Lead Software Developer Jobs in London

Lead Software Developer
England > London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in London is £142,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 591 742
Rank change year-on-year +150 +151 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 67 39 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 63 36 112
10th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £127,500 £82,500 £84,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £142,500 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +2.56% +21.88%
75th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,625 £143,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £78,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.35% +21.43%

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 22,079 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,593 24,087 34,614
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 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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software 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 Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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 - 7 £85,000 -
South London - 2 £81,500 -
Lead Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 64 (95.52%) Agile
2 61 (91.04%) JavaScript
3 59 (88.06%) AWS
4 55 (82.09%) Finance
4 55 (82.09%) Software Engineering
4 55 (82.09%) GCP
5 54 (80.60%) Hedge funds
5 54 (80.60%) TypeScript
5 54 (80.60%) Asset Management
5 54 (80.60%) Derivative
5 54 (80.60%) Front Office
5 54 (80.60%) Fixed Income
5 54 (80.60%) Equities
5 54 (80.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (74.63%) Java
7 45 (67.16%) Investment Management
8 44 (65.67%) Investment Banking
8 44 (65.67%) Banking
8 44 (65.67%) Apache
8 44 (65.67%) Python
8 44 (65.67%) Protocol Buffers
8 44 (65.67%) SciPy
8 44 (65.67%) NumPy
8 44 (65.67%) gRPC
8 44 (65.67%) Apache Airflow
8 44 (65.67%) Amazon Athena
8 44 (65.67%) Apache Ignite
8 44 (65.67%) Pandas
8 44 (65.67%) Apache Arrow
8 44 (65.67%) Dremio

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:

Application Platforms
1 44 (65.67%) Apache
1 44 (65.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 59 (88.06%) AWS
2 55 (82.09%) GCP
3 44 (65.67%) dbt
4 40 (59.70%) Snowflake
5 16 (23.88%) Azure
6 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (65.67%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (65.67%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (65.67%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (65.67%) Dremio
2 40 (59.70%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Git
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) Appium
2 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
General
1 55 (82.09%) Finance
2 54 (80.60%) Front Office
3 44 (65.67%) Banking
3 44 (65.67%) Investment Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Law
5 1 (1.49%) Marketing
5 1 (1.49%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (65.67%) gRPC
1 44 (65.67%) NumPy
1 44 (65.67%) Pandas
1 44 (65.67%) Protocol Buffers
1 44 (65.67%) SciPy
2 15 (22.39%) .NET
3 13 (19.40%) AngularJS
4 12 (17.91%) React
5 11 (16.42%) Vue
6 10 (14.93%) ASP.NET
6 10 (14.93%) ASP.NET Core
6 10 (14.93%) Redux
7 8 (11.94%) RESTful
8 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (4.48%) jQuery
9 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.49%) JSON
10 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 54 (80.60%) Derivative
1 54 (80.60%) Equities
1 54 (80.60%) Fixed Income
1 54 (80.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 54 (80.60%) Hedge funds
2 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.99%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Android
1 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (95.52%) Agile
2 55 (82.09%) Software Engineering
3 54 (80.60%) Asset Management
4 45 (67.16%) Investment Management
5 40 (59.70%) Line Management
6 19 (28.36%) Mentoring
7 18 (26.87%) DevOps
8 15 (22.39%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (17.91%) TDD
10 10 (14.93%) Fintech
11 8 (11.94%) Code Quality
12 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.45%) Microservices
13 6 (8.96%) Clean Code
13 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (7.46%) Design Patterns
14 5 (7.46%) Unit Testing
15 4 (5.97%) Analytics
15 4 (5.97%) Data Architecture
15 4 (5.97%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (91.04%) JavaScript
2 54 (80.60%) TypeScript
3 50 (74.63%) Java
4 44 (65.67%) Python
5 15 (22.39%) C#
6 4 (5.97%) Ruby
6 4 (5.97%) Scala
7 3 (4.48%) SQL
8 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes