Lead Software Developer Jobs

Lead Software Developer
UK

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 869 987
Rank change year-on-year +155 +118 -229
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 190 103 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 177 98 190
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £55,084
% change year-on-year +3.70% +22.54% +4.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +188 182 £90,000 +16.13% 12
UK excluding London +70 121 £70,000 +3.70% 9
Work from Home +108 98 £85,000 +13.33% 9
London +132 66 £138,750 +38.75% 3
South East +30 54 £76,250 +1.67% 3
North of England +84 38 £70,000 - 4
North West +34 26 £70,000 +7.69% 4
East of England +27 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -12 8 £75,000 +15.38% 2
West Midlands +17 7 £75,000 +57.07%
Yorkshire +94 6 £60,000 -22.58%
North East - 6 £65,000 -
South West -23 5 £72,500 +16.00%
Scotland -65 2 £83,750 +39.58%
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 -
Wales - 2 £83,750 -
East Midlands -23 1 £65,000 - 2

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Lead Software Developer 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 featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 126 (66.32%) Agile
2 104 (54.74%) JavaScript
3 94 (49.47%) C#
4 87 (45.79%) Software Engineering
5 86 (45.26%) .NET
6 85 (44.74%) Finance
7 77 (40.53%) AWS
8 75 (39.47%) TypeScript
8 75 (39.47%) Java
9 55 (28.95%) Banking
10 54 (28.42%) GCP
11 53 (27.89%) Hedge funds
11 53 (27.89%) Asset Management
11 53 (27.89%) Derivative
11 53 (27.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 53 (27.89%) Front Office
11 53 (27.89%) Fixed Income
11 53 (27.89%) Equities
12 50 (26.32%) Python
13 44 (23.16%) Apache
13 44 (23.16%) Investment Management
13 44 (23.16%) Investment Banking
13 44 (23.16%) SciPy
13 44 (23.16%) NumPy
13 44 (23.16%) Azure
13 44 (23.16%) Protocol Buffers
13 44 (23.16%) gRPC
13 44 (23.16%) Apache Airflow
13 44 (23.16%) Pandas
13 44 (23.16%) Apache Arrow

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 44 (23.16%) Apache
1 44 (23.16%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.58%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.53%) AWS
2 54 (28.42%) GCP
3 44 (23.16%) Azure
3 44 (23.16%) dbt
4 40 (21.05%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.68%) Pulumi
7 6 (3.16%) SaaS
8 4 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.11%) PaaS
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.58%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.58%) Serverless
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub
10 1 (0.53%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Network Security
2 6 (3.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.16%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (23.16%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (23.16%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (23.16%) Dremio
2 40 (21.05%) Data Lake
3 30 (15.79%) NoSQL
4 20 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.16%) MySQL
6 4 (2.11%) Redis
7 3 (1.58%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.58%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (11.58%) Visual Studio
2 16 (8.42%) Git
3 7 (3.68%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.68%) NUnit
3 7 (3.68%) Selenium
3 7 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.68%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.11%) Maven
6 3 (1.58%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) Appium
7 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) GitKraken
7 1 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.53%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 85 (44.74%) Finance
2 55 (28.95%) Banking
3 53 (27.89%) Front Office
4 44 (23.16%) Investment Banking
5 14 (7.37%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.63%) Games
7 5 (2.63%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.11%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Electronics
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.53%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (45.26%) .NET
2 44 (23.16%) gRPC
2 44 (23.16%) NumPy
2 44 (23.16%) Pandas
2 44 (23.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 44 (23.16%) SciPy
3 38 (20.00%) React
4 21 (11.05%) ASP.NET
5 18 (9.47%) RESTful
6 15 (7.89%) .NET Core
6 15 (7.89%) AngularJS
7 13 (6.84%) Vue
8 12 (6.32%) .NET Framework
8 12 (6.32%) CSS
8 12 (6.32%) JSON
9 10 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (5.26%) HTML
10 9 (4.74%) Redux
11 8 (4.21%) Entity Framework
12 7 (3.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (27.89%) Derivative
1 53 (27.89%) Equities
1 53 (27.89%) Fixed Income
1 53 (27.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 53 (27.89%) Hedge funds
2 11 (5.79%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.68%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.68%) IoT
4 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.11%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.11%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.05%) e-Health
8 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.05%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Windows
2 6 (3.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (66.32%) Agile
2 87 (45.79%) Software Engineering
3 53 (27.89%) Asset Management
4 44 (23.16%) Investment Management
5 41 (21.58%) Line Management
6 39 (20.53%) Mentoring
7 38 (20.00%) DevOps
8 28 (14.74%) Computer Science
9 25 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (13.16%) Propensity Modelling
10 23 (12.11%) Microservices
11 21 (11.05%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (11.05%) Unit Testing
12 20 (10.53%) Fintech
12 20 (10.53%) Multithreading
13 17 (8.95%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (8.95%) TDD
13 17 (8.95%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.89%) Code Quality
14 15 (7.89%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 104 (54.74%) JavaScript
2 94 (49.47%) C#
3 75 (39.47%) Java
3 75 (39.47%) TypeScript
4 50 (26.32%) Python
5 32 (16.84%) SQL
6 19 (10.00%) C
7 12 (6.32%) C++
8 7 (3.68%) Bicep
9 4 (2.11%) Embedded C
9 4 (2.11%) Ruby
9 4 (2.11%) Scala
9 4 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (14.74%) Degree
2 22 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.05%) BC Cleared
5 2 (1.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.37%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.74%) Terraform
3 7 (3.68%) MIIS
4 1 (0.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Kiali
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle