Lead Jobs in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 18 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,254 3,843 5,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.45% 6.62% 7.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.90% 7.43% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,232 2,584 3,037
10th Percentile £39,775 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +29 1,747 £70,000 - 349
South East +21 1,247 £61,000 -9.63% 266
Scotland +19 1,027 £63,500 -9.29% 86
Midlands +4 966 £60,000 - 266
North West +24 854 £70,000 - 206
South West +24 708 £60,202 -10.81% 169
Yorkshire +32 654 £70,000 - 101
West Midlands +3 649 £65,000 +8.33% 151
East of England +32 373 £60,000 +4.35% 149
East Midlands +32 313 £51,500 -10.43% 115
North East +38 240 £70,000 +40.00% 46
Wales +20 142 £65,000 - 30
Northern Ireland +24 48 £77,500 +29.17% 10
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,009 (32.12%) Agile
2 1,713 (27.39%) Finance
3 1,242 (19.86%) Software Engineering
4 1,188 (19.00%) Mentoring
5 1,169 (18.69%) Social Skills
6 1,063 (17.00%) AWS
7 997 (15.94%) Azure
8 955 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 884 (14.13%) Law
10 876 (14.01%) Java
11 869 (13.90%) CI/CD
12 844 (13.50%) Marketing
13 830 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
14 828 (13.24%) SQL
15 815 (13.03%) SDLC
16 783 (12.52%) Coaching
17 694 (11.10%) Microsoft
18 688 (11.00%) Degree
19 664 (10.62%) Operational Stability
20 559 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
21 538 (8.60%) DevOps
22 525 (8.39%) Community of Practice
23 523 (8.36%) Python
24 518 (8.28%) Machine Learning
25 514 (8.22%) JavaScript
26 510 (8.15%) Roadmaps
27 499 (7.98%) Security Cleared
28 493 (7.88%) Project Management
29 477 (7.63%) .NET
30 460 (7.36%) C#

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 193 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 114 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 105 (1.68%) Confluence
4 66 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.61%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.51%) FileNet
9 30 (0.48%) IIS
10 29 (0.46%) Apache
11 28 (0.45%) CMS
12 21 (0.34%) GemFire
13 12 (0.19%) WordPress
14 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.14%) Appian
15 9 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.13%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 110 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.27%) Windchill
5 15 (0.24%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.19%) Sketch
7 11 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.064%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.048%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.032%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.016%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.016%) InDesign
13 1 (0.016%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 77 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 16 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.26%) Shopify
5 10 (0.16%) SAP GRC
6 7 (0.11%) HFM
6 7 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
7 6 (0.096%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.096%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.080%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.080%) Primavera
8 5 (0.080%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.064%) MIS ActiveH
9 4 (0.064%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.064%) Q-Pulse
9 4 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,063 (17.00%) AWS
2 997 (15.94%) Azure
3 266 (4.25%) Power Platform
4 265 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
5 184 (2.94%) GCP
6 154 (2.46%) SaaS
7 145 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (1.71%) Serverless
9 106 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
10 95 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 74 (1.18%) Datadog
12 68 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (1.01%) Power Automate
14 61 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
16 59 (0.94%) PowerApps
17 56 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
18 54 (0.86%) Entra ID
19 52 (0.83%) Figma
20 51 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 173 (2.77%) Firewall
2 111 (1.77%) DNS
3 96 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 93 (1.49%) WAN
5 82 (1.31%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.30%) Broadband
7 74 (1.18%) SSL
8 63 (1.01%) Network Security
9 57 (0.91%) LAN
10 43 (0.69%) BGP
10 43 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 38 (0.61%) Wireless
12 34 (0.54%) VPN
13 32 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
14 30 (0.48%) DHCP
15 26 (0.42%) Internet
15 26 (0.42%) SAN
16 24 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (4.72%) NoSQL
2 217 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 204 (3.26%) Power BI
4 171 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 159 (2.54%) Big Data
6 120 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 117 (1.87%) MySQL
8 107 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 79 (1.26%) Tableau
10 77 (1.23%) Metadata
11 76 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
12 74 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
13 72 (1.15%) RDBMS
14 58 (0.93%) MongoDB
15 53 (0.85%) Data Lake
16 52 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
17 49 (0.78%) Oracle Database
18 45 (0.72%) DynamoDB
19 41 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
20 38 (0.61%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 249 (3.98%) Git
2 173 (2.77%) JIRA
3 141 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 102 (1.63%) Selenium
5 97 (1.55%) GitLab
6 86 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 77 (1.23%) JUnit
8 67 (1.07%) Artifactory
8 67 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 62 (0.99%) Visual Studio
10 39 (0.62%) Postman
11 33 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.50%) SoapUI
13 29 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.46%) Jasmine
14 26 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.35%) Protractor
15 22 (0.35%) WebDriver
16 21 (0.34%) Jaeger
General
1 1,713 (27.39%) Finance
2 1,169 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 955 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 884 (14.13%) Law
5 844 (13.50%) Marketing
6 355 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 354 (5.66%) Public Sector
8 244 (3.90%) Banking
9 219 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 182 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
11 175 (2.80%) Retail
12 149 (2.38%) Legal
13 147 (2.35%) Investment Banking
14 129 (2.06%) Automotive
15 109 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 108 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
17 93 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
18 92 (1.47%) Telecoms
19 80 (1.28%) Advertising
20 70 (1.12%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (7.63%) .NET
2 420 (6.72%) React
3 281 (4.49%) Spring
4 274 (4.38%) HTML
5 265 (4.24%) CSS
6 193 (3.09%) Spring Boot
7 192 (3.07%) JSON
8 187 (2.99%) Node.js
9 182 (2.91%) RESTful
10 173 (2.77%) Kafka
11 161 (2.57%) AngularJS
12 148 (2.37%) REST
13 142 (2.27%) Web Services
14 109 (1.74%) XML
15 103 (1.65%) .NET Core
16 96 (1.54%) OpenID
17 92 (1.47%) jQuery
18 91 (1.46%) PySpark
19 82 (1.31%) Vue
20 81 (1.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 411 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 298 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 249 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 157 (2.51%) Product Ownership
5 97 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 84 (1.34%) Private Cloud
9 79 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 77 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 77 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
11 71 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 68 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 67 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 67 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
14 66 (1.06%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.06%) Reference Data
15 55 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.61%) Client/Server
16 38 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 402 (6.43%) Windows
2 277 (4.43%) Linux
3 128 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 71 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.62%) Android
7 33 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 33 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 29 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.21%) Unix
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.13%) Debian
14 5 (0.080%) VMS
15 4 (0.064%) Mac OS X
15 4 (0.064%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.048%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,009 (32.12%) Agile
2 1,242 (19.86%) Software Engineering
3 1,188 (19.00%) Mentoring
4 869 (13.90%) CI/CD
5 830 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
6 815 (13.03%) SDLC
7 783 (12.52%) Coaching
8 664 (10.62%) Operational Stability
9 559 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
10 538 (8.60%) DevOps
11 525 (8.39%) Community of Practice
12 518 (8.28%) Machine Learning
13 510 (8.15%) Roadmaps
14 493 (7.88%) Project Management
15 411 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 408 (6.52%) Architectural Design
17 395 (6.32%) Information Architecture
18 389 (6.22%) Analytics
19 357 (5.71%) Decision-Making
20 345 (5.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 876 (14.01%) Java
2 828 (13.24%) SQL
3 523 (8.36%) Python
4 514 (8.22%) JavaScript
5 460 (7.36%) C#
6 330 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 155 (2.48%) Scala
8 142 (2.27%) C
9 141 (2.25%) C++
10 138 (2.21%) PHP
11 96 (1.54%) Go
12 66 (1.06%) COBOL
12 66 (1.06%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (1.04%) Prolog
13 65 (1.04%) SPARQL
14 61 (0.98%) R
15 56 (0.90%) PowerShell
16 28 (0.45%) VB.NET
17 25 (0.40%) MATLAB
18 24 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 688 (11.00%) Degree
2 499 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 295 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 142 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 82 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 71 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 71 (1.14%) CISM
10 70 (1.12%) CISSP
10 70 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 55 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 53 (0.85%) DV Cleared
13 48 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 44 (0.70%) PhD
15 32 (0.51%) CCNP
16 29 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 29 (0.46%) CCSP
17 26 (0.42%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (4.45%) QA
2 115 (1.84%) SLA
3 111 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.39%) PMO
5 83 (1.33%) NIST
6 81 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 79 (1.26%) GDPR
8 70 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.48%) GMP
11 23 (0.37%) GRC
12 20 (0.32%) NCSC
13 17 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
15 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.18%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.14%) IFRS
17 9 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.13%) PSD2
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 263 (4.21%) Docker
2 249 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 61 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.85%) Firmware
4 53 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 30 (0.48%) vSphere
6 22 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 17 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.048%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.032%) HDFS
12 2 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.032%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.016%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 366 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 226 (3.61%) Terraform
3 94 (1.50%) Grafana
4 73 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 62 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.70%) Ansible
7 41 (0.66%) SCCM
8 38 (0.61%) Puppet
9 25 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.35%) Kibana
11 21 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.34%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.21%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.16%) Consul
14 10 (0.16%) WSUS
15 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 694 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 330 (5.28%) Oracle
3 132 (2.11%) Google
4 119 (1.90%) VMware
5 110 (1.76%) Splunk
6 109 (1.74%) SAP
7 91 (1.46%) Cisco
8 84 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 77 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.10%) Micro Focus
11 66 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 65 (1.04%) Databricks
13 54 (0.86%) Citrix
14 46 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.72%) IBM
16 40 (0.64%) Sparx
17 33 (0.53%) Veeam
18 32 (0.51%) Qualtrics
19 22 (0.35%) Meraki
20 21 (0.34%) MuleSoft