Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary in Work from Home is £75,000 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 19 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3,424 3,396 5,745
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.97% 8.54% 7.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.36% 8.90% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 2,571 3,320
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,036 38,142 71,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.90% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25,238 27,095 42,472
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,095 (31.98%) Agile
2 856 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 756 (22.08%) AWS
4 755 (22.05%) Azure
5 721 (21.06%) Finance
6 706 (20.62%) Social Skills
7 547 (15.98%) Coaching
8 471 (13.76%) SQL
9 419 (12.24%) Microsoft
10 418 (12.21%) Python
11 409 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
12 397 (11.59%) Java
13 384 (11.21%) Software Engineering
14 369 (10.78%) DevOps
15 368 (10.75%) JavaScript
16 364 (10.63%) Security Cleared
17 362 (10.57%) Analytics
17 362 (10.57%) Roadmaps
18 347 (10.13%) .NET
19 343 (10.02%) C#
20 319 (9.32%) Degree
21 290 (8.47%) CI/CD
22 288 (8.41%) TypeScript
23 262 (7.65%) Marketing
24 261 (7.62%) Process Improvement
25 258 (7.54%) Scrum
26 257 (7.51%) Public Sector
27 250 (7.30%) Project Management
28 247 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
29 237 (6.92%) Line Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 132 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (3.50%) Apache
3 86 (2.51%) Confluence
4 49 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.34%) WebLogic
6 37 (1.08%) Tuxedo
7 33 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.76%) IIS
9 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.41%) CMS
11 11 (0.32%) WordPress
12 10 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.29%) SAS
13 9 (0.26%) Appian
14 5 (0.15%) Drupal
15 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
15 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
16 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.058%) Ethereum
16 2 (0.058%) MQSeries
Applications
1 59 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.41%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.058%) Notion
7 2 (0.058%) Sketch
8 1 (0.029%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) CATIA
8 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.029%) InDesign
8 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.29%) Shopify
5 6 (0.18%) Primavera
6 5 (0.15%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.088%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.088%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.088%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.088%) thinkFolio
9 2 (0.058%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.058%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.058%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.029%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 756 (22.08%) AWS
2 755 (22.05%) Azure
3 203 (5.93%) GCP
4 175 (5.11%) SaaS
5 156 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 155 (4.53%) dbt
7 152 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 139 (4.06%) Snowflake
9 132 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (3.65%) Serverless
11 82 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
12 81 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
14 74 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
15 52 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
16 44 (1.29%) Entra ID
17 42 (1.23%) Amazon S3
18 41 (1.20%) GitHub
19 37 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
20 36 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (5.64%) Broadband
2 135 (3.94%) Firewall
3 96 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 89 (2.60%) DNS
5 71 (2.07%) SSL
6 59 (1.72%) WAN
7 49 (1.43%) BGP
8 37 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.88%) LAN
10 30 (0.88%) Network Security
11 26 (0.76%) VPN
12 24 (0.70%) Wireless
13 23 (0.67%) Internet
14 16 (0.47%) VLAN
15 13 (0.38%) DHCP
15 13 (0.38%) SAN
15 13 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.35%) HTTP
17 9 (0.26%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 149 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 136 (3.97%) Power BI
4 116 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
5 115 (3.36%) Apache Arrow
5 115 (3.36%) Dremio
6 112 (3.27%) Apache Ignite
7 95 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.48%) Tableau
9 75 (2.19%) MySQL
10 66 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 63 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
12 52 (1.52%) NoSQL
13 51 (1.49%) Oracle Database
14 48 (1.40%) RDBMS
15 46 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (1.20%) MongoDB
17 40 (1.17%) DynamoDB
18 29 (0.85%) DB2
19 27 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 128 (3.74%) Git
2 115 (3.36%) JIRA
3 74 (2.16%) GitLab
4 69 (2.02%) Jenkins
5 51 (1.49%) Selenium
6 48 (1.40%) Postman
7 47 (1.37%) Visual Studio
8 33 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 25 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.55%) TeamCity
12 16 (0.47%) JMeter
12 16 (0.47%) NUnit
13 13 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
14 12 (0.35%) SoapUI
15 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
16 9 (0.26%) JUnit
17 8 (0.23%) Maven
17 8 (0.23%) Subversion
18 7 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 721 (21.06%) Finance
2 706 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 262 (7.65%) Marketing
4 257 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 234 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 227 (6.63%) Banking
7 196 (5.72%) Advertising
8 132 (3.86%) Retail
9 125 (3.65%) Front Office
10 121 (3.53%) Investment Banking
11 119 (3.48%) Legal
12 114 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 76 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.10%) Law
15 59 (1.72%) Telecoms
16 51 (1.49%) Manufacturing
17 48 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
18 46 (1.34%) Automotive
19 40 (1.17%) Games
20 36 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (10.13%) .NET
2 164 (4.79%) React
3 131 (3.83%) HTML
4 124 (3.62%) Pandas
5 118 (3.45%) CSS
6 117 (3.42%) NumPy
7 115 (3.36%) gRPC
7 115 (3.36%) Protocol Buffers
8 114 (3.33%) SciPy
9 100 (2.92%) Node.js
10 99 (2.89%) RESTful
11 87 (2.54%) REST
12 85 (2.48%) .NET Core
13 75 (2.19%) Spring Boot
14 65 (1.90%) Vue
15 61 (1.78%) .NET Framework
16 60 (1.75%) AngularJS
17 59 (1.72%) ASP.NET
18 56 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
19 45 (1.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.37%) Marketing Technology
2 125 (3.65%) Hedge funds
3 124 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 123 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 120 (3.50%) Fixed Income
6 119 (3.48%) Derivative
7 116 (3.39%) Equities
8 106 (3.10%) Product Ownership
9 100 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
10 91 (2.66%) Public Cloud
11 70 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.90%) Algorithms
13 64 (1.87%) Virtual Team
14 63 (1.84%) Client/Server
15 51 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (1.43%) Private Cloud
17 46 (1.34%) Data Centre
18 45 (1.31%) Cloud Native
19 40 (1.17%) Mobile App
20 39 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 195 (5.70%) Windows
2 156 (4.56%) Linux
3 65 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 49 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.85%) Android
7 28 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.53%) Unix
9 17 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.35%) zOS
11 11 (0.32%) CentOS
12 8 (0.23%) Solaris
13 7 (0.20%) Debian
14 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.088%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,095 (31.98%) Agile
2 856 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 547 (15.98%) Coaching
4 409 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
5 384 (11.21%) Software Engineering
6 369 (10.78%) DevOps
7 362 (10.57%) Analytics
7 362 (10.57%) Roadmaps
8 290 (8.47%) CI/CD
9 261 (7.62%) Process Improvement
10 258 (7.54%) Scrum
11 250 (7.30%) Project Management
12 247 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 237 (6.92%) Line Management
14 224 (6.54%) Business Case
15 213 (6.22%) Microservices
16 212 (6.19%) Data Strategy
17 210 (6.13%) Use Case
18 204 (5.96%) Digital Marketing
19 195 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 471 (13.76%) SQL
2 418 (12.21%) Python
3 397 (11.59%) Java
4 368 (10.75%) JavaScript
5 343 (10.02%) C#
6 288 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 66 (1.93%) COBOL
7 66 (1.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 63 (1.84%) C
9 60 (1.75%) PHP
10 54 (1.58%) C++
11 53 (1.55%) PowerShell
12 31 (0.91%) Go
13 26 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.64%) T-SQL
15 21 (0.61%) Bash
16 19 (0.55%) XAML
17 17 (0.50%) MATLAB
18 16 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 364 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 319 (9.32%) Degree
3 208 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.07%) AWS Certification
4 105 (3.07%) Azure Certification
5 70 (2.04%) CISSP
6 68 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (1.99%) DBS Check
7 62 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (1.49%) CISM
10 42 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 36 (1.05%) CCSP
11 36 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 27 (0.79%) CCSK
13 21 (0.61%) SSCP
14 18 (0.53%) CISA
14 18 (0.53%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (5.34%) QA
2 106 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 64 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (1.43%) NIST
5 44 (1.29%) GDPR
6 40 (1.17%) SLA
7 29 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.50%) PMO
9 15 (0.44%) GRC
10 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.32%) HL7
11 11 (0.32%) NCSC
12 5 (0.15%) GAAP
12 5 (0.15%) IFRS
12 5 (0.15%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.15%) RMADS
13 4 (0.12%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 198 (5.78%) Docker
2 87 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.20%) Firmware
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 2 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) KVM
11 1 (0.029%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 193 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 125 (3.65%) Terraform
3 49 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (1.17%) Ansible
6 27 (0.79%) Puppet
7 17 (0.50%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.44%) Grafana
8 15 (0.44%) SCCM
9 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 9 (0.26%) Nmap
12 7 (0.20%) MIIS
12 7 (0.20%) Nagios
12 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.20%) SysTrack
13 6 (0.18%) Consul
13 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 419 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.32%) Oracle
3 85 (2.48%) Databricks
4 69 (2.02%) Google
5 66 (1.93%) Micro Focus
6 62 (1.81%) VMware
7 59 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.61%) SAP
9 46 (1.34%) Sparx
10 43 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 41 (1.20%) IBM
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco
13 23 (0.67%) Splunk
14 19 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.41%) Commvault
15 14 (0.41%) ForgeRock
15 14 (0.41%) Sitecore
16 13 (0.38%) Sun
17 11 (0.32%) Qualys
18 10 (0.29%) Veeam