Lead Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £102,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 450 458
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 184 185 536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.49% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.51% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 170 125 205
10th Percentile £67,500 £55,200 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% +9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £107,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £125,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £81,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.02% +4.52% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 15 June 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 15 June 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.

1 184 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 120 (65.22%) Agile
3 103 (55.98%) Python
4 99 (53.80%) AWS
5 98 (53.26%) JavaScript
5 98 (53.26%) TypeScript
6 94 (51.09%) Java
6 94 (51.09%) Finance
7 84 (45.65%) GCP
8 80 (43.48%) Banking
9 78 (42.39%) Front Office
10 76 (41.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 76 (41.30%) Fixed Income
10 76 (41.30%) Equities
10 76 (41.30%) Apache
10 76 (41.30%) Asset Management
10 76 (41.30%) Investment Banking
10 76 (41.30%) Derivative
10 76 (41.30%) Pandas
10 76 (41.30%) Hedge funds
10 76 (41.30%) SciPy
10 76 (41.30%) NumPy
10 76 (41.30%) Protocol Buffers
10 76 (41.30%) gRPC
10 76 (41.30%) Apache Airflow
10 76 (41.30%) Amazon Athena
10 76 (41.30%) Apache Ignite
10 76 (41.30%) Dremio
10 76 (41.30%) Apache Arrow
10 76 (41.30%) dbt

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 76 (41.30%) Apache
1 76 (41.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.09%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.80%) AWS
2 84 (45.65%) GCP
3 76 (41.30%) dbt
4 72 (39.13%) Snowflake
5 27 (14.67%) Azure
6 17 (9.24%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (6.52%) Serverless
8 8 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.72%) Azure Storage
10 5 (2.72%) SaaS
11 3 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.54%) Datadog
13 1 (0.54%) GitHub
13 1 (0.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.09%) 5G
1 2 (1.09%) HTTP
1 2 (1.09%) Wireless
2 1 (0.54%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (41.30%) Amazon Athena
1 76 (41.30%) Apache Arrow
1 76 (41.30%) Apache Ignite
1 76 (41.30%) Dremio
2 72 (39.13%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.43%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.89%) MySQL
4 9 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.26%) CouchDB
6 5 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Gradle
2 4 (2.17%) Git
3 3 (1.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Gatling
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) JIRA
4 1 (0.54%) JUnit
4 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 94 (51.09%) Finance
2 80 (43.48%) Banking
3 78 (42.39%) Front Office
4 76 (41.30%) Investment Banking
5 32 (17.39%) Social Skills
6 6 (3.26%) Retail
7 5 (2.72%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.63%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.63%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.54%) Back Office
9 1 (0.54%) Electronics
9 1 (0.54%) Games
9 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (41.30%) gRPC
1 76 (41.30%) NumPy
1 76 (41.30%) Pandas
1 76 (41.30%) Protocol Buffers
1 76 (41.30%) SciPy
2 33 (17.93%) .NET
3 17 (9.24%) React
4 15 (8.15%) Node.js
5 12 (6.52%) .NET Core
5 12 (6.52%) PySpark
5 12 (6.52%) Vue
6 10 (5.43%) RESTful
7 8 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.35%) REST
7 8 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.80%) Kafka
9 6 (3.26%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.26%) Django
9 6 (3.26%) HTML
9 6 (3.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 76 (41.30%) Derivative
1 76 (41.30%) Equities
1 76 (41.30%) Fixed Income
1 76 (41.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 76 (41.30%) Hedge funds
2 17 (9.24%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.26%) PropTech
5 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.17%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.09%) Robotics
8 1 (0.54%) BBC
8 1 (0.54%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 120 (65.22%) Agile
3 76 (41.30%) Asset Management
4 75 (40.76%) Line Management
5 40 (21.74%) Investment Management
6 36 (19.57%) Mentoring
7 16 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.70%) Coaching
8 13 (7.07%) Clean Code
8 13 (7.07%) Microservices
8 13 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (6.52%) Design Patterns
9 12 (6.52%) Migration
10 11 (5.98%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (5.98%) Computer Science
10 11 (5.98%) DevOps
10 11 (5.98%) SDLC
10 11 (5.98%) TDD
11 9 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 103 (55.98%) Python
2 98 (53.26%) JavaScript
2 98 (53.26%) TypeScript
3 94 (51.09%) Java
4 38 (20.65%) SQL
5 28 (15.22%) C#
6 5 (2.72%) Go
6 5 (2.72%) Scala
7 4 (2.17%) C
7 4 (2.17%) C++
7 4 (2.17%) PHP
7 4 (2.17%) Ruby
8 2 (1.09%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.09%) Rust
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) Groovy
9 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (4.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.26%) Degree
3 4 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.17%) Def Stans
1 4 (2.17%) IEC 61508
1 4 (2.17%) MISRA
1 4 (2.17%) MISRA C
2 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.52%) Bloomberg
2 12 (6.52%) Reuters
3 2 (1.09%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.54%) Google
4 1 (0.54%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.54%) Sony