Lead Jobs in South Wales

Leader
Wales > South Wales

The median Leader salary in South Wales is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 44 26
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 127 65 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.83% 5.65% 7.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.75% 6.32% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 109 45 78
10th Percentile £48,829 £39,600 £43,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,991 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% +11.36%
75th Percentile £70,250 - £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £62,742 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +14.08% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,303 1,029 1,398
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 89.40% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 862 587 863
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,552 £45,456 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -7.23% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South Wales

Lead
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Lead in South Wales

Lead
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in South Wales

Lead
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cardiff +20 80 £65,000 -7.14% 23
Newport +20 31 £65,000 -15.31% 2
Bridgend - 11 - -
Caerphilly +6 2 £45,000 -18.18%
Gwent - 2 - - 1
Monmouthshire - 1 £90,000 - 1
Lead
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 South Wales region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 46 (36.22%) Mentoring
2 45 (35.43%) Azure
3 42 (33.07%) Agile
4 28 (22.05%) Security Cleared
5 27 (21.26%) Public Sector
6 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
7 23 (18.11%) Social Skills
8 22 (17.32%) Finance
8 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
9 21 (16.54%) Migration
9 21 (16.54%) QA
10 19 (14.96%) Coaching
11 18 (14.17%) JavaScript
12 17 (13.39%) DevOps
13 16 (12.60%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (11.81%) C#
14 15 (11.81%) .NET
15 14 (11.02%) AWS
16 12 (9.45%) Power Platform
17 11 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
17 11 (8.66%) Project Management
18 10 (7.87%) Oracle
18 10 (7.87%) Java
18 10 (7.87%) Software Testing
18 10 (7.87%) Test Automation
19 9 (7.09%) Open Source
19 9 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 9 (7.09%) Scrum
19 9 (7.09%) Degree
19 9 (7.09%) SQL Server

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 8 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.15%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.43%) Azure
2 16 (12.60%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (11.02%) AWS
4 12 (9.45%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.94%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.15%) Azure API Management
6 4 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.36%) SaaS
8 2 (1.57%) dbt
8 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.57%) IaaS
8 2 (1.57%) PaaS
8 2 (1.57%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.79%) Serverless
9 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) DNS
2 4 (3.15%) BGP
2 4 (3.15%) SSL
2 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.36%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (1.57%) Firewall
4 2 (1.57%) Intranet
5 1 (0.79%) Broadband
5 1 (0.79%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.15%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.79%) GIS
5 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.72%) JMeter
2 6 (4.72%) Postman
2 6 (4.72%) SoapUI
3 5 (3.94%) GitLab
4 4 (3.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) Git
5 1 (0.79%) GitKraken
5 1 (0.79%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
5 1 (0.79%) ReSharper
General
1 27 (21.26%) Public Sector
2 23 (18.11%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.32%) Finance
4 9 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.51%) Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.57%) Legal
7 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.57%) Police
7 2 (1.57%) Retail
7 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) .NET
2 9 (7.09%) ASP.NET
3 8 (6.30%) .NET Core
4 7 (5.51%) CSS
4 7 (5.51%) HTML
5 6 (4.72%) React
6 5 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.94%) REST
6 5 (3.94%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.57%) Spring
8 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.79%) Blazor
8 1 (0.79%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.79%) Kafka
8 1 (0.79%) RESTful
8 1 (0.79%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (4.72%) Low-Code
1 6 (4.72%) Public Cloud
1 6 (4.72%) Virtual Team
2 5 (3.94%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.57%) Blog
4 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Life Science
5 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Linux
1 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.22%) Mentoring
2 42 (33.07%) Agile
3 21 (16.54%) Migration
4 19 (14.96%) Coaching
5 17 (13.39%) DevOps
6 11 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (8.66%) Project Management
7 10 (7.87%) Software Testing
7 10 (7.87%) Test Automation
8 9 (7.09%) CI/CD
8 9 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (7.09%) Open Source
8 9 (7.09%) Scrum
9 8 (6.30%) Software Architecture
10 7 (5.51%) Analytics
10 7 (5.51%) CRM
10 7 (5.51%) ETL
10 7 (5.51%) Microservices
10 7 (5.51%) User Research
11 6 (4.72%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.17%) JavaScript
2 15 (11.81%) C#
3 10 (7.87%) Java
4 8 (6.30%) SQL
5 6 (4.72%) Python
5 6 (4.72%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.79%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) Bicep
6 1 (0.79%) C
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) Degree
4 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.54%) QA
2 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.57%) PMO
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (6.30%) Terraform
2 6 (4.72%) Ansible
2 6 (4.72%) Puppet
3 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Oracle
3 6 (4.72%) MuleSoft
3 6 (4.72%) OutSystems
4 4 (3.15%) Sparx
5 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.57%) Veeam
5 2 (1.57%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Citrix
6 1 (0.79%) Google
6 1 (0.79%) Sitecore