Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Lead Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 171 208
Rank change year-on-year +36 +37 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 4 6 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.21% 0.18% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.19% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 23
10th Percentile - £87,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £88,438 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £93,750 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £115,625 £102,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £139,250 £125,000 -
Central London median annual salary £120,000 £93,750 £105,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,781 3,214 4,384
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 96.14% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 2,532 3,665
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,444
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the City of London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the City of London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) SOLID
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Garbage Collection
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (25.00%) Market Making
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) MongoDB

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Garbage Collection
4 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (25.00%) Market Making
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes