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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 455 452
Rank change year-on-year +36 -3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 168 187 534
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.50% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.52% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 157 124 203
10th Percentile £67,500 £55,150 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £86,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% +11.29% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £107,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,693 £125,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.66% +5.81% +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 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 9 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 9 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 108 (64.29%) Agile
3 91 (54.17%) Python
4 88 (52.38%) JavaScript
4 88 (52.38%) AWS
5 87 (51.79%) TypeScript
6 84 (50.00%) Java
7 82 (48.81%) Finance
8 74 (44.05%) GCP
9 70 (41.67%) Banking
10 68 (40.48%) Front Office
11 66 (39.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 66 (39.29%) Fixed Income
11 66 (39.29%) Equities
11 66 (39.29%) Apache
11 66 (39.29%) Asset Management
11 66 (39.29%) Investment Banking
11 66 (39.29%) Derivative
11 66 (39.29%) Pandas
11 66 (39.29%) Hedge funds
11 66 (39.29%) SciPy
11 66 (39.29%) NumPy
11 66 (39.29%) Protocol Buffers
11 66 (39.29%) gRPC
11 66 (39.29%) Apache Airflow
11 66 (39.29%) Amazon Athena
11 66 (39.29%) Apache Ignite
11 66 (39.29%) Dremio
11 66 (39.29%) Apache Arrow
11 66 (39.29%) dbt

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 66 (39.29%) Apache
1 66 (39.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.38%) AWS
2 74 (44.05%) GCP
3 66 (39.29%) dbt
4 62 (36.90%) Snowflake
5 25 (14.88%) Azure
6 12 (7.14%) Serverless
7 11 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.98%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.38%) SaaS
12 2 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.60%) GitHub
13 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.19%) 5G
1 2 (1.19%) HTTP
1 2 (1.19%) Wireless
2 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (39.29%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (39.29%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (39.29%) Apache Ignite
1 66 (39.29%) Dremio
2 62 (36.90%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.36%) MySQL
3 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.57%) CouchDB
6 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Gradle
2 3 (1.79%) Git
2 3 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (0.60%) Gatling
3 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.60%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) JUnit
3 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 82 (48.81%) Finance
2 70 (41.67%) Banking
3 68 (40.48%) Front Office
4 66 (39.29%) Investment Banking
5 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.98%) Retail
6 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.79%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.79%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Games
9 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (39.29%) gRPC
1 66 (39.29%) NumPy
1 66 (39.29%) Pandas
1 66 (39.29%) Protocol Buffers
1 66 (39.29%) SciPy
2 31 (18.45%) .NET
3 16 (9.52%) React
4 14 (8.33%) Node.js
5 12 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 11 (6.55%) Vue
7 8 (4.76%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.76%) RESTful
7 8 (4.76%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.17%) Kafka
8 7 (4.17%) REST
9 6 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.57%) CSS
9 6 (3.57%) HTML
9 6 (3.57%) PySpark
9 6 (3.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (39.29%) Derivative
1 66 (39.29%) Equities
1 66 (39.29%) Fixed Income
1 66 (39.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 66 (39.29%) Hedge funds
2 17 (10.12%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.57%) PropTech
5 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.38%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.19%) Robotics
8 1 (0.60%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 108 (64.29%) Agile
3 66 (39.29%) Asset Management
4 65 (38.69%) Line Management
5 39 (23.21%) Investment Management
6 35 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 16 (9.52%) Coaching
8 15 (8.93%) CI/CD
9 13 (7.74%) Microservices
9 13 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (7.14%) Clean Code
11 11 (6.55%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.55%) Design Patterns
12 10 (5.95%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (5.95%) DevOps
12 10 (5.95%) TDD
13 9 (5.36%) SDLC
14 8 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 91 (54.17%) Python
2 88 (52.38%) JavaScript
3 87 (51.79%) TypeScript
4 84 (50.00%) Java
5 31 (18.45%) SQL
6 25 (14.88%) C#
7 5 (2.98%) Go
7 5 (2.98%) Scala
8 4 (2.38%) C
8 4 (2.38%) C++
8 4 (2.38%) PHP
8 4 (2.38%) Ruby
9 2 (1.19%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.19%) Rust
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.57%) Degree
3 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.38%) Def Stans
1 4 (2.38%) IEC 61508
1 4 (2.38%) MISRA
1 4 (2.38%) MISRA C
2 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 16 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.57%) Bloomberg
2 6 (3.57%) Reuters
3 2 (1.19%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.60%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Infragistics