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 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 244 260 262
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 447 538 998
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.33% 1.29% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.35% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 413 448 702
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,833 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £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 32,295 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,770 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,733 £36,250
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,025 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 7 May 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 7 May 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.

1 175 (39.15%) JavaScript
2 167 (37.36%) C#
3 155 (34.68%) .NET
4 154 (34.45%) Agile
5 145 (32.44%) AWS
6 126 (28.19%) Mentoring
7 118 (26.40%) Azure
8 117 (26.17%) SQL
9 114 (25.50%) TypeScript
10 107 (23.94%) Java
11 87 (19.46%) Finance
12 86 (19.24%) HTML
13 84 (18.79%) CSS
13 84 (18.79%) Software Engineering
14 83 (18.57%) React
15 81 (18.12%) Full Stack Development
16 73 (16.33%) Social Skills
17 68 (15.21%) Python
18 64 (14.32%) Microservices
19 61 (13.65%) DevOps
20 59 (13.20%) Degree
21 58 (12.98%) SQL Server
22 55 (12.30%) GCP
23 54 (12.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 53 (11.86%) .NET Core
24 53 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
25 52 (11.63%) Line Management
25 52 (11.63%) Web Development
26 51 (11.41%) RESTful
27 50 (11.19%) Hedge funds

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 45 (10.07%) Apache
2 44 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.25%) IIS
4 8 (1.79%) Appian
4 8 (1.79%) CMS
5 7 (1.57%) WordPress
6 4 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.67%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.45%) Drupal
8 2 (0.45%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.45%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.22%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Mule
Business Applications
1 10 (2.24%) Shopify
2 9 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.45%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 145 (32.44%) AWS
2 118 (26.40%) Azure
3 55 (12.30%) GCP
4 44 (9.84%) dbt
5 41 (9.17%) Snowflake
6 28 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (6.26%) SaaS
7 25 (5.59%) Serverless
8 14 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.79%) PaaS
9 8 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.57%) GitHub
10 7 (1.57%) Pulumi
11 6 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.25%) DNS
1 19 (4.25%) Firewall
1 19 (4.25%) SSL
1 19 (4.25%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.57%) Network Security
3 4 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 44 (9.84%) Amazon Athena
2 44 (9.84%) Apache Arrow
2 44 (9.84%) Apache Ignite
2 44 (9.84%) Dremio
3 40 (8.95%) Data Lake
4 28 (6.26%) MySQL
5 22 (4.92%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.68%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.46%) Redis
8 9 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.34%) Power BI
10 6 (1.34%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.12%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.67%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (4.25%) Git
2 18 (4.03%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.13%) NUnit
4 10 (2.24%) Selenium
4 10 (2.24%) TeamCity
5 9 (2.01%) GitLab
6 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.57%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.57%) Postman
7 7 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.89%) MSTest
9 3 (0.67%) Moq
9 3 (0.67%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.67%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.22%) GitKraken
10 1 (0.22%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.22%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (19.46%) Finance
2 73 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.51%) Banking
3 47 (10.51%) Investment Banking
4 46 (10.29%) Front Office
5 16 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.36%) Games
6 15 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.34%) Retail
8 6 (1.34%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.12%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.12%) Marketing
10 3 (0.67%) Legal
11 2 (0.45%) Back Office
11 2 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.22%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (34.68%) .NET
2 86 (19.24%) HTML
3 84 (18.79%) CSS
4 83 (18.57%) React
5 53 (11.86%) .NET Core
6 51 (11.41%) RESTful
7 48 (10.74%) Vue
8 44 (9.84%) gRPC
8 44 (9.84%) NumPy
8 44 (9.84%) Pandas
8 44 (9.84%) Protocol Buffers
8 44 (9.84%) SciPy
9 42 (9.40%) AngularJS
10 41 (9.17%) ASP.NET
11 38 (8.50%) .NET Framework
12 31 (6.94%) REST
13 27 (6.04%) ASP.NET MVC
13 27 (6.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 26 (5.82%) jQuery
15 25 (5.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (11.19%) Hedge funds
3 47 (10.51%) Fixed Income
4 46 (10.29%) Derivative
5 44 (9.84%) Equities
6 22 (4.92%) Client/Server
7 21 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (4.25%) Mobile App
9 13 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.46%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 9 (2.01%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.79%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.57%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.34%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.34%) NHS
15 5 (1.12%) IoT
16 4 (0.89%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.47%) Windows
2 13 (2.91%) Android
3 12 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.67%) Linux
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (34.45%) Agile
2 126 (28.19%) Mentoring
3 84 (18.79%) Software Engineering
4 81 (18.12%) Full Stack Development
5 64 (14.32%) Microservices
6 61 (13.65%) DevOps
7 53 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (11.63%) Line Management
8 52 (11.63%) Web Development
9 49 (10.96%) Design Patterns
10 46 (10.29%) Code Quality
11 45 (10.07%) Scrum
12 44 (9.84%) Asset Management
12 44 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (9.17%) CI/CD
13 41 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (9.17%) Roadmaps
14 35 (7.83%) Coaching
14 35 (7.83%) Investment Management
15 32 (7.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 175 (39.15%) JavaScript
2 167 (37.36%) C#
3 117 (26.17%) SQL
4 114 (25.50%) TypeScript
5 107 (23.94%) Java
6 68 (15.21%) Python
7 24 (5.37%) PHP
8 19 (4.25%) XAML
9 18 (4.03%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.68%) Swift
11 10 (2.24%) C
12 7 (1.57%) Bicep
12 7 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.12%) Ada
13 5 (1.12%) C++
14 4 (0.89%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.89%) Ruby
14 4 (0.89%) Scala
15 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (13.20%) Degree
2 19 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.91%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.89%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.16%) QA
2 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (8.95%) Docker
2 10 (2.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.70%) Terraform
3 7 (1.57%) MIIS
Vendors
1 44 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.12%) Oracle
4 4 (0.89%) Google
5 3 (0.67%) Northgate
6 2 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.22%) Murex
7 1 (0.22%) Xamarin