Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Leeds

Software Engineering Manager
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in Leeds is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 123 176
Rank change year-on-year +56 +53 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 14 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.77% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile - £76,250 £78,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -8.33% +7.78%
75th Percentile £140,677 £89,375 £98,750
90th Percentile - £95,000 £101,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +7.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 743 2,197 2,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 96.02% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 500 1,593 1,678
10th Percentile £28,450 £31,250 £32,675
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,162 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £83,995 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in Leeds

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in Leeds.

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in Leeds

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in Leeds

Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Software Engineering Manager 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 Software Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) React
3 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (50.00%) Coaching
4 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) C#
4 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (50.00%) .NET
4 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 7 (50.00%) Azure
5 6 (42.86%) Banking
5 6 (42.86%) ITIL
5 6 (42.86%) IBM
5 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
5 6 (42.86%) Finance
5 6 (42.86%) zOS
5 6 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (42.86%) Virtual Team
5 6 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
5 6 (42.86%) Batch Scheduling
5 6 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft

Software Engineering Manager 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 7 (50.00%) Azure
1 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) React
2 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Coaching
4 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (42.86%) Batch Scheduling
5 6 (42.86%) ITIL
5 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
5 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 6 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (28.57%) Line Management
7 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
8 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 1 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft