Lead Software Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 648 553
Rank change year-on-year +126 -95 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 323 281 779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.32% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.35% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 246 169 318
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,813 £65,000 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +19.35% +10.71%
75th Percentile £130,625 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £135,693 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.94% +4.52% +10.71%

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 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London +103 144 £135,000 +31.71% 61
South East +31 59 £75,000 - 27
North of England +54 47 £70,000 -12.10% 12
South West +8 46 £67,500 -6.25% 6
North West +14 35 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Midlands 0 25 £85,000 +47.83% 5
West Midlands +29 18 £85,000 +47.83% 3
Yorkshire +61 10 £68,000 -14.61% 1
East Midlands -18 7 £95,000 +61.70% 2
East of England +8 2 £72,500 - 5
North East - 2 £54,500 - 3
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 job ads across the England region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 323 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 141 (43.65%) Agile
3 125 (38.70%) JavaScript
4 122 (37.77%) Java
5 109 (33.75%) Python
6 101 (31.27%) AWS
7 100 (30.96%) Finance
8 82 (25.39%) TypeScript
9 78 (24.15%) GCP
10 68 (21.05%) .NET
11 64 (19.81%) Azure
12 63 (19.50%) C#
13 58 (17.96%) Front Office
13 58 (17.96%) Asset Management
13 58 (17.96%) Mentoring
14 57 (17.65%) Apache
15 56 (17.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 56 (17.34%) Fixed Income
15 56 (17.34%) Equities
15 56 (17.34%) Derivative
15 56 (17.34%) Hedge funds
16 54 (16.72%) Investment Management
16 54 (16.72%) SQL
17 50 (15.48%) Kubernetes
17 50 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
17 50 (15.48%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (15.48%) Social Skills
17 50 (15.48%) dbt
18 49 (15.17%) Banking
19 48 (14.86%) Investment Banking

Lead Software Engineer 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 57 (17.65%) Apache
2 50 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.24%) Confluence
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.62%) Drupal
6 2 (0.62%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.62%) Simulink
3 1 (0.31%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 9 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 101 (31.27%) AWS
2 78 (24.15%) GCP
3 64 (19.81%) Azure
4 50 (15.48%) dbt
5 44 (13.62%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.33%) Serverless
7 13 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.10%) GitHub
9 10 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (1.86%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (1.86%) SaaS
13 5 (1.55%) Azure Storage
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) RS-485
2 4 (1.24%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.24%) HTTP
2 4 (1.24%) RS-232
2 4 (1.24%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.24%) Wireless
2 4 (1.24%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.62%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.62%) 5G
3 2 (0.62%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.48%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (14.86%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (14.86%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (14.86%) Dremio
3 44 (13.62%) Data Lake
4 16 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.02%) MySQL
7 11 (3.41%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.86%) CouchDB
11 5 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.55%) Redis
12 4 (1.24%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.93%) Bigtable
13 3 (0.93%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (3.10%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) GitLab
3 7 (2.17%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.17%) Gradle
3 7 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.17%) JIRA
4 5 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.24%) CANoe
6 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.93%) Selenium
7 2 (0.62%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.62%) Subversion
8 1 (0.31%) Gatling
8 1 (0.31%) JUnit
8 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.31%) Storybook
8 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 100 (30.96%) Finance
2 58 (17.96%) Front Office
3 50 (15.48%) Social Skills
4 49 (15.17%) Banking
5 48 (14.86%) Investment Banking
6 21 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.88%) Law
8 17 (5.26%) Legal
9 12 (3.72%) Retail
10 10 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.79%) Aviation
11 9 (2.79%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.48%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.86%) Military
15 5 (1.55%) Tech for Good
16 4 (1.24%) Automotive
16 4 (1.24%) Marketing
16 4 (1.24%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.93%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.05%) .NET
2 48 (14.86%) gRPC
2 48 (14.86%) NumPy
2 48 (14.86%) Pandas
2 48 (14.86%) Protocol Buffers
2 48 (14.86%) SciPy
3 43 (13.31%) React
4 38 (11.76%) .NET Core
5 35 (10.84%) AngularJS
6 31 (9.60%) HTML
7 30 (9.29%) CSS
8 20 (6.19%) Spring
9 19 (5.88%) .NET Framework
10 18 (5.57%) Spring Boot
11 17 (5.26%) ASP.NET
11 17 (5.26%) Hibernate
12 15 (4.64%) RESTful
12 15 (4.64%) Vue
12 15 (4.64%) XML
13 14 (4.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.34%) Derivative
1 56 (17.34%) Equities
1 56 (17.34%) Fixed Income
1 56 (17.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 56 (17.34%) Hedge funds
2 31 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.81%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.26%) Client/Server
5 13 (4.02%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.02%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.41%) Legacy Code
7 9 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.17%) Robotics
9 6 (1.86%) PropTech
9 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.55%) Device Driver
11 4 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.00%) Linux
2 20 (6.19%) Windows
3 8 (2.48%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) CentOS
6 2 (0.62%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 141 (43.65%) Agile
3 58 (17.96%) Asset Management
3 58 (17.96%) Mentoring
4 54 (16.72%) Investment Management
5 48 (14.86%) DevOps
6 47 (14.55%) Line Management
7 44 (13.62%) Microservices
8 39 (12.07%) CI/CD
8 39 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (8.67%) Fintech
10 26 (8.05%) Scrum
11 24 (7.43%) Full Stack Development
12 23 (7.12%) Computer Science
13 22 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (6.50%) TDD
14 21 (6.50%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (6.19%) Coaching
15 20 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (6.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 125 (38.70%) JavaScript
2 122 (37.77%) Java
3 109 (33.75%) Python
4 82 (25.39%) TypeScript
5 63 (19.50%) C#
6 54 (16.72%) SQL
7 42 (13.00%) C++
8 38 (11.76%) C
9 28 (8.67%) Go
10 19 (5.88%) Scala
11 18 (5.57%) Kotlin
12 15 (4.64%) Rust
13 9 (2.79%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.86%) VB.NET
15 5 (1.55%) Haskell
15 5 (1.55%) Swift
16 4 (1.24%) PHP
16 4 (1.24%) Ruby
17 2 (0.62%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (6.81%) Degree
2 19 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.74%) QA
2 4 (1.24%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.24%) IEC 61508
2 4 (1.24%) ISO 26262
2 4 (1.24%) MISRA
2 4 (1.24%) MISRA C
3 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (12.38%) Docker
2 7 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.86%) Firmware
4 2 (0.62%) Ceph
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.81%) Terraform
3 4 (1.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.62%) Knative
5 1 (0.31%) Argo
5 1 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.31%) Istio
5 1 (0.31%) Podman
5 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.41%) Google
3 8 (2.48%) Red Hat
4 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.62%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.62%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.31%) Splunk