Lead Developer Jobs in London

Lead Developer
England > London

The median Lead Developer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 272 255
Rank change year-on-year +74 -17 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 405 386 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.65% 1.22% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.29% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 356 327 611
10th Percentile £59,625 £64,050 £57,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,146 30,010 71,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,034 22,517 35,164
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +40 61 £85,000 - 2
South London - 7 £72,500 -
West London -3 5 £82,500 +3.13% 1
East London +17 2 £100,000 +21.21% 10
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 job ads across the London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 164 (40.49%) AWS
2 128 (31.60%) Finance
2 128 (31.60%) Agile
3 127 (31.36%) JavaScript
4 124 (30.62%) Java
5 104 (25.68%) Python
6 102 (25.19%) Software Engineering
7 89 (21.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 88 (21.73%) TypeScript
8 88 (21.73%) Mentoring
9 86 (21.23%) Full Stack Development
9 86 (21.23%) C#
10 83 (20.49%) Front Office
11 81 (20.00%) Banking
12 78 (19.26%) Hedge funds
13 75 (18.52%) Azure
13 75 (18.52%) Derivative
13 75 (18.52%) GCP
14 74 (18.27%) Asset Management
15 72 (17.78%) Fixed Income
16 71 (17.53%) Equities
17 70 (17.28%) Line Management
17 70 (17.28%) .NET
18 69 (17.04%) Investment Banking
19 67 (16.54%) Apache
20 66 (16.30%) SciPy
20 66 (16.30%) NumPy
20 66 (16.30%) Protocol Buffers
20 66 (16.30%) Pandas
20 66 (16.30%) gRPC

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

Application Platforms
1 67 (16.54%) Apache
2 66 (16.30%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (4.94%) Drupal
4 18 (4.44%) CMS
5 12 (2.96%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.23%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.23%) Mendix
7 4 (0.99%) Confluence
8 3 (0.74%) Appian
9 2 (0.49%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.49%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Shopify
1 4 (0.99%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
2 2 (0.49%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 164 (40.49%) AWS
2 75 (18.52%) Azure
2 75 (18.52%) GCP
3 66 (16.30%) dbt
4 62 (15.31%) Snowflake
5 27 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 21 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.69%) SaaS
8 17 (4.20%) Power Automate
8 17 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 16 (3.95%) GitHub
10 10 (2.47%) Serverless
11 9 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.74%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (16.30%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (16.30%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (16.30%) Apache Ignite
1 66 (16.30%) Dremio
2 62 (15.31%) Data Lake
3 23 (5.68%) Power BI
4 19 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.46%) MySQL
5 14 (3.46%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.21%) Redis
7 9 (2.22%) Big Data
8 7 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.48%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.23%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (7.41%) Git
2 7 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.23%) Checkstyle
3 5 (1.23%) JUnit
3 5 (1.23%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.99%) JIRA
5 3 (0.74%) MSTest
5 3 (0.74%) NUnit
6 2 (0.49%) Maven
6 2 (0.49%) Moq
7 1 (0.25%) Appium
7 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (31.60%) Finance
2 83 (20.49%) Front Office
3 81 (20.00%) Banking
4 69 (17.04%) Investment Banking
5 19 (4.69%) Games
5 19 (4.69%) Social Skills
6 18 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.20%) Tech for Good
8 12 (2.96%) Law
9 10 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.22%) Advertising
11 6 (1.48%) Marketing
12 5 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.49%) Legal
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.49%) Police
14 2 (0.49%) Retail
14 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.25%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.28%) .NET
2 66 (16.30%) gRPC
2 66 (16.30%) NumPy
2 66 (16.30%) Pandas
2 66 (16.30%) Protocol Buffers
2 66 (16.30%) SciPy
3 46 (11.36%) React
4 24 (5.93%) AngularJS
4 24 (5.93%) CSS
4 24 (5.93%) HTML
5 23 (5.68%) .NET Core
6 19 (4.69%) RESTful
7 15 (3.70%) Vue
8 14 (3.46%) ASP.NET
9 13 (3.21%) Kafka
10 11 (2.72%) Spring Boot
11 10 (2.47%) REST
11 10 (2.47%) Ruby on Rails
11 10 (2.47%) Spring
12 9 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 89 (21.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 78 (19.26%) Hedge funds
3 75 (18.52%) Derivative
4 72 (17.78%) Fixed Income
5 71 (17.53%) Equities
6 16 (3.95%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.73%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.73%) Virtual Reality
9 6 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.23%) NHS
10 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.49%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.98%) Unix
3 3 (0.74%) Android
4 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (31.60%) Agile
2 102 (25.19%) Software Engineering
3 88 (21.73%) Mentoring
4 86 (21.23%) Full Stack Development
5 74 (18.27%) Asset Management
6 70 (17.28%) Line Management
7 58 (14.32%) DevOps
8 44 (10.86%) Investment Management
9 42 (10.37%) Fintech
10 33 (8.15%) Front End Development
11 31 (7.65%) Computer Science
11 31 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (7.16%) TDD
13 26 (6.42%) Low Latency
14 25 (6.17%) Microservices
15 24 (5.93%) Roadmaps
15 24 (5.93%) SOLID
16 23 (5.68%) Code Quality
16 23 (5.68%) Multithreading
16 23 (5.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 127 (31.36%) JavaScript
2 124 (30.62%) Java
3 104 (25.68%) Python
4 88 (21.73%) TypeScript
5 86 (21.23%) C#
6 57 (14.07%) SQL
7 22 (5.43%) PHP
8 16 (3.95%) Scala
9 15 (3.70%) Ruby
10 10 (2.47%) C++
10 10 (2.47%) Rust
11 9 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.74%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 27 (6.67%) Degree
2 9 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.74%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) PhD
6 1 (0.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (8.40%) Docker
2 5 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.21%) Aderant
2 13 (3.21%) iManage
3 11 (2.72%) ServiceNow
4 8 (1.98%) Databricks
4 8 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.48%) Bloomberg
5 6 (1.48%) Reuters
6 5 (1.23%) Progress
7 3 (0.74%) Mercator
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe
8 2 (0.49%) SAP
9 1 (0.25%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.25%) Murex
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud