Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Lead Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 277 278
Rank change year-on-year +69 +1 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 105 13 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.92% 0.18% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.20% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23 6 54
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,500 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,316 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +28.86% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,980 £68,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,778 £84,113
England median annual salary £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +12.90% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 10,836 6,498 9,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 89.52% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,080 3,977 5,427
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in the North West

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in the North West

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in the North West

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Manchester +75 74 £70,000 -9.46% 5
Lancashire - 28 - -
Cheshire - 2 £70,000 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £55,000 -
Lead Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 West region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 78 (74.29%) Agile
3 72 (68.57%) Mentoring
4 62 (59.05%) User Experience
4 62 (59.05%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (55.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 58 (55.24%) Creative Thinking
5 58 (55.24%) Data Engineering
5 58 (55.24%) Cyberattack
5 58 (55.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (55.24%) Machine Learning
6 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
7 14 (13.33%) AWS
7 14 (13.33%) Java
8 12 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (11.43%) DynamoDB
8 12 (11.43%) NoSQL
8 12 (11.43%) Coaching
8 12 (11.43%) DevOps
9 11 (10.48%) Functional Programming
9 11 (10.48%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (10.48%) GraphQL
9 11 (10.48%) Scalaz
9 11 (10.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (10.48%) http4s
9 11 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (10.48%) Open Source
9 11 (10.48%) REST
9 11 (10.48%) Scala

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (13.33%) AWS
2 11 (10.48%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (2.86%) Azure
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.95%) CloudFront
4 1 (0.95%) GCP
4 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.43%) DynamoDB
1 12 (11.43%) NoSQL
1 12 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Git
1 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.95%) JIRA
1 1 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
General
1 58 (55.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.95%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.48%) GraphQL
1 11 (10.48%) http4s
1 11 (10.48%) REST
1 11 (10.48%) Scalaz
1 11 (10.48%) Web Services
2 6 (5.71%) Middleware
3 3 (2.86%) .NET
3 3 (2.86%) React
4 2 (1.90%) Node.js
5 1 (0.95%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.95%) CSS
5 1 (0.95%) HTML
5 1 (0.95%) Kafka
5 1 (0.95%) Spring
5 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (55.24%) Cyberattack
2 11 (10.48%) Blog
2 11 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.48%) Media Streaming
2 11 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.90%) EPoS
5 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.95%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (5.71%) Linux
1 6 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 78 (74.29%) Agile
3 72 (68.57%) Mentoring
4 62 (59.05%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (59.05%) User Experience
5 58 (55.24%) Creative Thinking
5 58 (55.24%) Data Engineering
5 58 (55.24%) Machine Learning
5 58 (55.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (11.43%) Coaching
6 12 (11.43%) DevOps
7 11 (10.48%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (10.48%) Functional Programming
7 11 (10.48%) Integration Testing
7 11 (10.48%) Open Source
7 11 (10.48%) Unit Testing
8 6 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (5.71%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (3.81%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (3.81%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.33%) Java
2 11 (10.48%) Scala
3 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.62%) Python
4 6 (5.71%) C
5 3 (2.86%) C#
5 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.90%) C++
7 1 (0.95%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (1.90%) Degree
2 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (5.71%) Firmware
2 2 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.95%) Ansible
2 1 (0.95%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) Red Hat
2 1 (0.95%) Google