Lead Jobs in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,547 6,129 11,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.27% 7.27% 8.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.73% 7.96% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,762 4,370 6,039
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,750 £43,491
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in England.

Salary trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +12 2,250 £89,000 -1.11% 821
North of England +30 1,826 £70,000 - 384
South East +22 1,283 £62,000 -8.15% 313
Midlands +4 1,006 £60,000 - 263
North West +25 902 £70,000 - 223
South West +23 728 £60,202 -10.81% 201
Yorkshire +31 675 £70,000 - 116
West Midlands +3 665 £65,000 +8.33% 148
East of England +27 379 £60,000 +4.35% 142
East Midlands +28 337 £51,500 -10.43% 114
North East +37 251 £70,250 +40.50% 48
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,825 (24.18%) Agile
2 1,511 (20.02%) Social Skills
3 1,468 (19.45%) Finance
4 1,390 (18.42%) Mentoring
5 1,287 (17.05%) Azure
6 1,207 (15.99%) AWS
7 980 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
8 923 (12.23%) Software Engineering
9 898 (11.90%) Degree
9 898 (11.90%) Microsoft
10 829 (10.98%) SQL
11 802 (10.63%) Coaching
12 750 (9.94%) Java
13 727 (9.63%) DevOps
14 673 (8.92%) Python
15 632 (8.37%) JavaScript
16 625 (8.28%) .NET
17 618 (8.19%) Project Management
18 610 (8.08%) C#
19 601 (7.96%) Analytics
20 586 (7.76%) Roadmaps
21 516 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
21 516 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
22 513 (6.80%) CI/CD
23 512 (6.78%) Security Cleared
24 506 (6.70%) Windows
25 425 (5.63%) TypeScript
26 418 (5.54%) Line Management
27 407 (5.39%) React
28 404 (5.35%) Kubernetes

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 160 (2.12%) Apache
2 143 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 140 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 118 (1.56%) Confluence
5 90 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.70%) CMS
7 48 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.49%) Tuxedo
9 30 (0.40%) IIS
10 29 (0.38%) Drupal
10 29 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 16 (0.21%) WordPress
12 12 (0.16%) Appian
13 11 (0.15%) SAS
14 10 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.080%) Apache Pig
17 5 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 141 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.21%) Simulink
6 14 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.080%) EViews
8 6 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.053%) CANalyzer
10 3 (0.040%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.027%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.027%) MadCap Flare
11 2 (0.027%) Notion
11 2 (0.027%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.027%) Sketch
11 2 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 83 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.27%) Shopify
5 19 (0.25%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.23%) thinkFolio
7 12 (0.16%) SAP GRC
8 10 (0.13%) Primavera
9 7 (0.093%) SAP IBP
10 6 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.080%) HFM
10 6 (0.080%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.080%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.080%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.066%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.066%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.066%) SAP PP
11 5 (0.066%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,287 (17.05%) Azure
2 1,207 (15.99%) AWS
3 370 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
4 361 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 290 (3.84%) GCP
6 272 (3.60%) SaaS
7 205 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 170 (2.25%) Serverless
9 159 (2.11%) dbt
10 155 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 127 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 95 (1.26%) GitHub
14 91 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 85 (1.13%) Amazon S3
17 79 (1.05%) Entra ID
18 72 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
19 70 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
20 68 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.07%) Firewall
2 196 (2.60%) Broadband
3 117 (1.55%) DNS
4 111 (1.47%) WAN
5 102 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.07%) Network Security
7 67 (0.89%) LAN
8 66 (0.87%) SSL
9 53 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 49 (0.65%) VPN
11 45 (0.60%) Internet
11 45 (0.60%) Wireless
12 42 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 41 (0.54%) DHCP
14 35 (0.46%) BGP
15 33 (0.44%) SAN
15 33 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
16 23 (0.30%) 5G
16 23 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
17 22 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 289 (3.83%) Power BI
3 185 (2.45%) Data Lake
4 156 (2.07%) NoSQL
5 145 (1.92%) MySQL
6 141 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 139 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 121 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 120 (1.59%) Apache Arrow
10 117 (1.55%) Dremio
11 114 (1.51%) Apache Ignite
12 108 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 108 (1.43%) Tableau
13 76 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (0.89%) RDBMS
15 59 (0.78%) MongoDB
16 55 (0.73%) DynamoDB
17 48 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
18 47 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
19 45 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 289 (3.83%) Git
2 209 (2.77%) JIRA
3 115 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 106 (1.40%) Selenium
5 103 (1.36%) GitLab
6 65 (0.86%) Postman
7 63 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 59 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 52 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 46 (0.61%) JUnit
11 34 (0.45%) CircleCI
12 31 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
13 27 (0.36%) SoapUI
14 24 (0.32%) JMeter
15 23 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 20 (0.27%) NUnit
17 18 (0.24%) Maven
18 17 (0.23%) Subversion
19 16 (0.21%) SpecFlow
20 14 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,511 (20.02%) Social Skills
2 1,468 (19.45%) Finance
3 516 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 375 (4.97%) Marketing
6 356 (4.72%) Banking
7 334 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 264 (3.50%) Retail
9 236 (3.13%) Legal
10 235 (3.11%) Law
11 226 (2.99%) Manufacturing
12 217 (2.88%) Advertising
13 159 (2.11%) Investment Banking
14 150 (1.99%) Automotive
15 149 (1.97%) Front Office
16 126 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
17 120 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
18 119 (1.58%) Telecoms
19 111 (1.47%) Aerospace
20 104 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (8.28%) .NET
2 407 (5.39%) React
3 220 (2.92%) HTML
4 214 (2.84%) CSS
5 192 (2.54%) REST
6 151 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 147 (1.95%) Node.js
8 139 (1.84%) RESTful
9 134 (1.78%) AngularJS
9 134 (1.78%) Pandas
10 129 (1.71%) Spring
11 128 (1.70%) Spring Boot
12 127 (1.68%) NumPy
13 117 (1.55%) gRPC
13 117 (1.55%) Protocol Buffers
14 116 (1.54%) Kafka
14 116 (1.54%) SciPy
15 102 (1.35%) JSON
16 91 (1.21%) ASP.NET
17 89 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (3.71%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.45%) Marketing Technology
3 178 (2.36%) Product Ownership
4 145 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 141 (1.87%) Fixed Income
5 141 (1.87%) Hedge funds
6 133 (1.76%) Derivative
7 131 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 126 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 125 (1.66%) Equities
10 124 (1.64%) Cloud Native
11 107 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 105 (1.39%) Data Centre
13 94 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 93 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 82 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
16 79 (1.05%) Onboarding
17 78 (1.03%) Data Structures
17 78 (1.03%) Virtual Team
18 71 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 506 (6.70%) Windows
2 316 (4.19%) Linux
3 164 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 92 (1.22%) Windows 10
5 60 (0.80%) Android
6 53 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (0.40%) Unix
11 24 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.21%) Mac OS
14 15 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
15 14 (0.19%) Windows 7
16 13 (0.17%) CentOS
17 12 (0.16%) zOS
18 8 (0.11%) Debian
18 8 (0.11%) Solaris
19 6 (0.080%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,825 (24.18%) Agile
2 1,390 (18.42%) Mentoring
3 980 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
4 923 (12.23%) Software Engineering
5 802 (10.63%) Coaching
6 727 (9.63%) DevOps
7 618 (8.19%) Project Management
8 601 (7.96%) Analytics
9 586 (7.76%) Roadmaps
10 516 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 513 (6.80%) CI/CD
12 418 (5.54%) Line Management
13 399 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
14 395 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 393 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
16 386 (5.11%) Computer Science
17 385 (5.10%) Scrum
18 379 (5.02%) ITIL
19 377 (5.00%) Process Improvement
20 353 (4.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 829 (10.98%) SQL
2 750 (9.94%) Java
3 673 (8.92%) Python
4 632 (8.37%) JavaScript
5 610 (8.08%) C#
6 425 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 174 (2.31%) C++
8 171 (2.27%) PHP
9 164 (2.17%) C
10 107 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 72 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 70 (0.93%) Scala
13 67 (0.89%) Go
14 66 (0.87%) COBOL
14 66 (0.87%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 43 (0.57%) R
16 41 (0.54%) T-SQL
17 36 (0.48%) Rust
18 33 (0.44%) Bicep
19 28 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 898 (11.90%) Degree
2 512 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 281 (3.72%) SC Cleared
4 221 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 113 (1.50%) DBS Check
7 111 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 111 (1.47%) CISSP
8 103 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 90 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 81 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 79 (1.05%) CISM
11 79 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 77 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 37 (0.49%) CCSP
15 37 (0.49%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.46%) CISA
17 30 (0.40%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 369 (4.89%) QA
2 182 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 131 (1.74%) SLA
4 121 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.54%) GDPR
6 98 (1.30%) NIST
7 69 (0.91%) PMO
8 58 (0.77%) Accessibility
9 46 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.40%) GMP
10 30 (0.40%) GRC
10 30 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.37%) NCSC
12 21 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
13 17 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.19%) IFRS
15 11 (0.15%) Def Stans
16 10 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 362 (4.80%) Docker
2 253 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 80 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 53 (0.70%) Firmware
6 43 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.40%) vSphere
8 28 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 23 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.040%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.040%) Ceph
15 2 (0.027%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.027%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.013%) KVM
16 1 (0.013%) Lustre
16 1 (0.013%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 404 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 238 (3.15%) Terraform
3 98 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (0.74%) SCCM
5 54 (0.72%) Ansible
6 44 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (0.54%) Puppet
8 30 (0.40%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 22 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 21 (0.28%) Grafana
11 17 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.19%) Consul
12 14 (0.19%) Istio
13 13 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (0.16%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.15%) WSUS
16 10 (0.13%) Progress Chef
17 9 (0.12%) Nmap
18 7 (0.093%) SCOM
Vendors
1 898 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 233 (3.09%) Oracle
3 164 (2.17%) VMware
4 159 (2.11%) SAP
5 134 (1.78%) Google
6 129 (1.71%) Databricks
7 120 (1.59%) Cisco
8 114 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 78 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 69 (0.91%) Micro Focus
11 66 (0.87%) IBM
12 55 (0.73%) Citrix
13 46 (0.61%) Atlassian
14 32 (0.42%) Splunk
15 28 (0.37%) Sparx
16 27 (0.36%) Veeam
17 26 (0.34%) Workday
18 24 (0.32%) SolarWinds
19 23 (0.30%) Meraki
19 23 (0.30%) Pega