Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Kent

Lead Software Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Kent is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £84,750 - -
25th Percentile £88,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £91,875 - -
90th Percentile £95,250 - -
South East median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 513 1,383 987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.55% 92.94% 85.68%
Number of salaries quoted 319 1,031 550
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £26,975
25th Percentile £30,375 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £59,783 £58,750 £61,162
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Kent

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Kent

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Chatham - 4 £90,000 -
Lead Software Engineer
South East

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

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

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google