Lead and principal IT jobs in the UK
Live lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, observed on public careers and vacancy pages and updated hourly.
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We are currently tracking 1,060 live vacancies matching lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, across 604 source domains. 173 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The source labels with the most observed roles in this slice are Monzo, Wt Map, Orixdigi and Ittrp. Every role links back to the public careers or vacancy page where it was observed.
Of the 1,060 roles, 121 publish an annual salary. The median advertised range midpoint is £65,000. The middle half of the market sits between £42,500 and £104,750, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for lead and principal IT jobs in the UK. Contract day and hourly rates are excluded from this annual-salary comparison.
On working pattern, 31% of roles with a known arrangement are fully remote, 29% of roles with a known arrangement are hybrid and 10% of roles with a known basis are contract. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
The technologies that come up most often in lead and principal IT jobs in the UK are AWS, Python, Azure, Salesforce, Machine Learning and SQL. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Salesforce Lead Developer
Salesforce Technical Architect
Salesforce Mulesoft Lead
Salesforce Mulesoft Architect
Staff Analytics Engineer
Technology Architect (Endur) - Senior Manager - Energy & Commodities
Principal Backend Engineer
Global Account & Network Manager
Product Manager, Developer Experiences
Lead User Experience Researcher
QA Lead
Engineering Manager - Monetization & Merchandising
Engineering Manager - SmartDesk
Staff Software Engineer
Engineering Manager
Product Manager, CRM
Manager, Technical Program Management (Cyber Security)
Engineering Manager - Platform
Lead Technical Program Manager
Principal Enterprise Architect (Data)
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many lead and principal IT jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 1,060 live vacancies across 604 source domains. The crawler revisits public careers and vacancy pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do lead and principal IT jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised annual salary midpoint is £65,000, based on the 121 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £42,500 to £104,750. Day and hourly rates are kept out of this annual-salary benchmark.
Can these roles be done remotely?
31% are advertised as fully remote and 29% as hybrid. Based on 849 roles that state an arrangement; 211 unknowns are excluded.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
10% of roles with a stated basis are contract or fixed-term; unknowns are excluded. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which sources list the most roles?
The most active source labels right now are Monzo, Wt Map, Orixdigi, Ittrp and Cloudodyssey. Every vacancy links to its public source page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often AWS, Python, Azure, Salesforce and Machine Learning. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
How much does a IT professional earn in the UK?
£65,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 37% above the £47,500 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the midpoint of each advertised annual range rather than an offer: 939 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Can you work from home as a IT professional in the UK?
514 of the 1,060 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 264 fully remote and 250 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate IT professional jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Engineering Manager, Technical Project Manager, Solutions Architect, IT Manager and Technical Product Manager. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.