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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 274 240
Rank change year-on-year +76 -34 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 370 467 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.58% 1.30% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.37% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 320 389 637
10th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £75,938 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £110,625 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £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 £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +45 69 £90,000 +5.88% 8
South London +6 6 £72,500 -14.71%
West London +5 5 £82,500 +3.13%
East London +17 2 £100,000 +21.21% 5
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 148 (40.00%) AWS
2 107 (28.92%) Java
2 107 (28.92%) Agile
3 106 (28.65%) JavaScript
4 103 (27.84%) Finance
5 100 (27.03%) Mentoring
6 96 (25.95%) Full Stack Development
7 95 (25.68%) C#
8 91 (24.59%) Azure
9 79 (21.35%) .NET
9 79 (21.35%) Software Engineering
10 75 (20.27%) Python
11 66 (17.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 66 (17.84%) DevOps
12 65 (17.57%) TypeScript
13 61 (16.49%) Hedge funds
14 60 (16.22%) Front Office
15 55 (14.86%) React
16 54 (14.59%) GCP
16 54 (14.59%) Fixed Income
16 54 (14.59%) Banking
16 54 (14.59%) Derivative
17 53 (14.32%) SQL
18 50 (13.51%) Asset Management
19 49 (13.24%) Fintech
20 47 (12.70%) Equities
21 44 (11.89%) Investment Management
22 43 (11.62%) Line Management
23 39 (10.54%) Investment Banking
24 38 (10.27%) TDD

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 37 (10.00%) Apache
2 36 (9.73%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.14%) Drupal
4 18 (4.86%) CMS
5 13 (3.51%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.16%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.35%) Mendix
8 4 (1.08%) Confluence
9 3 (0.81%) Appian
9 3 (0.81%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.81%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Shopify
1 4 (1.08%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.81%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 148 (40.00%) AWS
2 91 (24.59%) Azure
3 54 (14.59%) GCP
4 36 (9.73%) dbt
5 32 (8.65%) Snowflake
6 30 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.95%) GitHub
8 20 (5.41%) Power Automate
8 20 (5.41%) PowerApps
8 20 (5.41%) SaaS
9 19 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.05%) Serverless
11 14 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.54%) Azure Functions
16 2 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.73%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (9.73%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (9.73%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (9.73%) Dremio
2 32 (8.65%) Data Lake
3 25 (6.76%) Power BI
4 21 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.78%) MySQL
5 14 (3.78%) Redis
6 12 (3.24%) Big Data
6 12 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.43%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.16%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.62%) 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 35 (9.46%) Git
2 8 (2.16%) Checkstyle
2 8 (2.16%) JUnit
2 8 (2.16%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.08%) JIRA
4 4 (1.08%) NUnit
5 3 (0.81%) MSTest
6 2 (0.54%) Gradle
6 2 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.27%) Appium
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.27%) Moq
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 103 (27.84%) Finance
2 60 (16.22%) Front Office
3 54 (14.59%) Banking
4 39 (10.54%) Investment Banking
5 25 (6.76%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.14%) Games
7 17 (4.59%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.05%) Tech for Good
9 12 (3.24%) Law
10 11 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.43%) Advertising
12 7 (1.89%) Marketing
13 5 (1.35%) 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 79 (21.35%) .NET
2 55 (14.86%) React
3 36 (9.73%) gRPC
3 36 (9.73%) NumPy
3 36 (9.73%) Pandas
3 36 (9.73%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (9.73%) SciPy
4 34 (9.19%) AngularJS
5 27 (7.30%) CSS
5 27 (7.30%) HTML
6 24 (6.49%) .NET Core
7 23 (6.22%) Vue
8 20 (5.41%) RESTful
8 20 (5.41%) Spring Boot
9 19 (5.14%) Spring
10 17 (4.59%) ASP.NET
10 17 (4.59%) Kafka
11 16 (4.32%) REST
12 15 (4.05%) Redux
13 11 (2.97%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (16.49%) Hedge funds
3 54 (14.59%) Derivative
3 54 (14.59%) Fixed Income
4 47 (12.70%) Equities
5 19 (5.14%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.81%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.81%) NHS
11 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.54%) ASIC
12 2 (0.54%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.05%) Linux
2 5 (1.35%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.92%) Agile
2 100 (27.03%) Mentoring
3 96 (25.95%) Full Stack Development
4 79 (21.35%) Software Engineering
5 66 (17.84%) DevOps
6 50 (13.51%) Asset Management
7 49 (13.24%) Fintech
8 44 (11.89%) Investment Management
9 43 (11.62%) Line Management
10 38 (10.27%) TDD
11 36 (9.73%) Computer Science
12 33 (8.92%) Front End Development
12 33 (8.92%) Microservices
13 31 (8.38%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (6.49%) Code Quality
15 24 (6.49%) E-Commerce
15 24 (6.49%) Low Latency
16 23 (6.22%) CI/CD
16 23 (6.22%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 107 (28.92%) Java
2 106 (28.65%) JavaScript
3 95 (25.68%) C#
4 75 (20.27%) Python
5 65 (17.57%) TypeScript
6 53 (14.32%) SQL
7 24 (6.49%) PHP
8 16 (4.32%) Scala
9 15 (4.05%) Ruby
10 11 (2.97%) C++
11 9 (2.43%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.16%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.16%) Rust
13 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 33 (8.92%) Degree
2 12 (3.24%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.62%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.76%) QA
2 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (10.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.16%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.51%) Aderant
2 13 (3.51%) iManage
3 11 (2.97%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.16%) Databricks
5 6 (1.62%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.81%) 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