Lead Software Developer Jobs in Merseyside

Lead Software Developer
North West > Merseyside

The median Lead Software Developer salary in Merseyside is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 80 -
Rank change year-on-year +29 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 1 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.24% 0.93% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.98% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - £30,625 -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £63,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.93% +7.69% +68.10%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 302 1,223 875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.39% 94.51% 80.05%
Number of salaries quoted 196 854 451
10th Percentile £26,625 £25,150 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,191
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £75,000 £70,600
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in Merseyside

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in Merseyside.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in Merseyside

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead Software Developer 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 Merseyside region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL