Lead Software Developer Jobs in London

Lead Software Developer
England > London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in London is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 446 594
Rank change year-on-year +55 +148 +136
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 8 64 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.063% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.29% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 60 37
10th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £69,625 £127,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £142,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +42.50% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £165,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £172,500 £133,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +16.13% -8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 11,488 22,226 33,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,726 24,705
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Serverless
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (37.50%) QA
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Time Management
3 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (37.50%) Publishing
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Extreme Programming
3 3 (37.50%) Tech for Good
3 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
3 3 (37.50%) Health Technology
3 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills

Lead Software 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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
2 3 (37.50%) Power Automate
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Health Technology
1 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Publishing
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Tech for Good
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) React
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (37.50%) API Development
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Coaching
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Operational Stability
2 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
2 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
2 3 (37.50%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
22 Lead Software Developer jobs in England