Lead Software Developer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Software Developer
England > North of England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 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 302 358 426
Rank change year-on-year +56 +68 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 6 35 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.055% 0.20% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.21% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 5 32 7
10th Percentile - £53,750 £60,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +84.21%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,750 £98,125 £79,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +16.13% -8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in the North of England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in the North of England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in the North of England

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +14 5 £63,750 -8.93% 1
Yorkshire +71 1 £60,000 - 2
Lead Software Developer
England

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) WPF
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (16.67%) RAD
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Bluetooth

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Physics
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) IEC 62304
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 13485
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Intel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft