Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 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 218 550 602
Rank change year-on-year +332 +52 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 944 182 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 0.37% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 179 126 159
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,639 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £98,664 £94,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Scotland +118 650 £75,000 +15.38% 7
North of England +101 126 £70,000 -12.10% 12
North West +78 102 £70,000 -9.46% 9
South East +35 68 £75,000 +7.14% 8
South West +3 56 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Midlands -18 37 £77,500 +34.78% 13
West Midlands +15 23 £85,000 +47.83% 3
Yorkshire +64 16 £68,000 -14.61% 2
East Midlands -32 14 £45,000 -18.18% 10
North East - 8 £35,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +11 5 £95,000 +58.33%
East of England -15 2 £72,500 - 2
Lead Software Engineer
UK

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 944 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 753 (79.77%) Agile
3 696 (73.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 646 (68.43%) Finance
5 626 (66.31%) Law
6 611 (64.72%) Operational Stability
7 577 (61.12%) SDLC
8 526 (55.72%) CI/CD
9 506 (53.60%) Marketing
10 485 (51.38%) Java
11 458 (48.52%) Community of Practice
12 428 (45.34%) Machine Learning
13 369 (39.09%) Artificial Intelligence
14 339 (35.91%) Architectural Design
15 322 (34.11%) AWS
16 321 (34.00%) Cloud Native
17 316 (33.47%) Information Architecture
18 314 (33.26%) SQL
19 269 (28.50%) Continuous Delivery
20 232 (24.58%) Python
21 227 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
22 195 (20.66%) Spring
23 183 (19.39%) NoSQL
24 169 (17.90%) Mentoring
25 167 (17.69%) Apache Spark
26 165 (17.48%) JavaScript
27 150 (15.89%) React
28 139 (14.72%) Tech Ops
29 138 (14.62%) Big Data
30 137 (14.51%) Kafka

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 167 (17.69%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.39%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.39%) FileNet
4 21 (2.22%) GemFire
5 4 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.21%) Simulink
3 1 (0.11%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 322 (34.11%) AWS
2 76 (8.05%) Azure
3 48 (5.08%) Datadog
4 38 (4.03%) GCP
5 33 (3.50%) Amazon S3
6 21 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (0.95%) GitHub
9 9 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (0.74%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (0.74%) Serverless
11 5 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.53%) Azure Storage
12 4 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.42%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.32%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.32%) SaaS
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (8.69%) Kerberos
2 6 (0.64%) RS-485
3 5 (0.53%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.42%) RS-232
4 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.42%) Wireless
4 4 (0.42%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.21%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.21%) 5G
5 2 (0.21%) HTTP
5 2 (0.21%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (19.39%) NoSQL
2 138 (14.62%) Big Data
3 71 (7.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 68 (7.20%) Elasticsearch
5 65 (6.89%) Metadata
6 38 (4.03%) CockroachDB
7 31 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 27 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 25 (2.65%) MongoDB
10 21 (2.22%) Hazelcast
11 15 (1.59%) Looker
11 15 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (1.48%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.06%) MySQL
14 7 (0.74%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.64%) CouchDB
16 4 (0.42%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 72 (7.63%) Jenkins
2 68 (7.20%) Git
3 65 (6.89%) Artifactory
3 65 (6.89%) Bitbucket
4 54 (5.72%) JUnit
5 37 (3.92%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.33%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.33%) Protractor
6 22 (2.33%) Selenium
6 22 (2.33%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.22%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.74%) Gradle
11 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.42%) CANoe
12 4 (0.42%) GitLab
13 3 (0.32%) Maven
14 2 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 696 (73.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 646 (68.43%) Finance
3 626 (66.31%) Law
4 506 (53.60%) Marketing
5 121 (12.82%) Banking
6 116 (12.29%) Investment Banking
7 112 (11.86%) Influencing Skills
8 97 (10.28%) Social Skills
9 22 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 22 (2.33%) Prime Brokerage
10 17 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.59%) Retail
12 12 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.95%) Aviation
13 9 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.95%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 8 (0.85%) Automotive
15 6 (0.64%) Legal
15 6 (0.64%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (20.66%) Spring
2 150 (15.89%) React
3 137 (14.51%) Kafka
4 123 (13.03%) JSON
5 116 (12.29%) CSS
5 116 (12.29%) HTML
6 97 (10.28%) AngularJS
7 96 (10.17%) Web Services
8 94 (9.96%) Spring Boot
9 88 (9.32%) RESTful
10 81 (8.58%) Node.js
10 81 (8.58%) PySpark
11 70 (7.42%) XML
12 67 (7.10%) Hibernate
13 65 (6.89%) JSON-LD
13 65 (6.89%) LDAP
13 65 (6.89%) OpenID
13 65 (6.89%) SAML
14 64 (6.78%) J2EE
15 62 (6.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 321 (34.00%) Cloud Native
2 108 (11.44%) Public Cloud
3 81 (8.58%) Management Information System
4 70 (7.42%) Cyberattack
5 65 (6.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 65 (6.89%) Reference Data
6 41 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.22%) Replication
10 20 (2.12%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.06%) Blog
13 10 (1.06%) Media Streaming
14 7 (0.74%) Client/Server
15 6 (0.64%) Augmented Reality
15 6 (0.64%) PropTech
16 5 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.20%) Linux
2 19 (2.01%) Windows
3 8 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.21%) CentOS
6 2 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 753 (79.77%) Agile
3 611 (64.72%) Operational Stability
4 577 (61.12%) SDLC
5 526 (55.72%) CI/CD
6 458 (48.52%) Community of Practice
7 428 (45.34%) Machine Learning
8 369 (39.09%) Artificial Intelligence
9 339 (35.91%) Architectural Design
10 316 (33.47%) Information Architecture
11 269 (28.50%) Continuous Delivery
12 227 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
13 169 (17.90%) Mentoring
14 139 (14.72%) Tech Ops
15 125 (13.24%) Microservices
16 113 (11.97%) Performance Tuning
17 108 (11.44%) User Experience
18 106 (11.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 102 (10.81%) Coaching
20 101 (10.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 485 (51.38%) Java
2 314 (33.26%) SQL
3 232 (24.58%) Python
4 165 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 127 (13.45%) Scala
6 99 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 75 (7.94%) Go
8 65 (6.89%) Prolog
8 65 (6.89%) SPARQL
9 59 (6.25%) C#
10 30 (3.18%) C
11 27 (2.86%) C++
12 22 (2.33%) Groovy
13 6 (0.64%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.53%) Haskell
15 2 (0.21%) Assembly Language
15 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (2.12%) Degree
2 15 (1.59%) Security Cleared
3 14 (1.48%) AWS Certification
4 13 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 29 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.59%) PMO
4 10 (1.06%) QA
5 4 (0.42%) Def Stans
5 4 (0.42%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.42%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.42%) MISRA
5 4 (0.42%) MISRA C
System Software
1 65 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.39%) Docker
3 6 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 117 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 65 (6.89%) Terraform
3 62 (6.57%) Grafana
4 41 (4.34%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.22%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.22%) Kibana
5 21 (2.22%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 111 (11.76%) Oracle
2 72 (7.63%) Splunk
3 65 (6.89%) Dynatrace
4 18 (1.91%) Atlassian
4 18 (1.91%) Google
4 18 (1.91%) SaltStack
5 16 (1.69%) Microsoft
6 8 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.53%) Databricks