Lead Jobs in Northern Ireland

Leader
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Leader salary in Northern Ireland is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 50 67
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 52 56 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.53% 6.44% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.88% 6.77% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 37 4
10th Percentile £55,000 £26,250 -
25th Percentile £55,400 £42,500 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% +48.39% -13.89%
75th Percentile £97,500 £65,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £106,750 £68,850 £111,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 660 827 634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 95.17% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 320 454 335
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £66,175 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 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
County Antrim +8 38 £75,000 +25.00% 14
County Armagh +4 11 - -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) QA
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (28.85%) Degree
4 14 (26.92%) Retail
5 13 (25.00%) Manufacturing
6 12 (23.08%) Finance
7 11 (21.15%) Legal
7 11 (21.15%) Google
7 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (21.15%) SAP
7 11 (21.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (21.15%) AWS
7 11 (21.15%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (21.15%) Internal Audit
7 11 (21.15%) Actionable Insight
7 11 (21.15%) Commercialisation
8 10 (19.23%) Azure
9 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
10 8 (15.38%) Agile
10 8 (15.38%) Quality Management
10 8 (15.38%) Programme Management
11 7 (13.46%) Scrum
11 7 (13.46%) Lean Manufacturing
11 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.46%) Inventory Management
12 6 (11.54%) Cloud Operations
12 6 (11.54%) Systems Engineering

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.77%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) AWS
2 10 (19.23%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.69%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.77%) dbt
5 3 (5.77%) SaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) BGP
1 4 (7.69%) DNS
1 4 (7.69%) SSL
1 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.77%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) MySQL
2 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 4 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (26.92%) Retail
2 13 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 12 (23.08%) Finance
4 11 (21.15%) Legal
4 11 (21.15%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
6 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
10 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.92%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) .NET
2 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.77%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (5.77%) Hibernate
3 3 (5.77%) JSON
3 3 (5.77%) React
3 3 (5.77%) Spring
3 3 (5.77%) Vue
4 2 (3.85%) Laravel
4 2 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Virtual Team
2 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.69%) FMCG
2 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.77%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.15%) Actionable Insight
1 11 (21.15%) Commercialisation
1 11 (21.15%) Internal Audit
1 11 (21.15%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (15.38%) Agile
2 8 (15.38%) Programme Management
2 8 (15.38%) Quality Management
3 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (13.46%) Inventory Management
3 7 (13.46%) Lean Manufacturing
3 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.46%) Scrum
4 6 (11.54%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (11.54%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (9.62%) Business Strategy
5 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
5 5 (9.62%) SDLC
5 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
5 5 (9.62%) User Research
5 5 (9.62%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) C#
2 4 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) PHP
3 2 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (28.85%) Degree
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (32.69%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Google
1 11 (21.15%) SAP
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle
2 4 (7.69%) Sparx
3 3 (5.77%) Solace
3 3 (5.77%) TIBCO
4 2 (3.85%) Thales