Lead Software Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 641 559
Rank change year-on-year +101 -82 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 308 283 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.34% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 239 173 314
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +19.35% +10.71%
75th Percentile £125,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £156,000 £135,693 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.66% +5.81% +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 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 11 May 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 11 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 +100 138 £125,000 +22.85% 48
South East +38 57 £75,000 -6.25% 16
South West -4 44 £65,000 -9.72% 4
North of England +41 42 £70,000 -12.10% 9
North West +18 31 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Midlands +1 25 £85,000 +47.83% 7
West Midlands +25 18 £85,000 +47.83% 5
Yorkshire +70 10 £68,000 -14.61% 2
East Midlands -24 7 £95,000 +61.70% 2
East of England +16 2 £72,500 - 5
North East - 1 £74,000 - 2
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 308 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 133 (43.18%) Agile
3 122 (39.61%) JavaScript
4 116 (37.66%) Java
5 104 (33.77%) Python
6 95 (30.84%) Finance
7 94 (30.52%) AWS
8 78 (25.32%) TypeScript
9 73 (23.70%) GCP
10 68 (22.08%) .NET
11 65 (21.10%) C#
12 63 (20.45%) Azure
13 57 (18.51%) Mentoring
14 55 (17.86%) Front Office
14 55 (17.86%) Asset Management
15 54 (17.53%) SQL
15 54 (17.53%) Investment Management
16 53 (17.21%) Hedge funds
16 53 (17.21%) Apache
16 53 (17.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 53 (17.21%) Fixed Income
16 53 (17.21%) Equities
16 53 (17.21%) Derivative
17 49 (15.91%) Kubernetes
18 47 (15.26%) Social Skills
18 47 (15.26%) DevOps
19 46 (14.94%) dbt
19 46 (14.94%) Apache Airflow
19 46 (14.94%) Amazon Athena
20 45 (14.61%) 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 53 (17.21%) Apache
2 46 (14.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.65%) Drupal
6 2 (0.65%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.65%) Simulink
3 1 (0.32%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (30.52%) AWS
2 73 (23.70%) GCP
3 63 (20.45%) Azure
4 46 (14.94%) dbt
5 40 (12.99%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.55%) Serverless
7 12 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.25%) GitHub
9 10 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.60%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.95%) SaaS
12 5 (1.62%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) RS-485
2 4 (1.30%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.30%) HTTP
2 4 (1.30%) RS-232
2 4 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.30%) Wireless
2 4 (1.30%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.65%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.65%) 5G
3 2 (0.65%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.94%) Amazon Athena
2 44 (14.29%) Apache Arrow
2 44 (14.29%) Apache Ignite
2 44 (14.29%) Dremio
3 40 (12.99%) Data Lake
4 15 (4.87%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (4.22%) MySQL
6 11 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.92%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.95%) CouchDB
10 5 (1.62%) Redis
11 4 (1.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.97%) Bigtable
12 3 (0.97%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (3.25%) Git
2 8 (2.60%) GitLab
2 8 (2.60%) Gradle
3 7 (2.27%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.27%) JIRA
4 5 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.30%) CANoe
6 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.97%) Selenium
7 2 (0.65%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.65%) Subversion
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JUnit
8 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.32%) Storybook
8 1 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 95 (30.84%) Finance
2 55 (17.86%) Front Office
3 47 (15.26%) Social Skills
4 45 (14.61%) Banking
5 44 (14.29%) Investment Banking
6 20 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (5.84%) Law
8 16 (5.19%) Legal
9 11 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.57%) Retail
10 8 (2.60%) Aviation
10 8 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.60%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.95%) Military
13 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.30%) Automotive
13 4 (1.30%) Marketing
13 4 (1.30%) Multimedia
13 4 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (22.08%) .NET
2 44 (14.29%) gRPC
2 44 (14.29%) NumPy
2 44 (14.29%) Pandas
2 44 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 44 (14.29%) SciPy
3 43 (13.96%) React
4 38 (12.34%) .NET Core
5 36 (11.69%) AngularJS
6 32 (10.39%) HTML
7 30 (9.74%) CSS
8 21 (6.82%) Spring
9 19 (6.17%) .NET Framework
10 18 (5.84%) Spring Boot
11 17 (5.52%) ASP.NET
11 17 (5.52%) Hibernate
12 15 (4.87%) Vue
12 15 (4.87%) XML
13 14 (4.55%) JSON
14 13 (4.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.21%) Derivative
1 53 (17.21%) Equities
1 53 (17.21%) Fixed Income
1 53 (17.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 53 (17.21%) Hedge funds
2 29 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.52%) Client/Server
5 13 (4.22%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.22%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.57%) Legacy Code
7 9 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.27%) Robotics
9 6 (1.95%) PropTech
9 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.62%) Device Driver
11 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.30%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.96%) Linux
2 21 (6.82%) Windows
3 8 (2.60%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) CentOS
6 2 (0.65%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 133 (43.18%) Agile
3 57 (18.51%) Mentoring
4 55 (17.86%) Asset Management
5 54 (17.53%) Investment Management
6 47 (15.26%) DevOps
7 43 (13.96%) Line Management
8 42 (13.64%) Microservices
9 38 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.36%) CI/CD
11 29 (9.42%) Fintech
12 25 (8.12%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (7.79%) Computer Science
14 23 (7.47%) Scrum
15 21 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (6.82%) TDD
15 21 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence
17 18 (5.84%) Analytics
17 18 (5.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 122 (39.61%) JavaScript
2 116 (37.66%) Java
3 104 (33.77%) Python
4 78 (25.32%) TypeScript
5 65 (21.10%) C#
6 54 (17.53%) SQL
7 43 (13.96%) C++
8 38 (12.34%) C
9 27 (8.77%) Go
10 15 (4.87%) Kotlin
10 15 (4.87%) Rust
10 15 (4.87%) Scala
11 9 (2.92%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.95%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.62%) Haskell
13 5 (1.62%) Swift
14 4 (1.30%) PHP
14 4 (1.30%) Ruby
15 2 (0.65%) Assembly Language
15 2 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (7.14%) Degree
2 18 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.79%) QA
2 4 (1.30%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.30%) IEC 61508
2 4 (1.30%) ISO 26262
2 4 (1.30%) MISRA
2 4 (1.30%) MISRA C
3 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (12.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.95%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (1.95%) Firmware
3 5 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) Ceph
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.17%) Terraform
3 4 (1.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.65%) Knative
5 1 (0.32%) Argo
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Istio
5 1 (0.32%) Podman
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.92%) Google
3 8 (2.60%) Red Hat
4 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.65%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.65%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.32%) Splunk