7 (0.67%) Jasmine
8 7 (0.67%) Maven
8 7 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.57%) Checkstyle
9 6 (0.57%) JUnit
9 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.48%) gulp
10 5 (0.48%) JIRA
10 5 (0.48%) Postman
11 3 (0.29%) Moq
11 3 (0.29%) MSTest
11 3 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 198 (18.93%) Finance
2 93 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 84 (8.03%) Banking
4 74 (7.07%) Front Office
5 59 (5.64%) Investment Banking
6 53 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 37 (3.54%) Games
8 31 (2.96%) Marketing
9 24 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (2.01%) Law
11 19 (1.82%) Tech for Good
12 18 (1.72%) Retail
13 12 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.86%) Advertising
14 9 (0.86%) Police
15 8 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.67%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.48%) iGaming
18 5 (0.48%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (27.72%) .NET
2 157 (15.01%) React
3 108 (10.33%) CSS
4 107 (10.23%) HTML
5 71 (6.79%) AngularJS
6 69 (6.60%) .NET Core
7 68 (6.50%) REST
8 63 (6.02%) Vue
9 61 (5.83%) ASP.NET
10 60 (5.74%) RESTful
11 58 (5.54%) NumPy
11 58 (5.54%) Pandas
12 56 (5.35%) gRPC
12 56 (5.35%) Protocol Buffers
12 56 (5.35%) SciPy
13 54 (5.16%) Laravel
14 49 (4.68%) Web Services
15 43 (4.11%) .NET Framework
16 41 (3.92%) jQuery
17 38 (3.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (7.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 70 (6.69%) Hedge funds
3 67 (6.41%) Derivative
4 64 (6.12%) Fixed Income
5 62 (5.93%) Equities
6 35 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.68%) Client/Server
7 28 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.58%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.39%) Mobile App
10 24 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.72%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.53%) Digital Media
13 15 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.96%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.30%) Linux
2 40 (3.82%) Windows
3 17 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.05%) Android
5 8 (0.76%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.096%) VMS
7 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (28.87%) Agile
2 207 (19.79%) Mentoring
3 188 (17.97%) Full Stack Development
4 163 (15.58%) Software Engineering
5 131 (12.52%) DevOps
6 93 (8.89%) Microservices
7 92 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (8.41%) Web Development
9 85 (8.13%) TDD
10 77 (7.36%) Line Management
11 72 (6.88%) Computer Science
12 70 (6.69%) Code Quality
12 70 (6.69%) Front End Development
13 66 (6.31%) CI/CD
13 66 (6.31%) Design Patterns
14 65 (6.21%) Asset Management
15 62 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
16 59 (5.64%) Roadmaps
17 57 (5.45%) MVC
17 57 (5.45%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 293 (28.01%) C#
2 268 (25.62%) JavaScript
3 189 (18.07%) Java
4 180 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 161 (15.39%) SQL
6 123 (11.76%) Python
7 61 (5.83%) PHP
8 46 (4.40%) C++
9 26 (2.49%) Scala
10 22 (2.10%) C
11 19 (1.82%) XAML
12 18 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.72%) Ruby
13 16 (1.53%) T-SQL
14 15 (1.43%) PowerShell
15 12 (1.15%) Swift
16 10 (0.96%) Rust
17 9 (0.86%) VB.NET
18 8 (0.76%) Bicep
19 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 107 (10.23%) Degree
2 45 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 18 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.76%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.29%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.19%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.096%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.096%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.096%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.88%) QA
2 6 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.38%) WCAG
4 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.096%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 87 (8.32%) Docker
2 8 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.10%) Terraform
3 7 (0.67%) MIIS
4 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.096%) Kiali
5 1 (0.096%) Kibana
Vendors
1 111 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.58%) ServiceNow
3 13 (1.24%) Aderant
3 13 (1.24%) iManage
4 12 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 8 (0.76%) Databricks
5 8 (0.76%) Google
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle
7 4 (0.38%) SAP
8 3 (0.29%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.29%) Mercator
8 3 (0.29%) Northgate
8 3 (0.29%) Progress
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe
9 2 (0.19%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.19%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.19%) Zend
10 1 (0.096%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.096%) IBM
10 1 (0.096%) Murex