Lead Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 283 296
Rank change year-on-year +111 +13 -110
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 546 357 985
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.09% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.14% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 501 327 650
10th Percentile £47,000 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £103,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +5.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Developer.

Lead Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Lead Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 213 (39.01%) Agile
2 201 (36.81%) JavaScript
3 197 (36.08%) AWS
4 155 (28.39%) Software Engineering
5 152 (27.84%) TypeScript
6 149 (27.29%) Java
7 141 (25.82%) Finance
8 140 (25.64%) Python
9 134 (24.54%) Line Management
10 125 (22.89%) C#
11 124 (22.71%) .NET
12 122 (22.34%) dbt
13 114 (20.88%) GCP
14 111 (20.33%) SQL
14 111 (20.33%) Azure
15 107 (19.60%) Fixed Income
16 106 (19.41%) Equities
16 106 (19.41%) Front Office
16 106 (19.41%) Banking
16 106 (19.41%) Asset Management
16 106 (19.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 106 (19.41%) Apache
16 106 (19.41%) Investment Banking
16 106 (19.41%) Derivative
16 106 (19.41%) Hedge funds
16 106 (19.41%) SciPy
16 106 (19.41%) NumPy
16 106 (19.41%) Pandas
16 106 (19.41%) Protocol Buffers
16 106 (19.41%) Dremio

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 106 (19.41%) Apache
1 106 (19.41%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.48%) IIS
3 8 (1.47%) Appian
4 6 (1.10%) WordPress
5 5 (0.92%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.73%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Drupal
7 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.18%) Mendix
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 197 (36.08%) AWS
2 122 (22.34%) dbt
3 114 (20.88%) GCP
4 111 (20.33%) Azure
5 103 (18.86%) Snowflake
6 35 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (4.40%) SaaS
10 17 (3.11%) Serverless
11 12 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.83%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.47%) PaaS
15 7 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.28%) Pulumi
16 6 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.48%) DNS
1 19 (3.48%) Firewall
1 19 (3.48%) SSL
1 19 (3.48%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.28%) Network Security
3 3 (0.55%) Internet
4 2 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (19.41%) Amazon Athena
1 106 (19.41%) Apache Arrow
1 106 (19.41%) Apache Ignite
1 106 (19.41%) Dremio
2 102 (18.68%) Data Lake
3 49 (8.97%) SQL Server
4 17 (3.11%) MySQL
5 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.28%) Power BI
8 6 (1.10%) Redis
8 6 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.55%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.37%) Big Data
12 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (3.48%) Git
2 13 (2.38%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.01%) Selenium
5 10 (1.83%) GitLab
6 8 (1.47%) NUnit
6 8 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.28%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.92%) Postman
9 4 (0.73%) Moq
9 4 (0.73%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.73%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.37%) GitKraken
10 2 (0.37%) JetBrains Rider
10 2 (0.37%) ReSharper
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 141 (25.82%) Finance
2 106 (19.41%) Banking
2 106 (19.41%) Front Office
2 106 (19.41%) Investment Banking
3 61 (11.17%) Social Skills
4 20 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.20%) Games
6 12 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
8 5 (0.92%) Retail
8 5 (0.92%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.55%) Back Office
9 3 (0.55%) Legal
9 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.37%) Automotive
10 2 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.37%) Marketing
10 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (22.71%) .NET
2 106 (19.41%) gRPC
2 106 (19.41%) NumPy
2 106 (19.41%) Pandas
2 106 (19.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 106 (19.41%) SciPy
3 72 (13.19%) React
4 68 (12.45%) HTML
5 65 (11.90%) CSS
6 45 (8.24%) .NET Core
7 39 (7.14%) Vue
8 38 (6.96%) AngularJS
9 37 (6.78%) ASP.NET
10 34 (6.23%) Node.js
11 30 (5.49%) .NET Framework
11 30 (5.49%) PySpark
12 29 (5.31%) RESTful
13 27 (4.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 26 (4.76%) REST
15 25 (4.58%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.60%) Fixed Income
2 106 (19.41%) Derivative
2 106 (19.41%) Equities
2 106 (19.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 106 (19.41%) Hedge funds
3 21 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 10 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.65%) Low-Code
6 9 (1.65%) NHS
6 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.10%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.10%) IoT
10 5 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.73%) Kindle
11 4 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.66%) Windows
2 11 (2.01%) Android
3 10 (1.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (39.01%) Agile
2 155 (28.39%) Software Engineering
3 134 (24.54%) Line Management
4 106 (19.41%) Asset Management
5 96 (17.58%) Mentoring
6 67 (12.27%) Full Stack Development
7 58 (10.62%) DevOps
8 50 (9.16%) Microservices
9 49 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
10 43 (7.88%) Code Quality
10 43 (7.88%) Investment Management
10 43 (7.88%) TDD
11 40 (7.33%) Coaching
11 40 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (7.14%) CI/CD
13 38 (6.96%) Roadmaps
13 38 (6.96%) Web Development
14 36 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (6.23%) Migration
15 34 (6.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 201 (36.81%) JavaScript
2 152 (27.84%) TypeScript
3 149 (27.29%) Java
4 140 (25.64%) Python
5 125 (22.89%) C#
6 111 (20.33%) SQL
7 19 (3.48%) XAML
8 16 (2.93%) PHP
9 12 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.83%) Scala
11 8 (1.47%) Swift
12 7 (1.28%) Bicep
13 6 (1.10%) C
14 5 (0.92%) Ada
15 4 (0.73%) C++
15 4 (0.73%) Ruby
15 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.55%) Delphi
16 3 (0.55%) Embedded C
16 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (6.23%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.04%) Degree
3 20 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.49%) QA
2 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.10%) WCAG
4 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (6.78%) Docker
2 8 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.75%) Terraform
3 7 (1.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 36 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.49%) Bloomberg
2 30 (5.49%) Reuters
3 14 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 7 (1.28%) Google
5 4 (0.73%) Oracle
6 2 (0.37%) Northgate
6 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.37%) SAP
7 1 (0.18%) Databricks
7 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.18%) Murex
7 1 (0.18%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.18%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.18%) Xamarin