Lead Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Developer salary in Work from Home is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 604 716
Rank change year-on-year +116 +112 -249
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 87 71 109
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 81 67 75
10th Percentile £66,250 £54,150 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £94,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £122,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +21.43%

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 32,487 41,727 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 96.06% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,529 41,700
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £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 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software 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 Software Developer.

Lead Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Software Developer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Lead Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 61 (70.11%) Agile
2 57 (65.52%) JavaScript
3 53 (60.92%) AWS
4 45 (51.72%) Java
5 43 (49.43%) Finance
6 40 (45.98%) Software Engineering
7 37 (42.53%) TypeScript
8 36 (41.38%) Pandas
8 36 (41.38%) Protocol Buffers
8 36 (41.38%) GCP
8 36 (41.38%) Apache Arrow
8 36 (41.38%) gRPC
8 36 (41.38%) Apache Airflow
8 36 (41.38%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (41.38%) Apache Ignite
8 36 (41.38%) Dremio
8 36 (41.38%) dbt
8 36 (41.38%) Banking
8 36 (41.38%) Asset Management
8 36 (41.38%) Front Office
8 36 (41.38%) Fixed Income
8 36 (41.38%) Equities
8 36 (41.38%) Apache
8 36 (41.38%) Python
8 36 (41.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 36 (41.38%) Investment Banking
8 36 (41.38%) Derivative
8 36 (41.38%) Hedge funds
8 36 (41.38%) SciPy
8 36 (41.38%) NumPy

Lead Software 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 36 (41.38%) Apache
1 36 (41.38%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (60.92%) AWS
2 36 (41.38%) dbt
2 36 (41.38%) GCP
3 32 (36.78%) Snowflake
4 23 (26.44%) Azure
5 10 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.05%) Pulumi
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.45%) SaaS
8 3 (3.45%) Serverless
9 1 (1.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) Network Security
2 3 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (41.38%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (41.38%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (41.38%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (41.38%) Dremio
2 32 (36.78%) Data Lake
3 11 (12.64%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.75%) MySQL
5 4 (4.60%) Redis
6 3 (3.45%) Couchbase
6 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Git
2 8 (9.20%) Visual Studio
3 7 (8.05%) Jasmine
3 7 (8.05%) NUnit
3 7 (8.05%) Selenium
3 7 (8.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (8.05%) TeamCity
3 7 (8.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.15%) GitKraken
5 1 (1.15%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (1.15%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (49.43%) Finance
2 36 (41.38%) Banking
2 36 (41.38%) Front Office
2 36 (41.38%) Investment Banking
3 10 (11.49%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Games
5 5 (5.75%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.15%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.15%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (41.38%) gRPC
1 36 (41.38%) NumPy
1 36 (41.38%) Pandas
1 36 (41.38%) Protocol Buffers
1 36 (41.38%) SciPy
2 28 (32.18%) .NET
3 17 (19.54%) RESTful
4 11 (12.64%) CSS
5 10 (11.49%) .NET Core
5 10 (11.49%) .NET Framework
6 9 (10.34%) ASP.NET
6 9 (10.34%) HTML
7 8 (9.20%) Entity Framework
8 7 (8.05%) ARM Templates
8 7 (8.05%) HTML5
8 7 (8.05%) OpenID
8 7 (8.05%) React
9 6 (6.90%) Node.js
10 3 (3.45%) Spring
10 3 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.38%) Derivative
1 36 (41.38%) Equities
1 36 (41.38%) Fixed Income
1 36 (41.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 36 (41.38%) Hedge funds
2 7 (8.05%) Client/Server
3 6 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.60%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (4.60%) IoT
4 4 (4.60%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.30%) e-Health
6 2 (2.30%) Mobile Games
6 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.15%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (70.11%) Agile
2 40 (45.98%) Software Engineering
3 36 (41.38%) Asset Management
4 33 (37.93%) Investment Management
4 33 (37.93%) Line Management
5 17 (19.54%) DevOps
5 17 (19.54%) Mentoring
5 17 (19.54%) Microservices
6 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.64%) Code Quality
7 11 (12.64%) Scrum
8 10 (11.49%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (10.34%) Design Patterns
9 9 (10.34%) Multithreading
9 9 (10.34%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.34%) Web Development
10 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.20%) Unit Testing
11 7 (8.05%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 57 (65.52%) JavaScript
2 45 (51.72%) Java
3 37 (42.53%) TypeScript
4 36 (41.38%) Python
5 34 (39.08%) C#
6 20 (22.99%) SQL
7 9 (10.34%) C
8 7 (8.05%) Bicep
9 4 (4.60%) Ruby
9 4 (4.60%) Scala
9 4 (4.60%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.45%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 7 (8.05%) MIIS
Vendors
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle