Lead Software Engineer Job Trends in Crawley

Lead Software Engineer
West Sussex > Crawley

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Crawley is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Crawley 0.51% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £80,000 - £70,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Crawley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Crawley. 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 Crawley with a recognized job title 187 82 151
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 81.19% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 103 55 84
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £22,555
25th Percentile £45,625 £35,625 £30,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -11.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £74,750
West Sussex median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Lead Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Crawley

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Crawley

Salary distribution trend for Lead Software Engineer job vacancies in Crawley.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Software Engineer job vacancies in Crawley

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley

For the 6 months to 27 July 2026, Lead Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Crawley region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Async-Await
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Async-Await
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Separation of Concerns
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft