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 524 live vacancies matching remote lead and principal IT jobs in the UK, advertised by 218 different employers. 139 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 524 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, AWS, Java, 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.
Principal Data Scientist, Ads
Lead Physical Security Engineer
Full Stack Architect
QA Lead
Lead Software Engineer
Helpdesk Manager
Oracle ERP Technical Solution Architect
Principal Cyber Defense Engineer | Principal Engineer, Cyber Defense
Lead Cybersecurity Engineer - Incident Response
Senior Cybersecurity Manager, Enterprise Security
Principal Cloud Security Engineer
Infrastructure Architect
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
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 524 live vacancies across 218 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, AWS, Java 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: 467 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.