Lead Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 455 484
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 123 212 397
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 117 132 170
10th Percentile £68,250 £55,575 £58,175
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,539 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.52% +12.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £117,236 £89,688
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £107,625
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Lead Software Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 123 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 83 (67.48%) Agile
3 62 (50.41%) JavaScript
4 59 (47.97%) Java
4 59 (47.97%) AWS
5 58 (47.15%) Python
6 55 (44.72%) TypeScript
7 51 (41.46%) Finance
8 50 (40.65%) GCP
9 46 (37.40%) Banking
10 42 (34.15%) Front Office
11 40 (32.52%) Asset Management
11 40 (32.52%) Fixed Income
11 40 (32.52%) Equities
11 40 (32.52%) Apache
11 40 (32.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (32.52%) Hedge funds
11 40 (32.52%) SciPy
11 40 (32.52%) NumPy
11 40 (32.52%) Investment Banking
11 40 (32.52%) Derivative
11 40 (32.52%) Pandas
11 40 (32.52%) Protocol Buffers
11 40 (32.52%) Apache Arrow
11 40 (32.52%) Dremio
11 40 (32.52%) dbt
11 40 (32.52%) gRPC
11 40 (32.52%) Apache Airflow
11 40 (32.52%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (32.52%) Apache Ignite

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 40 (32.52%) Apache
1 40 (32.52%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.63%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (47.97%) AWS
2 50 (40.65%) GCP
3 40 (32.52%) dbt
4 36 (29.27%) Snowflake
5 21 (17.07%) Azure
6 11 (8.94%) Serverless
7 8 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.07%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.25%) SaaS
10 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.81%) Datadog
12 1 (0.81%) GitHub
12 1 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.63%) 5G
1 2 (1.63%) HTTP
1 2 (1.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.52%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (32.52%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (32.52%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (32.52%) Dremio
2 36 (29.27%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.32%) MySQL
4 6 (4.88%) CouchDB
4 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Gradle
2 3 (2.44%) Git
2 3 (2.44%) GitLab
2 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) Gatling
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) JUnit
3 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (41.46%) Finance
2 46 (37.40%) Banking
3 42 (34.15%) Front Office
4 40 (32.52%) Investment Banking
5 32 (26.02%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.44%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.44%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Games
8 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.52%) gRPC
1 40 (32.52%) NumPy
1 40 (32.52%) Pandas
1 40 (32.52%) Protocol Buffers
1 40 (32.52%) SciPy
2 24 (19.51%) .NET
3 12 (9.76%) React
4 11 (8.94%) .NET Core
5 9 (7.32%) Node.js
6 8 (6.50%) HTML
6 8 (6.50%) Spring
6 8 (6.50%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.69%) .NET Framework
7 7 (5.69%) Kafka
7 7 (5.69%) Vue
8 6 (4.88%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.88%) CSS
8 6 (4.88%) Hibernate
9 5 (4.07%) Sass
9 5 (4.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (32.52%) Derivative
1 40 (32.52%) Equities
1 40 (32.52%) Fixed Income
1 40 (32.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 40 (32.52%) Hedge funds
2 17 (13.82%) Client/Server
3 8 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.69%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.88%) PropTech
6 5 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.25%) Device Driver
7 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.25%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.63%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.88%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Windows
3 2 (1.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 83 (67.48%) Agile
3 40 (32.52%) Asset Management
4 38 (30.89%) Line Management
5 35 (28.46%) Mentoring
6 34 (27.64%) Investment Management
7 17 (13.82%) Coaching
8 15 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (10.57%) Microservices
10 12 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 10 (8.13%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.13%) DevOps
13 9 (7.32%) Design Patterns
14 8 (6.50%) Code Quality
14 8 (6.50%) Collaborative Culture
15 7 (5.69%) Clean Code
15 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure as Code
15 7 (5.69%) Project Delivery
15 7 (5.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.41%) JavaScript
2 59 (47.97%) Java
3 58 (47.15%) Python
4 55 (44.72%) TypeScript
5 20 (16.26%) SQL
6 19 (15.45%) C#
7 6 (4.88%) C++
8 5 (4.07%) Go
8 5 (4.07%) Scala
9 4 (3.25%) Ruby
10 3 (2.44%) C
10 3 (2.44%) PHP
11 2 (1.63%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.63%) Rust
12 1 (0.81%) Bash
12 1 (0.81%) Groovy
12 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.07%) Degree
3 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) Def Stans
1 4 (3.25%) IEC 61508
1 4 (3.25%) MISRA
1 4 (3.25%) MISRA C
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.13%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.25%) Google
3 2 (1.63%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace