Lead Software Developer Jobs in England

Lead Software Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in England is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 817 963
Rank change year-on-year +146 +146 -199
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 194 84 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.100% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 179 81 179
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £52,434
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 £115,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +160 76 £135,000 +35.00% 5
South East +20 53 £70,000 -6.67% 3
North of England +68 42 £70,000 +3.70% 3
North West +21 30 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +6 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -15 9 £75,000 +15.38% 2
West Midlands -8 8 £75,000 +57.07% 1
Yorkshire +67 6 £60,000 -22.58%
North East - 6 £65,000 -
South West -27 4 £72,500 +11.54% 1
East Midlands -26 1 - - 1
Lead Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 across the England region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 129 (66.49%) Agile
2 109 (56.19%) JavaScript
3 97 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 90 (46.39%) Finance
5 88 (45.36%) C#
6 84 (43.30%) AWS
7 83 (42.78%) Java
8 80 (41.24%) TypeScript
9 79 (40.72%) .NET
10 64 (32.99%) GCP
11 63 (32.47%) Banking
11 63 (32.47%) Python
12 62 (31.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 62 (31.96%) Fixed Income
12 62 (31.96%) Equities
12 62 (31.96%) Front Office
12 62 (31.96%) Asset Management
12 62 (31.96%) Derivative
12 62 (31.96%) Hedge funds
13 56 (28.87%) SciPy
13 56 (28.87%) NumPy
13 56 (28.87%) Pandas
13 56 (28.87%) Protocol Buffers
13 56 (28.87%) gRPC
13 56 (28.87%) Apache Airflow
13 56 (28.87%) Amazon Athena
13 56 (28.87%) Investment Banking
13 56 (28.87%) Apache
13 56 (28.87%) Apache Ignite
13 56 (28.87%) Dremio

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 56 (28.87%) Apache
1 56 (28.87%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.55%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (43.30%) AWS
2 64 (32.99%) GCP
3 56 (28.87%) dbt
4 52 (26.80%) Snowflake
5 36 (18.56%) Azure
6 10 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.61%) Pulumi
7 7 (3.61%) SaaS
8 5 (2.58%) PaaS
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.55%) Serverless
10 1 (0.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.61%) Network Security
2 6 (3.09%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.87%) Amazon Athena
1 56 (28.87%) Apache Arrow
1 56 (28.87%) Apache Ignite
1 56 (28.87%) Dremio
2 52 (26.80%) Data Lake
3 27 (13.92%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.25%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.09%) MySQL
6 3 (1.55%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.55%) Redis
7 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Visual Studio
2 16 (8.25%) Git
3 7 (3.61%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.61%) NUnit
3 7 (3.61%) Selenium
3 7 (3.61%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.61%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.06%) Maven
6 3 (1.55%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) Appium
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (46.39%) Finance
2 63 (32.47%) Banking
3 62 (31.96%) Front Office
4 56 (28.87%) Investment Banking
5 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.19%) Social Skills
6 6 (3.09%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.58%) Games
8 4 (2.06%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Electronics
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (40.72%) .NET
2 56 (28.87%) gRPC
2 56 (28.87%) NumPy
2 56 (28.87%) Pandas
2 56 (28.87%) Protocol Buffers
2 56 (28.87%) SciPy
3 32 (16.49%) React
4 17 (8.76%) .NET Core
5 16 (8.25%) RESTful
6 14 (7.22%) ASP.NET
7 12 (6.19%) AngularJS
7 12 (6.19%) JSON
8 11 (5.67%) .NET Framework
8 11 (5.67%) Vue
9 10 (5.15%) CSS
10 8 (4.12%) HTML
11 7 (3.61%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.61%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.61%) HTML5
11 7 (3.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 62 (31.96%) Derivative
1 62 (31.96%) Equities
1 62 (31.96%) Fixed Income
1 62 (31.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 62 (31.96%) Hedge funds
2 11 (5.67%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.61%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.09%) IoT
4 6 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.06%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.06%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.03%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.03%) NHS
6 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.67%) Windows
2 6 (3.09%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (66.49%) Agile
2 97 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 62 (31.96%) Asset Management
4 52 (26.80%) Line Management
5 44 (22.68%) Investment Management
6 34 (17.53%) Mentoring
7 33 (17.01%) DevOps
8 24 (12.37%) Computer Science
9 22 (11.34%) Microservices
9 22 (11.34%) Propensity Modelling
10 21 (10.82%) Full Stack Development
11 20 (10.31%) Multithreading
12 19 (9.79%) Unit Testing
13 18 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.25%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.73%) Code Quality
16 13 (6.70%) Design Patterns
16 13 (6.70%) Fintech
16 13 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 109 (56.19%) JavaScript
2 88 (45.36%) C#
3 83 (42.78%) Java
4 80 (41.24%) TypeScript
5 63 (32.47%) Python
6 31 (15.98%) SQL
7 19 (9.79%) C
8 13 (6.70%) C++
9 7 (3.61%) Bicep
10 4 (2.06%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.06%) Ruby
10 4 (2.06%) Scala
11 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.03%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.03%) PHP
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Degree
2 18 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.55%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.15%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (18.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.12%) Terraform
3 7 (3.61%) MIIS
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Kiali
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle
3 1 (0.52%) Google