Lead Software Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 468 466
Rank change year-on-year +129 -2 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 58 124 212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.37% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.38% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 57 118 131
10th Percentile £73,250 £68,375 £57,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £88,480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.37% +14.17%
75th Percentile £140,677 £142,500 £117,368
90th Percentile £142,926 £172,500 £135,693
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £83,750
% change year-on-year +11.76% +1.49% +8.06%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Lead Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Software Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Software Engineer.

Lead Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (56.90%) Agile
3 29 (50.00%) AWS
4 24 (41.38%) Mentoring
4 24 (41.38%) Finance
4 24 (41.38%) JavaScript
4 24 (41.38%) Python
5 21 (36.21%) GCP
5 21 (36.21%) React
6 20 (34.48%) SQL
6 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
7 18 (31.03%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
7 18 (31.03%) C#
8 17 (29.31%) Roadmaps
9 16 (27.59%) Cloud Native
10 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
10 15 (25.86%) Product Ownership
10 15 (25.86%) Banking
10 15 (25.86%) DevOps
10 15 (25.86%) TypeScript
10 15 (25.86%) Node.js
11 13 (22.41%) Azure
11 13 (22.41%) Microservices
11 13 (22.41%) Java
12 12 (20.69%) .NET
12 12 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (20.69%) Docker
12 12 (20.69%) SaaS
13 11 (18.97%) Machine Learning

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (5.17%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) AWS
2 21 (36.21%) GCP
3 13 (22.41%) Azure
4 12 (20.69%) SaaS
5 11 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (18.97%) Serverless
6 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.72%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.72%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
3 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) Moq
4 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.72%) VersaTest
General
1 24 (41.38%) Finance
2 15 (25.86%) Banking
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Tech for Good
5 3 (5.17%) Health Technology
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Publishing
6 2 (3.45%) Advertising
6 2 (3.45%) Electronics
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.21%) React
2 15 (25.86%) Node.js
3 12 (20.69%) .NET
4 8 (13.79%) Django
5 7 (12.07%) Kafka
6 6 (10.34%) Express.js
6 6 (10.34%) Spring
7 5 (8.62%) RESTful
8 4 (6.90%) REST
8 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.17%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (3.45%) Blazor
10 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.45%) Swagger
11 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
11 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
11 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
11 1 (1.72%) FHIR
11 1 (1.72%) OpenAPI
11 1 (1.72%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.03%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (27.59%) Cloud Native
3 15 (25.86%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) EMV
6 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
1 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (56.90%) Agile
3 24 (41.38%) Mentoring
4 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
5 17 (29.31%) Roadmaps
6 15 (25.86%) DevOps
7 13 (22.41%) Microservices
8 12 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (18.97%) Machine Learning
9 11 (18.97%) SOLID
9 11 (18.97%) TDD
10 10 (17.24%) SDLC
11 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven
11 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (15.52%) Operational Stability
12 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
12 8 (13.79%) Conversational UI
12 8 (13.79%) Fintech
12 8 (13.79%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) JavaScript
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 20 (34.48%) SQL
3 18 (31.03%) C#
4 15 (25.86%) TypeScript
5 13 (22.41%) Java
6 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
7 5 (8.62%) Go
8 3 (5.17%) Ruby
9 1 (1.72%) C++
9 1 (1.72%) COBOL
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
9 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Degree
1 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) CDISC
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle
2 3 (5.17%) Google
3 2 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (1.72%) HP
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft