Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Lead Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the South West is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 250 246
Rank change year-on-year +91 -4 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 17 42 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.49% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.47% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13 32 16
10th Percentile - £53,750 £55,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £59,063 £56,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £63,750 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.46% +30.91%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £124,500 - £135,693
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year +11.76% -9.33% +20.97%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,278 8,876 6,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 96.20% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,019 6,472 3,844
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,925
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the South West

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the South West

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the South West

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Bristol +51 14 £100,000 +53.85% 3
Somerset +4 2 £80,000 +28.00%
Wiltshire +39 1 £82,500 - 2
Lead Software Engineer
England

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 5 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 South West region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 9 (52.94%) Finance
3 9 (52.94%) AWS
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Scrum
4 7 (41.18%) Python
5 6 (35.29%) React
5 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
6 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 5 (29.41%) SaaS
6 5 (29.41%) Serverless
6 5 (29.41%) Azure
7 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 4 (23.53%) C#
7 4 (23.53%) Java
7 4 (23.53%) .NET
7 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
8 3 (17.65%) Next.js
8 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
8 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (17.65%) BDD
8 3 (17.65%) Laravel
8 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (17.65%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) React Native
8 3 (17.65%) SOLID
8 3 (17.65%) Fintech

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) VersaTest
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Electronics
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) React
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) Django
3 3 (17.65%) LAMP
3 3 (17.65%) Laravel
3 3 (17.65%) Next.js
3 3 (17.65%) React Native
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (11.76%) Bootstrap
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 2 (11.76%) Node.js
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (11.76%) XML
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.88%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
2 2 (11.76%) Reinsurance
3 1 (5.88%) EMV
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 3 (17.65%) BDD
7 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) Fintech
7 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 3 (17.65%) SOLID
7 3 (17.65%) TDD
7 3 (17.65%) Web Development
8 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) PHP
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) HP