Lead Software Developer Jobs in England

Lead Software Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in England is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 831 932
Rank change year-on-year +182 +101 -180
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 184 90 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 171 87 186
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £52,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -8.82% +25.93%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +25.93%

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 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +143 69 £135,000 +35.00% 5
South East +30 53 £72,500 -3.33% 4
North of England +83 39 £70,000 - 3
North West +26 27 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +11 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -12 8 £75,000 +15.38% 1
West Midlands +17 7 £75,000 +57.07%
Yorkshire +87 6 £60,000 -22.58%
North East - 6 £65,000 -
South West -26 5 £72,500 +11.54%
East Midlands -16 1 - - 1
Lead Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 124 (67.39%) Agile
2 104 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 90 (48.91%) Software Engineering
4 88 (47.83%) C#
5 84 (45.65%) Finance
6 80 (43.48%) .NET
7 79 (42.93%) AWS
8 77 (41.85%) TypeScript
9 74 (40.22%) Java
10 58 (31.52%) GCP
11 56 (30.43%) Hedge funds
11 56 (30.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 56 (30.43%) Front Office
11 56 (30.43%) Fixed Income
11 56 (30.43%) Equities
11 56 (30.43%) Asset Management
11 56 (30.43%) Derivative
12 55 (29.89%) Banking
13 54 (29.35%) Python
14 48 (26.09%) Apache
14 48 (26.09%) Investment Banking
14 48 (26.09%) SciPy
14 48 (26.09%) NumPy
14 48 (26.09%) Pandas
14 48 (26.09%) Protocol Buffers
14 48 (26.09%) gRPC
14 48 (26.09%) Apache Airflow
14 48 (26.09%) Amazon Athena
14 48 (26.09%) Apache Arrow
14 48 (26.09%) Apache Ignite

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 48 (26.09%) Apache
1 48 (26.09%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (42.93%) AWS
2 58 (31.52%) GCP
3 48 (26.09%) dbt
4 44 (23.91%) Snowflake
5 38 (20.65%) Azure
6 10 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.80%) Pulumi
8 6 (3.26%) SaaS
9 4 (2.17%) PaaS
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.63%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.63%) Serverless
11 1 (0.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) Network Security
2 6 (3.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.09%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (26.09%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (26.09%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (26.09%) Dremio
2 44 (23.91%) Data Lake
3 28 (15.22%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.26%) MySQL
6 3 (1.63%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.63%) Redis
7 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (10.33%) Visual Studio
2 16 (8.70%) Git
3 7 (3.80%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.80%) NUnit
3 7 (3.80%) Selenium
3 7 (3.80%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.80%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.80%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.17%) Maven
6 3 (1.63%) Gradle
7 1 (0.54%) Appium
7 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) GitLab
7 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (45.65%) Finance
2 56 (30.43%) Front Office
3 55 (29.89%) Banking
4 48 (26.09%) Investment Banking
5 12 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.52%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.72%) Games
6 5 (2.72%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.17%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Electronics
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Marketing
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (43.48%) .NET
2 48 (26.09%) gRPC
2 48 (26.09%) NumPy
2 48 (26.09%) Pandas
2 48 (26.09%) Protocol Buffers
2 48 (26.09%) SciPy
3 36 (19.57%) React
4 16 (8.70%) ASP.NET
4 16 (8.70%) RESTful
5 15 (8.15%) .NET Core
6 14 (7.61%) AngularJS
7 13 (7.07%) Vue
8 12 (6.52%) JSON
9 11 (5.98%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.43%) CSS
11 8 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (4.35%) HTML
11 8 (4.35%) Redux
12 7 (3.80%) ARM Templates
12 7 (3.80%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (30.43%) Derivative
1 56 (30.43%) Equities
1 56 (30.43%) Fixed Income
1 56 (30.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 56 (30.43%) Hedge funds
2 11 (5.98%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.80%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.80%) IoT
4 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.17%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.17%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.09%) e-Health
7 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.09%) Mobile Games
7 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.98%) Windows
2 6 (3.26%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (67.39%) Agile
2 90 (48.91%) Software Engineering
3 56 (30.43%) Asset Management
4 44 (23.91%) Investment Management
4 44 (23.91%) Line Management
5 36 (19.57%) Mentoring
6 34 (18.48%) DevOps
7 26 (14.13%) Computer Science
8 24 (13.04%) Propensity Modelling
9 23 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
10 22 (11.96%) Microservices
11 20 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 20 (10.87%) Multithreading
12 19 (10.33%) Unit Testing
13 16 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (8.15%) Code Quality
14 15 (8.15%) Fintech
14 15 (8.15%) Test Automation
15 13 (7.07%) TDD
15 13 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 104 (56.52%) JavaScript
2 88 (47.83%) C#
3 77 (41.85%) TypeScript
4 74 (40.22%) Java
5 54 (29.35%) Python
6 29 (15.76%) SQL
7 19 (10.33%) C
8 12 (6.52%) C++
9 7 (3.80%) Bicep
10 4 (2.17%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.17%) Ruby
10 4 (2.17%) Scala
11 3 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.09%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.09%) PHP
13 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (14.13%) Degree
2 20 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.98%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.09%) BC Cleared
5 2 (1.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (20.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (20.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.35%) Terraform
3 7 (3.80%) MIIS
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Kiali
4 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle
3 1 (0.54%) Google