Lead Software Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 487 473
Rank change year-on-year +104 -14 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 115 166 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.47% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 106 100 164
10th Percentile £76,250 £63,625 -
25th Percentile £89,750 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £101,752 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +13.06% +12.50%
75th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £114,063
90th Percentile £165,000 £135,693 £138,750
England median annual salary £81,788 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.78% +6.25% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,027 34,996 62,096
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.06% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,644 25,517 35,134
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,375 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +43 7 £95,000 -9.52% 1
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 70 (60.87%) Agile
3 66 (57.39%) Finance
4 63 (54.78%) JavaScript
5 58 (50.43%) AWS
6 54 (46.96%) TypeScript
7 53 (46.09%) Investment Management
8 51 (44.35%) Python
9 48 (41.74%) GCP
10 46 (40.00%) Front Office
10 46 (40.00%) Java
11 45 (39.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 45 (39.13%) Fixed Income
11 45 (39.13%) Equities
11 45 (39.13%) Asset Management
11 45 (39.13%) Derivative
11 45 (39.13%) Hedge funds
12 36 (31.30%) Mentoring
13 33 (28.70%) Azure
13 33 (28.70%) Banking
14 32 (27.83%) Investment Banking
14 32 (27.83%) Apache
14 32 (27.83%) C#
14 32 (27.83%) SciPy
14 32 (27.83%) NumPy
14 32 (27.83%) Pandas
14 32 (27.83%) Protocol Buffers
14 32 (27.83%) gRPC
14 32 (27.83%) Apache Airflow
14 32 (27.83%) Amazon Athena

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 32 (27.83%) Apache
1 32 (27.83%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.48%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) Drupal
3 2 (1.74%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.43%) AWS
2 48 (41.74%) GCP
3 33 (28.70%) Azure
4 32 (27.83%) dbt
5 28 (24.35%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.83%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.96%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.96%) Serverless
8 7 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.35%) SaaS
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.74%) Firebase
11 2 (1.74%) PaaS
12 1 (0.87%) Heroku
12 1 (0.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.83%) Amazon Athena
1 32 (27.83%) Apache Arrow
1 32 (27.83%) Apache Ignite
1 32 (27.83%) Dremio
2 28 (24.35%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.83%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.61%) MySQL
6 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.61%) Redis
6 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Git
1 5 (4.35%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) GitLab
3 2 (1.74%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.87%) Gatling
4 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.87%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (57.39%) Finance
2 46 (40.00%) Front Office
3 33 (28.70%) Banking
4 32 (27.83%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.17%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.35%) Law
8 3 (2.61%) Marketing
9 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.83%) gRPC
1 32 (27.83%) NumPy
1 32 (27.83%) Pandas
1 32 (27.83%) Protocol Buffers
1 32 (27.83%) SciPy
2 31 (26.96%) .NET
3 26 (22.61%) AngularJS
4 20 (17.39%) React
5 16 (13.91%) Redux
6 14 (12.17%) .NET Core
7 13 (11.30%) ASP.NET
7 13 (11.30%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (11.30%) Vue
8 11 (9.57%) CSS
8 11 (9.57%) HTML
9 10 (8.70%) JSON
9 10 (8.70%) XML
10 8 (6.96%) .NET Framework
10 8 (6.96%) jQuery
10 8 (6.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (39.13%) Derivative
1 45 (39.13%) Equities
1 45 (39.13%) Fixed Income
1 45 (39.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 45 (39.13%) Hedge funds
2 16 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (13.04%) Cloud Native
4 11 (9.57%) Data Structures
4 11 (9.57%) Legacy Code
5 10 (8.70%) Algorithms
5 10 (8.70%) Client/Server
6 6 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (5.22%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.48%) Blockchain
7 4 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.74%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.74%) Robotics
8 2 (1.74%) Web3
9 1 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.30%) Linux
2 5 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 70 (60.87%) Agile
3 53 (46.09%) Investment Management
4 45 (39.13%) Asset Management
5 36 (31.30%) Mentoring
6 28 (24.35%) Line Management
7 24 (20.87%) Fintech
8 23 (20.00%) DevOps
9 21 (18.26%) Computer Science
10 18 (15.65%) Test Automation
11 17 (14.78%) Scrum
12 16 (13.91%) Microservices
13 15 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (13.04%) TDD
14 13 (11.30%) CI/CD
15 12 (10.43%) Coaching
16 10 (8.70%) Design Patterns
16 10 (8.70%) Validation
17 9 (7.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (54.78%) JavaScript
2 54 (46.96%) TypeScript
3 51 (44.35%) Python
4 46 (40.00%) Java
5 32 (27.83%) C#
6 18 (15.65%) SQL
7 15 (13.04%) Go
8 13 (11.30%) C++
8 13 (11.30%) Rust
9 11 (9.57%) C
10 10 (8.70%) Scala
11 8 (6.96%) T-SQL
12 5 (4.35%) Kotlin
12 5 (4.35%) Swift
13 4 (3.48%) Ruby
14 3 (2.61%) PHP
15 1 (0.87%) Bash
15 1 (0.87%) Groovy
15 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (8.70%) Degree
2 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
2 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
2 4 (3.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (19.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.74%) Amplitude
2 2 (1.74%) NVIDIA
3 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace