Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Lead Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Leeds is £68,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 163 193
Rank change year-on-year +31 +30 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 4 23 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.18% 0.74% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.78% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile - £55,000 £59,375
25th Percentile £66,500 £65,104 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £79,632 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +9.84% +3.57%
75th Percentile £69,500 £84,056 £76,250
90th Percentile - - £91,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £68,000 £79,632 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.61% +9.84% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,174 2,940 3,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 95.18% 97.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,766 2,560
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Leeds

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Leeds

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 19 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 Leeds region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 4 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes