Lead Software Engineer Job Trends in Suffolk

Lead Software Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Suffolk is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 -
% change year-on-year -13.89% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 378 337 160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.91% 93.87% 97.56%
Number of salaries quoted 181 140 106
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,875 £24,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £28,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Lead Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for Lead Software Engineer job vacancies in Suffolk.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Software Engineer job vacancies in Suffolk

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, Lead Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Suffolk region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform