Lead Software Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in London is £135,000 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 366 469 446
Rank change year-on-year +103 -23 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 144 161 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.48% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.50% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 116 95 174
10th Percentile £76,250 £63,750 £70,000
25th Percentile £89,750 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% +13.89% +14.29%
75th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.11% +19.35% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,283 31,984 66,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,636 23,610 34,531
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +42 6 £93,750 -10.71% 4
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 94 (65.28%) Agile
3 90 (62.50%) Finance
4 81 (56.25%) AWS
5 79 (54.86%) Java
6 75 (52.08%) JavaScript
7 74 (51.39%) Python
8 73 (50.69%) GCP
9 67 (46.53%) TypeScript
10 58 (40.28%) Front Office
10 58 (40.28%) Asset Management
11 56 (38.89%) Fixed Income
11 56 (38.89%) Equities
11 56 (38.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 56 (38.89%) Hedge funds
11 56 (38.89%) Derivative
12 54 (37.50%) Investment Management
13 53 (36.81%) Apache
14 50 (34.72%) Apache Airflow
14 50 (34.72%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (34.72%) dbt
15 49 (34.03%) Banking
16 48 (33.33%) SciPy
16 48 (33.33%) NumPy
16 48 (33.33%) Investment Banking
16 48 (33.33%) gRPC
16 48 (33.33%) Pandas
16 48 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
16 48 (33.33%) Dremio
16 48 (33.33%) Apache Arrow

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 53 (36.81%) Apache
2 50 (34.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.78%) Confluence
5 3 (2.08%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (1.39%) Drupal
6 2 (1.39%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 9 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (56.25%) AWS
2 73 (50.69%) GCP
3 50 (34.72%) dbt
4 44 (30.56%) Snowflake
5 35 (24.31%) Azure
6 10 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.56%) Serverless
9 6 (4.17%) SaaS
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.08%) GitHub
10 3 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.39%) Dagster
11 2 (1.39%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.72%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (33.33%) Dremio
3 44 (30.56%) Data Lake
4 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.78%) Redis
9 3 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.08%) Bigtable
9 3 (2.08%) Flink
9 3 (2.08%) MySQL
10 2 (1.39%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.39%) Metadata
10 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Git
1 6 (4.17%) JIRA
2 4 (2.78%) GitLab
3 2 (1.39%) Crashlytics
3 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) Gatling
4 1 (0.69%) JUnit
4 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.69%) Storybook
4 1 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 90 (62.50%) Finance
2 58 (40.28%) Front Office
3 49 (34.03%) Banking
4 48 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 19 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (13.19%) Law
6 16 (11.11%) Social Skills
7 11 (7.64%) Legal
8 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.78%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (33.33%) gRPC
1 48 (33.33%) NumPy
1 48 (33.33%) Pandas
1 48 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (33.33%) SciPy
2 29 (20.14%) .NET
3 21 (14.58%) AngularJS
4 19 (13.19%) React
5 15 (10.42%) .NET Core
6 12 (8.33%) CSS
6 12 (8.33%) HTML
7 11 (7.64%) Redux
8 10 (6.94%) ASP.NET
8 10 (6.94%) JSON
8 10 (6.94%) XML
9 9 (6.25%) Vue
10 8 (5.56%) Akka.NET
10 8 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (5.56%) jQuery
10 8 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (38.89%) Derivative
1 56 (38.89%) Equities
1 56 (38.89%) Fixed Income
1 56 (38.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 56 (38.89%) Hedge funds
2 22 (15.28%) Cloud Native
3 18 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.03%) Data Structures
5 11 (7.64%) Legacy Code
6 10 (6.94%) Client/Server
7 8 (5.56%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.17%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.78%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.39%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.39%) Robotics
10 2 (1.39%) Web3
11 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.42%) Linux
2 5 (3.47%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 94 (65.28%) Agile
3 58 (40.28%) Asset Management
4 54 (37.50%) Investment Management
5 44 (30.56%) Line Management
6 34 (23.61%) Mentoring
7 26 (18.06%) CI/CD
8 25 (17.36%) Scrum
9 24 (16.67%) Fintech
10 21 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (13.89%) Microservices
12 19 (13.19%) DevOps
13 18 (12.50%) Computer Science
13 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 12 (8.33%) Coaching
14 12 (8.33%) OOP
15 11 (7.64%) Full Stack Development
15 11 (7.64%) Risk Management
15 11 (7.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.86%) Java
2 75 (52.08%) JavaScript
3 74 (51.39%) Python
4 67 (46.53%) TypeScript
5 25 (17.36%) C#
6 20 (13.89%) Go
7 18 (12.50%) Kotlin
8 17 (11.81%) SQL
9 15 (10.42%) C++
9 15 (10.42%) Rust
9 15 (10.42%) Scala
10 13 (9.03%) C
11 8 (5.56%) T-SQL
12 5 (3.47%) Swift
13 4 (2.78%) Ruby
14 3 (2.08%) PHP
15 1 (0.69%) Bash
15 1 (0.69%) Groovy
15 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (6.94%) Degree
2 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
2 4 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (9.72%) Docker
2 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.39%) Ceph
3 2 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.89%) Terraform
3 3 (2.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.39%) Knative
5 1 (0.69%) Argo
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.94%) Google
3 2 (1.39%) Amplitude
3 2 (1.39%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.69%) Splunk