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 29 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
29 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 7,367 6,299 11,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.23% 7.29% 8.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.70% 7.97% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,662 4,418 6,031
10th Percentile £40,247 £46,750 £43,269
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £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 29 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 29 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 +13 2,223 £89,000 -1.11% 630
North of England +31 1,755 £70,000 - 339
South East +22 1,258 £62,084 -8.02% 262
Midlands +4 973 £60,000 - 259
North West +25 858 £70,000 - 201
South West +23 709 £60,202 -10.81% 159
Yorkshire +30 659 £70,000 - 100
West Midlands +2 650 £65,000 +8.33% 154
East of England +31 375 £60,000 +4.35% 152
East Midlands +27 319 £51,500 -10.43% 105
North East +42 240 £70,000 +40.00% 41
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 1,787 (24.26%) Agile
2 1,523 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 1,469 (19.94%) Finance
4 1,353 (18.37%) Mentoring
5 1,275 (17.31%) Azure
6 1,192 (16.18%) AWS
7 946 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
8 892 (12.11%) Microsoft
9 886 (12.03%) Degree
10 870 (11.81%) Software Engineering
11 823 (11.17%) SQL
12 786 (10.67%) Coaching
13 745 (10.11%) Java
14 720 (9.77%) DevOps
15 661 (8.97%) Python
16 630 (8.55%) JavaScript
17 621 (8.43%) .NET
18 616 (8.36%) Project Management
19 611 (8.29%) C#
20 606 (8.23%) Analytics
21 590 (8.01%) Roadmaps
22 518 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
22 518 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
23 511 (6.94%) CI/CD
24 505 (6.85%) Security Cleared
25 504 (6.84%) Windows
26 421 (5.71%) TypeScript
27 417 (5.66%) Line Management
28 406 (5.51%) React
29 402 (5.46%) Kubernetes

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 (2.14%) Apache
2 141 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 139 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 118 (1.60%) Confluence
5 91 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (0.73%) CMS
7 48 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.50%) Tuxedo
9 30 (0.41%) IIS
10 29 (0.39%) Drupal
10 29 (0.39%) 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 (0.081%) Apache Pig
17 5 (0.068%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 140 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.22%) Simulink
6 14 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
9 6 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.081%) EViews
10 4 (0.054%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.041%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.027%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.027%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.027%) Notion
12 2 (0.027%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.027%) Sketch
13 1 (0.014%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 81 (1.10%) 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
5 19 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.23%) thinkFolio
7 12 (0.16%) SAP GRC
8 10 (0.14%) Primavera
9 7 (0.095%) HFM
9 7 (0.095%) Hyperion Planning
9 7 (0.095%) SAP IBP
10 6 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.081%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.081%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.081%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.068%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.068%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.054%) MIS ActiveH
12 4 (0.054%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (17.31%) Azure
2 1,192 (16.18%) AWS
3 370 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
4 362 (4.91%) Power Platform
5 290 (3.94%) GCP
6 267 (3.62%) SaaS
7 206 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 169 (2.29%) Serverless
9 154 (2.09%) dbt
10 153 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 124 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
13 95 (1.29%) GitHub
14 92 (1.25%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.18%) PowerApps
16 85 (1.15%) Amazon S3
17 79 (1.07%) Entra ID
18 72 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
19 70 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
20 68 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (3.14%) Firewall
2 196 (2.66%) Broadband
3 115 (1.56%) DNS
4 111 (1.51%) WAN
5 102 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.10%) Network Security
7 68 (0.92%) LAN
8 66 (0.90%) SSL
9 52 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 49 (0.67%) VPN
11 46 (0.62%) Internet
12 44 (0.60%) Wireless
13 43 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
14 39 (0.53%) DHCP
15 34 (0.46%) BGP
16 32 (0.43%) SAN
17 30 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
18 23 (0.31%) 5G
18 23 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
19 22 (0.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 291 (3.95%) Power BI
3 183 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 156 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 146 (1.98%) MySQL
6 142 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 139 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 119 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
9 118 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
10 115 (1.56%) Dremio
11 112 (1.52%) Apache Ignite
11 112 (1.52%) Tableau
12 106 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
13 75 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (0.91%) RDBMS
15 59 (0.80%) MongoDB
16 53 (0.72%) DynamoDB
17 49 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 48 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
19 45 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 290 (3.94%) Git
2 210 (2.85%) JIRA
3 116 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 106 (1.44%) Selenium
5 104 (1.41%) GitLab
6 66 (0.90%) Postman
7 65 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 60 (0.81%) Visual Studio
9 53 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 46 (0.62%) 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 18 (0.24%) Maven
18 17 (0.23%) Subversion
19 16 (0.22%) SpecFlow
20 14 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,523 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 1,469 (19.94%) Finance
3 518 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 385 (5.23%) Public Sector
5 376 (5.10%) Marketing
6 359 (4.87%) Banking
7 293 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 252 (3.42%) Retail
9 232 (3.15%) Law
10 222 (3.01%) Legal
11 221 (3.00%) Manufacturing
12 217 (2.95%) Advertising
13 158 (2.14%) Investment Banking
14 149 (2.02%) Front Office
15 148 (2.01%) Automotive
16 126 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 122 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 118 (1.60%) Telecoms
19 110 (1.49%) Aerospace
20 104 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 621 (8.43%) .NET
2 406 (5.51%) React
3 223 (3.03%) HTML
4 216 (2.93%) CSS
5 191 (2.59%) REST
6 147 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 142 (1.93%) Node.js
8 140 (1.90%) RESTful
9 135 (1.83%) AngularJS
10 132 (1.79%) Pandas
11 129 (1.75%) Spring
12 128 (1.74%) Spring Boot
13 126 (1.71%) NumPy
14 116 (1.57%) Kafka
15 115 (1.56%) gRPC
15 115 (1.56%) Protocol Buffers
16 114 (1.55%) SciPy
17 103 (1.40%) JSON
18 92 (1.25%) ASP.NET
19 88 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.51%) Marketing Technology
3 180 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 144 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 140 (1.90%) Fixed Income
5 140 (1.90%) Hedge funds
6 132 (1.79%) Derivative
7 129 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 126 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 124 (1.68%) Equities
10 123 (1.67%) Cloud Native
11 107 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 101 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 93 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 93 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 81 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 80 (1.09%) Onboarding
16 78 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 78 (1.06%) Virtual Team
17 71 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 504 (6.84%) Windows
2 313 (4.25%) Linux
3 161 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.22%) 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 1,787 (24.26%) Agile
2 1,353 (18.37%) Mentoring
3 946 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
4 870 (11.81%) Software Engineering
5 786 (10.67%) Coaching
6 720 (9.77%) DevOps
7 616 (8.36%) Project Management
8 606 (8.23%) Analytics
9 590 (8.01%) Roadmaps
10 518 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 511 (6.94%) CI/CD
12 417 (5.66%) Line Management
13 396 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
14 395 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 391 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
16 384 (5.21%) Computer Science
16 384 (5.21%) Scrum
17 364 (4.94%) ITIL
18 363 (4.93%) Process Improvement
19 353 (4.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 823 (11.17%) SQL
2 745 (10.11%) Java
3 661 (8.97%) Python
4 630 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 611 (8.29%) C#
6 421 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 174 (2.36%) C++
8 172 (2.33%) PHP
9 164 (2.23%) C
10 108 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 72 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 68 (0.92%) Go
13 66 (0.90%) COBOL
13 66 (0.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 65 (0.88%) Scala
15 43 (0.58%) R
16 42 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 36 (0.49%) Rust
18 33 (0.45%) Bicep
19 28 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 886 (12.03%) Degree
2 505 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 278 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 220 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 113 (1.53%) DBS Check
7 111 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 110 (1.49%) CISSP
9 103 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 90 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 80 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 78 (1.06%) CISM
13 77 (1.05%) DV Cleared
14 76 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 45 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 41 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 38 (0.52%) PMI Certification
18 37 (0.50%) CCSP
19 35 (0.48%) CISA
20 29 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (4.78%) QA
2 177 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 132 (1.79%) SLA
4 119 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.57%) GDPR
6 96 (1.30%) 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 21 (0.29%) 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
1 359 (4.87%) Docker
2 250 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.71%) Firmware
6 42 (0.57%) 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 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 234 (3.18%) Terraform
3 97 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (0.76%) SCCM
5 54 (0.73%) 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 (0.24%) 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 11 (0.15%) WSUS
17 10 (0.14%) Progress Chef
18 9 (0.12%) Nmap
19 7 (0.095%) SCOM
Vendors
1 892 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 233 (3.16%) Oracle
3 162 (2.20%) VMware
4 158 (2.14%) SAP
5 133 (1.81%) Google
6 128 (1.74%) Databricks
7 114 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 113 (1.53%) Cisco
9 80 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 69 (0.94%) Micro Focus
11 66 (0.90%) IBM
12 53 (0.72%) Citrix
13 46 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 30 (0.41%) Splunk
15 28 (0.38%) Sparx
16 27 (0.37%) Veeam
17 26 (0.35%) Workday
18 23 (0.31%) Meraki
18 23 (0.31%) Pega
18 23 (0.31%) SolarWinds