Lead Jobs in Leicestershire

Leader
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Leader salary in Leicestershire is £52,500 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 34 67 58
Rank change year-on-year +33 -9 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 92 24 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 8.56% 3.18% 4.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.05% 3.39% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 51 17 29
10th Percentile £26,500 £41,500 £36,650
25th Percentile £35,750 £52,500 £46,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £47,501
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -13.63%
75th Percentile £75,772 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £74,500 £70,250
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.04% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 1,017 708 1,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 93.90% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 572 261 642
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £29,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -6.59%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,219
90th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Leicestershire

Lead
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Lead in Leicestershire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Leicestershire

Lead
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Leicester +36 47 £65,000 - 10
Loughborough - 32 £36,500 - 1
Lutterworth - 4 £26,500 - 3
Coalville - 3 £25,750 -
Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 2 - -
Market Harborough - 2 - -
Lead
East Midlands

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

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 Leicestershire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 29 (31.52%) Degree
2 24 (26.09%) Azure
2 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 22 (23.91%) Agile
5 20 (21.74%) Security Cleared
5 20 (21.74%) Chemistry
5 20 (21.74%) Validation
5 20 (21.74%) Pharmaceutical
5 20 (21.74%) GMP
6 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
8 14 (15.22%) Open Source
9 13 (14.13%) AWS
10 12 (13.04%) SQL Server
10 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
10 12 (13.04%) SDLC
11 11 (11.96%) DevOps
11 11 (11.96%) REST
11 11 (11.96%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (11.96%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
12 10 (10.87%) DNS
12 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
12 10 (10.87%) Finance
12 10 (10.87%) Customer Service
13 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Office
13 9 (9.78%) QA
13 9 (9.78%) Test Automation
14 8 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (5.43%) CMS
2 4 (4.35%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.26%) Headless CMS
3 3 (3.26%) IIS
3 3 (3.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.09%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.09%) Azure
2 13 (14.13%) AWS
3 6 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.26%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.26%) Serverless
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.09%) Datadog
7 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.09%) GitHub
7 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) DNS
2 7 (7.61%) SSL
2 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.43%) Firewall
4 4 (4.35%) BGP
4 4 (4.35%) Wireless
5 3 (3.26%) DHCP
6 1 (1.09%) LAN
6 1 (1.09%) MPLS
6 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.35%) MySQL
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
2 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (6.52%) GitLab
General
1 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 20 (21.74%) Pharmaceutical
4 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
5 10 (10.87%) Finance
6 8 (8.70%) Retail
7 7 (7.61%) Marketing
8 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) REST
2 6 (6.52%) React
3 4 (4.35%) .NET
3 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET
3 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (4.35%) CSS
3 4 (4.35%) HTML
3 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.26%) jQuery
4 3 (3.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (3.26%) Vue
4 3 (3.26%) WPF
5 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.09%) Next.js
5 1 (1.09%) RESTful
5 1 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.52%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.43%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) PMI
5 3 (3.26%) Social Media
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.09%) FMCG
7 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.26%) Android
3 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.91%) Agile
2 20 (21.74%) Chemistry
2 20 (21.74%) Validation
3 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.22%) Open Source
5 12 (13.04%) SDLC
6 11 (11.96%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (11.96%) DevOps
7 10 (10.87%) Customer Service
8 9 (9.78%) Test Automation
9 8 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (8.70%) Manual Testing
9 8 (8.70%) Project Management
10 7 (7.61%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (7.61%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.61%) Web Development
11 6 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (6.52%) Migration
11 6 (6.52%) Requirements Analysis
11 6 (6.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
2 6 (6.52%) Java
2 6 (6.52%) TypeScript
3 5 (5.43%) SQL
4 4 (4.35%) C#
5 3 (3.26%) XAML
6 1 (1.09%) C
6 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Degree
2 20 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.70%) ISEB
4 8 (8.70%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.26%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.17%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (2.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (1.09%) CISM
8 1 (1.09%) CISSP
8 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) GMP
2 9 (9.78%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) NIST
3 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Grafana
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
1 4 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle
2 4 (4.35%) Sparx
2 4 (4.35%) Splunk
3 3 (3.26%) Google
3 3 (3.26%) Hotjar
3 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Aruba
4 1 (1.09%) Cisco
4 1 (1.09%) Meraki