Lead Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £93,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 464 466
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 135 206 442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.51% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 130 130 177
10th Percentile £67,500 £55,450 £59,300
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £88,480 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% +14.17% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £117,236 £90,000
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £108,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.34% +6.13% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,454 38,972 68,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.91% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,851 27,677 41,848
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Software Engineer.

Lead Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Software Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Lead Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 16 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 135 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 90 (66.67%) Agile
3 70 (51.85%) JavaScript
4 66 (48.89%) Java
4 66 (48.89%) Python
4 66 (48.89%) AWS
5 65 (48.15%) TypeScript
6 58 (42.96%) Finance
7 55 (40.74%) GCP
8 52 (38.52%) Banking
9 50 (37.04%) Front Office
10 48 (35.56%) Asset Management
10 48 (35.56%) Fixed Income
10 48 (35.56%) Equities
10 48 (35.56%) Apache
10 48 (35.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 48 (35.56%) Hedge funds
10 48 (35.56%) SciPy
10 48 (35.56%) NumPy
10 48 (35.56%) Investment Banking
10 48 (35.56%) Derivative
10 48 (35.56%) Pandas
10 48 (35.56%) Protocol Buffers
10 48 (35.56%) Apache Arrow
10 48 (35.56%) Dremio
10 48 (35.56%) dbt
10 48 (35.56%) gRPC
10 48 (35.56%) Apache Airflow
10 48 (35.56%) Amazon Athena
10 48 (35.56%) Apache Ignite

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (35.56%) Apache
1 48 (35.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.89%) AWS
2 55 (40.74%) GCP
3 48 (35.56%) dbt
4 44 (32.59%) Snowflake
5 22 (16.30%) Azure
6 11 (8.15%) Serverless
7 8 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.70%) Azure Storage
9 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.96%) SaaS
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.74%) Datadog
11 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.48%) 5G
1 2 (1.48%) HTTP
1 2 (1.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.56%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (35.56%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (35.56%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (35.56%) Dremio
2 44 (32.59%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (6.67%) MySQL
4 7 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.44%) CouchDB
5 6 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.74%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.74%) Redis
7 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Gradle
2 3 (2.22%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Gatling
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) JUnit
3 1 (0.74%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (42.96%) Finance
2 52 (38.52%) Banking
3 50 (37.04%) Front Office
4 48 (35.56%) Investment Banking
5 31 (22.96%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.22%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.22%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.48%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Games
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (35.56%) gRPC
1 48 (35.56%) NumPy
1 48 (35.56%) Pandas
1 48 (35.56%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (35.56%) SciPy
2 26 (19.26%) .NET
3 14 (10.37%) React
4 12 (8.89%) .NET Core
5 11 (8.15%) Node.js
6 8 (5.93%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.93%) Vue
7 7 (5.19%) .NET Framework
7 7 (5.19%) HTML
7 7 (5.19%) Kafka
7 7 (5.19%) Spring
8 6 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.44%) CSS
8 6 (4.44%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.70%) Sass
9 5 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (35.56%) Derivative
1 48 (35.56%) Equities
1 48 (35.56%) Fixed Income
1 48 (35.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 48 (35.56%) Hedge funds
2 17 (12.59%) Client/Server
3 7 (5.19%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.44%) PropTech
5 5 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.96%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.48%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.48%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Windows
3 2 (1.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 90 (66.67%) Agile
3 48 (35.56%) Asset Management
4 47 (34.81%) Line Management
5 36 (26.67%) Investment Management
6 33 (24.44%) Mentoring
7 16 (11.85%) Coaching
8 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
8 13 (9.63%) Microservices
8 13 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (7.41%) Computer Science
9 10 (7.41%) Design Patterns
10 9 (6.67%) TDD
11 8 (5.93%) Clean Code
11 8 (5.93%) Code Quality
11 8 (5.93%) Collaborative Culture
11 8 (5.93%) DevOps
12 7 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (5.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (51.85%) JavaScript
2 66 (48.89%) Java
2 66 (48.89%) Python
3 65 (48.15%) TypeScript
4 20 (14.81%) C#
4 20 (14.81%) SQL
5 5 (3.70%) C++
5 5 (3.70%) Go
5 5 (3.70%) Scala
6 4 (2.96%) Ruby
7 3 (2.22%) C
7 3 (2.22%) PHP
8 2 (1.48%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.48%) Rust
9 1 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.70%) Degree
3 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.96%) Def Stans
1 4 (2.96%) IEC 61508
1 4 (2.96%) MISRA
1 4 (2.96%) MISRA C
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 16 (11.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.48%) NVIDIA
3 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.74%) Google