Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Lead Software Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £86,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 158 188
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 8 16 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile - £50,450 £59,125
25th Percentile £73,750 £51,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £58,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.81% -12.96% +22.73%
75th Percentile £162,500 £66,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £182,500 £66,600 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,025 2,522 3,333
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 87.87% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 1,401 2,243
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +6.38% +5.62%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Leicestershire - 5 £165,000 -
Nottinghamshire -11 3 £77,500 +31.91% 1
Lead Software Engineer
England

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 East Midlands region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) Line Management
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Coaching
3 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (37.50%) Docker
3 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) Power Management
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Coaching
3 3 (37.50%) Line Management
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Power Management
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) ERP
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker