Lead Software Developer Jobs in London

Lead Software Developer
England > London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in London is £135,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 576 792
Rank change year-on-year +160 +216 -188
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 95 27 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.086% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.091% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 92 25 107
10th Percentile £97,500 £75,250 £68,000
25th Percentile £127,500 £81,250 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £165,000 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £124,750 £136,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £83,750
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.45% +19.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software 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 Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 7 £85,000 -
South London - 2 £81,500 -
Lead Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Lead Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 90 (94.74%) Agile
2 87 (91.58%) JavaScript
3 86 (90.53%) AWS
4 82 (86.32%) GCP
4 82 (86.32%) Java
4 82 (86.32%) Finance
4 82 (86.32%) Software Engineering
5 81 (85.26%) Asset Management
5 81 (85.26%) Derivative
5 81 (85.26%) Front Office
5 81 (85.26%) Fixed Income
5 81 (85.26%) Equities
5 81 (85.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 81 (85.26%) TypeScript
5 81 (85.26%) Hedge funds
6 76 (80.00%) SciPy
6 76 (80.00%) NumPy
6 76 (80.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 76 (80.00%) Pandas
6 76 (80.00%) gRPC
6 76 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
6 76 (80.00%) Apache
6 76 (80.00%) Python
6 76 (80.00%) Investment Banking
6 76 (80.00%) Banking
6 76 (80.00%) Dremio
6 76 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
6 76 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
6 76 (80.00%) Apache Ignite
6 76 (80.00%) dbt

Lead Software 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 76 (80.00%) Apache
1 76 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 86 (90.53%) AWS
2 82 (86.32%) GCP
3 76 (80.00%) dbt
4 72 (75.79%) Snowflake
5 12 (12.63%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (12.63%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (12.63%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (10.53%) Azure
7 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
1 76 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
1 76 (80.00%) Apache Ignite
1 76 (80.00%) Dremio
2 72 (75.79%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Git
1 5 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) Appium
2 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
General
1 82 (86.32%) Finance
2 81 (85.26%) Front Office
3 76 (80.00%) Banking
3 76 (80.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Health Technology
5 3 (3.16%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.05%) Law
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (80.00%) gRPC
1 76 (80.00%) NumPy
1 76 (80.00%) Pandas
1 76 (80.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 76 (80.00%) SciPy
2 12 (12.63%) PySpark
3 9 (9.47%) .NET
4 7 (7.37%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.37%) React
4 7 (7.37%) RESTful
5 6 (6.32%) Vue
6 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET
6 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (5.26%) Redux
7 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.11%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.11%) jQuery
8 1 (1.05%) JSON
8 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 81 (85.26%) Derivative
1 81 (85.26%) Equities
1 81 (85.26%) Fixed Income
1 81 (85.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 81 (85.26%) Hedge funds
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.16%) NHS
4 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.11%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Android
1 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (94.74%) Agile
2 82 (86.32%) Software Engineering
3 81 (85.26%) Asset Management
4 72 (75.79%) Line Management
5 45 (47.37%) Investment Management
6 14 (14.74%) Mentoring
7 12 (12.63%) DevOps
7 12 (12.63%) Migration
8 10 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (8.42%) Code Quality
10 7 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.37%) Microservices
10 7 (7.37%) TDD
11 6 (6.32%) Clean Code
12 5 (5.26%) Fintech
12 5 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (5.26%) Unit Testing
13 4 (4.21%) Analytics
13 4 (4.21%) Data Architecture
13 4 (4.21%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (91.58%) JavaScript
2 82 (86.32%) Java
3 81 (85.26%) TypeScript
4 76 (80.00%) Python
5 14 (14.74%) SQL
6 9 (9.47%) C#
7 4 (4.21%) Ruby
7 4 (4.21%) Scala
8 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (3.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (8.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (12.63%) Bloomberg
1 12 (12.63%) Reuters