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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 416 422
Rank change year-on-year +55 +6 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 42 9 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.057% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.064% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 37 7 32
10th Percentile £53,750 £58,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +71.05% -36.67%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £57,901
90th Percentile £88,750 £79,500 £60,240
England median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.76% +21.43%

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 18,985 14,072 18,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.33% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14,304 7,972 10,952
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,136 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

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 11 June 2024.

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 11 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
North West +6 30 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Yorkshire +61 6 £60,000 -20.00%
North East -13 6 £65,000 -
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 11 June 2024, 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 28 (66.67%) SQL
2 26 (61.90%) .NET
3 25 (59.52%) C#
4 14 (33.33%) Agile
5 13 (30.95%) Java
6 12 (28.57%) Azure
7 9 (21.43%) NoSQL
7 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
7 9 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 8 (19.05%) DevOps
9 7 (16.67%) AWS
9 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
9 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 5 (11.90%) MySQL
11 5 (11.90%) WPF
11 5 (11.90%) LINQ
11 5 (11.90%) SaaS
11 5 (11.90%) Microservices
11 5 (11.90%) SDLC
11 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
11 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
11 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (11.90%) .NET Core
12 4 (9.52%) Fintech
12 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
12 4 (9.52%) Banking
12 4 (9.52%) Maven

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) SaaS
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.14%) PaaS
4 3 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) MySQL
3 3 (7.14%) Couchbase
3 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.14%) Redis
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Maven
2 3 (7.14%) Gradle
3 2 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Banking
2 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Games
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (61.90%) .NET
2 5 (11.90%) .NET Core
2 5 (11.90%) LINQ
2 5 (11.90%) WPF
3 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.14%) Django
3 3 (7.14%) REST
3 3 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (4.76%) CSS
4 2 (4.76%) EJB
4 2 (4.76%) JavaBeans
4 2 (4.76%) Vue
5 1 (2.38%) Express.js
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.76%) e-Health
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.38%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Agile
2 9 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
2 9 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
6 5 (11.90%) Microservices
6 5 (11.90%) SDLC
7 4 (9.52%) Fintech
7 4 (9.52%) Mathematics
8 3 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (7.14%) Process Improvement
8 3 (7.14%) Release Management
8 3 (7.14%) SOLID
8 3 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) SQL
2 25 (59.52%) C#
3 13 (30.95%) Java
4 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) Python
5 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) BC Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Kiali
1 1 (2.38%) Kibana
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle