Lead Software Developer Jobs

Lead Software Developer
UK

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 858 987
Rank change year-on-year +140 +129 -236
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 192 102 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 178 98 195
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,813 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +25.93%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £55,168
% change year-on-year - +26.89% +2.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the UK

Lead Software Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England +167 184 £90,000 +14.29% 14
UK excluding London +62 121 £70,000 - 8
Work from Home +108 102 £135,000 +86.21% 10
London +133 69 £135,000 +35.00% 5
South East +22 53 £72,500 -3.33% 4
North of England +76 39 £70,000 - 3
North West +23 27 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +8 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands -2 8 £75,000 +15.38% 1
West Midlands +19 7 £75,000 +57.07%
Yorkshire +86 6 £60,000 -22.58%
North East - 6 £65,000 -
South West -9 5 £72,500 +11.54%
Wales +6 2 £83,750 +24.07%
Scotland -70 2 £83,750 +39.58%
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 -
East Midlands -19 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 126 (65.63%) Agile
2 106 (55.21%) JavaScript
3 91 (47.40%) C#
4 90 (46.88%) Software Engineering
5 88 (45.83%) Finance
6 83 (43.23%) .NET
7 80 (41.67%) AWS
8 79 (41.15%) Java
9 77 (40.10%) TypeScript
10 59 (30.73%) Banking
11 58 (30.21%) GCP
12 56 (29.17%) Hedge funds
12 56 (29.17%) Asset Management
12 56 (29.17%) Derivative
12 56 (29.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 56 (29.17%) Front Office
12 56 (29.17%) Fixed Income
12 56 (29.17%) Equities
13 54 (28.13%) Python
14 48 (25.00%) Apache
14 48 (25.00%) Investment Banking
14 48 (25.00%) SciPy
14 48 (25.00%) NumPy
14 48 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
14 48 (25.00%) gRPC
14 48 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
14 48 (25.00%) Pandas
14 48 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
14 48 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
14 48 (25.00%) Apache Ignite

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 48 (25.00%) Apache
1 48 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.67%) AWS
2 58 (30.21%) GCP
3 48 (25.00%) dbt
4 44 (22.92%) Snowflake
5 41 (21.35%) Azure
6 11 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.65%) Pulumi
7 7 (3.65%) SaaS
8 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.08%) PaaS
9 3 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.56%) Serverless
10 1 (0.52%) GitHub
10 1 (0.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.65%) Network Security
2 6 (3.13%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (25.00%) Dremio
2 44 (22.92%) Data Lake
3 29 (15.10%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.90%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.13%) MySQL
6 4 (2.08%) Redis
7 3 (1.56%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (11.46%) Visual Studio
2 16 (8.33%) Git
3 7 (3.65%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.65%) NUnit
3 7 (3.65%) Selenium
3 7 (3.65%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.65%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.08%) Maven
6 3 (1.56%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) Appium
7 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) GitKraken
7 1 (0.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.52%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (45.83%) Finance
2 59 (30.73%) Banking
3 56 (29.17%) Front Office
4 48 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 14 (7.29%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.60%) Games
7 5 (2.60%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.08%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Electronics
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.52%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (43.23%) .NET
2 48 (25.00%) gRPC
2 48 (25.00%) NumPy
2 48 (25.00%) Pandas
2 48 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 48 (25.00%) SciPy
3 36 (18.75%) React
4 19 (9.90%) ASP.NET
5 17 (8.85%) RESTful
6 15 (7.81%) .NET Core
7 14 (7.29%) AngularJS
8 13 (6.77%) Vue
9 12 (6.25%) .NET Framework
9 12 (6.25%) JSON
10 11 (5.73%) CSS
11 9 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (4.69%) HTML
12 8 (4.17%) Entity Framework
12 8 (4.17%) Redux
13 7 (3.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (29.17%) Derivative
1 56 (29.17%) Equities
1 56 (29.17%) Fixed Income
1 56 (29.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 56 (29.17%) Hedge funds
2 11 (5.73%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.65%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.65%) IoT
4 6 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.04%) e-Health
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.25%) Windows
2 6 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (65.63%) Agile
2 90 (46.88%) Software Engineering
3 56 (29.17%) Asset Management
4 45 (23.44%) Line Management
5 44 (22.92%) Investment Management
6 37 (19.27%) Mentoring
7 36 (18.75%) DevOps
8 26 (13.54%) Computer Science
9 24 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
9 24 (12.50%) Propensity Modelling
10 23 (11.98%) Microservices
11 20 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 20 (10.42%) Multithreading
11 20 (10.42%) Unit Testing
12 19 (9.90%) Fintech
13 17 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.33%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.81%) Code Quality
15 15 (7.81%) TDD
16 14 (7.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 106 (55.21%) JavaScript
2 91 (47.40%) C#
3 79 (41.15%) Java
4 77 (40.10%) TypeScript
5 54 (28.13%) Python
6 31 (16.15%) SQL
7 19 (9.90%) C
8 12 (6.25%) C++
9 7 (3.65%) Bicep
10 4 (2.08%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.08%) Ruby
10 4 (2.08%) Scala
11 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.04%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.04%) PHP
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (13.54%) Degree
2 20 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.73%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.04%) BC Cleared
5 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) QA
2 4 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (20.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (19.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.69%) Terraform
3 7 (3.65%) MIIS
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Kiali
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle
3 1 (0.52%) Google