Lead Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer salary in Work from Home is £71,500 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 220 294 275
Rank change year-on-year +74 -19 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 536 420 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.11% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.15% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 489 369 704
10th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +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 33,942 36,431 73,676
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.95% 97.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25,713 26,497 43,021
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,436
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,242 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +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 8 June 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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 200 (37.31%) JavaScript
2 183 (34.14%) Agile
3 178 (33.21%) C#
4 173 (32.28%) AWS
5 164 (30.60%) .NET
6 136 (25.37%) TypeScript
7 129 (24.07%) Java
8 125 (23.32%) Mentoring
9 122 (22.76%) SQL
10 116 (21.64%) Azure
11 107 (19.96%) Software Engineering
11 107 (19.96%) Finance
12 93 (17.35%) Python
13 89 (16.60%) React
14 86 (16.04%) Full Stack Development
15 83 (15.49%) HTML
16 80 (14.93%) CSS
17 79 (14.74%) GCP
18 77 (14.37%) Line Management
19 74 (13.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 70 (13.06%) Hedge funds
21 69 (12.87%) Social Skills
21 69 (12.87%) Investment Banking
21 69 (12.87%) Banking
22 68 (12.69%) Front Office
23 67 (12.50%) Fixed Income
24 66 (12.31%) Equities
24 66 (12.31%) Apache
24 66 (12.31%) Derivative
24 66 (12.31%) Asset Management

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 66 (12.31%) Apache
1 66 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.54%) IIS
3 8 (1.49%) Appian
4 7 (1.31%) WordPress
5 5 (0.93%) CMS
6 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.37%) Drupal
8 2 (0.37%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.37%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 13 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.87%) Shopify
3 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.37%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 173 (32.28%) AWS
2 116 (21.64%) Azure
3 79 (14.74%) GCP
4 66 (12.31%) dbt
5 63 (11.75%) Snowflake
6 32 (5.97%) SaaS
7 30 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (4.85%) Serverless
9 15 (2.80%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.49%) PaaS
14 7 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.31%) GitHub
14 7 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.54%) DNS
1 19 (3.54%) Firewall
1 19 (3.54%) SSL
1 19 (3.54%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.31%) Network Security
3 4 (0.75%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.31%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (12.31%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (12.31%) Apache Ignite
1 66 (12.31%) Dremio
2 62 (11.57%) Data Lake
3 56 (10.45%) SQL Server
4 29 (5.41%) MySQL
5 21 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.24%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.05%) Redis
8 9 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.31%) Power BI
10 6 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.93%) Couchbase
12 4 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.73%) Git
2 18 (3.36%) Visual Studio
3 13 (2.43%) NUnit
4 10 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.87%) Selenium
4 10 (1.87%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.68%) GitLab
6 7 (1.31%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.31%) Postman
6 7 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.56%) Moq
7 3 (0.56%) MSTest
7 3 (0.56%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 107 (19.96%) Finance
2 69 (12.87%) Banking
2 69 (12.87%) Investment Banking
2 69 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 68 (12.69%) Front Office
4 18 (3.36%) Games
5 17 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.31%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.31%) Tech for Good
8 6 (1.12%) Retail
9 5 (0.93%) Marketing
10 3 (0.56%) Automotive
10 3 (0.56%) Legal
10 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.37%) Back Office
11 2 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.19%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (30.60%) .NET
2 89 (16.60%) React
3 83 (15.49%) HTML
4 80 (14.93%) CSS
5 66 (12.31%) gRPC
5 66 (12.31%) NumPy
5 66 (12.31%) Pandas
5 66 (12.31%) Protocol Buffers
5 66 (12.31%) SciPy
6 57 (10.63%) .NET Core
7 48 (8.96%) RESTful
7 48 (8.96%) Vue
8 42 (7.84%) AngularJS
9 41 (7.65%) ASP.NET
10 39 (7.28%) .NET Framework
11 30 (5.60%) REST
12 28 (5.22%) Node.js
12 28 (5.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 27 (5.04%) WPF
14 26 (4.85%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 70 (13.06%) Hedge funds
3 67 (12.50%) Fixed Income
4 66 (12.31%) Derivative
4 66 (12.31%) Equities
5 22 (4.10%) Client/Server
5 22 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.73%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.68%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.49%) NHS
11 7 (1.31%) IoT
12 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.93%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.73%) Windows
2 14 (2.61%) Android
3 13 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.37%) Linux
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (34.14%) Agile
2 125 (23.32%) Mentoring
3 107 (19.96%) Software Engineering
4 86 (16.04%) Full Stack Development
5 77 (14.37%) Line Management
6 66 (12.31%) Asset Management
7 61 (11.38%) DevOps
7 61 (11.38%) Microservices
8 55 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (9.33%) Design Patterns
10 49 (9.14%) Web Development
11 46 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (8.21%) Scrum
13 43 (8.02%) Code Quality
14 42 (7.84%) Roadmaps
15 39 (7.28%) CI/CD
15 39 (7.28%) Investment Management
16 36 (6.72%) TDD
17 35 (6.53%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 200 (37.31%) JavaScript
2 178 (33.21%) C#
3 136 (25.37%) TypeScript
4 129 (24.07%) Java
5 122 (22.76%) SQL
6 93 (17.35%) Python
7 24 (4.48%) PHP
8 19 (3.54%) Kotlin
8 19 (3.54%) XAML
9 12 (2.24%) Swift
10 10 (1.87%) C
11 8 (1.49%) Scala
12 7 (1.31%) Ada
12 7 (1.31%) Bicep
13 6 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.93%) C++
15 4 (0.75%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.75%) Ruby
16 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (10.82%) Degree
2 19 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (3.54%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.43%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.72%) QA
2 7 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (7.65%) Docker
2 10 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.92%) Terraform
3 7 (1.31%) MIIS
Vendors
1 51 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.61%) ServiceNow
3 6 (1.12%) Bloomberg
3 6 (1.12%) Reuters
4 5 (0.93%) Google
5 4 (0.75%) Oracle
6 3 (0.56%) Northgate
7 2 (0.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.19%) Murex
8 1 (0.19%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.19%) Xamarin