Lead and principal Software Engineering jobs in the UK
Live lead and principal Software Engineering jobs in the UK, observed on public careers and vacancy pages and updated hourly.
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We are currently tracking 127 live vacancies matching lead and principal Software Engineering jobs in the UK, across 99 source domains. 18 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The source labels with the most observed roles in this slice are Tpximpact, Grafana Labs, Doubleupmedia and Gr8Entity. Every role links back to the public careers or vacancy page where it was observed.
Of the 127 roles, 7 publish an annual salary. The median advertised range midpoint is £50,000. The middle half of the market sits between £40,000 and £70,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for lead and principal Software Engineering jobs in the UK. Contract day and hourly rates are excluded from this annual-salary comparison.
On working pattern, 58% of roles with a known arrangement are fully remote and 39% of roles with a known arrangement are hybrid. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
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Staff Software Engineer, Dev Environments
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Lead Software Engineer – iLearn
Senior Product Manager — Developer Experience
Principal Frontend Developer
Lead (Staff) Software Engineer | Merchandising
AI Developer Tooling Lead
Lead Web Developer / ABZ- HR042
Lead Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer - PHP/Laravel
Staff Backend Engineer
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Questions about these roles
How many lead and principal Software Engineering jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 127 live vacancies across 99 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 Software Engineering jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised annual salary midpoint is £50,000, based on the 7 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £40,000 to £70,000. Day and hourly rates are kept out of this annual-salary benchmark.
Can these roles be done remotely?
58% are advertised as fully remote and 39% as hybrid. Based on 33 roles that state an arrangement; 94 unknowns are excluded.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.
Which sources list the most roles?
The most active source labels right now are Tpximpact, Grafana Labs, Doubleupmedia, Gr8Entity and Xperate. Every vacancy links to its public source page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company.
How much does a software engineering specialist earn in the UK?
£50,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 18% above the £42,500 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the midpoint of each advertised annual range rather than an offer: 120 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 software engineering specialist in the UK?
32 of the 127 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 19 fully remote and 13 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate software engineering specialist 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 Lead Software Engineer, Lead Developer, Lead Web Developer, Staff Software Engineer and Lead Frontend Engineer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
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