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 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 277 240
Rank change year-on-year +82 -37 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 374 462 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.59% 1.30% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 1.37% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 324 384 636
10th Percentile £62,500 £63,900 £58,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,625 £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 22,182 33,800 63,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.04% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,716 24,768 34,902
10th Percentile £38,477 £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 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +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 29 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 29 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 +49 68 £90,000 +5.88% 8
South London +6 6 £72,500 -14.71%
West London -1 5 £82,500 +3.13%
East London +15 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 29 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.

1 152 (40.64%) AWS
2 111 (29.68%) JavaScript
2 111 (29.68%) Agile
3 110 (29.41%) Java
4 106 (28.34%) Finance
5 101 (27.01%) Mentoring
6 97 (25.94%) Full Stack Development
7 96 (25.67%) C#
8 91 (24.33%) Azure
9 83 (22.19%) Software Engineering
10 80 (21.39%) .NET
11 79 (21.12%) Python
12 70 (18.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 69 (18.45%) TypeScript
14 66 (17.65%) DevOps
15 65 (17.38%) Hedge funds
16 64 (17.11%) Front Office
17 58 (15.51%) Derivative
17 58 (15.51%) Fixed Income
17 58 (15.51%) Banking
17 58 (15.51%) GCP
18 54 (14.44%) React
18 54 (14.44%) Asset Management
19 53 (14.17%) SQL
20 51 (13.64%) Equities
21 49 (13.10%) Fintech
22 47 (12.57%) Line Management
23 45 (12.03%) Investment Management
24 43 (11.50%) Investment Banking
25 41 (10.96%) Apache

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 41 (10.96%) Apache
2 40 (10.70%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.08%) Drupal
4 18 (4.81%) CMS
5 13 (3.48%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.14%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.34%) Mendix
8 4 (1.07%) Confluence
9 3 (0.80%) Appian
9 3 (0.80%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.80%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Shopify
1 4 (1.07%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.80%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 152 (40.64%) AWS
2 91 (24.33%) Azure
3 58 (15.51%) GCP
4 40 (10.70%) dbt
5 36 (9.63%) Snowflake
6 30 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.88%) GitHub
8 20 (5.35%) Power Automate
8 20 (5.35%) PowerApps
8 20 (5.35%) SaaS
9 19 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.01%) Serverless
11 14 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
16 2 (0.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.70%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (10.70%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (10.70%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (10.70%) Dremio
2 36 (9.63%) Data Lake
3 25 (6.68%) Power BI
4 21 (5.61%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.74%) MySQL
5 14 (3.74%) Redis
6 12 (3.21%) Big Data
6 12 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.14%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (9.36%) Git
2 8 (2.14%) Checkstyle
2 8 (2.14%) JUnit
2 8 (2.14%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.07%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) NUnit
5 3 (0.80%) MSTest
6 2 (0.53%) Gradle
6 2 (0.53%) 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
1 106 (28.34%) Finance
2 64 (17.11%) Front Office
3 58 (15.51%) Banking
4 43 (11.50%) Investment Banking
5 25 (6.68%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.08%) Games
7 17 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.01%) Tech for Good
9 12 (3.21%) Law
10 11 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.41%) Advertising
12 7 (1.87%) Marketing
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.53%) Police
14 2 (0.53%) Retail
15 1 (0.27%) Automotive
15 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.39%) .NET
2 54 (14.44%) React
3 40 (10.70%) gRPC
3 40 (10.70%) NumPy
3 40 (10.70%) Pandas
3 40 (10.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 40 (10.70%) SciPy
4 33 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 28 (7.49%) CSS
5 28 (7.49%) HTML
6 25 (6.68%) .NET Core
7 23 (6.15%) Vue
8 20 (5.35%) RESTful
9 19 (5.08%) Spring Boot
10 18 (4.81%) Spring
11 17 (4.55%) ASP.NET
12 16 (4.28%) Kafka
13 15 (4.01%) Redux
13 15 (4.01%) REST
14 11 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (17.38%) Hedge funds
3 58 (15.51%) Derivative
3 58 (15.51%) Fixed Income
4 51 (13.64%) Equities
5 19 (5.08%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.80%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.80%) NHS
12 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.53%) ASIC
13 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.34%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (29.68%) Agile
2 101 (27.01%) Mentoring
3 97 (25.94%) Full Stack Development
4 83 (22.19%) Software Engineering
5 66 (17.65%) DevOps
6 54 (14.44%) Asset Management
7 49 (13.10%) Fintech
8 47 (12.57%) Line Management
9 45 (12.03%) Investment Management
10 38 (10.16%) TDD
11 36 (9.63%) Computer Science
12 34 (9.09%) Front End Development
13 33 (8.82%) Microservices
14 31 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (6.68%) E-Commerce
16 24 (6.42%) Code Quality
16 24 (6.42%) Low Latency
16 24 (6.42%) Roadmaps
17 23 (6.15%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 111 (29.68%) JavaScript
2 110 (29.41%) Java
3 96 (25.67%) C#
4 79 (21.12%) Python
5 69 (18.45%) TypeScript
6 53 (14.17%) SQL
7 24 (6.42%) PHP
8 16 (4.28%) Scala
9 15 (4.01%) Ruby
10 11 (2.94%) C++
11 9 (2.41%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.14%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.14%) Rust
13 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 33 (8.82%) Degree
2 12 (3.21%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.53%) 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 (6.68%) QA
2 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (9.89%) Docker
2 8 (2.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.48%) Aderant
2 13 (3.48%) iManage
3 11 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.14%) Databricks
5 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.80%) Mercator
7 2 (0.53%) Adobe
7 2 (0.53%) SAP
8 1 (0.27%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.27%) Murex
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud