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 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 234 554 600
Rank change year-on-year +320 +46 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 918 176 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 188 126 157
10th Percentile £49,250 £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 £95,000 £98,664 £94,250
UK median annual salary £87,500 £81,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.02% +4.52% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
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 12 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 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
Scotland +120 616 £75,000 +15.38% 6
North of England +105 129 £70,000 -12.10% 8
North West +69 105 £70,000 -9.46% 6
South East +15 69 £75,000 +7.14% 9
South West -1 57 £70,000 -2.78% 4
Midlands -16 39 £70,000 +21.74% 11
West Midlands +9 23 £85,000 +47.83% 3
Yorkshire +61 16 £68,000 -14.61% 1
East Midlands -27 16 £45,000 -18.18% 8
North East - 8 £35,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +10 5 £95,000 +58.33%
East of England -13 3 £81,250 +12.07% 1
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 918 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 718 (78.21%) Agile
3 659 (71.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 611 (66.56%) Finance
5 589 (64.16%) Law
6 574 (62.53%) Operational Stability
7 544 (59.26%) SDLC
8 499 (54.36%) CI/CD
9 473 (51.53%) Marketing
10 456 (49.67%) Java
11 434 (47.28%) Community of Practice
12 403 (43.90%) Machine Learning
13 344 (37.47%) Artificial Intelligence
14 323 (35.19%) Architectural Design
15 310 (33.77%) Cloud Native
16 300 (32.68%) SQL
16 300 (32.68%) Information Architecture
17 299 (32.57%) AWS
18 257 (28.00%) Continuous Delivery
19 217 (23.64%) Python
19 217 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
20 193 (21.02%) Spring
21 173 (18.85%) NoSQL
22 167 (18.19%) Mentoring
23 160 (17.43%) JavaScript
24 156 (16.99%) Apache Spark
25 141 (15.36%) React
26 135 (14.71%) Kafka
27 130 (14.16%) Big Data
28 129 (14.05%) Tech Ops

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
1 156 (16.99%) Apache Spark
2 49 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.49%) FileNet
4 21 (2.29%) GemFire
5 4 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.22%) Simulink
3 1 (0.11%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 299 (32.57%) AWS
2 70 (7.63%) Azure
3 48 (5.23%) Datadog
4 33 (3.59%) Amazon S3
5 31 (3.38%) GCP
6 21 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (0.98%) GitHub
9 9 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (0.76%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (0.76%) Serverless
11 5 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.54%) Azure Storage
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.33%) SaaS
14 2 (0.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (8.93%) Kerberos
2 6 (0.65%) RS-485
3 5 (0.54%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.44%) RS-232
4 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.44%) Wireless
4 4 (0.44%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.22%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.22%) 5G
5 2 (0.22%) HTTP
5 2 (0.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.85%) NoSQL
2 130 (14.16%) Big Data
3 71 (7.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 66 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
5 65 (7.08%) Metadata
6 38 (4.14%) CockroachDB
7 28 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 21 (2.29%) Hazelcast
11 16 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.31%) Looker
14 10 (1.09%) MySQL
15 7 (0.76%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.65%) CouchDB
17 4 (0.44%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
18 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (7.41%) Git
1 68 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 65 (7.08%) Artifactory
2 65 (7.08%) Bitbucket
3 54 (5.88%) JUnit
4 37 (4.03%) Cypress.io
5 22 (2.40%) Jasmine
5 22 (2.40%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (2.40%) Protractor
5 22 (2.40%) Selenium
5 22 (2.40%) WebDriver
6 21 (2.29%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.98%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.76%) Gradle
10 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.44%) CANoe
11 4 (0.44%) GitLab
12 3 (0.33%) Maven
13 2 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 659 (71.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 611 (66.56%) Finance
3 589 (64.16%) Law
4 473 (51.53%) Marketing
5 115 (12.53%) Banking
6 110 (11.98%) Investment Banking
7 100 (10.89%) Influencing Skills
8 95 (10.35%) Social Skills
9 22 (2.40%) Prime Brokerage
10 20 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.74%) Retail
13 9 (0.98%) Aviation
13 9 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.98%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.98%) Tech for Good
14 8 (0.87%) Automotive
14 8 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Legal
15 6 (0.65%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (21.02%) Spring
2 141 (15.36%) React
3 135 (14.71%) Kafka
4 123 (13.40%) JSON
5 113 (12.31%) CSS
5 113 (12.31%) HTML
6 97 (10.57%) Web Services
7 95 (10.35%) AngularJS
8 90 (9.80%) Spring Boot
9 89 (9.69%) RESTful
10 82 (8.93%) Node.js
11 75 (8.17%) PySpark
12 70 (7.63%) XML
13 67 (7.30%) Hibernate
14 65 (7.08%) JSON-LD
14 65 (7.08%) LDAP
14 65 (7.08%) OpenID
14 65 (7.08%) SAML
15 62 (6.75%) J2EE
15 62 (6.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 310 (33.77%) Cloud Native
2 96 (10.46%) Public Cloud
3 81 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 70 (7.63%) Cyberattack
5 65 (7.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 65 (7.08%) Reference Data
6 42 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 21 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.29%) Replication
9 20 (2.18%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.74%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.20%) Blog
12 11 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.20%) Media Streaming
13 7 (0.76%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
14 6 (0.65%) PropTech
15 5 (0.54%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.08%) Linux
2 19 (2.07%) Windows
3 8 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) CentOS
6 2 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 718 (78.21%) Agile
3 574 (62.53%) Operational Stability
4 544 (59.26%) SDLC
5 499 (54.36%) CI/CD
6 434 (47.28%) Community of Practice
7 403 (43.90%) Machine Learning
8 344 (37.47%) Artificial Intelligence
9 323 (35.19%) Architectural Design
10 300 (32.68%) Information Architecture
11 257 (28.00%) Continuous Delivery
12 217 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
13 167 (18.19%) Mentoring
14 129 (14.05%) Tech Ops
15 122 (13.29%) Microservices
16 106 (11.55%) Performance Tuning
16 106 (11.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 104 (11.33%) User Experience
18 98 (10.68%) Coaching
18 98 (10.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 456 (49.67%) Java
2 300 (32.68%) SQL
3 217 (23.64%) Python
4 160 (17.43%) JavaScript
5 120 (13.07%) Scala
6 96 (10.46%) TypeScript
7 75 (8.17%) Go
8 65 (7.08%) Prolog
8 65 (7.08%) SPARQL
9 62 (6.75%) C#
10 31 (3.38%) C
11 27 (2.94%) C++
12 22 (2.40%) Groovy
13 6 (0.65%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.54%) Haskell
15 2 (0.22%) Assembly Language
15 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.22%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (2.18%) Degree
2 15 (1.63%) Security Cleared
3 13 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (1.31%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.98%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.38%) Accessibility
2 26 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.31%) PMO
4 10 (1.09%) QA
5 4 (0.44%) Def Stans
5 4 (0.44%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.44%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.44%) MISRA
5 4 (0.44%) MISRA C
System Software
1 65 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.49%) Docker
3 6 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 114 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.75%) Grafana
2 62 (6.75%) Terraform
3 41 (4.47%) Prometheus
4 21 (2.29%) HAProxy
4 21 (2.29%) ITRS Geneos
4 21 (2.29%) Kibana
4 21 (2.29%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 106 (11.55%) Oracle
2 72 (7.84%) Splunk
3 65 (7.08%) Dynatrace
4 18 (1.96%) Google
4 18 (1.96%) SaltStack
5 16 (1.74%) Microsoft
6 15 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.54%) Databricks