Lead Software Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in London is £135,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 467 443
Rank change year-on-year +102 -24 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 141 166 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.49% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.51% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 116 99 174
10th Percentile £76,250 £63,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £89,750 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £101,752 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.68% +13.06% +14.29%
75th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £111,563
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £93,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +20.97% +10.71%

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 22,206 32,343 66,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.12% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 23,852 34,726
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +25 6 £93,750 -10.71% 3
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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.

1 141 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 91 (64.54%) Agile
3 90 (63.83%) Finance
4 79 (56.03%) AWS
5 76 (53.90%) Java
5 76 (53.90%) JavaScript
6 74 (52.48%) Python
7 71 (50.35%) GCP
8 68 (48.23%) TypeScript
9 59 (41.84%) Front Office
9 59 (41.84%) Asset Management
10 57 (40.43%) Fixed Income
10 57 (40.43%) Equities
10 57 (40.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 57 (40.43%) Hedge funds
10 57 (40.43%) Derivative
11 55 (39.01%) Investment Management
12 53 (37.59%) Apache
13 50 (35.46%) Apache Airflow
13 50 (35.46%) Amazon Athena
13 50 (35.46%) dbt
14 49 (34.75%) Banking
15 48 (34.04%) SciPy
15 48 (34.04%) NumPy
15 48 (34.04%) Investment Banking
15 48 (34.04%) gRPC
15 48 (34.04%) Protocol Buffers
15 48 (34.04%) Pandas
15 48 (34.04%) Apache Arrow
15 48 (34.04%) Apache Ignite

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 53 (37.59%) Apache
2 50 (35.46%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.84%) Confluence
5 3 (2.13%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (1.42%) Drupal
6 2 (1.42%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (56.03%) AWS
2 71 (50.35%) GCP
3 50 (35.46%) dbt
4 44 (31.21%) Snowflake
5 33 (23.40%) Azure
6 10 (7.09%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.67%) Serverless
9 6 (4.26%) SaaS
10 3 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.13%) GitHub
10 3 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.42%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.42%) Dagster
11 2 (1.42%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (35.46%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (34.04%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (34.04%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (34.04%) Dremio
3 44 (31.21%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.67%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.84%) Redis
9 3 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.13%) Bigtable
9 3 (2.13%) Flink
9 3 (2.13%) MySQL
10 2 (1.42%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.42%) Metadata
10 2 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.26%) JIRA
2 5 (3.55%) Git
3 4 (2.84%) GitLab
4 2 (1.42%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) Gatling
5 1 (0.71%) JUnit
5 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.71%) Storybook
5 1 (0.71%) Vite
General
1 90 (63.83%) Finance
2 59 (41.84%) Front Office
3 49 (34.75%) Banking
4 48 (34.04%) Investment Banking
5 18 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (12.77%) Law
6 16 (11.35%) Social Skills
7 10 (7.09%) Legal
8 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (34.04%) gRPC
1 48 (34.04%) NumPy
1 48 (34.04%) Pandas
1 48 (34.04%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (34.04%) SciPy
2 29 (20.57%) .NET
3 22 (15.60%) AngularJS
4 19 (13.48%) React
5 15 (10.64%) .NET Core
6 12 (8.51%) CSS
6 12 (8.51%) HTML
6 12 (8.51%) Redux
7 10 (7.09%) ASP.NET
7 10 (7.09%) JSON
7 10 (7.09%) Vue
7 10 (7.09%) XML
8 9 (6.38%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (5.67%) .NET Framework
9 8 (5.67%) Akka.NET
9 8 (5.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 57 (40.43%) Derivative
1 57 (40.43%) Equities
1 57 (40.43%) Fixed Income
1 57 (40.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 57 (40.43%) Hedge funds
2 20 (14.18%) Cloud Native
3 17 (12.06%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.22%) Data Structures
5 10 (7.09%) Client/Server
5 10 (7.09%) Legacy Code
6 8 (5.67%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.26%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.84%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.42%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.42%) Robotics
10 2 (1.42%) Web3
11 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.93%) Linux
2 5 (3.55%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 91 (64.54%) Agile
3 59 (41.84%) Asset Management
4 55 (39.01%) Investment Management
5 44 (31.21%) Line Management
6 34 (24.11%) Mentoring
7 25 (17.73%) Fintech
8 22 (15.60%) CI/CD
8 22 (15.60%) Scrum
9 21 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (13.48%) Computer Science
10 19 (13.48%) DevOps
11 18 (12.77%) Microservices
11 18 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (8.51%) Coaching
13 12 (8.51%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (7.80%) Validation
15 10 (7.09%) Risk Management
15 10 (7.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (53.90%) Java
1 76 (53.90%) JavaScript
2 74 (52.48%) Python
3 68 (48.23%) TypeScript
4 26 (18.44%) C#
5 18 (12.77%) Go
6 17 (12.06%) SQL
7 15 (10.64%) Kotlin
8 14 (9.93%) C++
8 14 (9.93%) Rust
9 13 (9.22%) Scala
10 12 (8.51%) C
11 8 (5.67%) T-SQL
12 5 (3.55%) Swift
13 4 (2.84%) Ruby
14 3 (2.13%) PHP
15 1 (0.71%) Bash
15 1 (0.71%) Groovy
15 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (7.09%) Degree
2 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
2 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.06%) QA
2 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (9.93%) Docker
2 5 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.42%) Ceph
3 2 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.06%) Terraform
3 3 (2.13%) Ansible
4 2 (1.42%) Knative
5 1 (0.71%) Argo
5 1 (0.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) Istio
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.96%) Google
3 2 (1.42%) Amplitude
3 2 (1.42%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.71%) Splunk