Lead Software Developer Jobs in England

Lead Software Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 809 962
Rank change year-on-year +159 +153 -203
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 214 85 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 199 81 178
10th Percentile £57,000 £60,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £52,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.45% +19.64%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £115,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.09% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +160 95 £135,000 +35.00% 10
South East -1 53 £70,000 -6.67% 2
North of England +44 42 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North West +2 30 £70,000 +7.69% 2
East of England -3 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -39 10 £75,000 +15.38% 2
West Midlands -3 9 £75,000 +57.07% 1
Yorkshire +69 6 £60,000 -20.00%
North East -12 6 £65,000 -
South West -42 4 £72,500 +9.43% 1
East Midlands -38 1 - - 1
Lead Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Lead Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 146 (68.22%) Agile
2 126 (58.88%) JavaScript
3 116 (54.21%) Software Engineering
4 109 (50.93%) Finance
5 103 (48.13%) Java
5 103 (48.13%) AWS
6 98 (45.79%) TypeScript
7 86 (40.19%) C#
8 83 (38.79%) Banking
8 83 (38.79%) Python
8 83 (38.79%) GCP
9 81 (37.85%) Hedge funds
9 81 (37.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 81 (37.85%) Fixed Income
9 81 (37.85%) Equities
9 81 (37.85%) Front Office
9 81 (37.85%) Asset Management
9 81 (37.85%) Derivative
10 76 (35.51%) Investment Banking
10 76 (35.51%) Apache
10 76 (35.51%) .NET
10 76 (35.51%) SciPy
10 76 (35.51%) NumPy
10 76 (35.51%) Pandas
10 76 (35.51%) Protocol Buffers
10 76 (35.51%) gRPC
10 76 (35.51%) Apache Airflow
10 76 (35.51%) Amazon Athena
10 76 (35.51%) Apache Ignite
10 76 (35.51%) Dremio

Lead Software Developer 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 76 (35.51%) Apache
1 76 (35.51%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.40%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (48.13%) AWS
2 83 (38.79%) GCP
3 76 (35.51%) dbt
4 72 (33.64%) Snowflake
5 34 (15.89%) Azure
6 15 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.27%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.27%) SaaS
10 5 (2.34%) PaaS
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.40%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.40%) Serverless
12 1 (0.47%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Network Security
2 6 (2.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (35.51%) Amazon Athena
1 76 (35.51%) Apache Arrow
1 76 (35.51%) Apache Ignite
1 76 (35.51%) Dremio
2 72 (33.64%) Data Lake
3 26 (12.15%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.80%) MySQL
6 3 (1.40%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.40%) Redis
7 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) Visual Studio
2 16 (7.48%) Git
3 7 (3.27%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.27%) NUnit
3 7 (3.27%) Selenium
3 7 (3.27%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.27%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.87%) Maven
6 3 (1.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.47%) Appium
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (50.93%) Finance
2 83 (38.79%) Banking
3 81 (37.85%) Front Office
4 76 (35.51%) Investment Banking
5 12 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.14%) Social Skills
7 7 (3.27%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.34%) Games
8 5 (2.34%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (35.51%) .NET
1 76 (35.51%) gRPC
1 76 (35.51%) NumPy
1 76 (35.51%) Pandas
1 76 (35.51%) Protocol Buffers
1 76 (35.51%) SciPy
2 30 (14.02%) React
3 17 (7.94%) .NET Core
4 15 (7.01%) RESTful
5 13 (6.07%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.61%) JSON
6 12 (5.61%) PySpark
7 10 (4.67%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.67%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.67%) CSS
7 10 (4.67%) Vue
8 8 (3.74%) HTML
9 7 (3.27%) Entity Framework
9 7 (3.27%) HTML5
9 7 (3.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 81 (37.85%) Derivative
1 81 (37.85%) Equities
1 81 (37.85%) Fixed Income
1 81 (37.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 81 (37.85%) Hedge funds
2 11 (5.14%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.27%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.80%) IoT
4 6 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.87%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (1.87%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.40%) NHS
7 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.93%) e-Health
7 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.93%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.14%) Windows
2 6 (2.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (68.22%) Agile
2 116 (54.21%) Software Engineering
3 81 (37.85%) Asset Management
4 72 (33.64%) Line Management
5 45 (21.03%) Investment Management
6 33 (15.42%) Mentoring
7 31 (14.49%) DevOps
8 23 (10.75%) Computer Science
9 22 (10.28%) Microservices
10 21 (9.81%) Propensity Modelling
11 20 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
11 20 (9.35%) Multithreading
12 19 (8.88%) Unit Testing
13 17 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (7.48%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.01%) Code Quality
15 15 (7.01%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
17 12 (5.61%) Anti-Money Laundering
17 12 (5.61%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 126 (58.88%) JavaScript
2 103 (48.13%) Java
3 98 (45.79%) TypeScript
4 86 (40.19%) C#
5 83 (38.79%) Python
6 42 (19.63%) SQL
7 19 (8.88%) C
8 14 (6.54%) C++
9 7 (3.27%) Bicep
10 4 (1.87%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.87%) Ruby
10 4 (1.87%) Scala
11 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (10.75%) Degree
2 17 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.40%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.21%) QA
2 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (15.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.74%) Terraform
3 7 (3.27%) MIIS
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Kiali
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (5.61%) Bloomberg
1 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
1 12 (5.61%) Reuters
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle
3 1 (0.47%) Google