Lead Developer Jobs in London

Lead Developer
England > London

The median Lead Developer salary in London is £90,000 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 195 296 257
Rank change year-on-year +101 -39 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 384 393 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.59% 1.23% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.30% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 336 337 615
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,250 £58,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £113,125 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £153,750 £123,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +47 61 £85,000 - 2
South London - 7 £72,500 -
West London +6 5 £82,500 +3.13% 1
East London +16 2 £100,000 +21.21% 4
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 156 (40.63%) AWS
2 120 (31.25%) Agile
3 119 (30.99%) JavaScript
4 118 (30.73%) Finance
5 114 (29.69%) Java
6 94 (24.48%) Python
7 92 (23.96%) Software Engineering
8 89 (23.18%) C#
8 89 (23.18%) Mentoring
9 88 (22.92%) Full Stack Development
10 81 (21.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 79 (20.57%) TypeScript
12 78 (20.31%) Azure
13 74 (19.27%) Front Office
14 73 (19.01%) .NET
15 72 (18.75%) Banking
16 70 (18.23%) Hedge funds
17 67 (17.45%) Derivative
18 66 (17.19%) GCP
19 65 (16.93%) Asset Management
20 64 (16.67%) Fixed Income
21 62 (16.15%) Equities
22 60 (15.63%) Line Management
22 60 (15.63%) DevOps
23 59 (15.36%) Investment Banking
24 57 (14.84%) Apache
25 56 (14.58%) SciPy
25 56 (14.58%) NumPy
25 56 (14.58%) Protocol Buffers
25 56 (14.58%) Pandas

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 57 (14.84%) Apache
2 56 (14.58%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (5.21%) Drupal
4 18 (4.69%) CMS
5 12 (3.13%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.56%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.30%) Mendix
8 4 (1.04%) Confluence
9 3 (0.78%) Appian
10 2 (0.52%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.52%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Shopify
1 4 (1.04%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Magento
2 2 (0.52%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 156 (40.63%) AWS
2 78 (20.31%) Azure
3 66 (17.19%) GCP
4 56 (14.58%) dbt
5 52 (13.54%) Snowflake
6 26 (6.77%) Power Platform
7 19 (4.95%) SaaS
8 18 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (4.17%) GitHub
9 16 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 16 (4.17%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.86%) Serverless
11 10 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.52%) Amazon Cognito
16 2 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.58%) Amazon Athena
1 56 (14.58%) Apache Arrow
1 56 (14.58%) Apache Ignite
1 56 (14.58%) Dremio
2 52 (13.54%) Data Lake
3 23 (5.99%) Power BI
4 20 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.65%) MySQL
5 14 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.65%) Redis
6 10 (2.60%) Big Data
7 7 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.56%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (7.81%) Git
2 6 (1.56%) Checkstyle
2 6 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.56%) JUnit
2 6 (1.56%) SonarQube
3 4 (1.04%) JIRA
4 3 (0.78%) MSTest
4 3 (0.78%) NUnit
5 2 (0.52%) Maven
5 2 (0.52%) Moq
6 1 (0.26%) Appium
6 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 118 (30.73%) Finance
2 74 (19.27%) Front Office
3 72 (18.75%) Banking
4 59 (15.36%) Investment Banking
5 21 (5.47%) Social Skills
6 19 (4.95%) Games
7 18 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.17%) Tech for Good
9 12 (3.13%) Law
10 10 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.34%) Advertising
12 6 (1.56%) Marketing
13 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.52%) Legal
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.52%) Police
15 2 (0.52%) Retail
15 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.26%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (19.01%) .NET
2 56 (14.58%) gRPC
2 56 (14.58%) NumPy
2 56 (14.58%) Pandas
2 56 (14.58%) Protocol Buffers
2 56 (14.58%) SciPy
3 46 (11.98%) React
4 26 (6.77%) AngularJS
5 25 (6.51%) CSS
5 25 (6.51%) HTML
6 23 (5.99%) .NET Core
7 20 (5.21%) RESTful
8 16 (4.17%) Vue
9 14 (3.65%) ASP.NET
10 13 (3.39%) Kafka
11 12 (3.13%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.86%) Spring
13 10 (2.60%) Redux
13 10 (2.60%) REST
13 10 (2.60%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 70 (18.23%) Hedge funds
3 67 (17.45%) Derivative
4 64 (16.67%) Fixed Income
5 62 (16.15%) Equities
6 17 (4.43%) Client/Server
7 13 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.04%) NHS
12 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.52%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.52%) FPGA
13 2 (0.52%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.43%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (31.25%) Agile
2 92 (23.96%) Software Engineering
3 89 (23.18%) Mentoring
4 88 (22.92%) Full Stack Development
5 65 (16.93%) Asset Management
6 60 (15.63%) DevOps
6 60 (15.63%) Line Management
7 44 (11.46%) Investment Management
8 43 (11.20%) Fintech
9 33 (8.59%) Front End Development
10 32 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 32 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (7.81%) TDD
12 26 (6.77%) Low Latency
12 26 (6.77%) Microservices
13 24 (6.25%) Roadmaps
13 24 (6.25%) SOLID
14 23 (5.99%) Code Quality
14 23 (5.99%) Multithreading
14 23 (5.99%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (30.99%) JavaScript
2 114 (29.69%) Java
3 94 (24.48%) Python
4 89 (23.18%) C#
5 79 (20.57%) TypeScript
6 54 (14.06%) SQL
7 22 (5.73%) PHP
8 16 (4.17%) Scala
9 15 (3.91%) Ruby
10 12 (3.13%) C++
11 10 (2.60%) Rust
12 8 (2.08%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.56%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.26%) F#
Qualifications
1 27 (7.03%) Degree
2 9 (2.34%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.26%) PhD
7 1 (0.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (8.59%) Docker
2 6 (1.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.39%) Aderant
2 13 (3.39%) iManage
3 11 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.08%) Databricks
5 7 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.78%) Mercator
6 3 (0.78%) Progress
7 2 (0.52%) Adobe
7 2 (0.52%) SAP
8 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.26%) Murex
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud