Lead Developer Jobs in the City of London

Lead Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Developer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 177 171
Rank change year-on-year +48 -6 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 50 63 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.49% 1.33% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.38% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 47 59 104
10th Percentile £62,500 £70,600 £62,525
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £106,500 £105,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £123,500 £111,750
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +2.94%

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 3,218 4,574 6,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,850 5,640
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the City of London

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the City of London

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 City of London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 20 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 17 (34.00%) Docker
3 17 (34.00%) Finance
4 16 (32.00%) DevOps
4 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
4 16 (32.00%) Fintech
5 15 (30.00%) Agile
6 14 (28.00%) C#
7 13 (26.00%) JavaScript
7 13 (26.00%) .NET
8 11 (22.00%) Java
8 11 (22.00%) RESTful
8 11 (22.00%) Azure
9 10 (20.00%) Git
10 9 (18.00%) SDLC
11 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
11 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
11 8 (16.00%) AngularJS
12 7 (14.00%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
12 7 (14.00%) React
12 7 (14.00%) SQL
12 7 (14.00%) CMS
13 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
13 6 (12.00%) Clean Code
13 6 (12.00%) Banking
13 6 (12.00%) Drupal
13 6 (12.00%) jQuery
13 6 (12.00%) Unit Testing

Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) CMS
2 6 (12.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.00%) MySQL
2 5 (10.00%) Redis
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Gradle
4 1 (2.00%) Moq
4 1 (2.00%) MSTest
General
1 17 (34.00%) Finance
2 6 (12.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Front Office
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) .NET
2 11 (22.00%) RESTful
3 8 (16.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (14.00%) React
5 6 (12.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (12.00%) jQuery
6 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (10.00%) CSS
6 5 (10.00%) HTML
6 5 (10.00%) Laravel
6 5 (10.00%) Vue
7 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (8.00%) JSON
7 4 (8.00%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (8.00%) Spring
7 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
7 4 (8.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (8.00%) Web Services
7 4 (8.00%) XML
8 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
2 16 (32.00%) DevOps
2 16 (32.00%) Fintech
2 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
3 15 (30.00%) Agile
4 9 (18.00%) SDLC
5 6 (12.00%) Clean Code
5 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
5 6 (12.00%) MVC
5 6 (12.00%) Unit Testing
6 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.00%) Microservices
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) Scrum
7 4 (8.00%) Web Development
8 3 (6.00%) Analytics
8 3 (6.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (6.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) C#
2 13 (26.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (22.00%) Java
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) PHP
5 5 (10.00%) Python
6 4 (8.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (34.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow