Lead Software Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 662 568
Rank change year-on-year +88 -94 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 275 296 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 227 179 301
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% +10.71%

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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 +83 115 £115,000 +13.02% 48
South East +58 52 £75,000 -6.25% 14
South West +20 44 £65,000 -9.72% 6
North of England +40 38 £70,000 -6.67% 12
North West +17 29 £70,000 +14.75% 5
Midlands +13 24 £85,000 +47.83% 8
West Midlands +37 16 £85,000 +47.83% 6
Yorkshire +77 8 £68,000 -14.61% 5
East Midlands -20 8 £86,250 +46.81% 2
East of England +9 2 £72,500 - 2
North East -2 1 £74,000 +13.85% 2
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Lead Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 120 (43.64%) Agile
3 115 (41.82%) JavaScript
4 97 (35.27%) Java
5 86 (31.27%) Python
6 80 (29.09%) AWS
7 77 (28.00%) Finance
8 69 (25.09%) TypeScript
9 67 (24.36%) C#
9 67 (24.36%) .NET
10 62 (22.55%) Azure
11 59 (21.45%) GCP
12 58 (21.09%) Mentoring
13 56 (20.36%) SQL
14 52 (18.91%) Investment Management
15 49 (17.82%) DevOps
16 48 (17.45%) Front Office
17 47 (17.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 47 (17.09%) Asset Management
17 47 (17.09%) Equities
17 47 (17.09%) Fixed Income
17 47 (17.09%) Derivative
17 47 (17.09%) Hedge funds
18 46 (16.73%) Social Skills
19 41 (14.91%) C++
20 40 (14.55%) Linux
20 40 (14.55%) Apache
20 40 (14.55%) Microservices
21 39 (14.18%) React
22 38 (13.82%) Banking

Lead Software Engineer 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 40 (14.55%) Apache
2 36 (13.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Drupal
4 2 (0.73%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.73%) Simulink
3 1 (0.36%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.09%) AWS
2 62 (22.55%) Azure
3 59 (21.45%) GCP
4 36 (13.09%) dbt
5 32 (11.64%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.09%) Serverless
7 13 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.82%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.82%) GitHub
12 5 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.82%) SaaS
13 4 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (1.09%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (1.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.18%) RS-485
2 4 (1.45%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.45%) HTTP
2 4 (1.45%) RS-232
2 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.45%) Wireless
2 4 (1.45%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.73%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.73%) 5G
3 2 (0.73%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.09%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (13.09%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (13.09%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (13.09%) Dremio
2 32 (11.64%) Data Lake
3 16 (5.82%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.73%) MySQL
5 12 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.18%) CouchDB
9 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.45%) Redis
12 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 11 (4.00%) Git
2 8 (2.91%) Gradle
3 7 (2.55%) GitLab
3 7 (2.55%) JIRA
4 6 (2.18%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.45%) CANoe
7 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.09%) Selenium
8 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.73%) Subversion
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) JUnit
9 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (28.00%) Finance
2 48 (17.45%) Front Office
3 46 (16.73%) Social Skills
4 38 (13.82%) Banking
5 36 (13.09%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.64%) Retail
7 9 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.91%) Legal
9 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.18%) Aviation
10 6 (2.18%) Military
11 5 (1.82%) Law
11 5 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.45%) Automotive
12 4 (1.45%) Multimedia
13 3 (1.09%) Electronics
13 3 (1.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (24.36%) .NET
2 39 (14.18%) React
3 37 (13.45%) AngularJS
4 36 (13.09%) gRPC
4 36 (13.09%) NumPy
4 36 (13.09%) Pandas
4 36 (13.09%) Protocol Buffers
4 36 (13.09%) SciPy
5 35 (12.73%) .NET Core
6 31 (11.27%) HTML
7 29 (10.55%) CSS
8 22 (8.00%) Spring
9 20 (7.27%) .NET Framework
10 19 (6.91%) ASP.NET
10 19 (6.91%) Spring Boot
11 17 (6.18%) Hibernate
12 16 (5.82%) Vue
13 15 (5.45%) XML
14 14 (5.09%) JSON
14 14 (5.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.09%) Derivative
1 47 (17.09%) Equities
1 47 (17.09%) Fixed Income
1 47 (17.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 47 (17.09%) Hedge funds
2 24 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.18%) Client/Server
4 14 (5.09%) Algorithms
4 14 (5.09%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (3.64%) Legacy Code
7 9 (3.27%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.55%) Robotics
9 6 (2.18%) PropTech
9 6 (2.18%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.82%) Device Driver
10 5 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.55%) Linux
2 21 (7.64%) Windows
3 8 (2.91%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Android
6 2 (0.73%) CentOS
6 2 (0.73%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 120 (43.64%) Agile
3 58 (21.09%) Mentoring
4 52 (18.91%) Investment Management
5 49 (17.82%) DevOps
6 47 (17.09%) Asset Management
7 40 (14.55%) Microservices
8 36 (13.09%) Line Management
9 32 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (9.45%) Computer Science
11 25 (9.09%) Fintech
12 24 (8.73%) CI/CD
13 23 (8.36%) Full Stack Development
14 22 (8.00%) TDD
14 22 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (7.27%) Scrum
16 19 (6.91%) Coaching
16 19 (6.91%) Test Automation
17 15 (5.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (41.82%) JavaScript
2 97 (35.27%) Java
3 86 (31.27%) Python
4 69 (25.09%) TypeScript
5 67 (24.36%) C#
6 56 (20.36%) SQL
7 41 (14.91%) C++
8 35 (12.73%) C
9 21 (7.64%) Go
10 14 (5.09%) Scala
11 12 (4.36%) Rust
12 9 (3.27%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.55%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.18%) VB.NET
15 5 (1.82%) Haskell
15 5 (1.82%) Swift
16 4 (1.45%) Ruby
17 3 (1.09%) PHP
18 2 (0.73%) Assembly Language
18 2 (0.73%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (8.00%) Degree
2 16 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.82%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) OCP
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.73%) QA
2 4 (1.45%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.45%) IEC 61508
2 4 (1.45%) ISO 26262
2 4 (1.45%) MISRA
2 4 (1.45%) MISRA C
System Software
1 35 (12.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (2.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) Istio
3 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.91%) Red Hat
3 4 (1.45%) Google
4 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.73%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.73%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace