Lead and principal IT jobs in the UK
Live lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly.
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We are currently tracking 1,620 live vacancies matching lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, advertised by 785 different employers. 284 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Monzo, Ittrp, Wt Map and Orixdigi. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Of the 1,620 roles, 191 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £80,000. The middle half of the market sits between £47,000 and £120,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for lead and principal IT jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.
On working pattern, 32% are fully remote, 28% are hybrid and 2% are contract rather than permanent. 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 Python, AWS, Azure, React, Machine Learning and Java. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Engineering Manager Permanent Location: Wigton Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 Start: ASAP
Staff Software Engineer
Web Developer / Architect - React / Blazor / WPF
Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer
QA Manager / QA Lead
Principal Technical Product Manager - Ledger
Principal Technical Product Manager - SDK
Lead Data Engineer
Software Engineer - Manager
Data Scientist - Senior or Staff Level
Staff Technical Program Manager
Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance
Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management
Staff Product Security Engineer
Staff Technical Product Manager, Ads ML Platform
Enterprise Architect, Finance Technology
Staff iOS Engineer, Media Foundation
Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding
Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences
Staff Software Engineer, DevPlatform
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 1,620 live vacancies across 785 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers 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 ceiling is £80,000, based on the 191 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £47,000 to £120,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Can these roles be done remotely?
32% are advertised as fully remote and 28% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
2% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Monzo, Ittrp, Wt Map, Orixdigi and Cloudodyssey. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often Python, AWS, Azure, React 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?
£80,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 45% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 1,429 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?
968 of the 1,620 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 521 fully remote and 447 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, Solutions Architect, Technical Project Manager, Technical Product Manager and IT Manager. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.