Lead Software Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in London is £117,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 457 466
Rank change year-on-year +86 +9 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 131 167 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.55% 0.47% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.50% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 110 100 170
10th Percentile £76,250 £63,625 £70,000
25th Percentile £89,750 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £102,126 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.05% +13.47% +12.50%
75th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £111,563
90th Percentile £165,750 £135,693 £135,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,169 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +18.93% +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 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 3 May 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 3 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
Central London +34 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 3 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 London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 131 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 81 (61.83%) Agile
3 80 (61.07%) Finance
4 69 (52.67%) AWS
5 68 (51.91%) JavaScript
6 64 (48.85%) Java
7 63 (48.09%) Python
8 62 (47.33%) GCP
9 60 (45.80%) TypeScript
10 52 (39.69%) Front Office
10 52 (39.69%) Investment Management
11 50 (38.17%) Hedge funds
11 50 (38.17%) Derivative
11 50 (38.17%) Fixed Income
11 50 (38.17%) Equities
11 50 (38.17%) Asset Management
11 50 (38.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 42 (32.06%) Apache
13 41 (31.30%) Banking
14 40 (30.53%) Investment Banking
14 40 (30.53%) SciPy
14 40 (30.53%) NumPy
14 40 (30.53%) gRPC
14 40 (30.53%) Apache Airflow
14 40 (30.53%) Amazon Athena
14 40 (30.53%) Protocol Buffers
14 40 (30.53%) Pandas
14 40 (30.53%) dbt
14 40 (30.53%) Apache Arrow
14 40 (30.53%) Apache Ignite

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 42 (32.06%) Apache
2 40 (30.53%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
4 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.53%) Drupal
5 2 (1.53%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (52.67%) AWS
2 62 (47.33%) GCP
3 40 (30.53%) dbt
4 36 (27.48%) Snowflake
5 35 (26.72%) Azure
6 10 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.11%) Serverless
8 7 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.58%) SaaS
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.29%) GitHub
10 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.53%) Datadog
11 2 (1.53%) Firebase
11 2 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (30.53%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (30.53%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (30.53%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (30.53%) Dremio
2 36 (27.48%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.87%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.05%) Redis
6 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.29%) MySQL
6 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.53%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.53%) Flink
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (4.58%) JIRA
2 5 (3.82%) Git
3 4 (3.05%) GitLab
4 2 (1.53%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) Gatling
5 1 (0.76%) JUnit
5 1 (0.76%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.76%) Storybook
5 1 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 80 (61.07%) Finance
2 52 (39.69%) Front Office
3 41 (31.30%) Banking
4 40 (30.53%) Investment Banking
5 16 (12.21%) Social Skills
6 14 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (10.69%) Law
7 8 (6.11%) Legal
8 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.05%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (30.53%) gRPC
1 40 (30.53%) NumPy
1 40 (30.53%) Pandas
1 40 (30.53%) Protocol Buffers
1 40 (30.53%) SciPy
2 29 (22.14%) .NET
3 23 (17.56%) AngularJS
4 19 (14.50%) React
5 14 (10.69%) .NET Core
6 13 (9.92%) Redux
7 11 (8.40%) CSS
7 11 (8.40%) HTML
7 11 (8.40%) Vue
8 10 (7.63%) ASP.NET
8 10 (7.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 10 (7.63%) JSON
8 10 (7.63%) XML
9 8 (6.11%) .NET Framework
9 8 (6.11%) jQuery
9 8 (6.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (38.17%) Derivative
1 50 (38.17%) Equities
1 50 (38.17%) Fixed Income
1 50 (38.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 50 (38.17%) Hedge funds
2 20 (15.27%) Cloud Native
3 17 (12.98%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.92%) Data Structures
5 11 (8.40%) Legacy Code
6 10 (7.63%) Client/Server
7 9 (6.87%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.58%) Virtual Team
9 4 (3.05%) Blockchain
9 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.53%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.53%) Robotics
10 2 (1.53%) Web3
11 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.69%) Linux
2 5 (3.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 81 (61.83%) Agile
3 52 (39.69%) Investment Management
4 50 (38.17%) Asset Management
5 36 (27.48%) Line Management
6 32 (24.43%) Mentoring
7 26 (19.85%) Fintech
8 21 (16.03%) Computer Science
9 20 (15.27%) CI/CD
9 20 (15.27%) DevOps
9 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.27%) Scrum
10 19 (14.50%) Microservices
11 18 (13.74%) Test Automation
12 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (9.16%) Coaching
13 12 (9.16%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (8.40%) TDD
14 11 (8.40%) Validation
15 10 (7.63%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 68 (51.91%) JavaScript
2 64 (48.85%) Java
3 63 (48.09%) Python
4 60 (45.80%) TypeScript
5 28 (21.37%) C#
6 18 (13.74%) SQL
7 17 (12.98%) Go
8 14 (10.69%) C++
8 14 (10.69%) Rust
9 13 (9.92%) Kotlin
9 13 (9.92%) Scala
10 12 (9.16%) C
11 8 (6.11%) T-SQL
12 5 (3.82%) Swift
13 4 (3.05%) Ruby
14 3 (2.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.76%) Bash
15 1 (0.76%) Groovy
15 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (8.40%) Degree
2 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
2 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
2 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) QA
System Software
1 13 (9.92%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) Ceph
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.45%) Terraform
3 2 (1.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Istio
4 1 (0.76%) Knative
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.58%) Google
3 2 (1.53%) Amplitude
3 2 (1.53%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.76%) Splunk