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 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 203 268 249
Rank change year-on-year +65 -19 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 373 448 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.58% 1.33% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.40% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 325 372 635
10th Percentile £61,750 £64,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +7.46%
75th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £72,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.23% +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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +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 20 May 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 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
Central London +61 64 £85,000 - 6
South London - 6 £72,500 -
West London +2 5 £82,500 +3.13%
East London +13 2 £100,000 +21.21% 20
Lead Developer
England

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

1 157 (42.09%) AWS
2 121 (32.44%) Agile
3 118 (31.64%) JavaScript
4 116 (31.10%) Finance
5 115 (30.83%) Java
6 95 (25.47%) Mentoring
7 94 (25.20%) C#
8 91 (24.40%) Software Engineering
8 91 (24.40%) Full Stack Development
9 90 (24.13%) Python
10 86 (23.06%) Azure
11 79 (21.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 77 (20.64%) TypeScript
13 76 (20.38%) .NET
14 74 (19.84%) Front Office
15 69 (18.50%) Banking
16 68 (18.23%) Hedge funds
17 65 (17.43%) Derivative
17 65 (17.43%) GCP
18 64 (17.16%) DevOps
19 63 (16.89%) Asset Management
20 62 (16.62%) Fixed Income
21 60 (16.09%) Equities
22 58 (15.55%) Line Management
23 56 (15.01%) SQL
24 55 (14.75%) Investment Banking
25 53 (14.21%) Apache
26 52 (13.94%) SciPy
26 52 (13.94%) NumPy
26 52 (13.94%) Protocol Buffers

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 53 (14.21%) Apache
2 52 (13.94%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.09%) Drupal
4 18 (4.83%) CMS
5 13 (3.49%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.88%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.34%) Mendix
8 4 (1.07%) Confluence
9 3 (0.80%) Appian
10 2 (0.54%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.54%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Shopify
1 4 (1.07%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
2 2 (0.54%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 157 (42.09%) AWS
2 86 (23.06%) Azure
3 65 (17.43%) GCP
4 52 (13.94%) dbt
5 48 (12.87%) Snowflake
6 29 (7.77%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.09%) Power Automate
7 19 (5.09%) PowerApps
7 19 (5.09%) SaaS
8 18 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (4.56%) GitHub
10 13 (3.49%) Serverless
11 12 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.54%) IaaS
16 2 (0.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.94%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (13.94%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (13.94%) Apache Ignite
1 52 (13.94%) Dremio
2 48 (12.87%) Data Lake
3 25 (6.70%) Power BI
4 22 (5.90%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.75%) MySQL
5 14 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.75%) Redis
6 11 (2.95%) Big Data
7 8 (2.14%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.88%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (8.31%) Git
2 7 (1.88%) Checkstyle
2 7 (1.88%) JUnit
2 7 (1.88%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.07%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) MSTest
4 4 (1.07%) NUnit
5 2 (0.54%) Maven
5 2 (0.54%) Moq
6 1 (0.27%) Appium
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 116 (31.10%) Finance
2 74 (19.84%) Front Office
3 69 (18.50%) Banking
4 55 (14.75%) Investment Banking
5 24 (6.43%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.09%) Games
7 18 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.02%) Tech for Good
9 12 (3.22%) Law
10 11 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.41%) Advertising
12 7 (1.88%) Marketing
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.54%) Police
14 2 (0.54%) Retail
15 1 (0.27%) Automotive
15 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (20.38%) .NET
2 52 (13.94%) gRPC
2 52 (13.94%) NumPy
2 52 (13.94%) Pandas
2 52 (13.94%) Protocol Buffers
2 52 (13.94%) SciPy
3 49 (13.14%) React
4 29 (7.77%) AngularJS
5 26 (6.97%) CSS
5 26 (6.97%) HTML
6 22 (5.90%) .NET Core
7 20 (5.36%) RESTful
8 19 (5.09%) Vue
9 16 (4.29%) ASP.NET
10 13 (3.49%) Kafka
10 13 (3.49%) Spring Boot
11 12 (3.22%) Redux
11 12 (3.22%) REST
11 12 (3.22%) Spring
12 10 (2.68%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 68 (18.23%) Hedge funds
3 65 (17.43%) Derivative
4 62 (16.62%) Fixed Income
5 60 (16.09%) Equities
6 18 (4.83%) Client/Server
7 14 (3.75%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.80%) NHS
10 3 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.54%) ASIC
11 2 (0.54%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.56%) Linux
2 8 (2.14%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.44%) Agile
2 95 (25.47%) Mentoring
3 91 (24.40%) Full Stack Development
3 91 (24.40%) Software Engineering
4 64 (17.16%) DevOps
5 63 (16.89%) Asset Management
6 58 (15.55%) Line Management
7 46 (12.33%) Fintech
8 45 (12.06%) Investment Management
9 35 (9.38%) Computer Science
9 35 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (8.85%) TDD
11 32 (8.58%) Front End Development
12 28 (7.51%) Microservices
13 26 (6.97%) Low Latency
14 25 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (6.70%) Code Quality
15 24 (6.43%) Roadmaps
15 24 (6.43%) SOLID
16 23 (6.17%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 118 (31.64%) JavaScript
2 115 (30.83%) Java
3 94 (25.20%) C#
4 90 (24.13%) Python
5 77 (20.64%) TypeScript
6 56 (15.01%) SQL
7 23 (6.17%) PHP
8 16 (4.29%) Scala
9 15 (4.02%) Ruby
10 12 (3.22%) C++
11 10 (2.68%) Rust
12 8 (2.14%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.14%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 30 (8.04%) Degree
2 9 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (2.41%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.61%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.63%) QA
2 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (8.85%) Docker
2 7 (1.88%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.49%) Aderant
2 13 (3.49%) iManage
3 11 (2.95%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.14%) Databricks
5 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.80%) Mercator
7 2 (0.54%) Adobe
7 2 (0.54%) SAP
8 1 (0.27%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.27%) Murex
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud