Lead Jobs in the South West

Leader
England > South West

The median Leader salary in the South West is £60,202 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 25 49 37
Rank change year-on-year +24 -12 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 708 384 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.29% 5.72% 7.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.58% 6.42% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 534 295 402
10th Percentile £39,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,202 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +12.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,416 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,341 5,981 8,099
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 89.03% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,857 3,682 5,184
10th Percentile £27,978 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the South West.

Salary trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South West 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
Bristol +25 310 £65,000 -7.14% 57
Wiltshire +12 97 £59,000 +10.28% 15
Gloucestershire +2 96 £70,000 +1.82% 25
Dorset +38 90 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Somerset +23 50 £61,250 +39.56% 27
Devon 0 44 £50,000 +24.22% 24
Cornwall -5 7 - - 5
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 157 (22.18%) Agile
2 142 (20.06%) Security Cleared
3 134 (18.93%) Social Skills
4 117 (16.53%) Azure
5 114 (16.10%) Finance
6 110 (15.54%) Degree
7 88 (12.43%) Mentoring
8 82 (11.58%) AWS
9 80 (11.30%) Software Engineering
10 79 (11.16%) Microsoft
11 68 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
12 67 (9.46%) Java
13 61 (8.62%) SQL
13 61 (8.62%) Windows
14 54 (7.63%) SC Cleared
15 53 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (7.49%) JavaScript
16 52 (7.34%) Validation
17 51 (7.20%) Coaching
17 51 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 50 (7.06%) Python
19 49 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
20 47 (6.64%) Analytics
21 46 (6.50%) Project Management
21 46 (6.50%) Project Delivery
21 46 (6.50%) User Experience
22 43 (6.07%) Linux
22 43 (6.07%) DevOps
22 43 (6.07%) DV Cleared

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.85%) Confluence
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.56%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.42%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Mule
Applications
1 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.99%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.56%) Simulink
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.99%) HFM
1 7 (0.99%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.56%) Q-Pulse
2 4 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (16.53%) Azure
2 82 (11.58%) AWS
3 37 (5.23%) Power Platform
4 27 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (2.82%) Power Automate
6 11 (1.55%) GCP
7 10 (1.41%) SaaS
8 9 (1.27%) OCI
9 8 (1.13%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.13%) PowerApps
10 7 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.85%) Slack
12 5 (0.71%) Azure Stack
12 5 (0.71%) Azure Storage
12 5 (0.71%) Serverless
13 4 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (0.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.82%) WAN
2 17 (2.40%) Network Security
3 15 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.98%) Firewall
5 13 (1.84%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.55%) 5G
6 11 (1.55%) DNS
7 7 (0.99%) SSL
7 7 (0.99%) VPN
8 6 (0.85%) LAN
8 6 (0.85%) Telepresence
9 5 (0.71%) BGP
9 5 (0.71%) SAN
10 4 (0.56%) DHCP
10 4 (0.56%) VLAN
11 3 (0.42%) Broadband
11 3 (0.42%) IPv4
11 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.42%) Wireless
12 2 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.97%) Power BI
1 21 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.54%) Data Lake
3 16 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.13%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.99%) Big Data
6 7 (0.99%) Essbase
6 7 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.85%) Tableau
8 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.71%) SQLite
9 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.56%) MySQL
9 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.54%) JIRA
2 17 (2.40%) GitLab
3 12 (1.69%) Git
4 10 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.41%) Subversion
5 8 (1.13%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.99%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.85%) RStudio
7 6 (0.85%) Selenium
8 5 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.56%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.28%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.28%) JUnit
10 2 (0.28%) MSI
11 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.14%) JMeter
11 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 134 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 114 (16.10%) Finance
3 51 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (5.93%) Law
5 32 (4.52%) Banking
6 30 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.95%) Retail
8 25 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 24 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (3.25%) Marketing
11 21 (2.97%) Aerospace
12 20 (2.82%) Investment Banking
13 19 (2.68%) Electronics
14 15 (2.12%) Legal
14 15 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.98%) Local Government
16 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.08%) HTML
2 32 (4.52%) .NET
3 29 (4.10%) CSS
4 24 (3.39%) React
5 20 (2.82%) REST
6 15 (2.12%) Spring
7 14 (1.98%) Spring Boot
8 12 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (1.69%) RESTful
8 12 (1.69%) Tailwind CSS
8 12 (1.69%) Vue
9 11 (1.55%) Laravel
9 11 (1.55%) Web Services
10 10 (1.41%) Node.js
11 9 (1.27%) Alpine.js
12 8 (1.13%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.13%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.99%) ASP.NET
13 7 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
14 6 (0.85%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.52%) Algorithms
2 31 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 19 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.40%) Private Cloud
5 14 (1.98%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 10 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.13%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.13%) NHS
10 8 (1.13%) Replication
10 8 (1.13%) Robotics
11 7 (0.99%) Digital Signage
12 6 (0.85%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.85%) Fat Client
12 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) Thin Client
12 6 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.62%) Windows
2 43 (6.07%) Linux
3 13 (1.84%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.13%) Android
5 8 (1.13%) Unix
5 8 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (22.18%) Agile
2 88 (12.43%) Mentoring
3 80 (11.30%) Software Engineering
4 68 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
5 53 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
6 52 (7.34%) Validation
7 51 (7.20%) Coaching
8 49 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (6.64%) Analytics
10 46 (6.50%) Project Delivery
10 46 (6.50%) Project Management
10 46 (6.50%) User Experience
11 43 (6.07%) DevOps
12 42 (5.93%) ITIL
13 41 (5.79%) Customer Service
13 41 (5.79%) Requirements Analysis
14 38 (5.37%) Roadmaps
15 37 (5.23%) Machine Learning
16 35 (4.94%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 67 (9.46%) Java
2 61 (8.62%) SQL
3 53 (7.49%) JavaScript
4 50 (7.06%) Python
5 37 (5.23%) C#
6 34 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.95%) C++
8 19 (2.68%) C
9 15 (2.12%) R
10 11 (1.55%) Bash
11 10 (1.41%) PHP
11 10 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.41%) Scala
12 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.56%) Go
14 3 (0.42%) Ada
14 3 (0.42%) Julia
14 3 (0.42%) XAML
15 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 142 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.54%) Degree
3 54 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 43 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.97%) CISSP
7 16 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.12%) CISM
9 10 (1.41%) CISA
9 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.27%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.85%) SANS
13 5 (0.71%) CEH
13 5 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.71%) CRISC
14 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.56%) CHECK Team Leader
14 4 (0.56%) GSEC
14 4 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.81%) NIST
1 27 (3.81%) QA
2 15 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.84%) PMO
4 12 (1.69%) SLA
5 9 (1.27%) Def Stans
5 9 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.85%) GMP
8 6 (0.85%) IEC 61508
8 6 (0.85%) JSP 440
8 6 (0.85%) NCSC
8 6 (0.85%) RMADS
9 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.56%) GDPR
9 4 (0.56%) MISRA
9 4 (0.56%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.42%) JTAG
10 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.98%) vSphere
4 13 (1.84%) Docker
5 4 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.42%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.55%) SCCM
3 8 (1.13%) Terraform
4 6 (0.85%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (0.56%) Icinga
5 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.42%) Ansible
6 3 (0.42%) Puppet
6 3 (0.42%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.42%) WSUS
7 2 (0.28%) CASB
7 2 (0.28%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.39%) VMware
3 23 (3.25%) Oracle
4 16 (2.26%) SolarWinds
5 12 (1.69%) Tanium
5 12 (1.69%) Tripwire
6 10 (1.41%) Google
7 9 (1.27%) Cisco
8 8 (1.13%) Citrix
9 7 (0.99%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.99%) Databricks
9 7 (0.99%) Hyperion
10 6 (0.85%) HP
10 6 (0.85%) Pega
11 5 (0.71%) IBM
11 5 (0.71%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.71%) SAP
11 5 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.56%) EMC
12 4 (0.56%) Salesforce