Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 3 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.44% 1.50% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 1.58% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 0
10th Percentile - £54,875 -
25th Percentile £92,500 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £65,000 -
90th Percentile - £69,125 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +8.06% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 658 824 632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.50% 95.15% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 318 454 334
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.73% +11.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £66,175 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Northern Ireland

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Northern Ireland

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 28 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Vue
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA