Lead Software Developer Jobs in Central London

Lead Software Developer
London > Central London

The median Lead Software Developer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 - 288
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 7 0 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.18% - 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 26
10th Percentile - - £70,000
25th Percentile £82,500 - £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.73%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £93,750
90th Percentile - - £101,250
London median annual salary £135,000 £100,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% +2.56% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,633 4,753 8,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 96.02% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 3,925 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Lead Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in Central London

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in Central London.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in Central London

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 7 £85,000 -
Lead Software Developer
London

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (71.43%) Clean Code
2 5 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Clean Code
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes