Lead Jobs in Leicester

Leader
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Leader salary in Leicester is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 62 53
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 47 22 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 7.74% 3.64% 3.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.05% 3.94% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 33 15 12
10th Percentile £36,800 £47,600 £46,104
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,125 £46,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year - +29.23% -8.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,500 £69,875
Leicestershire median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £47,501
% change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -13.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 584 558 532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 92.38% 97.79%
Number of salaries quoted 319 165 359
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,840 £36,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -6.59%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Leicester

Lead
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Lead in Leicester

Lead
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Leicester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Leicester

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Leicester region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) Open Source
3 12 (25.53%) Agile
4 11 (23.40%) AWS
4 11 (23.40%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
5 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
5 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
5 10 (21.28%) DNS
6 8 (17.02%) Finance
7 7 (14.89%) Marketing
7 7 (14.89%) Web Development
7 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
7 7 (14.89%) SSL
7 7 (14.89%) Windows
7 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (12.77%) GitLab
8 6 (12.77%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (12.77%) Code Quality
8 6 (12.77%) Design Patterns
8 6 (12.77%) Java
8 6 (12.77%) Requirements Analysis
8 6 (12.77%) Migration
8 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
8 6 (12.77%) React
8 6 (12.77%) Private Cloud
9 5 (10.64%) Load Balancing

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 5 (10.64%) CMS
2 4 (8.51%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.38%) Headless CMS
3 3 (6.38%) IIS
3 3 (6.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.38%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) DNS
2 7 (14.89%) SSL
2 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.51%) BGP
3 4 (8.51%) Firewall
3 4 (8.51%) Wireless
4 3 (6.38%) DHCP
5 1 (2.13%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) MPLS
5 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
1 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) GitLab
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Marketing
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) React
2 4 (8.51%) .NET
2 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
2 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (8.51%) CSS
2 4 (8.51%) HTML
2 4 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.38%) jQuery
3 3 (6.38%) REST
3 3 (6.38%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (6.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (6.38%) Vue
3 3 (6.38%) WPF
4 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Private Cloud
2 5 (10.64%) Virtual Team
3 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) PMI
4 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.38%) Social Media
5 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.13%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Android
3 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Agile
1 12 (25.53%) Open Source
2 11 (23.40%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (14.89%) Web Development
4 6 (12.77%) Code Quality
4 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (12.77%) Design Patterns
4 6 (12.77%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (12.77%) Migration
4 6 (12.77%) Requirements Analysis
5 5 (10.64%) Business Development
5 5 (10.64%) Business Strategy
5 5 (10.64%) Load Balancing
5 5 (10.64%) Scrum
5 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (10.64%) Virtual Team Management
6 4 (8.51%) ArchiMate
6 4 (8.51%) Data Migration
6 4 (8.51%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
2 6 (12.77%) Java
2 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.64%) SQL
4 4 (8.51%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) XAML
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Grafana
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle
1 4 (8.51%) Sparx
2 3 (6.38%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) Hotjar
2 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) Aruba
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Meraki