Software Manager Jobs in Leeds

Software Manager
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Software Manager salary in Leeds is £108,886 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 122 159
Rank change year-on-year +57 +37 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 13 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.69% 0.61% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 0.64% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 12
10th Percentile £82,250 £51,250 £70,625
25th Percentile £82,500 £52,188 £82,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £108,886 £67,500 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +61.31% -26.03% +9.28%
75th Percentile £140,677 £83,750 £96,250
90th Percentile - £91,625 £101,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -27.78% +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 723 2,200 2,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 96.07% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 478 1,593 1,657
10th Percentile £28,963 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,955 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in Leeds

Software Manager
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in Leeds

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in Leeds over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Software 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 Manager in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) React
3 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (46.15%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (46.15%) Coaching
4 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Virtual Team
4 6 (46.15%) .NET Core
4 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
4 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 6 (46.15%) zOS
4 6 (46.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (46.15%) C#
4 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 6 (46.15%) .NET
4 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 6 (46.15%) IBM
4 6 (46.15%) Banking
4 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Management
4 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) Batch Scheduling
4 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft

Software 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 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) React
2 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Core
2 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (46.15%) Batch Scheduling
4 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Coaching
4 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Management
4 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
4 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (46.15%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Line Management
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) IBM
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft