Lead Software Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in London is £127,500 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 338 477 447
Rank change year-on-year +139 -30 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 170 139 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.44% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.46% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 132 84 185
10th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £89,938 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% +13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £153,750 £122,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,169 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +18.93% +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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 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
Central London +33 7 £95,000 -9.52% 3
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 170 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 106 (62.35%) Finance
2 106 (62.35%) Agile
3 99 (58.24%) AWS
4 93 (54.71%) Java
5 91 (53.53%) Python
6 88 (51.76%) GCP
7 84 (49.41%) JavaScript
8 77 (45.29%) TypeScript
9 64 (37.65%) Asset Management
9 64 (37.65%) Front Office
10 62 (36.47%) Fixed Income
10 62 (36.47%) Equities
10 62 (36.47%) Apache
10 62 (36.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 62 (36.47%) Hedge funds
10 62 (36.47%) Derivative
11 58 (34.12%) Apache Airflow
11 58 (34.12%) Amazon Athena
11 58 (34.12%) dbt
12 57 (33.53%) Banking
13 56 (32.94%) Investment Banking
13 56 (32.94%) SciPy
13 56 (32.94%) NumPy
13 56 (32.94%) gRPC
13 56 (32.94%) Pandas
13 56 (32.94%) Protocol Buffers
13 56 (32.94%) Dremio
13 56 (32.94%) Apache Ignite
13 56 (32.94%) 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 62 (36.47%) Apache
2 58 (34.12%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.35%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (2.35%) Confluence
5 2 (1.18%) Drupal
5 2 (1.18%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (58.24%) AWS
2 88 (51.76%) GCP
3 58 (34.12%) dbt
4 52 (30.59%) Snowflake
5 40 (23.53%) Azure
6 10 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (5.29%) Serverless
8 8 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.71%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.53%) SaaS
10 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.35%) GitHub
10 4 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.18%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (34.12%) Amazon Athena
2 56 (32.94%) Apache Arrow
2 56 (32.94%) Apache Ignite
2 56 (32.94%) Dremio
3 52 (30.59%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.35%) Bigtable
8 4 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.35%) Flink
8 4 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.35%) Redis
9 3 (1.76%) MySQL
10 2 (1.18%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.18%) Metadata
10 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Git
1 6 (3.53%) JIRA
2 4 (2.35%) GitLab
3 2 (1.18%) Crashlytics
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) Storybook
3 2 (1.18%) Vite
4 1 (0.59%) Gatling
4 1 (0.59%) JUnit
4 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 106 (62.35%) Finance
2 64 (37.65%) Front Office
3 57 (33.53%) Banking
4 56 (32.94%) Investment Banking
5 24 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (14.12%) Law
6 19 (11.18%) Social Skills
7 14 (8.24%) Legal
8 9 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Back Office
10 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (32.94%) gRPC
1 56 (32.94%) NumPy
1 56 (32.94%) Pandas
1 56 (32.94%) Protocol Buffers
1 56 (32.94%) SciPy
2 28 (16.47%) .NET
3 21 (12.35%) React
4 19 (11.18%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.82%) .NET Core
6 12 (7.06%) CSS
6 12 (7.06%) HTML
7 11 (6.47%) Lambda Expressions
8 10 (5.88%) JSON
8 10 (5.88%) XML
9 9 (5.29%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.29%) Redux
10 8 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.71%) Django
10 8 (4.71%) jQuery
10 8 (4.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (36.47%) Derivative
1 62 (36.47%) Equities
1 62 (36.47%) Fixed Income
1 62 (36.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 62 (36.47%) Hedge funds
2 26 (15.29%) Cloud Native
3 20 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (8.24%) Data Structures
5 12 (7.06%) Legacy Code
6 10 (5.88%) Client/Server
7 8 (4.71%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.53%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.35%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.18%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.18%) Robotics
10 2 (1.18%) Web3
11 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 106 (62.35%) Agile
3 64 (37.65%) Asset Management
4 54 (31.76%) Investment Management
5 52 (30.59%) Line Management
6 37 (21.76%) Mentoring
7 35 (20.59%) CI/CD
8 30 (17.65%) Scrum
9 26 (15.29%) Fintech
10 25 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (13.53%) Microservices
11 23 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (12.35%) DevOps
12 21 (12.35%) Test Automation
13 19 (11.18%) Computer Science
14 15 (8.82%) OOP
14 15 (8.82%) Roadmaps
15 14 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 14 (8.24%) Risk Management
16 13 (7.65%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 93 (54.71%) Java
2 91 (53.53%) Python
3 84 (49.41%) JavaScript
4 77 (45.29%) TypeScript
5 24 (14.12%) C#
5 24 (14.12%) Go
5 24 (14.12%) Kotlin
6 19 (11.18%) SQL
7 18 (10.59%) Scala
8 17 (10.00%) C++
8 17 (10.00%) Rust
9 15 (8.82%) C
10 8 (4.71%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.94%) Swift
12 4 (2.35%) Ruby
13 3 (1.76%) PHP
14 1 (0.59%) Bash
14 1 (0.59%) Groovy
14 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (7.06%) Degree
2 10 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.35%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.35%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.35%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (8.82%) Docker
2 11 (6.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.76%) Ceph
3 3 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 26 (15.29%) Terraform
3 4 (2.35%) Ansible
4 3 (1.76%) Knative
5 1 (0.59%) Argo
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Istio
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (1.18%) Amplitude
3 2 (1.18%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.59%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.59%) Splunk