Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Lead Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 214 212
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 28 25 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.55% 0.50% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.54% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 38
10th Percentile £63,250 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% +1.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,400 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.75% +1.67% +3.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 4,842 4,617 5,499
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.89% 91.77% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 2,690 3,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,413 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +4.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,700 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Manchester

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Manchester

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in Manchester

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (53.57%) Java
3 12 (42.86%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 9 (32.14%) Python
5 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
5 6 (21.43%) Firmware
5 6 (21.43%) Middleware
5 6 (21.43%) C
5 6 (21.43%) Linux
5 6 (21.43%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (21.43%) Embedded Software Development
5 6 (21.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) AWS
6 5 (17.86%) Finance
7 4 (14.29%) Software Architecture
7 4 (14.29%) User Experience
7 4 (14.29%) Docker
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
7 4 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
8 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.71%) Azure

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 2 (7.14%) http4s
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) Scalaz
2 2 (7.14%) Web Services
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Spring
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Blog
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Media Streaming
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
1 6 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) Embedded Software Development
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Software Architecture
5 4 (14.29%) User Experience
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.14%) Coaching
7 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Functional Programming
7 2 (7.14%) Integration Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Open Source
7 2 (7.14%) Unit Testing
8 1 (3.57%) Microservices
8 1 (3.57%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) C
4 3 (10.71%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) Scala
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (21.43%) Firmware
2 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Red Hat