Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 528 573
Rank change year-on-year +304 +45 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 743 153 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.35% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 164 106 192
10th Percentile £50,750 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,056 £97,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £73,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +30.14% -5.81% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Scotland +132 457 £75,000 +15.38% 2
North of England +116 146 £68,000 -2.86% 12
North West +98 115 £70,000 +14.75% 9
South East +35 50 £75,000 +15.38% 2
South West +18 45 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Midlands +1 40 £55,000 -4.35% 4
West Midlands +16 25 £70,000 +21.74% 3
Yorkshire +56 23 £68,000 -14.61% 2
East Midlands -25 15 £45,000 - 1
North East -5 8 £35,000 -46.15% 1
Northern Ireland +9 3 £100,000 +66.67% 3
East of England -4 2 £81,250 +35.42% 2
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 743 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 562 (75.64%) Agile
3 502 (67.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 442 (59.49%) Finance
5 429 (57.74%) Law
6 414 (55.72%) Operational Stability
7 402 (54.10%) SDLC
8 380 (51.14%) CI/CD
9 352 (47.38%) Java
10 319 (42.93%) Community of Practice
11 315 (42.40%) Machine Learning
12 314 (42.26%) Marketing
13 256 (34.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 256 (34.45%) Cloud Native
14 235 (31.63%) Architectural Design
15 233 (31.36%) AWS
16 220 (29.61%) Information Architecture
17 218 (29.34%) SQL
18 193 (25.98%) Continuous Delivery
19 175 (23.55%) Spring
19 175 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
20 156 (21.00%) Mentoring
21 139 (18.71%) Python
22 138 (18.57%) NoSQL
23 120 (16.15%) JavaScript
24 119 (16.02%) Kafka
25 115 (15.48%) React
26 111 (14.94%) Scala
27 109 (14.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
28 106 (14.27%) Microservices

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 105 (14.13%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.31%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (4.31%) FileNet
4 21 (2.83%) GemFire
5 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 233 (31.36%) AWS
2 62 (8.34%) Azure
3 48 (6.46%) Datadog
4 40 (5.38%) GCP
5 33 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 21 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
7 14 (1.88%) GitHub
7 14 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (0.94%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (0.67%) Serverless
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.27%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (0.27%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.21%) Kerberos
2 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.54%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.54%) RS-232
3 4 (0.54%) RS-485
3 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.13%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (18.57%) NoSQL
2 95 (12.79%) Big Data
3 63 (8.48%) Apache Cassandra
4 54 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
5 44 (5.92%) Metadata
6 38 (5.11%) CockroachDB
7 36 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 25 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.83%) Hazelcast
11 15 (2.02%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.40%) MySQL
14 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.27%) Redis
16 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
16 1 (0.13%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 54 (7.27%) JUnit
2 46 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 45 (6.06%) Bitbucket
3 45 (6.06%) Git
4 44 (5.92%) Artifactory
5 37 (4.98%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.96%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.96%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.96%) Protractor
6 22 (2.96%) Selenium
6 22 (2.96%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.83%) Jaeger
8 15 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.88%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.54%) GitLab
10 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
12 2 (0.27%) CANoe
12 2 (0.27%) Gradle
12 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 502 (67.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 442 (59.49%) Finance
3 429 (57.74%) Law
4 314 (42.26%) Marketing
5 102 (13.73%) Banking
6 98 (13.19%) Investment Banking
7 66 (8.88%) Social Skills
8 63 (8.48%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.96%) Prime Brokerage
10 17 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.88%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.35%) Retail
13 9 (1.21%) Aviation
14 7 (0.94%) Military
15 6 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.81%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.40%) Electronics
17 3 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (23.55%) Spring
2 119 (16.02%) Kafka
3 115 (15.48%) React
4 102 (13.73%) JSON
5 94 (12.65%) CSS
5 94 (12.65%) HTML
6 90 (12.11%) AngularJS
7 84 (11.31%) Spring Boot
8 81 (10.90%) Node.js
9 77 (10.36%) Web Services
10 73 (9.83%) RESTful
11 68 (9.15%) GraphQL
12 62 (8.34%) Hibernate
12 62 (8.34%) OpenTelemetry
12 62 (8.34%) REST
13 54 (7.27%) J2EE
13 54 (7.27%) JMS
13 54 (7.27%) jQuery
13 54 (7.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 49 (6.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 256 (34.45%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.83%) Cyberattack
3 67 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
4 66 (8.88%) Public Cloud
5 58 (7.81%) Management Information System
6 44 (5.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 44 (5.92%) Reference Data
7 31 (4.17%) Media Streaming
7 31 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.83%) Replication
10 19 (2.56%) Blog
11 15 (2.02%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.81%) Augmented Reality
14 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
15 4 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
15 4 (0.54%) Robotics
16 3 (0.40%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.06%) Linux
2 18 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (0.40%) CentOS
3 3 (0.40%) Rocky
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) Android
4 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 562 (75.64%) Agile
3 414 (55.72%) Operational Stability
4 402 (54.10%) SDLC
5 380 (51.14%) CI/CD
6 319 (42.93%) Community of Practice
7 315 (42.40%) Machine Learning
8 256 (34.45%) Artificial Intelligence
9 235 (31.63%) Architectural Design
10 220 (29.61%) Information Architecture
11 193 (25.98%) Continuous Delivery
12 175 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
13 156 (21.00%) Mentoring
14 109 (14.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 106 (14.27%) Microservices
16 96 (12.92%) Tech Ops
16 96 (12.92%) User Experience
17 83 (11.17%) Data Engineering
18 78 (10.50%) Coaching
19 76 (10.23%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 352 (47.38%) Java
2 218 (29.34%) SQL
3 139 (18.71%) Python
4 120 (16.15%) JavaScript
5 111 (14.94%) Scala
6 82 (11.04%) TypeScript
7 54 (7.27%) C#
8 53 (7.13%) Go
9 44 (5.92%) Prolog
9 44 (5.92%) SPARQL
10 25 (3.36%) C
11 24 (3.23%) C++
12 22 (2.96%) Groovy
13 16 (2.15%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.67%) Haskell
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.13%) VB
16 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (1.88%) Degree
2 12 (1.62%) Security Cleared
3 10 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.69%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.27%) ISO 26262
3 2 (0.27%) QA
4 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.13%) JTAG
4 1 (0.13%) MISRA
4 1 (0.13%) MISRA C
System Software
1 44 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.17%) Docker
3 12 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 101 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.34%) Grafana
3 61 (8.21%) Terraform
4 41 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.83%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.83%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.83%) Kibana
5 21 (2.83%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 83 (11.17%) Oracle
2 72 (9.69%) Splunk
3 65 (8.75%) Dynatrace
4 30 (4.04%) Google
5 21 (2.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (1.35%) SaltStack
7 5 (0.67%) Databricks
8 4 (0.54%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.13%) Wind River