Lead Software Developer Jobs in England

Lead Software Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 842 893
Rank change year-on-year +192 +51 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 173 99 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 163 93 190
10th Percentile £57,500 £54,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -8.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +160 60 £142,500 +42.50% 5
South East +60 55 £80,000 +6.67% 6
North of England +70 34 £70,000 - 8
North West +23 22 £70,000 +7.69% 5
East of England +29 9 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands +8 9 £75,000 +15.38%
West Midlands +33 8 £75,000 +57.07%
Yorkshire +100 6 £60,000 -22.58% 1
North East - 6 £65,000 - 2
South West -29 5 £72,500 +45.00%
East Midlands -22 1 £65,000 -
Lead Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 England region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 118 (68.21%) Agile
2 95 (54.91%) JavaScript
3 90 (52.02%) C#
4 82 (47.40%) .NET
5 79 (45.66%) Software Engineering
6 75 (43.35%) Finance
7 70 (40.46%) AWS
7 70 (40.46%) TypeScript
8 60 (34.68%) Java
9 48 (27.75%) GCP
10 47 (27.17%) Hedge funds
10 47 (27.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (27.17%) Front Office
10 47 (27.17%) Fixed Income
10 47 (27.17%) Equities
10 47 (27.17%) Derivative
10 47 (27.17%) Asset Management
11 44 (25.43%) Investment Management
12 43 (24.86%) Banking
12 43 (24.86%) Azure
13 41 (23.70%) React
14 40 (23.12%) Kubernetes
14 40 (23.12%) Docker
14 40 (23.12%) Mentoring
14 40 (23.12%) Python
15 37 (21.39%) gRPC
16 36 (20.81%) Apache Airflow
16 36 (20.81%) Amazon Athena
16 36 (20.81%) Apache Ignite
16 36 (20.81%) Pandas

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (20.81%) Apache
1 36 (20.81%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.73%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.46%) AWS
2 48 (27.75%) GCP
3 43 (24.86%) Azure
4 36 (20.81%) dbt
5 32 (18.50%) Snowflake
6 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.05%) Pulumi
8 3 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.73%) SaaS
8 3 (1.73%) Serverless
9 2 (1.16%) PaaS
10 1 (0.58%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) Network Security
2 5 (2.89%) Internet
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.81%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (20.81%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (20.81%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (20.81%) Dremio
2 32 (18.50%) Data Lake
3 28 (16.18%) NoSQL
4 17 (9.83%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.47%) MySQL
6 3 (1.73%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.73%) Redis
7 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (10.98%) Visual Studio
2 16 (9.25%) Git
3 7 (4.05%) Jasmine
3 7 (4.05%) NUnit
3 7 (4.05%) Selenium
3 7 (4.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (4.05%) TeamCity
3 7 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.47%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.31%) Maven
6 3 (1.73%) Gradle
7 1 (0.58%) Appium
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) GitLab
7 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 75 (43.35%) Finance
2 47 (27.17%) Front Office
3 43 (24.86%) Banking
4 36 (20.81%) Investment Banking
5 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.94%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.89%) Games
6 5 (2.89%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.31%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Electronics
9 1 (0.58%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (47.40%) .NET
2 41 (23.70%) React
3 37 (21.39%) gRPC
4 36 (20.81%) NumPy
4 36 (20.81%) Pandas
4 36 (20.81%) Protocol Buffers
4 36 (20.81%) SciPy
5 20 (11.56%) ASP.NET
6 17 (9.83%) AngularJS
6 17 (9.83%) RESTful
7 15 (8.67%) Vue
8 13 (7.51%) .NET Core
9 12 (6.94%) JSON
10 11 (6.36%) .NET Framework
10 11 (6.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (6.36%) CSS
10 11 (6.36%) Redux
11 9 (5.20%) HTML
12 7 (4.05%) HTML5
12 7 (4.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.17%) Derivative
1 47 (27.17%) Equities
1 47 (27.17%) Fixed Income
1 47 (27.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 47 (27.17%) Hedge funds
2 11 (6.36%) Digital Media
3 7 (4.05%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.47%) IoT
4 6 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.31%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.31%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) e-Health
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.16%) Mobile Games
7 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.36%) Windows
2 6 (3.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Android
3 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (68.21%) Agile
2 79 (45.66%) Software Engineering
3 47 (27.17%) Asset Management
4 44 (25.43%) Investment Management
5 40 (23.12%) Mentoring
6 36 (20.81%) DevOps
7 32 (18.50%) Line Management
8 29 (16.76%) Computer Science
9 26 (15.03%) Propensity Modelling
10 24 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
11 22 (12.72%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (12.14%) Microservices
13 20 (11.56%) Multithreading
13 20 (11.56%) Unit Testing
14 18 (10.40%) Fintech
15 17 (9.83%) TDD
16 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
17 14 (8.09%) Code Quality
17 14 (8.09%) Technical Leadership
17 14 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (54.91%) JavaScript
2 90 (52.02%) C#
3 70 (40.46%) TypeScript
4 60 (34.68%) Java
5 40 (23.12%) Python
6 26 (15.03%) SQL
7 18 (10.40%) C
8 12 (6.94%) C++
9 7 (4.05%) Bicep
10 4 (2.31%) Ruby
10 4 (2.31%) Scala
10 4 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.73%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.16%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (16.76%) Degree
2 23 (13.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (23.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.62%) Terraform
3 7 (4.05%) MIIS
4 1 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Kiali
4 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle