Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £90,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 349 397
Rank change year-on-year +63 +48 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 42 42 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 40 32 15
10th Percentile £72,250 £56,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £74,688 £65,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,500 £70,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +29.29% -12.10% +32.17%
75th Percentile £120,000 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £140,677 £82,500 -
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £92,335
% change year-on-year +11.76% -7.94% +19.14%

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 10,614 16,605 15,383
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 94.92% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,883 12,852 8,160
10th Percentile £25,885 £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 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the North of England

Lead Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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 -4 25 £106,500 +52.14% 29
Yorkshire +72 15 £80,000 +17.65% 9
North East +52 2 £75,000 +1.35% 7
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 27 (64.29%) AWS
4 18 (42.86%) C#
4 18 (42.86%) Agile
4 18 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 18 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (42.86%) Product Ownership
5 17 (40.48%) Java
6 16 (38.10%) SQL
7 15 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (35.71%) Mentoring
8 14 (33.33%) React
8 14 (33.33%) SaaS
9 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
10 12 (28.57%) .NET
11 11 (26.19%) Finance
11 11 (26.19%) Degree
11 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
11 11 (26.19%) Node.js
11 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
12 10 (23.81%) TypeScript
12 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
12 10 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (23.81%) Software Testing
12 10 (23.81%) Banking
13 9 (21.43%) Azure
13 9 (21.43%) GCP
14 8 (19.05%) Docker
14 8 (19.05%) DevOps

Lead Software Engineer 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 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) SaaS
3 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) GCP
4 4 (9.52%) Serverless
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Banking
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Electronics
3 1 (2.38%) Games
3 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) React
2 12 (28.57%) .NET
3 11 (26.19%) Node.js
4 7 (16.67%) Kafka
5 6 (14.29%) Express.js
6 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.76%) CSS
8 2 (4.76%) HTML
8 2 (4.76%) XML
9 1 (2.38%) React Native
9 1 (2.38%) Redux
9 1 (2.38%) RESTful
9 1 (2.38%) Spring
9 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.38%) PlayStation
5 1 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (42.86%) Agile
2 18 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 15 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 15 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
6 10 (23.81%) Software Testing
7 8 (19.05%) DevOps
7 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (16.67%) SDLC
9 6 (14.29%) API Development
9 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (14.29%) Low Latency
9 6 (14.29%) Operational Stability
9 6 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (11.90%) KYC
11 4 (9.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 18 (42.86%) C#
3 17 (40.48%) Java
4 16 (38.10%) SQL
5 10 (23.81%) TypeScript
6 6 (14.29%) PL/SQL
7 4 (9.52%) Go
7 4 (9.52%) Python
8 1 (2.38%) C
8 1 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 10 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft