Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Lead Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £122,773 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 86 112
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 3 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.35% 1.27% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.32% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £104,868 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £65,000 £88,480
Median % change year-on-year +88.88% -26.54% +10.60%
75th Percentile £140,677 £100,000 £97,328
90th Percentile - £115,165 £120,927
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 751 1,511 1,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.52% 96.18% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 334 1,060 989
10th Percentile £26,929 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,241 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £83,738 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,625 £88,750 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 Edinburgh region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) RPG IV
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) iSeries
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) AS400
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) RPG
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AS400
1 2 (66.67%) iSeries
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) RPG
1 2 (66.67%) RPG IV
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM