Lead Jobs in the North West

Leader
England > North West

The median Leader salary in the North West is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 45 24
Rank change year-on-year +26 -21 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 822 552 848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.47% 6.92% 9.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.93% 7.76% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 678 424 457
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £34,400
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -
75th Percentile £83,759 £82,813 £76,520
90th Percentile £86,625 £92,125 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,933
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.83% +4.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 9,207 7,117 9,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.21% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 4,116 5,478
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the North West.

Salary trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Manchester +19 479 £70,500 +0.71% 89
Lancashire +59 159 £73,805 +47.61% 13
Merseyside +29 90 £65,000 -7.14% 18
Cheshire +7 60 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Cumbria -7 33 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 26 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 North West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 272 (33.09%) Agile
2 216 (26.28%) Mentoring
3 173 (21.05%) Azure
4 158 (19.22%) Coaching
5 154 (18.73%) Finance
6 150 (18.25%) Social Skills
7 120 (14.60%) AWS
8 100 (12.17%) SQL
9 97 (11.80%) Software Engineering
9 97 (11.80%) DevOps
10 96 (11.68%) Microsoft
11 91 (11.07%) Public Sector
12 80 (9.73%) Degree
13 78 (9.49%) Project Management
14 77 (9.37%) Roadmaps
15 72 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
15 72 (8.76%) .NET
16 71 (8.64%) Analytics
17 70 (8.52%) Java
18 68 (8.27%) Security Cleared
19 67 (8.15%) C#
20 59 (7.18%) CI/CD
21 56 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
22 54 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
23 51 (6.20%) SC Cleared
24 50 (6.08%) TypeScript
24 50 (6.08%) JavaScript
25 48 (5.84%) Python
26 47 (5.72%) Tableau
26 47 (5.72%) Product Roadmap

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 25 (3.04%) Confluence
2 23 (2.80%) Apache
3 15 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.46%) Tuxedo
5 9 (1.09%) CMS
6 8 (0.97%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.85%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.24%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.73%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.36%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.12%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 173 (21.05%) Azure
2 120 (14.60%) AWS
3 33 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 29 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (3.41%) GCP
7 24 (2.92%) SaaS
8 19 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
9 17 (2.07%) Amazon S3
9 17 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.82%) Serverless
12 14 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.22%) PaaS
15 9 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.09%) dbt
15 9 (1.09%) IaaS
16 6 (0.73%) Entra ID
16 6 (0.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.04%) WAN
2 24 (2.92%) Firewall
3 19 (2.31%) SSL
4 16 (1.95%) DNS
5 15 (1.82%) LAN
5 15 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.34%) VPN
8 9 (1.09%) BGP
9 8 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.85%) NAS
10 7 (0.85%) SAN
10 7 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
11 6 (0.73%) Network Security
11 6 (0.73%) Wireless
12 5 (0.61%) DHCP
12 5 (0.61%) Internet
12 5 (0.61%) PPP
13 4 (0.49%) 5G
13 4 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.72%) Tableau
2 41 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (4.74%) MySQL
4 37 (4.50%) SQL Server
5 32 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 27 (3.28%) Power BI
7 23 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (2.55%) RDBMS
9 18 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.46%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.22%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.09%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.73%) Data Vault
15 6 (0.73%) DB2
16 5 (0.61%) Airbyte
16 5 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (3.89%) Git
2 31 (3.77%) JIRA
3 17 (2.07%) GitLab
4 15 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.58%) Postman
6 6 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.61%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.49%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) JUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) TestCafe
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 154 (18.73%) Finance
2 150 (18.25%) Social Skills
3 91 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 33 (4.01%) Retail
5 31 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 25 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (2.80%) Legal
9 16 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.46%) Banking
11 11 (1.34%) Law
12 10 (1.22%) Marketing
13 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.97%) Social Housing
14 7 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.85%) Games
15 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Back Office
16 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.76%) .NET
2 47 (5.72%) React
3 42 (5.11%) Node.js
4 28 (3.41%) CSS
4 28 (3.41%) HTML
4 28 (3.41%) JSON
5 25 (3.04%) Spring
6 23 (2.80%) REST
7 22 (2.68%) Spring Boot
8 21 (2.55%) RESTful
9 18 (2.19%) Web Services
10 16 (1.95%) Apache NiFi
10 16 (1.95%) STL
11 15 (1.82%) XML
12 13 (1.58%) .NET Framework
12 13 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.46%) Kafka
14 11 (1.34%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.34%) GraphQL
15 10 (1.22%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.74%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 24 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 9 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.73%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (0.61%) Housing Association
13 5 (0.61%) Mainframe
13 5 (0.61%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
14 4 (0.49%) Fibre Optics
14 4 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.47%) Linux
2 35 (4.26%) Windows
3 14 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (33.09%) Agile
2 216 (26.28%) Mentoring
3 158 (19.22%) Coaching
4 97 (11.80%) DevOps
4 97 (11.80%) Software Engineering
5 78 (9.49%) Project Management
6 77 (9.37%) Roadmaps
7 72 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (8.64%) Analytics
9 59 (7.18%) CI/CD
10 56 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
12 47 (5.72%) Product Roadmap
13 46 (5.60%) Design Patterns
13 46 (5.60%) Project Delivery
14 45 (5.47%) Full Stack Development
15 43 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (4.99%) Supplier Management
17 40 (4.87%) Scrum
18 39 (4.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 100 (12.17%) SQL
2 70 (8.52%) Java
3 67 (8.15%) C#
4 50 (6.08%) JavaScript
4 50 (6.08%) TypeScript
5 48 (5.84%) Python
6 34 (4.14%) PHP
7 31 (3.77%) C++
8 29 (3.53%) C
9 22 (2.68%) COBOL
9 22 (2.68%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 16 (1.95%) VB.NET
11 6 (0.73%) Go
12 5 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.61%) Swift
13 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.36%) R
13 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (9.73%) Degree
2 68 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 51 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 23 (2.80%) CISM
7 16 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.70%) CISA
8 14 (1.70%) CRISC
9 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.09%) CCSK
10 9 (1.09%) CCSP
10 9 (1.09%) CISSP
11 8 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.85%) JNCIA
12 7 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.73%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.28%) QA
2 22 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.43%) SLA
4 18 (2.19%) GDPR
5 15 (1.82%) NIST
6 14 (1.70%) GRC
7 9 (1.09%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.73%) PMO
9 3 (0.36%) COSO
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 31000
9 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (3.77%) Docker
2 13 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.85%) Firmware
5 5 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (3.65%) Kubernetes
1 30 (3.65%) Terraform
2 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.61%) SCCM
4 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Ansible
5 3 (0.36%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.24%) Autotask
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.12%) Kiali
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Nessus
7 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 96 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.89%) Oracle
3 22 (2.68%) Micro Focus
4 18 (2.19%) Google
5 16 (1.95%) VMware
6 14 (1.70%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.70%) SAP
7 11 (1.34%) IBM
8 10 (1.22%) Cisco
9 8 (0.97%) Sparx
10 7 (0.85%) Citrix
11 6 (0.73%) Databricks
11 6 (0.73%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.61%) Informatica
12 5 (0.61%) Teradata
12 5 (0.61%) Veeam
13 4 (0.49%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.49%) Juniper
13 4 (0.49%) Snow
14 3 (0.36%) Confluent