Lead Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 458 456
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 153 196 526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.51% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.53% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 145 127 198
10th Percentile £67,500 £55,300 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £88,480 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +14.17% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £107,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £125,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.94% +4.52% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,479 36,977 72,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 95.95% 97.33%
Number of salaries quoted 25,508 26,851 42,434
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Software Engineer.

Lead Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Software Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Lead Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 153 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 97 (63.40%) Agile
3 79 (51.63%) Python
4 78 (50.98%) JavaScript
5 77 (50.33%) AWS
6 76 (49.67%) TypeScript
7 74 (48.37%) Java
8 70 (45.75%) Finance
9 64 (41.83%) GCP
10 60 (39.22%) Banking
11 58 (37.91%) Front Office
12 56 (36.60%) Fixed Income
12 56 (36.60%) Equities
12 56 (36.60%) Apache
12 56 (36.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 56 (36.60%) Derivative
12 56 (36.60%) Asset Management
12 56 (36.60%) Investment Banking
12 56 (36.60%) Hedge funds
12 56 (36.60%) SciPy
12 56 (36.60%) NumPy
12 56 (36.60%) Pandas
12 56 (36.60%) Protocol Buffers
12 56 (36.60%) gRPC
12 56 (36.60%) Apache Airflow
12 56 (36.60%) Amazon Athena
12 56 (36.60%) Apache Ignite
12 56 (36.60%) Dremio
12 56 (36.60%) dbt
12 56 (36.60%) Apache Arrow

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 56 (36.60%) Apache
1 56 (36.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.31%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (50.33%) AWS
2 64 (41.83%) GCP
3 56 (36.60%) dbt
4 52 (33.99%) Snowflake
5 24 (15.69%) Azure
6 12 (7.84%) Serverless
7 8 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.27%) Azure Storage
9 4 (2.61%) SaaS
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.65%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.65%) Datadog
11 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.31%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.31%) 5G
1 2 (1.31%) HTTP
1 2 (1.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (36.60%) Amazon Athena
1 56 (36.60%) Apache Arrow
1 56 (36.60%) Apache Ignite
1 56 (36.60%) Dremio
2 52 (33.99%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.88%) MySQL
4 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.92%) CouchDB
7 3 (1.96%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Gradle
2 3 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.31%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Gatling
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) JUnit
4 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (45.75%) Finance
2 60 (39.22%) Banking
3 58 (37.91%) Front Office
4 56 (36.60%) Investment Banking
5 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.61%) Retail
8 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.96%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.96%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.65%) Back Office
9 1 (0.65%) Games
9 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (36.60%) gRPC
1 56 (36.60%) NumPy
1 56 (36.60%) Pandas
1 56 (36.60%) Protocol Buffers
1 56 (36.60%) SciPy
2 29 (18.95%) .NET
3 15 (9.80%) React
4 13 (8.50%) Node.js
5 12 (7.84%) .NET Core
6 10 (6.54%) Vue
7 8 (5.23%) .NET Framework
7 8 (5.23%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.58%) Kafka
9 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.92%) CSS
9 6 (3.92%) Hibernate
9 6 (3.92%) HTML
9 6 (3.92%) REST
9 6 (3.92%) RESTful
9 6 (3.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (36.60%) Derivative
1 56 (36.60%) Equities
1 56 (36.60%) Fixed Income
1 56 (36.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 56 (36.60%) Hedge funds
2 17 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.58%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.92%) PropTech
5 5 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.61%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.31%) Robotics
8 1 (0.65%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 97 (63.40%) Agile
3 56 (36.60%) Asset Management
4 55 (35.95%) Line Management
5 38 (24.84%) Investment Management
6 34 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 16 (10.46%) Coaching
8 14 (9.15%) CI/CD
9 13 (8.50%) Microservices
9 13 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (7.19%) Clean Code
10 11 (7.19%) Computer Science
11 10 (6.54%) Design Patterns
12 9 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (5.88%) DevOps
12 9 (5.88%) TDD
13 8 (5.23%) Code Quality
13 8 (5.23%) Collaborative Culture
13 8 (5.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 79 (51.63%) Python
2 78 (50.98%) JavaScript
3 76 (49.67%) TypeScript
4 74 (48.37%) Java
5 24 (15.69%) SQL
6 23 (15.03%) C#
7 5 (3.27%) Go
7 5 (3.27%) Scala
8 4 (2.61%) C++
8 4 (2.61%) PHP
8 4 (2.61%) Ruby
9 3 (1.96%) C
10 2 (1.31%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.31%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.92%) Degree
3 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.61%) Def Stans
1 4 (2.61%) IEC 61508
1 4 (2.61%) MISRA
1 4 (2.61%) MISRA C
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.31%) NVIDIA
3 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.65%) Google
3 1 (0.65%) Infragistics