Lead Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Developer salary for remote or hybrid work 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 468 578 781
Rank change year-on-year +110 +203 -303
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 135 55 120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 126 54 88
10th Percentile £66,875 £59,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £52,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £165,000 £81,250 £107,813
90th Percentile £172,500 £120,250 £135,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.09% +22.22%

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 Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software 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 Software Developer.

Lead Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Software Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Lead Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 99 (73.33%) Agile
2 97 (71.85%) JavaScript
3 92 (68.15%) AWS
4 85 (62.96%) Java
5 83 (61.48%) Finance
6 80 (59.26%) Software Engineering
7 77 (57.04%) GCP
8 76 (56.30%) gRPC
8 76 (56.30%) Apache Airflow
8 76 (56.30%) Protocol Buffers
8 76 (56.30%) TypeScript
8 76 (56.30%) Pandas
8 76 (56.30%) Apache Arrow
8 76 (56.30%) Amazon Athena
8 76 (56.30%) Apache Ignite
8 76 (56.30%) Dremio
8 76 (56.30%) dbt
8 76 (56.30%) Banking
8 76 (56.30%) Asset Management
8 76 (56.30%) Front Office
8 76 (56.30%) Fixed Income
8 76 (56.30%) Equities
8 76 (56.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 76 (56.30%) Apache
8 76 (56.30%) Python
8 76 (56.30%) Derivative
8 76 (56.30%) Investment Banking
8 76 (56.30%) Hedge funds
8 76 (56.30%) SciPy
8 76 (56.30%) NumPy

Lead Software 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 (56.30%) Apache
1 76 (56.30%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (68.15%) AWS
2 77 (57.04%) GCP
3 76 (56.30%) dbt
4 72 (53.33%) Snowflake
5 21 (15.56%) Azure
6 16 (11.85%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.19%) Pulumi
10 4 (2.96%) SaaS
11 3 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 3 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.22%) Serverless
12 1 (0.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) Network Security
2 4 (2.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (56.30%) Amazon Athena
1 76 (56.30%) Apache Arrow
1 76 (56.30%) Apache Ignite
1 76 (56.30%) Dremio
2 72 (53.33%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.70%) MySQL
5 4 (2.96%) Redis
6 3 (2.22%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) Git
2 8 (5.93%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.19%) Jasmine
3 7 (5.19%) NUnit
3 7 (5.19%) Selenium
3 7 (5.19%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (5.19%) TeamCity
3 7 (5.19%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.74%) GitKraken
5 1 (0.74%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.74%) ReSharper
5 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (61.48%) Finance
2 76 (56.30%) Banking
2 76 (56.30%) Front Office
2 76 (56.30%) Investment Banking
3 10 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.19%) Health Technology
5 6 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Games
7 3 (2.22%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.74%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (56.30%) gRPC
1 76 (56.30%) NumPy
1 76 (56.30%) Pandas
1 76 (56.30%) Protocol Buffers
1 76 (56.30%) SciPy
2 31 (22.96%) .NET
3 16 (11.85%) RESTful
4 14 (10.37%) .NET Core
5 12 (8.89%) PySpark
6 10 (7.41%) .NET Framework
6 10 (7.41%) CSS
7 8 (5.93%) ASP.NET
7 8 (5.93%) Entity Framework
7 8 (5.93%) HTML
8 7 (5.19%) ARM Templates
8 7 (5.19%) HTML5
8 7 (5.19%) OpenID
8 7 (5.19%) React
9 5 (3.70%) LINQ
9 5 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 76 (56.30%) Derivative
1 76 (56.30%) Equities
1 76 (56.30%) Fixed Income
1 76 (56.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 76 (56.30%) Hedge funds
2 7 (5.19%) Client/Server
3 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.96%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.96%) IoT
4 4 (2.96%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.22%) NHS
5 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) e-Health
6 2 (1.48%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (73.33%) Agile
2 80 (59.26%) Software Engineering
3 76 (56.30%) Asset Management
4 73 (54.07%) Line Management
5 40 (29.63%) Investment Management
6 16 (11.85%) DevOps
6 16 (11.85%) Mentoring
6 16 (11.85%) Microservices
7 12 (8.89%) Code Quality
7 12 (8.89%) Migration
7 12 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (7.41%) Scrum
9 9 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (6.67%) Multithreading
9 9 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (6.67%) Web Development
10 8 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (5.93%) Design Patterns
10 8 (5.93%) Test Automation
11 7 (5.19%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 97 (71.85%) JavaScript
2 85 (62.96%) Java
3 76 (56.30%) Python
3 76 (56.30%) TypeScript
4 39 (28.89%) C#
5 34 (25.19%) SQL
6 10 (7.41%) C
7 7 (5.19%) Bicep
8 4 (2.96%) Embedded C
8 4 (2.96%) Ruby
8 4 (2.96%) Scala
9 3 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.48%) C++
10 2 (1.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.96%) QA
2 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.93%) Terraform
3 7 (5.19%) MIIS
Vendors
1 12 (8.89%) Bloomberg
1 12 (8.89%) Reuters
2 2 (1.48%) Oracle
3 1 (0.74%) Google
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft