Lead Software Developer Jobs in the City of London

Lead Software Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the City of London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 - 273
Rank change year-on-year - - -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 7 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.21% - 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £101,250
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £85,000 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - -22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,213 4,744 6,706
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 96.46% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,578 4,010 5,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,164 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the City of London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 City of London region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (71.43%) Clean Code
2 5 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Clean Code
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes