Lead Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer salary in Work from Home is £71,500 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 222 279 280
Rank change year-on-year +57 +1 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 506 445 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 1.16% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.21% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 465 382 700
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,833 £51,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £110,000
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Developer.

Lead Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Lead Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 187 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 174 (34.39%) C#
3 170 (33.60%) Agile
4 161 (31.82%) .NET
5 159 (31.42%) AWS
6 127 (25.10%) TypeScript
7 123 (24.31%) Mentoring
8 118 (23.32%) Java
9 116 (22.92%) SQL
10 115 (22.73%) Azure
11 98 (19.37%) Finance
12 96 (18.97%) Software Engineering
13 87 (17.19%) React
14 85 (16.80%) Full Stack Development
15 83 (16.40%) HTML
15 83 (16.40%) Python
16 80 (15.81%) CSS
17 70 (13.83%) GCP
18 69 (13.64%) Social Skills
19 66 (13.04%) Line Management
20 65 (12.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 61 (12.06%) Microservices
21 61 (12.06%) Hedge funds
22 60 (11.86%) DevOps
23 59 (11.66%) Investment Banking
23 59 (11.66%) Banking
24 58 (11.46%) Degree
24 58 (11.46%) Fixed Income
24 58 (11.46%) Front Office
25 57 (11.26%) Apache

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.26%) Apache
2 56 (11.07%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.75%) IIS
4 8 (1.58%) Appian
5 7 (1.38%) WordPress
6 5 (0.99%) CMS
7 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.59%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.40%) Drupal
9 2 (0.40%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.40%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 13 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.98%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.40%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 159 (31.42%) AWS
2 115 (22.73%) Azure
3 70 (13.83%) GCP
4 56 (11.07%) dbt
5 53 (10.47%) Snowflake
6 31 (6.13%) SaaS
7 29 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (4.94%) Serverless
9 14 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.77%) Power Platform
10 12 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.58%) PaaS
11 8 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.38%) GitHub
12 7 (1.38%) Pulumi
13 6 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.75%) DNS
1 19 (3.75%) Firewall
1 19 (3.75%) SSL
1 19 (3.75%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.38%) Network Security
3 4 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.26%) SQL Server
2 56 (11.07%) Amazon Athena
2 56 (11.07%) Apache Arrow
2 56 (11.07%) Apache Ignite
2 56 (11.07%) Dremio
3 52 (10.28%) Data Lake
4 28 (5.53%) MySQL
5 21 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.17%) Redis
8 8 (1.58%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.19%) Power BI
11 5 (0.99%) Couchbase
12 4 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.95%) Git
2 18 (3.56%) Visual Studio
3 13 (2.57%) NUnit
4 10 (1.98%) Selenium
4 10 (1.98%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.78%) GitLab
5 9 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.38%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.38%) Postman
6 7 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.59%) Moq
7 3 (0.59%) MSTest
7 3 (0.59%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.59%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.20%) GitKraken
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 98 (19.37%) Finance
2 69 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 59 (11.66%) Banking
3 59 (11.66%) Investment Banking
4 58 (11.46%) Front Office
5 17 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.36%) Games
6 15 (2.96%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.19%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.19%) Retail
8 6 (1.19%) Tech for Good
9 5 (0.99%) Marketing
10 3 (0.59%) Legal
10 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.40%) Automotive
11 2 (0.40%) Back Office
11 2 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (31.82%) .NET
2 87 (17.19%) React
3 83 (16.40%) HTML
4 80 (15.81%) CSS
5 56 (11.07%) .NET Core
5 56 (11.07%) gRPC
5 56 (11.07%) NumPy
5 56 (11.07%) Pandas
5 56 (11.07%) Protocol Buffers
5 56 (11.07%) SciPy
6 49 (9.68%) RESTful
7 46 (9.09%) Vue
8 41 (8.10%) AngularJS
9 40 (7.91%) ASP.NET
10 39 (7.71%) .NET Framework
11 30 (5.93%) REST
12 28 (5.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 27 (5.34%) Node.js
13 27 (5.34%) WPF
14 26 (5.14%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (12.06%) Hedge funds
3 58 (11.46%) Fixed Income
4 57 (11.26%) Derivative
5 56 (11.07%) Equities
6 22 (4.35%) Client/Server
6 22 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.75%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.78%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.78%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.58%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
12 7 (1.38%) IoT
12 7 (1.38%) NHS
13 6 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.79%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.95%) Windows
2 13 (2.57%) Android
3 12 (2.37%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) Linux
5 1 (0.20%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (33.60%) Agile
2 123 (24.31%) Mentoring
3 96 (18.97%) Software Engineering
4 85 (16.80%) Full Stack Development
5 66 (13.04%) Line Management
6 61 (12.06%) Microservices
7 60 (11.86%) DevOps
8 56 (11.07%) Asset Management
9 53 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (9.88%) Design Patterns
10 50 (9.88%) Web Development
11 45 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (8.70%) Code Quality
13 43 (8.50%) Roadmaps
13 43 (8.50%) Scrum
14 39 (7.71%) CI/CD
15 38 (7.51%) Investment Management
16 35 (6.92%) Coaching
16 35 (6.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 187 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 174 (34.39%) C#
3 127 (25.10%) TypeScript
4 118 (23.32%) Java
5 116 (22.92%) SQL
6 83 (16.40%) Python
7 23 (4.55%) PHP
8 19 (3.75%) XAML
9 18 (3.56%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.37%) Swift
11 10 (1.98%) C
12 7 (1.38%) Bicep
12 7 (1.38%) Scala
13 6 (1.19%) Ada
13 6 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.99%) C++
15 4 (0.79%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.79%) Ruby
16 3 (0.59%) Delphi
16 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (11.46%) Degree
2 19 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.56%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.57%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.79%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.72%) QA
2 7 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.79%) WCAG
4 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (7.91%) Docker
2 10 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.15%) Terraform
3 7 (1.38%) MIIS
Vendors
1 47 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.77%) ServiceNow
3 5 (0.99%) Google
4 4 (0.79%) Oracle
5 3 (0.59%) Northgate
6 2 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.20%) Murex
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.20%) Xamarin