Lead Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £72,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 292 284
Rank change year-on-year +82 -8 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 550 405 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 1.08% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.13% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 498 356 696
10th Percentile £47,000 £53,250 £50,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £143,625 £110,000 £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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 13 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 13 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.

1 210 (38.18%) JavaScript
2 194 (35.27%) Agile
3 182 (33.09%) AWS
4 179 (32.55%) C#
5 165 (30.00%) .NET
6 145 (26.36%) TypeScript
7 138 (25.09%) Java
8 129 (23.45%) SQL
9 124 (22.55%) Mentoring
10 117 (21.27%) Finance
10 117 (21.27%) Software Engineering
11 116 (21.09%) Azure
12 105 (19.09%) Python
13 91 (16.55%) React
14 89 (16.18%) GCP
15 88 (16.00%) Line Management
15 88 (16.00%) Full Stack Development
16 84 (15.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 81 (14.73%) HTML
18 80 (14.55%) Hedge funds
19 79 (14.36%) Investment Banking
19 79 (14.36%) Banking
20 78 (14.18%) CSS
20 78 (14.18%) Front Office
21 77 (14.00%) Fixed Income
22 76 (13.82%) Equities
22 76 (13.82%) Apache
22 76 (13.82%) Derivative
22 76 (13.82%) Asset Management
22 76 (13.82%) SciPy

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 76 (13.82%) Apache
1 76 (13.82%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.45%) IIS
3 8 (1.45%) Appian
4 7 (1.27%) WordPress
5 5 (0.91%) CMS
6 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.36%) Drupal
8 2 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.18%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 13 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.82%) Shopify
3 2 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.36%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 182 (33.09%) AWS
2 116 (21.09%) Azure
3 89 (16.18%) GCP
4 76 (13.82%) dbt
5 73 (13.27%) Snowflake
6 32 (5.82%) SaaS
7 31 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (4.73%) Serverless
9 18 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (2.73%) Power Platform
11 14 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.64%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.45%) PaaS
16 7 (1.27%) GitHub
16 7 (1.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.45%) DNS
1 19 (3.45%) Firewall
1 19 (3.45%) SSL
1 19 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.27%) Network Security
3 4 (0.73%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (13.82%) Amazon Athena
1 76 (13.82%) Apache Arrow
1 76 (13.82%) Apache Ignite
1 76 (13.82%) Dremio
2 72 (13.09%) Data Lake
3 56 (10.18%) SQL Server
4 30 (5.45%) MySQL
5 22 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.00%) Redis
8 10 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.27%) Power BI
9 7 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.91%) Couchbase
11 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.64%) Git
2 18 (3.27%) Visual Studio
3 13 (2.36%) NUnit
4 11 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.82%) Selenium
5 10 (1.82%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.45%) GitLab
7 7 (1.27%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.27%) Postman
7 7 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.55%) Moq
8 3 (0.55%) MSTest
8 3 (0.55%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) GitKraken
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 117 (21.27%) Finance
2 79 (14.36%) Banking
2 79 (14.36%) Investment Banking
3 78 (14.18%) Front Office
4 67 (12.18%) Social Skills
5 18 (3.27%) Games
6 17 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.09%) Retail
10 5 (0.91%) Marketing
11 4 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.55%) Automotive
12 3 (0.55%) Legal
12 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.36%) Back Office
13 2 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (30.00%) .NET
2 91 (16.55%) React
3 81 (14.73%) HTML
4 78 (14.18%) CSS
5 76 (13.82%) gRPC
5 76 (13.82%) NumPy
5 76 (13.82%) Pandas
5 76 (13.82%) Protocol Buffers
5 76 (13.82%) SciPy
6 58 (10.55%) .NET Core
7 49 (8.91%) Vue
8 48 (8.73%) RESTful
9 43 (7.82%) AngularJS
10 42 (7.64%) ASP.NET
11 39 (7.09%) .NET Framework
12 30 (5.45%) REST
13 28 (5.09%) Node.js
13 28 (5.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 27 (4.91%) WPF
15 26 (4.73%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 80 (14.55%) Hedge funds
3 77 (14.00%) Fixed Income
4 76 (13.82%) Derivative
4 76 (13.82%) Equities
5 22 (4.00%) Client/Server
5 22 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (3.82%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.00%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.64%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.45%) NHS
10 8 (1.45%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.27%) IoT
12 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.09%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.64%) Windows
2 15 (2.73%) Android
3 14 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Linux
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (35.27%) Agile
2 124 (22.55%) Mentoring
3 117 (21.27%) Software Engineering
4 88 (16.00%) Full Stack Development
4 88 (16.00%) Line Management
5 76 (13.82%) Asset Management
6 62 (11.27%) Microservices
7 61 (11.09%) DevOps
8 53 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 48 (8.73%) Web Development
11 46 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (8.36%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (8.00%) Scrum
13 42 (7.64%) Code Quality
14 40 (7.27%) CI/CD
14 40 (7.27%) Investment Management
14 40 (7.27%) Roadmaps
15 37 (6.73%) TDD
16 35 (6.36%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 210 (38.18%) JavaScript
2 179 (32.55%) C#
3 145 (26.36%) TypeScript
4 138 (25.09%) Java
5 129 (23.45%) SQL
6 105 (19.09%) Python
7 24 (4.36%) PHP
8 20 (3.64%) Kotlin
9 19 (3.45%) XAML
10 12 (2.18%) Swift
11 10 (1.82%) C
12 9 (1.64%) Scala
13 7 (1.27%) Ada
13 7 (1.27%) Bicep
14 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.91%) C++
16 4 (0.73%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.73%) Ruby
17 3 (0.55%) Delphi
17 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (10.00%) Degree
2 19 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.36%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.73%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.91%) QA
2 7 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.73%) WCAG
4 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (7.82%) Docker
2 10 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.82%) Terraform
3 7 (1.27%) MIIS
Vendors
1 52 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.55%) ServiceNow
3 12 (2.18%) Bloomberg
3 12 (2.18%) Reuters
4 5 (0.91%) Google
5 4 (0.73%) Oracle
6 3 (0.55%) Northgate
7 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 1 (0.18%) Murex
8 1 (0.18%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.18%) Xamarin