Lead Jobs in Cardiff

Leader
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Leader salary in Cardiff is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 30 24
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 80 38 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.18% 6.63% 9.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.03% 7.29% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 75 34 63
10th Percentile £48,829 £32,900 £44,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,404 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £74,375 - £81,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £87,500
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% +11.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 614 521 823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 90.92% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 534 397 614
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,702 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,838 £40,000 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,750 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,552 £45,456 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.41% -7.23% +8.89%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cardiff

Lead
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Lead in Cardiff

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 34 (42.50%) Azure
2 25 (31.25%) Agile
3 24 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 20 (25.00%) QA
5 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
6 17 (21.25%) Migration
7 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 15 (18.75%) .NET
9 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
9 14 (17.50%) DevOps
10 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (15.00%) C#
11 12 (15.00%) Finance
12 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
13 10 (12.50%) Java
13 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 10 (12.50%) Software Testing
14 9 (11.25%) AWS
14 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
14 9 (11.25%) ASP.NET
14 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
15 8 (10.00%) .NET Core
15 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
15 8 (10.00%) SQL
15 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
16 7 (8.75%) Banking
16 7 (8.75%) Software Architecture
16 7 (8.75%) HTML
16 7 (8.75%) CSS
16 7 (8.75%) Visual Studio

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (42.50%) Azure
2 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.25%) AWS
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.50%) dbt
6 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) IaaS
6 2 (2.50%) PaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.25%) Heroku
7 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (2.50%) Intranet
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.25%) GIS
3 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Visual Studio
2 6 (7.50%) JMeter
2 6 (7.50%) Postman
2 6 (7.50%) SoapUI
3 5 (6.25%) GitLab
4 4 (5.00%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) Git
5 1 (1.25%) GitKraken
5 1 (1.25%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) ReSharper
General
1 12 (15.00%) Finance
2 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Banking
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.50%) Police
5 2 (2.50%) Retail
5 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) .NET
2 9 (11.25%) ASP.NET
3 8 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (8.75%) CSS
4 7 (8.75%) HTML
5 6 (7.50%) React
6 5 (6.25%) REST
7 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (2.50%) Spring
8 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.25%) Blazor
8 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.25%) Kafka
8 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.25%) RESTful
8 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.25%) Visualforce
8 1 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (7.50%) Low-Code
2 5 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Blog
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Agile
2 24 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 17 (21.25%) Migration
4 14 (17.50%) DevOps
5 10 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.75%) Analytics
7 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.75%) ETL
7 7 (8.75%) Software Architecture
7 7 (8.75%) User Research
8 6 (7.50%) Change Management
8 6 (7.50%) Code Optimisation
8 6 (7.50%) Defect Management
8 6 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (7.50%) Identity Management
8 6 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (7.50%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (7.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.00%) C#
3 10 (12.50%) Java
4 8 (10.00%) SQL
5 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.75%) Python
7 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.25%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) Bicep
7 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Terraform
2 6 (7.50%) Ansible
2 6 (7.50%) Puppet
3 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) MuleSoft
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
2 6 (7.50%) OutSystems
3 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.50%) Veeam
3 2 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (1.25%) Citrix
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) Sitecore