Remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK
Live remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.
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We are currently tracking 525 live vacancies matching remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, advertised by 219 different employers. 141 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Monzo, Appliedintuition, Cloudodyssey and Cursor. 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 525 roles, 57 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £123,000. The middle half of the market sits between £68,000 and £150,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for remote 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, 100% are fully remote 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 remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK are Machine Learning, Python, Java, AWS, C# and React. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
IT Business Analyst / IT Project Manager
Software Architect
Staff Product Designer (PST)
Staff Developer Experience (DX) Engineer
Solutions Architect (EST or PST)
Software Engineer, Voice Agents & AI (Senior or Staff Level)
Software Engineer - Applied AI (Senior or Staff Level)
Senior Technical Program Manager (Engineering) - AI Tooling & Systems
Senior Technical Program Manager (Engineering)
Senior Solutions Architect - Europe
Engineering Manager, Console Team (Product-Led Growth Strategy)
AI Infrastructure Architect
Systems Engineer Lead
Cyber Security Engineer Lead
Professional: Requirements Engineer, Project Manager, Scrum Master
Technical Product Manager
Engineering Manager
Partner Solution Architect (AWS)
Event Programs Manager, Developer Community & Ecosystem
Customer Solution Architect, Team Lead (AMER)
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 525 live vacancies across 219 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 remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £123,000, based on the 57 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £68,000 to £150,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
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, Appliedintuition, Cloudodyssey, Cursor and Remotefriendly. 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 Machine Learning, Python, Java, AWS and C#. 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?
£123,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 124% 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: 468 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
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 Technical Project Manager, Solutions Architect, Engineering Manager, Lead Cloud Solution Architect - Intelligent Automation and Quality Assurance Manager. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.