Lead Software Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Lead Software Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £122,773 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 151 217
Rank change year-on-year +58 +66 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 10 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.27% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 7
10th Percentile £66,725 - £55,000
25th Percentile £80,688 £66,500 £65,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £68,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +80.55% -14.61% +9.84%
75th Percentile £140,677 £69,500 £84,056
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +17.65% -14.61% +9.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,223 2,917 4,627
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 96.24% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 621 2,148 2,273
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,617 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £83,750 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,750 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.19% -8.88% +7.00%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Leeds +58 10 £122,773 +80.55% 20
Lead Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 24 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (90.00%) React
2 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) C#
3 8 (80.00%) Docker
3 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (70.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven
4 7 (70.00%) SaaS
4 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (70.00%) SQL
5 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
5 6 (60.00%) Oracle
5 6 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (60.00%) Finance
5 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
5 6 (60.00%) Express.js
5 6 (60.00%) Node.js
5 6 (60.00%) Kafka
5 6 (60.00%) GCP
5 6 (60.00%) Banking
5 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (60.00%) Low Latency
5 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (60.00%) Operational Stability
5 6 (60.00%) SDLC

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (70.00%) SaaS
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
1 9 (90.00%) React
2 6 (60.00%) Express.js
2 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 6 (60.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (70.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven
3 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (60.00%) Low Latency
4 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (60.00%) Operational Stability
4 6 (60.00%) SDLC
4 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) KYC
7 1 (10.00%) People Management
7 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle