Lead Software Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 661 572
Rank change year-on-year +99 -89 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 281 293 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.32% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.35% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 231 177 311
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,169 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +18.93% +10.71%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £153,750 £127,777 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +8.06% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +81 121 £130,000 +27.29% 50
South East +36 52 £75,000 -6.25% 13
South West +9 43 £65,000 -9.72% 6
North of England +22 39 £70,000 -6.67% 13
North West +13 29 £70,000 +2.94% 7
Midlands +20 24 £85,000 +47.83% 8
West Midlands +42 16 £85,000 +47.83% 6
Yorkshire +75 9 £68,000 -14.61% 3
East Midlands -19 8 £86,250 +46.81% 2
East of England +11 2 £72,500 - 3
North East -4 1 £74,000 +13.85% 3
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 England region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 281 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 124 (44.13%) Agile
3 119 (42.35%) JavaScript
4 102 (36.30%) Java
5 91 (32.38%) Python
6 85 (30.25%) AWS
7 82 (29.18%) Finance
8 73 (25.98%) TypeScript
9 68 (24.20%) C#
9 68 (24.20%) .NET
10 64 (22.78%) GCP
11 62 (22.06%) Azure
12 57 (20.28%) Mentoring
13 56 (19.93%) SQL
14 53 (18.86%) Investment Management
15 52 (18.51%) Front Office
16 51 (18.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 51 (18.15%) Derivative
16 51 (18.15%) Equities
16 51 (18.15%) Fixed Income
16 51 (18.15%) Asset Management
16 51 (18.15%) Hedge funds
17 49 (17.44%) DevOps
18 46 (16.37%) Social Skills
19 45 (16.01%) Apache
20 41 (14.59%) C++
20 41 (14.59%) Banking
21 40 (14.23%) Apache Arrow
21 40 (14.23%) dbt
21 40 (14.23%) Dremio

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 45 (16.01%) Apache
2 40 (14.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) Drupal
4 2 (0.71%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.71%) Simulink
3 1 (0.36%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 8 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 85 (30.25%) AWS
2 64 (22.78%) GCP
3 62 (22.06%) Azure
4 40 (14.23%) dbt
5 36 (12.81%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.98%) Serverless
7 13 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.85%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.14%) GitHub
11 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.78%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.78%) SaaS
13 4 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (1.07%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) RS-485
2 4 (1.42%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.42%) HTTP
2 4 (1.42%) RS-232
2 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.42%) Wireless
2 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.71%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.71%) 5G
3 2 (0.71%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.23%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (14.23%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (14.23%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (14.23%) Dremio
2 36 (12.81%) Data Lake
3 16 (5.69%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.63%) MySQL
5 12 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.85%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.14%) CouchDB
9 6 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.42%) Redis
12 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.36%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Git
2 8 (2.85%) Gradle
3 7 (2.49%) GitLab
4 6 (2.14%) CircleCI
4 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.14%) JIRA
5 5 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.42%) CANoe
7 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.07%) Selenium
8 2 (0.71%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.71%) Subversion
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) JUnit
9 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (29.18%) Finance
2 52 (18.51%) Front Office
3 46 (16.37%) Social Skills
4 41 (14.59%) Banking
5 40 (14.23%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.56%) Legal
6 10 (3.56%) Retail
7 9 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.49%) Law
8 7 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.14%) Aviation
9 6 (2.14%) Military
9 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.42%) Automotive
10 4 (1.42%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.07%) Electronics
11 3 (1.07%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (24.20%) .NET
2 40 (14.23%) gRPC
2 40 (14.23%) NumPy
2 40 (14.23%) Pandas
2 40 (14.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 40 (14.23%) React
2 40 (14.23%) SciPy
3 38 (13.52%) AngularJS
4 36 (12.81%) .NET Core
5 31 (11.03%) HTML
6 29 (10.32%) CSS
7 21 (7.47%) Spring
8 20 (7.12%) .NET Framework
9 19 (6.76%) ASP.NET
10 18 (6.41%) Spring Boot
11 17 (6.05%) Hibernate
12 16 (5.69%) Vue
13 15 (5.34%) XML
14 14 (4.98%) JSON
14 14 (4.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.15%) Derivative
1 51 (18.15%) Equities
1 51 (18.15%) Fixed Income
1 51 (18.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 51 (18.15%) Hedge funds
2 25 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.05%) Client/Server
4 15 (5.34%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.98%) Algorithms
6 12 (4.27%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.56%) Legacy Code
8 9 (3.20%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.49%) Robotics
10 6 (2.14%) PropTech
10 6 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.14%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.78%) Device Driver
12 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.42%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.23%) Linux
2 21 (7.47%) Windows
3 8 (2.85%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) Android
6 2 (0.71%) CentOS
6 2 (0.71%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 124 (44.13%) Agile
3 57 (20.28%) Mentoring
4 53 (18.86%) Investment Management
5 51 (18.15%) Asset Management
6 49 (17.44%) DevOps
7 40 (14.23%) Microservices
8 39 (13.88%) Line Management
9 33 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (9.61%) Fintech
11 26 (9.25%) CI/CD
11 26 (9.25%) Computer Science
12 24 (8.54%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (7.83%) TDD
13 22 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.12%) Scrum
15 18 (6.41%) Coaching
15 18 (6.41%) Test Automation
16 15 (5.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 119 (42.35%) JavaScript
2 102 (36.30%) Java
3 91 (32.38%) Python
4 73 (25.98%) TypeScript
5 68 (24.20%) C#
6 56 (19.93%) SQL
7 41 (14.59%) C++
8 35 (12.46%) C
9 22 (7.83%) Go
10 14 (4.98%) Scala
11 12 (4.27%) Rust
12 9 (3.20%) Kotlin
12 9 (3.20%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.14%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.78%) Haskell
14 5 (1.78%) Swift
15 4 (1.42%) Ruby
16 3 (1.07%) PHP
17 2 (0.71%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (7.83%) Degree
2 16 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.49%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.78%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.54%) QA
2 4 (1.42%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.42%) IEC 61508
2 4 (1.42%) ISO 26262
2 4 (1.42%) MISRA
2 4 (1.42%) MISRA C
System Software
1 37 (13.17%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (2.14%) Firmware
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) Istio
3 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.85%) Red Hat
3 5 (1.78%) Google
4 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.71%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.71%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace