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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 470 442
Rank change year-on-year +153 -28 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 199 133 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.80% 0.43% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.45% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 155 80 191
10th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% +13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £153,750 £120,625 £108,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £135,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +12.90% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 12 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 12 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 +26 5 £95,000 -9.52% 4
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 199 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 128 (64.32%) Finance
3 127 (63.82%) Agile
4 124 (62.31%) AWS
5 114 (57.29%) Python
6 113 (56.78%) Java
7 111 (55.78%) GCP
8 102 (51.26%) JavaScript
9 97 (48.74%) TypeScript
10 83 (41.71%) Front Office
10 83 (41.71%) Asset Management
11 82 (41.21%) Apache
12 81 (40.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 81 (40.70%) Fixed Income
12 81 (40.70%) Equities
12 81 (40.70%) Derivative
12 81 (40.70%) Hedge funds
13 78 (39.20%) Apache Airflow
13 78 (39.20%) Amazon Athena
13 78 (39.20%) dbt
14 77 (38.69%) Banking
15 76 (38.19%) Investment Banking
15 76 (38.19%) gRPC
15 76 (38.19%) SciPy
15 76 (38.19%) NumPy
15 76 (38.19%) Protocol Buffers
15 76 (38.19%) Pandas
15 76 (38.19%) Dremio
15 76 (38.19%) Apache Ignite
15 76 (38.19%) 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 82 (41.21%) Apache
2 78 (39.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.01%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (2.01%) Confluence
5 2 (1.01%) Drupal
5 2 (1.01%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (62.31%) AWS
2 111 (55.78%) GCP
3 78 (39.20%) dbt
4 72 (36.18%) Snowflake
5 45 (22.61%) Azure
6 21 (10.55%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (4.52%) Serverless
11 8 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.02%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.02%) SaaS
13 4 (2.01%) GitHub
13 4 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.51%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (1.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.20%) Amazon Athena
2 76 (38.19%) Apache Arrow
2 76 (38.19%) Apache Ignite
2 76 (38.19%) Dremio
3 72 (36.18%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.03%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.53%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.51%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.01%) Bigtable
7 4 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.01%) Flink
7 4 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.01%) Data Hub
9 2 (1.01%) Metadata
9 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.01%) Redis
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Git
1 6 (3.02%) JIRA
2 4 (2.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) Crashlytics
3 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.01%) Storybook
3 2 (1.01%) Vite
4 1 (0.50%) Gatling
4 1 (0.50%) JUnit
4 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 128 (64.32%) Finance
2 83 (41.71%) Front Office
3 77 (38.69%) Banking
4 76 (38.19%) Investment Banking
5 24 (12.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (12.06%) Law
6 19 (9.55%) Social Skills
7 14 (7.04%) Legal
8 7 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (38.19%) gRPC
1 76 (38.19%) NumPy
1 76 (38.19%) Pandas
1 76 (38.19%) Protocol Buffers
1 76 (38.19%) SciPy
2 30 (15.08%) .NET
3 21 (10.55%) React
4 16 (8.04%) .NET Core
4 16 (8.04%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.53%) Lambda Expressions
6 12 (6.03%) PySpark
7 11 (5.53%) CSS
7 11 (5.53%) HTML
8 10 (5.03%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.03%) http4s
8 10 (5.03%) JSON
8 10 (5.03%) XML
9 9 (4.52%) .NET Framework
9 9 (4.52%) Django
10 8 (4.02%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 81 (40.70%) Derivative
1 81 (40.70%) Equities
1 81 (40.70%) Fixed Income
1 81 (40.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 81 (40.70%) Hedge funds
2 28 (14.07%) Cloud Native
3 22 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.04%) Legacy Code
5 12 (6.03%) Data Structures
6 10 (5.03%) Client/Server
7 8 (4.02%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.02%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.01%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.01%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.01%) Robotics
10 2 (1.01%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.55%) Linux
2 5 (2.51%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.01%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 127 (63.82%) Agile
3 83 (41.71%) Asset Management
4 72 (36.18%) Line Management
5 55 (27.64%) Investment Management
6 41 (20.60%) CI/CD
6 41 (20.60%) Mentoring
7 36 (18.09%) Scrum
8 27 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (12.56%) Fintech
9 25 (12.56%) Microservices
10 23 (11.56%) Migration
10 23 (11.56%) Test Automation
11 22 (11.06%) DevOps
12 21 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (9.55%) Roadmaps
14 17 (8.54%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.54%) OOP
15 16 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
16 15 (7.54%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 114 (57.29%) Python
2 113 (56.78%) Java
3 102 (51.26%) JavaScript
4 97 (48.74%) TypeScript
5 31 (15.58%) SQL
6 26 (13.07%) C#
6 26 (13.07%) Go
6 26 (13.07%) Kotlin
7 20 (10.05%) Scala
8 19 (9.55%) C++
8 19 (9.55%) Rust
9 17 (8.54%) C
10 8 (4.02%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.51%) Swift
12 4 (2.01%) Ruby
13 3 (1.51%) PHP
14 1 (0.50%) Bash
14 1 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (5.03%) Degree
2 8 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.02%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.01%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.06%) QA
2 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (7.54%) Docker
2 13 (6.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.51%) Ceph
3 3 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (19.60%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.07%) Terraform
3 4 (2.01%) Ansible
4 3 (1.51%) Knative
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.55%) Google
3 12 (6.03%) Bloomberg
3 12 (6.03%) Reuters
4 2 (1.01%) Amplitude
4 2 (1.01%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.50%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.50%) Splunk