Lead Software Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in London is £115,000 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 379 473 462
Rank change year-on-year +94 -11 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 116 166 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.46% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.49% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 105 100 167
10th Percentile £76,250 £63,625 £72,500
25th Percentile £89,750 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £101,752 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% +13.06% +12.50%
75th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £110,625
90th Percentile £165,000 £135,693 £138,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £88,299 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.57% +13.93% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,150 34,100 62,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.04% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,676 24,965 34,895
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,375 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +38 6 £93,750 -10.71% 2
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 74 (63.79%) Agile
3 67 (57.76%) Finance
4 64 (55.17%) JavaScript
5 62 (53.45%) AWS
6 55 (47.41%) TypeScript
7 54 (46.55%) Python
8 52 (44.83%) Java
8 52 (44.83%) Investment Management
8 52 (44.83%) GCP
9 48 (41.38%) Front Office
10 47 (40.52%) Fixed Income
10 47 (40.52%) Equities
10 47 (40.52%) Asset Management
10 47 (40.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (40.52%) Derivative
10 47 (40.52%) Hedge funds
11 37 (31.90%) Banking
12 36 (31.03%) Apache
12 36 (31.03%) SciPy
12 36 (31.03%) NumPy
12 36 (31.03%) Investment Banking
12 36 (31.03%) Pandas
12 36 (31.03%) Protocol Buffers
12 36 (31.03%) gRPC
12 36 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
12 36 (31.03%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (31.03%) Apache Ignite
12 36 (31.03%) dbt
12 36 (31.03%) Dremio

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (31.03%) Apache
1 36 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (1.72%) Drupal
3 2 (1.72%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.45%) AWS
2 52 (44.83%) GCP
3 36 (31.03%) dbt
4 33 (28.45%) Azure
5 32 (27.59%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.76%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.90%) Serverless
8 7 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.31%) SaaS
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.72%) Firebase
11 2 (1.72%) PaaS
12 1 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.86%) Datadog
12 1 (0.86%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (31.03%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (31.03%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (31.03%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (31.03%) Dremio
2 32 (27.59%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.76%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.59%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.59%) MySQL
6 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.59%) Redis
6 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Git
1 5 (4.31%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) GitLab
3 2 (1.72%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.86%) Gatling
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) JUnit
4 1 (0.86%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (57.76%) Finance
2 48 (41.38%) Front Office
3 37 (31.90%) Banking
4 36 (31.03%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.31%) Law
8 3 (2.59%) Marketing
9 2 (1.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.03%) gRPC
1 36 (31.03%) NumPy
1 36 (31.03%) Pandas
1 36 (31.03%) Protocol Buffers
1 36 (31.03%) SciPy
2 29 (25.00%) .NET
3 24 (20.69%) AngularJS
4 18 (15.52%) React
5 14 (12.07%) .NET Core
5 14 (12.07%) Redux
6 11 (9.48%) ASP.NET
6 11 (9.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (9.48%) CSS
6 11 (9.48%) HTML
6 11 (9.48%) Vue
7 10 (8.62%) JSON
7 10 (8.62%) XML
8 8 (6.90%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.90%) jQuery
8 8 (6.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 47 (40.52%) Derivative
1 47 (40.52%) Equities
1 47 (40.52%) Fixed Income
1 47 (40.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 47 (40.52%) Hedge funds
2 15 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
4 11 (9.48%) Data Structures
5 10 (8.62%) Client/Server
5 10 (8.62%) Legacy Code
6 9 (7.76%) Algorithms
7 6 (5.17%) Virtual Team
8 5 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (3.45%) Blockchain
9 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.72%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.72%) Robotics
10 2 (1.72%) Web3
11 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 74 (63.79%) Agile
3 52 (44.83%) Investment Management
4 47 (40.52%) Asset Management
5 33 (28.45%) Mentoring
6 32 (27.59%) Line Management
7 21 (18.10%) DevOps
7 21 (18.10%) Fintech
8 20 (17.24%) Computer Science
9 19 (16.38%) Scrum
10 18 (15.52%) Microservices
10 18 (15.52%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.07%) CI/CD
13 13 (11.21%) Full Stack Development
13 13 (11.21%) TDD
14 12 (10.34%) Coaching
15 10 (8.62%) Design Patterns
15 10 (8.62%) Validation
16 9 (7.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (55.17%) JavaScript
2 55 (47.41%) TypeScript
3 54 (46.55%) Python
4 52 (44.83%) Java
5 29 (25.00%) C#
6 18 (15.52%) SQL
7 13 (11.21%) Go
8 12 (10.34%) C++
8 12 (10.34%) Rust
8 12 (10.34%) Scala
9 10 (8.62%) C
10 8 (6.90%) T-SQL
11 7 (6.03%) Kotlin
12 5 (4.31%) Swift
13 4 (3.45%) Ruby
14 3 (2.59%) PHP
15 1 (0.86%) Bash
15 1 (0.86%) Groovy
15 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (8.62%) Degree
2 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
2 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
2 4 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.86%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.72%) Amplitude
2 2 (1.72%) Google
2 2 (1.72%) NVIDIA
3 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace