Lead Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 189 298
Rank change year-on-year -161 +109 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 123 607 386
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 1.76% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.83% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 96 554 342
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,125 £96,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £141,250 £146,250 £106,200
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +3.33%

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 18,642 33,194 34,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 96.26% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,397 25,043 25,467
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -11.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,688
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Lead Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Lead Developer over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 68 (55.28%) JavaScript
2 46 (37.40%) React
3 43 (34.96%) C#
3 43 (34.96%) Agile
4 42 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (29.27%) Mentoring
6 35 (28.46%) Azure
6 35 (28.46%) Software Engineering
6 35 (28.46%) .NET
7 31 (25.20%) AWS
7 31 (25.20%) DevOps
8 30 (24.39%) Java
8 30 (24.39%) Python
9 28 (22.76%) TypeScript
9 28 (22.76%) Social Skills
10 27 (21.95%) Microsoft
11 26 (21.14%) SQL Server
11 26 (21.14%) CI/CD
12 24 (19.51%) HTML
12 24 (19.51%) Node.js
13 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (17.89%) SQL
15 19 (15.45%) Finance
15 19 (15.45%) CSS
16 18 (14.63%) Front End Development
16 18 (14.63%) Power Platform
17 17 (13.82%) .NET Core
17 17 (13.82%) SDLC
17 17 (13.82%) REST
17 17 (13.82%) Line Management

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 8 (6.50%) CMS
1 8 (6.50%) WordPress
2 7 (5.69%) Drupal
2 7 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Moqups
2 1 (0.81%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Shopify
2 8 (6.50%) Magento
3 6 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.46%) Azure
2 31 (25.20%) AWS
3 18 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 17 (13.82%) SaaS
5 16 (13.01%) PowerApps
6 10 (8.13%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (8.13%) GitHub
6 10 (8.13%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.50%) BigCommerce
9 7 (5.69%) Serverless
10 6 (4.88%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.44%) GCP
13 2 (1.63%) IaaS
14 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
14 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.81%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.14%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.57%) Power BI
3 10 (8.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.44%) MySQL
7 3 (2.44%) Tableau
8 2 (1.63%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.81%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) JIRA
2 8 (6.50%) Git
3 5 (4.07%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.63%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.63%) Gradle
5 2 (1.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) Checkstyle
6 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.81%) GitLab
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Mockito
6 1 (0.81%) NUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.81%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 28 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Finance
3 12 (9.76%) Front Office
3 12 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (9.76%) Retail
4 10 (8.13%) Games
5 9 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.25%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.63%) Back Office
8 2 (1.63%) Banking
8 2 (1.63%) iGaming
8 2 (1.63%) Legal
8 2 (1.63%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (37.40%) React
2 35 (28.46%) .NET
3 24 (19.51%) HTML
3 24 (19.51%) Node.js
4 19 (15.45%) CSS
5 17 (13.82%) .NET Core
5 17 (13.82%) REST
6 15 (12.20%) Redux
7 13 (10.57%) AngularJS
8 12 (9.76%) GraphQL
9 11 (8.94%) Kafka
10 8 (6.50%) ASP.NET
10 8 (6.50%) Django
11 7 (5.69%) FastAPI
11 7 (5.69%) Vue
12 6 (4.88%) SOAP
12 6 (4.88%) Web Services
13 5 (4.07%) React Native
13 5 (4.07%) RESTful
14 4 (3.25%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) Cloud Native
1 10 (8.13%) Fixed Income
1 10 (8.13%) Mobile App
2 8 (6.50%) EPoS
3 5 (4.07%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.63%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Android
2 3 (2.44%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.96%) Agile
2 42 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (29.27%) Mentoring
4 35 (28.46%) Software Engineering
5 31 (25.20%) DevOps
6 26 (21.14%) CI/CD
7 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (14.63%) Front End Development
9 17 (13.82%) Line Management
9 17 (13.82%) SDLC
10 16 (13.01%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.20%) E-Commerce
12 14 (11.38%) Microservices
12 14 (11.38%) TDD
13 11 (8.94%) Portfolio Management
13 11 (8.94%) Scrum
14 10 (8.13%) Investment Management
14 10 (8.13%) OOP
14 10 (8.13%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (55.28%) JavaScript
2 43 (34.96%) C#
3 30 (24.39%) Java
3 30 (24.39%) Python
4 28 (22.76%) TypeScript
5 22 (17.89%) SQL
6 11 (8.94%) Go
7 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.50%) Delphi
9 5 (4.07%) C++
9 5 (4.07%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.25%) PHP
11 3 (2.44%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.63%) C
12 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.63%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.63%) Swift
13 1 (0.81%) Dart
13 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (11.38%) Degree
2 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) QA
2 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (10.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.63%) Google
3 2 (1.63%) Mercator
3 2 (1.63%) New Relic
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe
4 1 (0.81%) Apple
4 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.81%) eFront
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle
4 1 (0.81%) WooCommerce