Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 393 383
Rank change year-on-year +40 -10 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 41 42 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 31 15 56
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,632 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +32.72% +1.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,056 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 - £86,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +22.58% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,599 15,406 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.33% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,835 8,145 11,008
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +17 31 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Yorkshire +67 9 £68,000 -14.61% 3
North East - 1 £74,000 - 2
Lead Software Engineer
England

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 North of England region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (36.59%) Java
3 14 (34.15%) Agile
4 13 (31.71%) C#
4 13 (31.71%) .NET
5 10 (24.39%) Docker
5 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
5 10 (24.39%) .NET Core
6 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
6 9 (21.95%) Python
7 8 (19.51%) React
7 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
8 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
8 7 (17.07%) Microservices
8 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
8 7 (17.07%) Azure
9 6 (14.63%) AWS
9 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (14.63%) RESTful
9 6 (14.63%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (14.63%) SQL
9 6 (14.63%) C
9 6 (14.63%) Linux
9 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
9 6 (14.63%) Firmware
9 6 (14.63%) Middleware

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (17.07%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) GitHub
2 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) CircleCI
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) .NET
2 10 (24.39%) .NET Core
3 8 (19.51%) React
4 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
5 6 (14.63%) Middleware
5 6 (14.63%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.88%) http4s
6 2 (4.88%) REST
6 2 (4.88%) Scalaz
6 2 (4.88%) Web Services
7 1 (2.44%) CSS
7 1 (2.44%) HTML
7 1 (2.44%) Kafka
7 1 (2.44%) Node.js
7 1 (2.44%) Spring
7 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.63%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.88%) Blog
4 2 (4.88%) Media Streaming
4 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.44%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
1 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 8 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (17.07%) Microservices
5 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
5 6 (14.63%) Embedded Software Development
5 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.20%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.76%) Software Architecture
7 4 (9.76%) User Experience
8 3 (7.32%) Coaching
8 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.88%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Java
2 13 (31.71%) C#
3 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.95%) Python
4 6 (14.63%) C
4 6 (14.63%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) C++
6 2 (4.88%) Scala
6 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.44%) Bash
7 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (14.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Red Hat