Lead Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer salary in Work from Home is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 268 269
Rank change year-on-year +35 +1 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 464 511 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.37% 1.26% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.32% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 429 426 698
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,833 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £117,236 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +7.14%

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 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £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 £93,750 £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 17 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 17 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.

1 177 (38.15%) JavaScript
2 167 (35.99%) C#
3 158 (34.05%) Agile
4 155 (33.41%) .NET
5 146 (31.47%) AWS
6 124 (26.72%) Mentoring
7 118 (25.43%) TypeScript
8 117 (25.22%) Azure
9 114 (24.57%) SQL
10 109 (23.49%) Java
11 91 (19.61%) Finance
12 88 (18.97%) Software Engineering
13 85 (18.32%) React
14 83 (17.89%) Full Stack Development
14 83 (17.89%) HTML
15 81 (17.46%) CSS
16 73 (15.73%) Python
17 72 (15.52%) Social Skills
18 63 (13.58%) Microservices
19 59 (12.72%) DevOps
19 59 (12.72%) GCP
20 58 (12.50%) Degree
21 57 (12.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 57 (12.28%) Line Management
22 56 (12.07%) SQL Server
23 54 (11.64%) .NET Core
24 53 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
24 53 (11.42%) Hedge funds
25 51 (10.99%) Investment Banking
25 51 (10.99%) Web Development

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 49 (10.56%) Apache
2 48 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.09%) IIS
4 8 (1.72%) Appian
5 7 (1.51%) CMS
5 7 (1.51%) WordPress
6 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.65%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.43%) Drupal
8 2 (0.43%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.43%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.22%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Mule
Business Applications
1 11 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.16%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.43%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 146 (31.47%) AWS
2 117 (25.22%) Azure
3 59 (12.72%) GCP
4 48 (10.34%) dbt
5 45 (9.70%) Snowflake
6 29 (6.25%) SaaS
7 28 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.39%) Serverless
9 14 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.02%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.72%) PaaS
11 8 (1.72%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.51%) GitHub
12 7 (1.51%) Pulumi
13 6 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.09%) DNS
1 19 (4.09%) Firewall
1 19 (4.09%) SSL
1 19 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.51%) Network Security
3 4 (0.86%) Internet
4 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 48 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (10.34%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (10.34%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (10.34%) Dremio
3 44 (9.48%) Data Lake
4 26 (5.60%) MySQL
5 22 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.59%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.37%) Redis
8 8 (1.72%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.29%) Power BI
9 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.08%) Couchbase
11 4 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (4.09%) Git
2 18 (3.88%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.02%) NUnit
4 10 (2.16%) Selenium
4 10 (2.16%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.94%) GitLab
6 8 (1.72%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.51%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.51%) Postman
7 7 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.86%) MSTest
9 3 (0.65%) Moq
9 3 (0.65%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.65%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.22%) GitKraken
10 1 (0.22%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.22%) Maven
10 1 (0.22%) ReSharper
General
1 91 (19.61%) Finance
2 72 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.99%) Banking
3 51 (10.99%) Investment Banking
4 50 (10.78%) Front Office
5 17 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.23%) Games
6 15 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.29%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.08%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.08%) Marketing
9 5 (1.08%) Retail
10 3 (0.65%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.22%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.22%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (33.41%) .NET
2 85 (18.32%) React
3 83 (17.89%) HTML
4 81 (17.46%) CSS
5 54 (11.64%) .NET Core
6 49 (10.56%) RESTful
7 48 (10.34%) gRPC
7 48 (10.34%) NumPy
7 48 (10.34%) Pandas
7 48 (10.34%) Protocol Buffers
7 48 (10.34%) SciPy
7 48 (10.34%) Vue
8 42 (9.05%) AngularJS
9 40 (8.62%) ASP.NET
10 38 (8.19%) .NET Framework
11 30 (6.47%) REST
12 27 (5.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 26 (5.60%) ASP.NET MVC
13 26 (5.60%) jQuery
14 25 (5.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (11.42%) Hedge funds
3 50 (10.78%) Fixed Income
4 49 (10.56%) Derivative
5 48 (10.34%) Equities
6 22 (4.74%) Client/Server
7 21 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (4.09%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.94%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.94%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.72%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.29%) NHS
15 5 (1.08%) IoT
16 4 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.31%) Windows
2 13 (2.80%) Android
3 12 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.43%) Linux
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (34.05%) Agile
2 124 (26.72%) Mentoring
3 88 (18.97%) Software Engineering
4 83 (17.89%) Full Stack Development
5 63 (13.58%) Microservices
6 59 (12.72%) DevOps
7 57 (12.28%) Line Management
8 53 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (10.99%) Web Development
10 49 (10.56%) Design Patterns
11 48 (10.34%) Asset Management
12 46 (9.91%) Code Quality
13 44 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (9.48%) Scrum
14 43 (9.27%) Technical Leadership
15 42 (9.05%) Roadmaps
16 37 (7.97%) CI/CD
17 36 (7.76%) Investment Management
18 35 (7.54%) Coaching
19 32 (6.90%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 177 (38.15%) JavaScript
2 167 (35.99%) C#
3 118 (25.43%) TypeScript
4 114 (24.57%) SQL
5 109 (23.49%) Java
6 73 (15.73%) Python
7 24 (5.17%) PHP
8 19 (4.09%) XAML
9 18 (3.88%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.59%) Swift
11 10 (2.16%) C
12 7 (1.51%) Bicep
13 6 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.08%) Ada
15 4 (0.86%) C++
15 4 (0.86%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.86%) Ruby
15 4 (0.86%) Scala
16 3 (0.65%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 58 (12.50%) Degree
2 18 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.86%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.90%) QA
2 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (8.62%) Docker
2 10 (2.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.53%) Terraform
3 7 (1.51%) MIIS
Vendors
1 43 (9.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.02%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.08%) Google
4 4 (0.86%) Oracle
5 3 (0.65%) Northgate
6 2 (0.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.22%) Murex
7 1 (0.22%) Xamarin