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 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,340 6,345 11,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.26% 7.33% 8.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.73% 8.02% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,645 4,459 6,060
10th Percentile £40,478 £46,750 £43,273
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,450 £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 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 2,223 £89,000 -1.11% 667
North of England +29 1,747 £70,000 - 352
South East +21 1,247 £61,000 -9.63% 268
Midlands +4 966 £60,000 - 267
North West +24 854 £70,000 - 206
South West +24 708 £60,202 -10.81% 169
Yorkshire +32 654 £70,000 - 103
West Midlands +3 649 £65,000 +8.33% 152
East of England +32 373 £60,000 +4.35% 152
East Midlands +32 313 £51,500 -10.43% 115
North East +38 240 £70,000 +40.00% 47
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 1,786 (24.33%) Agile
2 1,524 (20.76%) Social Skills
3 1,467 (19.99%) Finance
4 1,345 (18.32%) Mentoring
5 1,273 (17.34%) Azure
6 1,187 (16.17%) AWS
7 943 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
8 887 (12.08%) Microsoft
9 881 (12.00%) Degree
10 863 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 817 (11.13%) SQL
12 782 (10.65%) Coaching
13 744 (10.14%) Java
14 717 (9.77%) DevOps
15 654 (8.91%) Python
16 625 (8.51%) JavaScript
17 618 (8.42%) .NET
18 612 (8.34%) Project Management
19 607 (8.27%) C#
19 607 (8.27%) Analytics
20 591 (8.05%) Roadmaps
21 519 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
22 518 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
23 505 (6.88%) Security Cleared
23 505 (6.88%) CI/CD
24 504 (6.87%) Windows
25 419 (5.71%) Line Management
26 416 (5.67%) TypeScript
27 402 (5.48%) Kubernetes
27 402 (5.48%) React

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
1 158 (2.15%) Apache
2 141 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 139 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 119 (1.62%) Confluence
5 91 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (0.74%) CMS
7 48 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.50%) Tuxedo
9 30 (0.41%) IIS
10 29 (0.40%) Drupal
10 29 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 16 (0.22%) WordPress
12 12 (0.16%) Appian
13 11 (0.15%) SAS
14 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.082%) Apache Pig
17 5 (0.068%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 138 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.22%) Simulink
6 14 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.16%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
10 6 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.082%) EViews
11 4 (0.054%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.041%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.027%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.027%) MadCap Flare
13 2 (0.027%) Notion
13 2 (0.027%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.027%) Sketch
14 1 (0.014%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 80 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.27%) Shopify
4 20 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.23%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.16%) SAP GRC
7 10 (0.14%) Primavera
8 7 (0.095%) HFM
8 7 (0.095%) Hyperion Planning
8 7 (0.095%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.082%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.082%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.082%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.082%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.068%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 5 (0.068%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.054%) MIS ActiveH
11 4 (0.054%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1,273 (17.34%) Azure
2 1,187 (16.17%) AWS
3 369 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
4 362 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 289 (3.94%) GCP
6 265 (3.61%) SaaS
7 205 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 169 (2.30%) Serverless
9 154 (2.10%) dbt
10 152 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 124 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (1.31%) GitHub
13 92 (1.25%) Power Automate
14 86 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 85 (1.16%) Amazon S3
16 76 (1.04%) Entra ID
17 71 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 70 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
19 68 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.16%) Firewall
2 196 (2.67%) Broadband
3 114 (1.55%) DNS
4 110 (1.50%) WAN
5 102 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.10%) Network Security
7 67 (0.91%) LAN
8 66 (0.90%) SSL
9 52 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.65%) VPN
11 46 (0.63%) Internet
12 43 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
12 43 (0.59%) Wireless
13 38 (0.52%) DHCP
14 34 (0.46%) BGP
15 32 (0.44%) SAN
16 28 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (0.31%) 5G
17 23 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
18 22 (0.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 291 (3.96%) Power BI
3 182 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 157 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 145 (1.98%) MySQL
6 141 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 138 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 119 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
9 118 (1.61%) Apache Arrow
10 115 (1.57%) Dremio
11 113 (1.54%) Tableau
12 112 (1.53%) Apache Ignite
13 106 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
14 75 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (0.91%) RDBMS
16 59 (0.80%) MongoDB
17 53 (0.72%) DynamoDB
18 49 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
19 45 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
20 44 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 286 (3.90%) Git
2 212 (2.89%) JIRA
3 119 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 108 (1.47%) Selenium
5 103 (1.40%) GitLab
6 67 (0.91%) Postman
7 65 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 60 (0.82%) Visual Studio
9 54 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 46 (0.63%) JUnit
11 34 (0.46%) CircleCI
12 31 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
13 27 (0.37%) SoapUI
14 24 (0.33%) JMeter
15 23 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 20 (0.27%) NUnit
17 19 (0.26%) Maven
18 17 (0.23%) Subversion
19 16 (0.22%) SpecFlow
20 14 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,524 (20.76%) Social Skills
2 1,467 (19.99%) Finance
3 518 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 385 (5.25%) Public Sector
5 375 (5.11%) Marketing
6 361 (4.92%) Banking
7 294 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 249 (3.39%) Retail
9 233 (3.17%) Law
10 221 (3.01%) Legal
11 220 (3.00%) Manufacturing
12 217 (2.96%) Advertising
13 158 (2.15%) Investment Banking
14 149 (2.03%) Front Office
15 147 (2.00%) Automotive
16 126 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
17 121 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
18 118 (1.61%) Telecoms
19 110 (1.50%) Aerospace
20 104 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (8.42%) .NET
2 402 (5.48%) React
3 221 (3.01%) HTML
4 215 (2.93%) CSS
5 189 (2.57%) REST
6 147 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 140 (1.91%) RESTful
8 139 (1.89%) Node.js
9 135 (1.84%) AngularJS
10 132 (1.80%) Pandas
11 130 (1.77%) Spring
12 129 (1.76%) Spring Boot
13 126 (1.72%) NumPy
14 117 (1.59%) Kafka
15 115 (1.57%) gRPC
15 115 (1.57%) Protocol Buffers
16 114 (1.55%) SciPy
17 104 (1.42%) JSON
18 92 (1.25%) ASP.NET
19 89 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (3.81%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
3 180 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 145 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 141 (1.92%) Fixed Income
5 141 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 133 (1.81%) Derivative
7 129 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 126 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 124 (1.69%) Equities
10 123 (1.68%) Cloud Native
11 106 (1.44%) Algorithms
12 99 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 93 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 91 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 80 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
15 80 (1.09%) Onboarding
16 78 (1.06%) Virtual Team
17 76 (1.04%) Data Structures
18 71 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 504 (6.87%) Windows
2 312 (4.25%) Linux
3 161 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 59 (0.80%) Android
6 52 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (0.42%) Unix
10 30 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 24 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 14 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
15 13 (0.18%) CentOS
15 13 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.16%) zOS
17 8 (0.11%) Debian
17 8 (0.11%) Solaris
18 5 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,786 (24.33%) Agile
2 1,345 (18.32%) Mentoring
3 943 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
4 863 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 782 (10.65%) Coaching
6 717 (9.77%) DevOps
7 612 (8.34%) Project Management
8 607 (8.27%) Analytics
9 591 (8.05%) Roadmaps
10 519 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 505 (6.88%) CI/CD
12 419 (5.71%) Line Management
13 395 (5.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 392 (5.34%) Cybersecurity
15 389 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
16 385 (5.25%) Computer Science
17 383 (5.22%) Scrum
18 365 (4.97%) ITIL
19 359 (4.89%) Process Improvement
20 353 (4.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 817 (11.13%) SQL
2 744 (10.14%) Java
3 654 (8.91%) Python
4 625 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 607 (8.27%) C#
6 416 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 172 (2.34%) C++
8 170 (2.32%) PHP
9 162 (2.21%) C
10 108 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 72 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 67 (0.91%) Go
13 66 (0.90%) COBOL
13 66 (0.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 65 (0.89%) Scala
15 43 (0.59%) R
16 41 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 35 (0.48%) Rust
18 33 (0.45%) Bicep
19 28 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 881 (12.00%) Degree
2 505 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 278 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 220 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 113 (1.54%) DBS Check
7 111 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 109 (1.49%) CISSP
9 103 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 89 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 81 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 77 (1.05%) CISM
12 77 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 76 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 45 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 41 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 38 (0.52%) PMI Certification
17 37 (0.50%) CCSP
18 35 (0.48%) CISA
19 30 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (4.77%) QA
2 177 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 134 (1.83%) SLA
4 118 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.58%) GDPR
6 95 (1.29%) NIST
7 70 (0.95%) PMO
8 58 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 45 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.41%) GMP
10 30 (0.41%) GRC
10 30 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.37%) NCSC
12 20 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
13 17 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.19%) IFRS
15 11 (0.15%) Def Stans
16 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 360 (4.90%) Docker
2 247 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.71%) Firmware
6 40 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.38%) vSphere
8 26 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 22 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.11%) HDFS
12 5 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.041%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.041%) Ceph
13 3 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.027%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.014%) KVM
15 1 (0.014%) Lustre
15 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 402 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 234 (3.19%) Terraform
3 97 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (0.75%) SCCM
5 54 (0.74%) Ansible
6 44 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (0.56%) Puppet
8 30 (0.41%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 19 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.25%) Grafana
12 16 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 14 (0.19%) Consul
13 14 (0.19%) Istio
14 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
15 12 (0.16%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.14%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.14%) WSUS
17 9 (0.12%) Nmap
18 7 (0.095%) SCOM
Vendors
1 887 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 236 (3.22%) Oracle
3 161 (2.19%) VMware
4 158 (2.15%) SAP
5 134 (1.83%) Google
6 129 (1.76%) Databricks
7 115 (1.57%) Cisco
7 115 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 77 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 69 (0.94%) Micro Focus
10 66 (0.90%) IBM
11 53 (0.72%) Citrix
12 46 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 30 (0.41%) Splunk
14 28 (0.38%) Sparx
15 27 (0.37%) Veeam
15 27 (0.37%) Workday
16 24 (0.33%) Meraki
17 23 (0.31%) Pega
17 23 (0.31%) SolarWinds