Lead Jobs in the South West

Leader
England > South West

The median Leader salary in the South West is £62,500 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 27 46 39
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 617 423 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.75% 6.04% 7.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.02% 6.76% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 457 318 379
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £40,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,250 £72,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £82,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.74% +4.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,253 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.29% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,433 3,885 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,100 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South West 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
Bristol +21 288 £65,000 -7.14% 67
Gloucestershire -5 95 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Dorset +32 73 £60,000 +4.35% 14
Wiltshire +1 71 £64,000 +20.75% 12
Somerset +17 41 £57,500 +31.01% 21
Devon -11 32 £50,950 +16.46% 12
Cornwall -5 7 - -
Lead
England

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

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 South West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 168 (27.23%) Agile
2 136 (22.04%) Social Skills
3 132 (21.39%) Security Cleared
4 115 (18.64%) Azure
5 114 (18.48%) Finance
6 106 (17.18%) Degree
7 86 (13.94%) AWS
8 81 (13.13%) Mentoring
9 75 (12.16%) Microsoft
10 73 (11.83%) Software Engineering
11 71 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
12 67 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (10.70%) Java
14 64 (10.37%) Windows
15 63 (10.21%) SQL
16 53 (8.59%) Coaching
17 51 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (8.10%) JavaScript
19 49 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 47 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
21 46 (7.46%) SC Cleared
22 45 (7.29%) Analytics
22 45 (7.29%) Project Management
23 44 (7.13%) Linux
23 44 (7.13%) Validation
23 44 (7.13%) DevOps
24 43 (6.97%) Project Delivery
25 42 (6.81%) DV Cleared
25 42 (6.81%) Python
26 41 (6.65%) User Experience

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 17 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.97%) Confluence
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.65%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.49%) IIS
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) Mule
5 2 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.13%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (0.65%) Simulink
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.13%) HFM
1 7 (1.13%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (18.64%) Azure
2 86 (13.94%) AWS
3 32 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 28 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (3.40%) Power Automate
6 16 (2.59%) GCP
7 8 (1.30%) OCI
7 8 (1.30%) OneDrive
8 7 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.13%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.13%) Serverless
9 6 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.97%) SaaS
9 6 (0.97%) Slack
10 5 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (0.81%) Azure Stack
10 5 (0.81%) Azure Storage
11 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.92%) WAN
2 17 (2.76%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.11%) Network Security
4 12 (1.94%) DNS
4 12 (1.94%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.62%) 5G
6 9 (1.46%) Firewall
7 7 (1.13%) SSL
7 7 (1.13%) VPN
8 6 (0.97%) LAN
8 6 (0.97%) Telepresence
9 5 (0.81%) DHCP
9 5 (0.81%) SAN
10 4 (0.65%) BGP
11 3 (0.49%) Broadband
11 3 (0.49%) HTTP
11 3 (0.49%) IPv4
11 3 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
12 2 (0.32%) MPLS
12 2 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.24%) Data Lake
3 18 (2.92%) Power BI
4 14 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.94%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 7 (1.13%) Big Data
7 7 (1.13%) Essbase
7 7 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.81%) MySQL
9 5 (0.81%) SQLite
9 5 (0.81%) Tableau
10 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.76%) GitLab
1 17 (2.76%) JIRA
2 11 (1.78%) Git
2 11 (1.78%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.46%) Selenium
4 8 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (1.13%) Subversion
5 7 (1.13%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.97%) RStudio
7 5 (0.81%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.65%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.32%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.32%) JUnit
9 2 (0.32%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 136 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 114 (18.48%) Finance
3 49 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (6.32%) Law
5 34 (5.51%) Banking
6 27 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.89%) Retail
8 21 (3.40%) Marketing
9 20 (3.24%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.24%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (2.92%) Electronics
10 18 (2.92%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.11%) Legal
13 12 (1.94%) Local Government
13 12 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.51%) HTML
2 29 (4.70%) .NET
3 25 (4.05%) CSS
4 19 (3.08%) React
5 18 (2.92%) REST
5 18 (2.92%) Spring
6 17 (2.76%) Spring Boot
7 12 (1.94%) Laravel
7 12 (1.94%) Node.js
7 12 (1.94%) RESTful
7 12 (1.94%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (1.94%) Web Services
8 9 (1.46%) Alpine.js
8 9 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.46%) Vue
9 8 (1.30%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.30%) .NET Framework
10 7 (1.13%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.13%) Kafka
10 7 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.19%) Algorithms
2 28 (4.54%) Product Ownership
3 18 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.76%) Private Cloud
5 14 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.30%) NHS
9 7 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.13%) Digital Signage
9 7 (1.13%) Robotics
10 6 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.97%) Driving Licence
10 6 (0.97%) Fat Client
10 6 (0.97%) Replication
10 6 (0.97%) Thin Client
10 6 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (0.81%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 64 (10.37%) Windows
2 44 (7.13%) Linux
3 13 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.30%) Android
5 8 (1.30%) Unix
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (27.23%) Agile
2 81 (13.13%) Mentoring
3 73 (11.83%) Software Engineering
4 71 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
5 67 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (8.59%) Coaching
7 51 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (7.29%) Analytics
9 45 (7.29%) Project Management
10 44 (7.13%) DevOps
10 44 (7.13%) Validation
11 43 (6.97%) Project Delivery
12 41 (6.65%) User Experience
13 40 (6.48%) Customer Service
13 40 (6.48%) ITIL
14 38 (6.16%) Full Stack Development
14 38 (6.16%) Roadmaps
15 34 (5.51%) Requirements Analysis
15 34 (5.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.70%) Java
2 63 (10.21%) SQL
3 50 (8.10%) JavaScript
4 42 (6.81%) Python
5 37 (6.00%) C#
6 30 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 28 (4.54%) C++
8 17 (2.76%) C
9 11 (1.78%) Bash
10 10 (1.62%) PHP
10 10 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.62%) R
11 8 (1.30%) Scala
12 7 (1.13%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.81%) Go
14 3 (0.49%) Ada
14 3 (0.49%) XAML
15 2 (0.32%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.32%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 132 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 106 (17.18%) Degree
3 46 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 42 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 34 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (3.08%) CISSP
7 15 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.11%) CISM
9 11 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.62%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.30%) CISA
12 5 (0.81%) CEH
12 5 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.65%) CRISC
13 4 (0.65%) GSEC
13 4 (0.65%) OSCP
13 4 (0.65%) SANS
14 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.05%) QA
2 22 (3.57%) NIST
3 12 (1.94%) SLA
4 11 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.78%) PMO
5 9 (1.46%) Def Stans
6 8 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.97%) GMP
7 6 (0.97%) IEC 61508
7 6 (0.97%) JSP 440
7 6 (0.97%) NCSC
7 6 (0.97%) RMADS
8 4 (0.65%) GDPR
8 4 (0.65%) MISRA
8 4 (0.65%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.49%) JTAG
9 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (2.59%) Active Directory
1 16 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.94%) Docker
3 11 (1.78%) vSphere
4 3 (0.49%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.78%) SCCM
3 10 (1.62%) Terraform
4 6 (0.97%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (0.65%) Icinga
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.49%) Ansible
6 3 (0.49%) Puppet
6 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.49%) WSUS
7 2 (0.32%) CASB
7 2 (0.32%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 75 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.73%) VMware
3 22 (3.57%) Oracle
4 14 (2.27%) Google
5 13 (2.11%) SolarWinds
6 9 (1.46%) Tanium
6 9 (1.46%) Tripwire
7 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.13%) Citrix
7 7 (1.13%) Hyperion
8 6 (0.97%) Databricks
8 6 (0.97%) HP
8 6 (0.97%) Pega
8 6 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.81%) Cisco
9 5 (0.81%) SAP
10 4 (0.65%) EMC
10 4 (0.65%) IBM
10 4 (0.65%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.65%) Salesforce