Lead Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 257 260
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 435 572 974
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.29% 1.32% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.38% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 400 466 684
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,833 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £117,236 £108,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +9.49%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,462 41,558 65,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,940 29,452 41,851
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,503 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +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 April 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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 165 (37.93%) C#
1 165 (37.93%) JavaScript
2 153 (35.17%) .NET
3 145 (33.33%) Agile
4 141 (32.41%) AWS
5 125 (28.74%) Mentoring
6 115 (26.44%) Azure
7 114 (26.21%) SQL
8 105 (24.14%) TypeScript
9 103 (23.68%) Java
10 83 (19.08%) HTML
10 83 (19.08%) React
11 82 (18.85%) CSS
12 81 (18.62%) Full Stack Development
13 80 (18.39%) Finance
14 76 (17.47%) Software Engineering
15 74 (17.01%) Social Skills
16 64 (14.71%) Microservices
17 60 (13.79%) DevOps
17 60 (13.79%) Python
18 59 (13.56%) SQL Server
19 58 (13.33%) Degree
20 53 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
21 52 (11.95%) Web Development
22 51 (11.72%) RESTful
22 51 (11.72%) .NET Core
23 48 (11.03%) Vue
23 48 (11.03%) Design Patterns
24 47 (10.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 46 (10.57%) GCP

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 37 (8.51%) Apache
2 36 (8.28%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.37%) IIS
4 8 (1.84%) Appian
4 8 (1.84%) CMS
5 7 (1.61%) WordPress
6 4 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.69%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.46%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) Mule
9 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 10 (2.30%) Shopify
2 8 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.46%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 141 (32.41%) AWS
2 115 (26.44%) Azure
3 46 (10.57%) GCP
4 36 (8.28%) dbt
5 33 (7.59%) Snowflake
6 28 (6.44%) SaaS
7 27 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.75%) Serverless
9 14 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.22%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.07%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.84%) PaaS
12 7 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.61%) GitHub
12 7 (1.61%) Pulumi
13 6 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.15%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.37%) DNS
1 19 (4.37%) Firewall
1 19 (4.37%) SSL
1 19 (4.37%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.61%) Network Security
3 3 (0.69%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 36 (8.28%) Amazon Athena
2 36 (8.28%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (8.28%) Apache Ignite
2 36 (8.28%) Dremio
3 32 (7.36%) Data Lake
4 26 (5.98%) MySQL
5 21 (4.83%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.76%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.53%) Redis
8 9 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.38%) Power BI
10 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.15%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.69%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (4.37%) Git
1 19 (4.37%) Visual Studio
2 15 (3.45%) NUnit
3 10 (2.30%) Selenium
3 10 (2.30%) TeamCity
4 9 (2.07%) GitLab
5 8 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.61%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.61%) Postman
6 7 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.92%) MSTest
8 3 (0.69%) Gradle
8 3 (0.69%) Moq
8 3 (0.69%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.69%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.23%) GitKraken
9 1 (0.23%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 80 (18.39%) Finance
2 74 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.97%) Banking
3 39 (8.97%) Investment Banking
4 38 (8.74%) Front Office
5 16 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.45%) Games
6 15 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.38%) Retail
9 5 (1.15%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.15%) Marketing
9 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.69%) Legal
11 2 (0.46%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Back Office
12 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.23%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (35.17%) .NET
2 83 (19.08%) HTML
2 83 (19.08%) React
3 82 (18.85%) CSS
4 51 (11.72%) .NET Core
4 51 (11.72%) RESTful
5 48 (11.03%) Vue
6 43 (9.89%) AngularJS
7 42 (9.66%) ASP.NET
8 38 (8.74%) .NET Framework
9 36 (8.28%) gRPC
9 36 (8.28%) NumPy
9 36 (8.28%) Pandas
9 36 (8.28%) Protocol Buffers
9 36 (8.28%) SciPy
10 32 (7.36%) REST
11 27 (6.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 26 (5.98%) jQuery
12 26 (5.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 25 (5.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 43 (9.89%) Hedge funds
3 40 (9.20%) Fixed Income
4 39 (8.97%) Derivative
5 36 (8.28%) Equities
6 22 (5.06%) Client/Server
7 21 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (4.37%) Mobile App
9 14 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (2.53%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.07%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.07%) Low-Code
12 9 (2.07%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.84%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.38%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.38%) NHS
14 6 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
15 4 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
15 4 (0.92%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.60%) Windows
2 13 (2.99%) Android
3 12 (2.76%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.69%) Linux
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (33.33%) Agile
2 125 (28.74%) Mentoring
3 81 (18.62%) Full Stack Development
4 76 (17.47%) Software Engineering
5 64 (14.71%) Microservices
6 60 (13.79%) DevOps
7 53 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (11.95%) Web Development
9 48 (11.03%) Design Patterns
10 45 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 45 (10.34%) Code Quality
10 45 (10.34%) Scrum
11 44 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (9.89%) Line Management
13 41 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (8.97%) Roadmaps
15 36 (8.28%) Asset Management
16 35 (8.05%) Coaching
17 34 (7.82%) TDD
18 33 (7.59%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 165 (37.93%) C#
1 165 (37.93%) JavaScript
2 114 (26.21%) SQL
3 105 (24.14%) TypeScript
4 103 (23.68%) Java
5 60 (13.79%) Python
6 23 (5.29%) PHP
7 19 (4.37%) XAML
8 18 (4.14%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.76%) Swift
10 9 (2.07%) C
11 7 (1.61%) Bicep
11 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.38%) C++
13 5 (1.15%) Ada
14 4 (0.92%) Ruby
14 4 (0.92%) Scala
15 3 (0.69%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (13.33%) Degree
2 18 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.76%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.36%) QA
2 7 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (10.11%) Docker
2 10 (2.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.52%) Terraform
3 7 (1.61%) MIIS
Vendors
1 45 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.15%) Oracle
4 4 (0.92%) Google
5 3 (0.69%) Northgate
6 2 (0.46%) SAP
7 1 (0.23%) Murex
7 1 (0.23%) Xamarin