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 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 338 455 442
Rank change year-on-year +117 -13 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 183 136 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.75% 0.43% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.45% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 142 83 188
10th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £90,713 £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 £121,250 £108,750
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +16.13% +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 23,146 30,010 71,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,034 22,517 35,164
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 8 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 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
Central London +24 5 £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 8 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.

1 183 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 117 (63.93%) Finance
3 115 (62.84%) Agile
4 111 (60.66%) AWS
5 102 (55.74%) Java
5 102 (55.74%) Python
6 99 (54.10%) GCP
7 91 (49.73%) JavaScript
8 86 (46.99%) TypeScript
9 73 (39.89%) Front Office
9 73 (39.89%) Asset Management
10 72 (39.34%) Apache
11 71 (38.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 71 (38.80%) Fixed Income
11 71 (38.80%) Equities
11 71 (38.80%) Derivative
11 71 (38.80%) Hedge funds
12 68 (37.16%) Apache Airflow
12 68 (37.16%) Amazon Athena
12 68 (37.16%) dbt
13 67 (36.61%) Banking
14 66 (36.07%) Investment Banking
14 66 (36.07%) SciPy
14 66 (36.07%) NumPy
14 66 (36.07%) Protocol Buffers
14 66 (36.07%) Pandas
14 66 (36.07%) Dremio
14 66 (36.07%) gRPC
14 66 (36.07%) Apache Ignite
14 66 (36.07%) 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 72 (39.34%) Apache
2 68 (37.16%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.19%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (2.19%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) Drupal
5 2 (1.09%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 9 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (60.66%) AWS
2 99 (54.10%) GCP
3 68 (37.16%) dbt
4 62 (33.88%) Snowflake
5 42 (22.95%) Azure
6 15 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (5.46%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.92%) Serverless
9 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.37%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.28%) SaaS
11 5 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.19%) GitHub
12 4 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.64%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (1.09%) Dagster
14 2 (1.09%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (37.16%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (36.07%) Apache Arrow
2 66 (36.07%) Apache Ignite
2 66 (36.07%) Dremio
3 62 (33.88%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.01%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.46%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.73%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.19%) Bigtable
7 4 (2.19%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.19%) Flink
7 4 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.09%) Data Hub
9 2 (1.09%) Metadata
9 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.09%) Redis
10 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) JIRA
2 5 (2.73%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.09%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) Storybook
4 2 (1.09%) Vite
5 1 (0.55%) Gatling
5 1 (0.55%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 117 (63.93%) Finance
2 73 (39.89%) Front Office
3 67 (36.61%) Banking
4 66 (36.07%) Investment Banking
5 24 (13.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (13.11%) Law
6 19 (10.38%) Social Skills
7 14 (7.65%) Legal
8 7 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.73%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Back Office
10 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (36.07%) gRPC
1 66 (36.07%) NumPy
1 66 (36.07%) Pandas
1 66 (36.07%) Protocol Buffers
1 66 (36.07%) SciPy
2 28 (15.30%) .NET
3 19 (10.38%) React
4 16 (8.74%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.20%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.56%) Lambda Expressions
7 10 (5.46%) CSS
7 10 (5.46%) HTML
7 10 (5.46%) JSON
7 10 (5.46%) XML
8 9 (4.92%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.92%) http4s
9 8 (4.37%) Akka.NET
9 8 (4.37%) Django
9 8 (4.37%) jQuery
9 8 (4.37%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 71 (38.80%) Derivative
1 71 (38.80%) Equities
1 71 (38.80%) Fixed Income
1 71 (38.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 71 (38.80%) Hedge funds
2 27 (14.75%) Cloud Native
3 21 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.10%) Legacy Code
5 12 (6.56%) Data Structures
6 10 (5.46%) Client/Server
7 8 (4.37%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.28%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.19%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.09%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.09%) Robotics
10 2 (1.09%) Web3
11 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Linux
2 5 (2.73%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 115 (62.84%) Agile
3 73 (39.89%) Asset Management
4 62 (33.88%) Line Management
5 54 (29.51%) Investment Management
6 38 (20.77%) CI/CD
6 38 (20.77%) Mentoring
7 33 (18.03%) Scrum
8 26 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (13.66%) Fintech
10 24 (13.11%) Microservices
11 22 (12.02%) Test Automation
12 21 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (10.93%) DevOps
14 17 (9.29%) Computer Science
14 17 (9.29%) Roadmaps
15 16 (8.74%) Migration
15 16 (8.74%) OOP
16 15 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
17 14 (7.65%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 102 (55.74%) Java
1 102 (55.74%) Python
2 91 (49.73%) JavaScript
3 86 (46.99%) TypeScript
4 25 (13.66%) Go
4 25 (13.66%) Kotlin
4 25 (13.66%) SQL
5 24 (13.11%) C#
6 19 (10.38%) Scala
7 18 (9.84%) C++
7 18 (9.84%) Rust
8 16 (8.74%) C
9 8 (4.37%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.73%) Swift
11 4 (2.19%) Ruby
12 3 (1.64%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) Bash
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
13 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (5.46%) Degree
2 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.19%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.02%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (8.20%) Docker
2 12 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.64%) Ceph
3 3 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (20.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.75%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) Ansible
4 3 (1.64%) Knative
5 1 (0.55%) Argo
5 1 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Istio
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) Bloomberg
3 6 (3.28%) Reuters
4 2 (1.09%) Amplitude
4 2 (1.09%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.55%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.55%) Splunk