Lead Software Developer Jobs

Lead Software Developer
UK

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 825 1049
Rank change year-on-year +126 +224 -300
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 212 95 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 196 91 186
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £52,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -9.09% +26.92%
75th Percentile £142,500 £107,500 £111,875
90th Percentile £165,000 £115,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £55,168
% change year-on-year +1.82% +24.62% +2.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 102,593 85,161 165,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 72,456 55,290 85,908
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,518 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +130 204 £90,000 +20.00% 16
Work from Home +120 125 £135,000 +92.86% 13
UK excluding London +25 125 £70,000 +1.82% 10
London +132 85 £135,000 +35.00% 7
South East +20 53 £70,000 -6.67% 2
North of England +48 42 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North West +18 30 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England -4 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -39 10 £75,000 +15.38% 4
West Midlands +3 9 £75,000 +57.07% 3
Yorkshire +72 6 £60,000 -20.00%
North East - 6 £65,000 -
South West -35 4 £72,500 +9.43% 1
Wales +8 2 £83,750 +21.82%
Scotland -57 2 £83,750 +39.58%
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 -
East Midlands -41 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 138 (65.09%) Agile
2 118 (55.66%) JavaScript
3 106 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 103 (48.58%) Finance
5 98 (46.23%) Java
6 94 (44.34%) AWS
7 89 (41.98%) C#
8 88 (41.51%) TypeScript
9 79 (37.26%) .NET
10 77 (36.32%) Banking
11 73 (34.43%) Python
11 73 (34.43%) GCP
12 71 (33.49%) Hedge funds
12 71 (33.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 71 (33.49%) Fixed Income
12 71 (33.49%) Equities
12 71 (33.49%) Front Office
12 71 (33.49%) Derivative
12 71 (33.49%) Asset Management
13 66 (31.13%) Investment Banking
13 66 (31.13%) Apache
13 66 (31.13%) SciPy
13 66 (31.13%) NumPy
13 66 (31.13%) Protocol Buffers
13 66 (31.13%) gRPC
13 66 (31.13%) Apache Airflow
13 66 (31.13%) Pandas
13 66 (31.13%) dbt
13 66 (31.13%) Apache Arrow
13 66 (31.13%) Amazon Athena

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 66 (31.13%) Apache
1 66 (31.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.42%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (44.34%) AWS
2 73 (34.43%) GCP
3 66 (31.13%) dbt
4 62 (29.25%) Snowflake
5 37 (17.45%) Azure
6 10 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.77%) SaaS
8 7 (3.30%) Pulumi
9 6 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.36%) PaaS
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.42%) Serverless
12 1 (0.47%) GitHub
12 1 (0.47%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) Network Security
2 6 (2.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (31.13%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (31.13%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (31.13%) Apache Ignite
1 66 (31.13%) Dremio
2 62 (29.25%) Data Lake
3 27 (12.74%) NoSQL
4 18 (8.49%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.83%) MySQL
6 4 (1.89%) Redis
7 3 (1.42%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.42%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (10.38%) Visual Studio
2 16 (7.55%) Git
3 7 (3.30%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.30%) NUnit
3 7 (3.30%) Selenium
3 7 (3.30%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.30%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.89%) Maven
6 3 (1.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.47%) Appium
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) GitKraken
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 103 (48.58%) Finance
2 77 (36.32%) Banking
3 71 (33.49%) Front Office
4 66 (31.13%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.13%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.30%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.36%) Games
8 5 (2.36%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (37.26%) .NET
2 66 (31.13%) gRPC
2 66 (31.13%) NumPy
2 66 (31.13%) Pandas
2 66 (31.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 66 (31.13%) SciPy
3 30 (14.15%) React
4 17 (8.02%) .NET Core
5 16 (7.55%) ASP.NET
5 16 (7.55%) RESTful
6 12 (5.66%) JSON
7 11 (5.19%) .NET Framework
7 11 (5.19%) CSS
8 10 (4.72%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.72%) Vue
9 9 (4.25%) HTML
10 8 (3.77%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.30%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.30%) HTML5
11 7 (3.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 71 (33.49%) Derivative
1 71 (33.49%) Equities
1 71 (33.49%) Fixed Income
1 71 (33.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 71 (33.49%) Hedge funds
2 11 (5.19%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.30%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.83%) IoT
4 6 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.42%) NHS
6 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.94%) e-Health
7 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.94%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.66%) Windows
2 6 (2.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (65.09%) Agile
2 106 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 71 (33.49%) Asset Management
4 63 (29.72%) Line Management
5 44 (20.75%) Investment Management
6 34 (16.04%) Mentoring
7 33 (15.57%) DevOps
8 23 (10.85%) Computer Science
8 23 (10.85%) Microservices
9 21 (9.91%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (9.91%) Propensity Modelling
10 20 (9.43%) Multithreading
10 20 (9.43%) Unit Testing
11 17 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (8.02%) Test Automation
12 16 (7.55%) Fintech
12 16 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (7.08%) Code Quality
14 14 (6.60%) Design Patterns
15 13 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (55.66%) JavaScript
2 98 (46.23%) Java
3 89 (41.98%) C#
4 88 (41.51%) TypeScript
5 73 (34.43%) Python
6 38 (17.92%) SQL
7 19 (8.96%) C
8 14 (6.60%) C++
9 7 (3.30%) Bicep
10 4 (1.89%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.89%) Ruby
10 4 (1.89%) Scala
11 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.94%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.94%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (10.85%) Degree
2 17 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.42%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.72%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (16.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.25%) Terraform
3 7 (3.30%) MIIS
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Kiali
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.83%) Bloomberg
2 6 (2.83%) Reuters
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle
4 1 (0.47%) Google