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 to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 556 585
Rank change year-on-year +317 +29 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 853 196 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 138 125 133
10th Percentile £53,375 £54,250 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +10.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £117,236 £95,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.34% +6.13% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +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 April 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 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
Scotland +127 690 £100,000 +13.02% 7
South East +56 52 £75,000 -6.25% 16
South West -3 44 £65,000 -9.72% 6
North of England +33 38 £70,000 -6.67% 13
North West +11 29 £70,000 +14.75% 5
Midlands +12 24 £85,000 +47.83% 8
West Midlands +38 16 £85,000 +47.83% 6
Yorkshire +81 8 £68,000 -14.61% 5
East Midlands -23 8 £86,250 +46.81% 2
Northern Ireland +16 3 £95,000 +58.33% 2
East of England +20 2 £72,500 - 2
North East 0 1 £74,000 +13.85% 3
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 853 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 732 (85.81%) Agile
3 693 (81.24%) Finance
4 679 (79.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 677 (79.37%) Law
6 663 (77.73%) Operational Stability
7 620 (72.68%) SDLC
8 559 (65.53%) CI/CD
9 553 (64.83%) Marketing
10 532 (62.37%) Java
11 491 (57.56%) Community of Practice
12 400 (46.89%) Artificial Intelligence
13 396 (46.42%) Machine Learning
14 367 (43.02%) Architectural Design
15 359 (42.09%) AWS
16 347 (40.68%) Information Architecture
17 340 (39.86%) SQL
18 335 (39.27%) Cloud Native
19 292 (34.23%) Continuous Delivery
20 243 (28.49%) Python
21 200 (23.45%) Spring
22 191 (22.39%) NoSQL
23 181 (21.22%) Apache Spark
24 177 (20.75%) JavaScript
25 168 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
26 158 (18.52%) React
27 151 (17.70%) Tech Ops
28 148 (17.35%) Big Data
29 139 (16.30%) Kafka
30 134 (15.71%) Banking

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
1 181 (21.22%) Apache Spark
2 51 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.75%) FileNet
4 31 (3.63%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.46%) GemFire
6 4 (0.47%) Apache
7 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.23%) Simulink
3 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 359 (42.09%) AWS
2 87 (10.20%) Azure
3 54 (6.33%) GCP
4 48 (5.63%) Datadog
5 33 (3.87%) Amazon S3
6 22 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (0.82%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (0.70%) Serverless
11 5 (0.59%) Azure Storage
11 5 (0.59%) GitHub
11 5 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.47%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.35%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 82 (9.61%) Kerberos
2 6 (0.70%) RS-485
3 4 (0.47%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.47%) RS-232
3 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.47%) Wireless
3 4 (0.47%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.23%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.23%) 5G
4 2 (0.23%) HTTP
4 2 (0.23%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (22.39%) NoSQL
2 148 (17.35%) Big Data
3 73 (8.56%) Elasticsearch
4 71 (8.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 65 (7.62%) Metadata
6 38 (4.45%) CockroachDB
7 37 (4.34%) Relational Database
8 32 (3.75%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.46%) Hazelcast
10 20 (2.34%) Looker
11 19 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.17%) MySQL
13 9 (1.06%) SQL Server
14 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.70%) CouchDB
14 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.47%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 83 (9.73%) Jenkins
2 71 (8.32%) Git
3 65 (7.62%) Artifactory
3 65 (7.62%) Bitbucket
4 54 (6.33%) JUnit
5 39 (4.57%) Cypress.io
6 25 (2.93%) Selenium
7 22 (2.58%) Jasmine
7 22 (2.58%) Karma Test Runner
7 22 (2.58%) Protractor
7 22 (2.58%) WebDriver
8 21 (2.46%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.99%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.06%) Gradle
11 5 (0.59%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.47%) CANoe
12 4 (0.47%) GitLab
13 2 (0.23%) JIRA
13 2 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 693 (81.24%) Finance
2 679 (79.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 677 (79.37%) Law
4 553 (64.83%) Marketing
5 134 (15.71%) Banking
6 129 (15.12%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (14.65%) Investment Banking
8 96 (11.25%) Social Skills
9 27 (3.17%) Financial Institution
10 22 (2.58%) Prime Brokerage
11 17 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.17%) Retail
13 8 (0.94%) Automotive
14 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.70%) Aviation
15 6 (0.70%) Legal
15 6 (0.70%) Military
16 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.59%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (23.45%) Spring
2 158 (18.52%) React
3 139 (16.30%) Kafka
4 123 (14.42%) JSON
5 122 (14.30%) HTML
6 120 (14.07%) CSS
7 99 (11.61%) AngularJS
8 97 (11.37%) Spring Boot
9 88 (10.32%) Web Services
10 85 (9.96%) PySpark
11 79 (9.26%) RESTful
12 75 (8.79%) Node.js
13 70 (8.21%) XML
14 69 (8.09%) J2EE
15 67 (7.85%) Hibernate
16 65 (7.62%) JSON-LD
16 65 (7.62%) LDAP
16 65 (7.62%) OpenID
16 65 (7.62%) SAML
17 62 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 335 (39.27%) Cloud Native
2 123 (14.42%) Public Cloud
3 81 (9.50%) Management Information System
4 65 (7.62%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (7.62%) Reference Data
5 32 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.81%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.46%) Replication
10 7 (0.82%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.70%) PropTech
12 5 (0.59%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.59%) Robotics
13 4 (0.47%) Infotainment
13 4 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.79%) Linux
2 21 (2.46%) Windows
3 8 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.23%) CentOS
6 2 (0.23%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 732 (85.81%) Agile
3 663 (77.73%) Operational Stability
4 620 (72.68%) SDLC
5 559 (65.53%) CI/CD
6 491 (57.56%) Community of Practice
7 400 (46.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 396 (46.42%) Machine Learning
9 367 (43.02%) Architectural Design
10 347 (40.68%) Information Architecture
11 292 (34.23%) Continuous Delivery
12 168 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
13 151 (17.70%) Tech Ops
14 125 (14.65%) Microservices
15 119 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
16 108 (12.66%) Decision-Making
17 106 (12.43%) Data Modelling
18 102 (11.96%) Coaching
19 96 (11.25%) Mentoring
19 96 (11.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 532 (62.37%) Java
2 340 (39.86%) SQL
3 243 (28.49%) Python
4 177 (20.75%) JavaScript
5 129 (15.12%) Scala
6 99 (11.61%) TypeScript
7 75 (8.79%) Go
8 65 (7.62%) Prolog
8 65 (7.62%) SPARQL
9 56 (6.57%) C#
10 33 (3.87%) C++
11 25 (2.93%) C
12 22 (2.58%) Groovy
13 6 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.59%) Haskell
15 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.23%) Assembly Language
16 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (2.23%) AWS Certification
1 19 (2.23%) Degree
2 12 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (1.41%) Security Cleared
3 6 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (0.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.12%) OCP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.45%) Accessibility
2 34 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.34%) PMO
4 10 (1.17%) QA
5 4 (0.47%) Def Stans
5 4 (0.47%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.47%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.47%) MISRA
5 4 (0.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 65 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.87%) Docker
3 6 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 123 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 73 (8.56%) Terraform
3 62 (7.27%) Grafana
4 41 (4.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.46%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.46%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.46%) Kibana
5 21 (2.46%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 119 (13.95%) Oracle
2 71 (8.32%) Splunk
3 64 (7.50%) Dynatrace
4 23 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 22 (2.58%) Google
6 18 (2.11%) SaltStack
7 15 (1.76%) Microsoft
8 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.59%) Databricks