Lead Engineer jobs in London — demand, required skills, and comparable metros (2026)
As of 2026-07-18, Skillenai has indexed 3 Lead Engineer postings located in London over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is risk and compliance frameworks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-07-18
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+Are Lead Engineer jobs being posted in London right now?
Yes. Skillenai has indexed 3 Lead Engineer postings located in London over the 90 days ending 2026-07-18.
+What skills do Lead Engineer jobs in London require?
Across Lead Engineer postings in London indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-07-18, the skills mentioned most often are risk and compliance frameworks, CKAD, cloud-native, Clickhouse, Python.
+Which other cities are hiring Lead Engineer?
As of 2026-07-18, the metro areas posting the most Lead Engineer jobs outside London are Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New York City, Auckland, Toronto, based on the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly Lead Engineer postings in London — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Lead Engineer in London
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| risk and compliance frameworks | 1 | 33.3% |
| CKAD | 1 | 33.3% |
| cloud-native | 1 | 33.3% |
| Clickhouse | 1 | 33.3% |
| Python | 1 | 33.3% |
| Notion | 1 | 33.3% |
| identity automation | 1 | 33.3% |
| infrastructure as code | 1 | 33.3% |
| High availability | 1 | 33.3% |
| RAG pipelines | 1 | 33.3% |
| HiBob integrations | 1 | 33.3% |
| LangGraph | 1 | 33.3% |
Other top cities hiring Lead Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 6 | 200.0% |
| Hyderabad | 6 | 200.0% |
| New York City | 3 | 100.0% |
| Auckland | 2 | 66.7% |
| Toronto | 2 | 66.7% |
| Charlotte | 1 | 33.3% |
| Gurugram | 1 | 33.3% |
| Kuala Lumpur | 1 | 33.3% |
| Lisbon | 1 | 33.3% |
| Nairobi | 1 | 33.3% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-07-18, filtered to postings whose canonical role is “Lead Engineer” and whose locationCity is “London”.
- city
- London
- role
- Lead Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-07-18
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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