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 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 491 645 533
Rank change year-on-year +154 -112 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 411 259 874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.31% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.34% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 274 159 338
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,169 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +18.93% +10.71%
75th Percentile £130,625 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £135,693 £120,625
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 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 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 1 June 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 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 +139 170 £127,500 +24.39% 42
North of England +81 88 £70,000 -12.10% 10
North West +46 68 £70,000 -6.67% 7
South East +32 65 £75,000 - 10
South West +7 53 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Midlands +1 32 £85,000 +47.83% 8
West Midlands +5 23 £85,000 +47.83% 2
Yorkshire +55 14 £68,000 -14.61% 2
East Midlands -23 9 £77,500 +40.91% 6
North East - 6 £35,000 - 1
East of England -5 2 £72,500 - 3
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 411 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 189 (45.99%) Agile
3 133 (32.36%) Java
4 131 (31.87%) JavaScript
5 127 (30.90%) Python
6 121 (29.44%) AWS
7 118 (28.71%) Finance
8 101 (24.57%) Mentoring
9 94 (22.87%) TypeScript
10 93 (22.63%) GCP
11 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (17.03%) .NET
13 66 (16.06%) Apache
13 66 (16.06%) Azure
14 64 (15.57%) C#
14 64 (15.57%) Front Office
14 64 (15.57%) Asset Management
15 62 (15.09%) Fixed Income
15 62 (15.09%) Equities
15 62 (15.09%) Derivative
15 62 (15.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 62 (15.09%) Hedge funds
16 59 (14.36%) Social Skills
16 59 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 58 (14.11%) dbt
17 58 (14.11%) Amazon Athena
17 58 (14.11%) Apache Airflow
18 57 (13.87%) Banking
19 56 (13.63%) Investment Banking
19 56 (13.63%) SciPy

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 66 (16.06%) Apache
2 58 (14.11%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.97%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) Drupal
5 2 (0.49%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.49%) Simulink
3 1 (0.24%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 9 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 121 (29.44%) AWS
2 93 (22.63%) GCP
3 66 (16.06%) Azure
4 58 (14.11%) dbt
5 52 (12.65%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.65%) Serverless
7 14 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.16%) GitHub
8 13 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.95%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (1.46%) SaaS
14 5 (1.22%) Azure Storage
15 3 (0.73%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.46%) RS-485
2 4 (0.97%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.97%) HTTP
2 4 (0.97%) RS-232
2 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.97%) Wireless
2 4 (0.97%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.49%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.49%) 5G
3 2 (0.49%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.11%) Amazon Athena
2 56 (13.63%) Apache Arrow
2 56 (13.63%) Apache Ignite
2 56 (13.63%) Dremio
3 52 (12.65%) Data Lake
4 20 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 16 (3.89%) DynamoDB
6 16 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.16%) MySQL
8 10 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.46%) CouchDB
10 5 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.22%) Redis
11 4 (0.97%) Bigtable
11 4 (0.97%) Flink
11 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (2.19%) CircleCI
1 9 (2.19%) Git
2 8 (1.95%) GitLab
3 7 (1.70%) JIRA
4 6 (1.46%) Gradle
5 5 (1.22%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.97%) CANoe
6 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.49%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.49%) Storybook
7 2 (0.49%) Subversion
7 2 (0.49%) Vite
8 1 (0.24%) Gatling
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 118 (28.71%) Finance
2 64 (15.57%) Front Office
3 59 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 59 (14.36%) Social Skills
4 57 (13.87%) Banking
5 56 (13.63%) Investment Banking
6 24 (5.84%) Law
7 20 (4.87%) Legal
8 15 (3.65%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.41%) Retail
10 10 (2.43%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.19%) Aviation
11 9 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.70%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.46%) Military
14 5 (1.22%) Marketing
14 5 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.97%) Automotive
15 4 (0.97%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.03%) .NET
2 56 (13.63%) gRPC
2 56 (13.63%) NumPy
2 56 (13.63%) Pandas
2 56 (13.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 56 (13.63%) SciPy
3 47 (11.44%) React
4 40 (9.73%) .NET Core
5 35 (8.52%) AngularJS
6 30 (7.30%) CSS
6 30 (7.30%) HTML
7 20 (4.87%) .NET Framework
8 19 (4.62%) Node.js
8 19 (4.62%) RESTful
8 19 (4.62%) Spring
9 18 (4.38%) Spring Boot
10 17 (4.14%) Hibernate
10 17 (4.14%) http4s
11 16 (3.89%) Django
11 16 (3.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (15.09%) Derivative
1 62 (15.09%) Equities
1 62 (15.09%) Fixed Income
1 62 (15.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 62 (15.09%) Hedge funds
2 40 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.52%) Cyberattack
4 26 (6.33%) Cloud Native
5 17 (4.14%) Client/Server
6 14 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.16%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.92%) Legacy Code
9 11 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.19%) Blog
10 9 (2.19%) Media Streaming
10 9 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.19%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.70%) Robotics
12 6 (1.46%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.46%) Linux
2 19 (4.62%) Windows
3 8 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.49%) Android
6 2 (0.49%) CentOS
6 2 (0.49%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 189 (45.99%) Agile
3 101 (24.57%) Mentoring
4 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (15.57%) Asset Management
6 56 (13.63%) Machine Learning
7 55 (13.38%) Line Management
8 54 (13.14%) Investment Management
9 51 (12.41%) DevOps
10 50 (12.17%) CI/CD
11 49 (11.92%) Microservices
11 49 (11.92%) User Experience
12 39 (9.49%) Data Engineering
13 36 (8.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 35 (8.52%) Creative Thinking
15 31 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence
15 31 (7.54%) Scrum
16 30 (7.30%) Fintech
17 27 (6.57%) Full Stack Development
18 25 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 133 (32.36%) Java
2 131 (31.87%) JavaScript
3 127 (30.90%) Python
4 94 (22.87%) TypeScript
5 64 (15.57%) C#
6 54 (13.14%) SQL
7 40 (9.73%) C
7 40 (9.73%) C++
8 32 (7.79%) Go
9 27 (6.57%) Scala
10 24 (5.84%) Kotlin
11 17 (4.14%) Rust
12 9 (2.19%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.46%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.22%) Haskell
14 5 (1.22%) PHP
14 5 (1.22%) Swift
15 4 (0.97%) Ruby
16 2 (0.49%) Assembly Language
16 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (6.08%) Degree
2 19 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.19%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.81%) QA
2 4 (0.97%) Def Stans
2 4 (0.97%) IEC 61508
2 4 (0.97%) ISO 26262
2 4 (0.97%) MISRA
2 4 (0.97%) MISRA C
3 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (9.73%) Docker
2 11 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.46%) Firmware
4 3 (0.73%) Ceph
4 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (13.14%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.81%) Terraform
3 5 (1.22%) Ansible
4 3 (0.73%) Knative
5 1 (0.24%) Argo
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Istio
5 1 (0.24%) Podman
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.38%) Google
3 8 (1.95%) Red Hat
4 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.49%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.49%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.24%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.24%) Splunk