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 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 545 584
Rank change year-on-year +316 +39 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 927 176 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.16% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 186 126 157
10th Percentile £48,750 £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 £82,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.71% +5.81% +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 75,674 49,280 72,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 88.84% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 52,932 29,318 42,781
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +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 11 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 11 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 +121 626 £75,000 +15.38% 6
North of England +114 129 £70,000 -12.10% 10
North West +73 105 £70,000 -9.46% 7
South East +17 69 £75,000 +7.14% 9
South West +9 56 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Midlands -3 39 £70,000 +21.74% 10
West Midlands +6 23 £85,000 +47.83% 1
Yorkshire +53 16 £68,000 -14.61% 2
East Midlands -34 16 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North East - 8 £35,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +10 5 £95,000 +58.33%
East of England -10 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 11 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.

1 927 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 730 (78.75%) Agile
3 671 (72.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 621 (66.99%) Finance
5 601 (64.83%) Law
6 586 (63.21%) Operational Stability
7 553 (59.65%) SDLC
8 508 (54.80%) CI/CD
9 484 (52.21%) Marketing
10 465 (50.16%) Java
11 442 (47.68%) Community of Practice
12 411 (44.34%) Machine Learning
13 352 (37.97%) Artificial Intelligence
14 329 (35.49%) Architectural Design
15 314 (33.87%) Cloud Native
16 307 (33.12%) AWS
17 306 (33.01%) Information Architecture
18 303 (32.69%) SQL
19 261 (28.16%) Continuous Delivery
20 222 (23.95%) Python
21 220 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
22 194 (20.93%) Spring
23 176 (18.99%) NoSQL
24 168 (18.12%) Mentoring
25 162 (17.48%) JavaScript
26 159 (17.15%) Apache Spark
27 144 (15.53%) React
28 136 (14.67%) Kafka
29 132 (14.24%) Big Data
29 132 (14.24%) 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
1 159 (17.15%) Apache Spark
2 50 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.45%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.45%) FileNet
4 21 (2.27%) GemFire
5 4 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) CANalyzer
2 2 (0.22%) Simulink
3 1 (0.11%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 307 (33.12%) AWS
2 72 (7.77%) Azure
3 48 (5.18%) Datadog
4 33 (3.56%) Amazon S3
4 33 (3.56%) GCP
5 21 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
7 10 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (0.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (0.97%) GitHub
8 9 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (0.76%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (0.76%) Serverless
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (0.54%) Azure Storage
11 4 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.32%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.32%) SaaS
13 2 (0.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (8.85%) Kerberos
2 6 (0.65%) RS-485
3 5 (0.54%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.43%) RS-232
4 4 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.43%) Wireless
4 4 (0.43%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.22%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.22%) 5G
5 2 (0.22%) HTTP
5 2 (0.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (18.99%) NoSQL
2 132 (14.24%) Big Data
3 71 (7.66%) Apache Cassandra
4 67 (7.23%) Elasticsearch
5 65 (7.01%) Metadata
6 38 (4.10%) CockroachDB
7 28 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 28 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.27%) Hazelcast
10 16 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.40%) Looker
13 10 (1.08%) MySQL
14 7 (0.76%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.65%) CouchDB
16 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (7.44%) Jenkins
2 68 (7.34%) Git
3 65 (7.01%) Artifactory
3 65 (7.01%) Bitbucket
4 54 (5.83%) JUnit
5 37 (3.99%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.37%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.37%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.37%) Protractor
6 22 (2.37%) Selenium
6 22 (2.37%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.27%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.97%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.76%) Gradle
11 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.43%) CANoe
12 4 (0.43%) GitLab
13 3 (0.32%) Maven
14 2 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 671 (72.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 621 (66.99%) Finance
3 601 (64.83%) Law
4 484 (52.21%) Marketing
5 117 (12.62%) Banking
6 112 (12.08%) Investment Banking
7 103 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
8 95 (10.25%) Social Skills
9 22 (2.37%) Prime Brokerage
10 21 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 18 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.62%) Retail
13 9 (0.97%) Aviation
13 9 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.97%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.97%) Tech for Good
14 8 (0.86%) Automotive
15 6 (0.65%) Legal
15 6 (0.65%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (20.93%) Spring
2 144 (15.53%) React
3 136 (14.67%) Kafka
4 123 (13.27%) JSON
5 114 (12.30%) CSS
5 114 (12.30%) HTML
6 97 (10.46%) Web Services
7 96 (10.36%) AngularJS
8 91 (9.82%) Spring Boot
9 88 (9.49%) RESTful
10 81 (8.74%) Node.js
11 77 (8.31%) PySpark
12 70 (7.55%) XML
13 67 (7.23%) Hibernate
14 65 (7.01%) JSON-LD
14 65 (7.01%) LDAP
14 65 (7.01%) OpenID
14 65 (7.01%) SAML
15 63 (6.80%) J2EE
16 62 (6.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 314 (33.87%) Cloud Native
2 100 (10.79%) Public Cloud
3 81 (8.74%) Management Information System
4 70 (7.55%) Cyberattack
5 65 (7.01%) Enterprise Cloud
5 65 (7.01%) Reference Data
6 42 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 21 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.27%) Replication
9 17 (1.83%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.19%) Blog
11 11 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.19%) Media Streaming
12 7 (0.76%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
13 6 (0.65%) PropTech
14 5 (0.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.12%) Linux
2 19 (2.05%) Windows
3 8 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) CentOS
6 2 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 730 (78.75%) Agile
3 586 (63.21%) Operational Stability
4 553 (59.65%) SDLC
5 508 (54.80%) CI/CD
6 442 (47.68%) Community of Practice
7 411 (44.34%) Machine Learning
8 352 (37.97%) Artificial Intelligence
9 329 (35.49%) Architectural Design
10 306 (33.01%) Information Architecture
11 261 (28.16%) Continuous Delivery
12 220 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
13 168 (18.12%) Mentoring
14 132 (14.24%) Tech Ops
15 123 (13.27%) Microservices
16 107 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
17 106 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 105 (11.33%) User Experience
19 100 (10.79%) Coaching
20 99 (10.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 465 (50.16%) Java
2 303 (32.69%) SQL
3 222 (23.95%) Python
4 162 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 122 (13.16%) Scala
6 96 (10.36%) TypeScript
7 75 (8.09%) Go
8 65 (7.01%) Prolog
8 65 (7.01%) SPARQL
9 60 (6.47%) C#
10 31 (3.34%) C
11 27 (2.91%) C++
12 22 (2.37%) 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 (2.16%) Degree
2 15 (1.62%) Security Cleared
3 13 (1.40%) AWS Certification
3 13 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (0.97%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.40%) PMO
4 10 (1.08%) QA
5 4 (0.43%) Def Stans
5 4 (0.43%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.43%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.43%) MISRA
5 4 (0.43%) MISRA C
System Software
1 65 (7.01%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.45%) Docker
3 6 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 115 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 63 (6.80%) Terraform
3 62 (6.69%) Grafana
4 41 (4.42%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.27%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.27%) Kibana
5 21 (2.27%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 108 (11.65%) Oracle
2 72 (7.77%) Splunk
3 65 (7.01%) Dynatrace
4 18 (1.94%) Google
4 18 (1.94%) SaltStack
5 16 (1.73%) Atlassian
5 16 (1.73%) Microsoft
6 8 (0.86%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.54%) Databricks