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 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 271 247
Rank change year-on-year +68 -24 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 369 453 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.56% 1.32% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.39% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 321 376 625
10th Percentile £62,500 £64,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £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 22,274 32,686 65,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.09% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,684 24,117 34,486
10th Percentile £38,000 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +52 65 £85,000 - 7
South London - 6 £72,500 -
West London +6 5 £82,500 +3.13%
East London +11 2 £100,000 +21.21% 1
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 151 (40.92%) AWS
2 113 (30.62%) JavaScript
2 113 (30.62%) Agile
3 108 (29.27%) Java
3 108 (29.27%) Finance
4 99 (26.83%) Mentoring
5 97 (26.29%) C#
6 95 (25.75%) Full Stack Development
7 88 (23.85%) Azure
8 85 (23.04%) Software Engineering
9 82 (22.22%) Python
10 80 (21.68%) .NET
11 71 (19.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 70 (18.97%) TypeScript
13 67 (18.16%) Front Office
14 64 (17.34%) DevOps
15 62 (16.80%) Hedge funds
16 61 (16.53%) Banking
17 59 (15.99%) GCP
18 58 (15.72%) Derivative
19 56 (15.18%) Asset Management
19 56 (15.18%) Fixed Income
19 56 (15.18%) SQL
20 53 (14.36%) Equities
21 51 (13.82%) Line Management
21 51 (13.82%) React
22 47 (12.74%) Investment Banking
22 47 (12.74%) Fintech
23 45 (12.20%) Apache
24 44 (11.92%) SciPy

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 45 (12.20%) Apache
2 44 (11.92%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.15%) Drupal
4 18 (4.88%) CMS
5 13 (3.52%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.17%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.36%) Mendix
8 4 (1.08%) Confluence
9 3 (0.81%) Appian
10 2 (0.54%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.54%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Shopify
1 4 (1.08%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
2 2 (0.54%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 151 (40.92%) AWS
2 88 (23.85%) Azure
3 59 (15.99%) GCP
4 44 (11.92%) dbt
5 40 (10.84%) Snowflake
6 29 (7.86%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.15%) Power Automate
7 19 (5.15%) PowerApps
7 19 (5.15%) SaaS
8 18 (4.88%) GitHub
8 18 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.07%) Serverless
10 13 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.54%) Amazon Cognito
15 2 (0.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.92%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (11.92%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (11.92%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (11.92%) Dremio
2 40 (10.84%) Data Lake
3 25 (6.78%) Power BI
4 22 (5.96%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.79%) MySQL
5 14 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.79%) Redis
6 12 (3.25%) Big Data
7 9 (2.44%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.17%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.63%) 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 32 (8.67%) Git
2 8 (2.17%) Checkstyle
2 8 (2.17%) JUnit
2 8 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.08%) JIRA
4 4 (1.08%) MSTest
4 4 (1.08%) NUnit
5 2 (0.54%) Maven
5 2 (0.54%) Moq
6 1 (0.27%) Appium
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 108 (29.27%) Finance
2 67 (18.16%) Front Office
3 61 (16.53%) Banking
4 47 (12.74%) Investment Banking
5 23 (6.23%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.15%) Games
7 18 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.07%) Tech for Good
9 12 (3.25%) Law
10 11 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.44%) Advertising
12 7 (1.90%) Marketing
13 5 (1.36%) 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 80 (21.68%) .NET
2 51 (13.82%) React
3 44 (11.92%) gRPC
3 44 (11.92%) NumPy
3 44 (11.92%) Pandas
3 44 (11.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 44 (11.92%) SciPy
4 31 (8.40%) AngularJS
5 28 (7.59%) CSS
5 28 (7.59%) HTML
6 25 (6.78%) .NET Core
7 20 (5.42%) RESTful
7 20 (5.42%) Vue
8 16 (4.34%) ASP.NET
9 15 (4.07%) Spring Boot
10 14 (3.79%) Kafka
10 14 (3.79%) Spring
11 13 (3.52%) Redux
11 13 (3.52%) REST
12 10 (2.71%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 62 (16.80%) Hedge funds
3 58 (15.72%) Derivative
4 56 (15.18%) Fixed Income
5 53 (14.36%) Equities
6 19 (5.15%) Client/Server
7 15 (4.07%) Product Ownership
8 14 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.81%) NHS
12 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.54%) ASIC
13 2 (0.54%) FPGA
13 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.34%) Linux
2 7 (1.90%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (30.62%) Agile
2 99 (26.83%) Mentoring
3 95 (25.75%) Full Stack Development
4 85 (23.04%) Software Engineering
5 64 (17.34%) DevOps
6 56 (15.18%) Asset Management
7 51 (13.82%) Line Management
8 47 (12.74%) Fintech
9 44 (11.92%) Investment Management
10 35 (9.49%) Computer Science
11 34 (9.21%) Front End Development
11 34 (9.21%) TDD
12 33 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (8.13%) Microservices
14 25 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (6.78%) Low Latency
15 24 (6.50%) Code Quality
15 24 (6.50%) Design Patterns
15 24 (6.50%) Roadmaps
15 24 (6.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 113 (30.62%) JavaScript
2 108 (29.27%) Java
3 97 (26.29%) C#
4 82 (22.22%) Python
5 70 (18.97%) TypeScript
6 56 (15.18%) SQL
7 23 (6.23%) PHP
8 16 (4.34%) Scala
9 15 (4.07%) Ruby
10 11 (2.98%) C++
11 9 (2.44%) Rust
12 8 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.17%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 30 (8.13%) Degree
2 10 (2.71%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.23%) QA
2 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (9.49%) Docker
2 8 (2.17%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.52%) Aderant
2 13 (3.52%) iManage
3 11 (2.98%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.17%) Databricks
5 5 (1.36%) 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