Lead Jobs in South Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in South Yorkshire is £73,805 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 12 49 73
Rank change year-on-year +37 +24 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 147 122 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.92% 7.75% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.81% 8.92% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 134 68 36
10th Percentile £46,000 £49,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,188 £61,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -3.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £84,964 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year - +8.53% +17.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,245 1,368 1,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 86.86% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 521 684
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,136 £54,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.47% +9.76% +5.26%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +21 137 £73,805 +5.44% 11
Doncaster +4 4 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Barnsley +6 3 £75,000 - 1
Lead
Yorkshire

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 74 (50.34%) Mentoring
2 53 (36.05%) Coaching
3 48 (32.65%) Finance
3 48 (32.65%) Agile
4 39 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (25.17%) Social Skills
5 37 (25.17%) Azure
6 33 (22.45%) Roadmaps
7 25 (17.01%) AWS
8 23 (15.65%) Windows
9 22 (14.97%) Customer Service
10 21 (14.29%) JavaScript
11 20 (13.61%) Product Roadmap
11 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
12 18 (12.24%) ITIL
12 18 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (11.56%) Supplier Management
14 16 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (10.88%) Citrix
15 15 (10.20%) Kanban
15 15 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (9.52%) React
17 13 (8.84%) Windows Server
17 13 (8.84%) Decision-Making
17 13 (8.84%) Hyper-V
17 13 (8.84%) SQL
17 13 (8.84%) Windows Server 2016
17 13 (8.84%) Windows Server 2019
18 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 12 (8.16%) Customer Experience

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (4.08%) Confluence
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.08%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Chatbot
2 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.17%) Azure
2 25 (17.01%) AWS
3 18 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.08%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.72%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (0.68%) Boomi
7 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (2.04%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.08%) Power BI
2 6 (4.08%) Tableau
3 4 (2.72%) DB2
4 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) JIRA
2 4 (2.72%) Git
3 3 (2.04%) JMeter
3 3 (2.04%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (32.65%) Finance
2 37 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.80%) Law
5 6 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.40%) Legal
6 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.52%) React
2 8 (5.44%) Node.js
3 7 (4.76%) CSS
3 7 (4.76%) HTML
4 6 (4.08%) RESTful
5 5 (3.40%) Laravel
5 5 (3.40%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.04%) .NET
7 3 (2.04%) Spring
8 2 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.36%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.36%) Blazor
8 2 (1.36%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.36%) Kafka
8 2 (1.36%) NgRx
8 2 (1.36%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (1.36%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.08%) Robotics
3 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (0.68%) PKI
5 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.65%) Windows
2 13 (8.84%) Windows Server
2 13 (8.84%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (8.84%) Windows Server 2019
3 12 (8.16%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (7.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (50.34%) Mentoring
2 53 (36.05%) Coaching
3 48 (32.65%) Agile
4 39 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (22.45%) Roadmaps
6 22 (14.97%) Customer Service
7 20 (13.61%) Product Roadmap
8 18 (12.24%) ITIL
9 17 (11.56%) Supplier Management
10 16 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.20%) Kanban
12 13 (8.84%) Decision-Making
13 12 (8.16%) Customer Experience
13 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (8.16%) Project Management
13 12 (8.16%) Time Management
14 11 (7.48%) Scrum
15 10 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (6.80%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 13 (8.84%) SQL
3 10 (6.80%) COBOL
3 10 (6.80%) Java
3 10 (6.80%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 8 (5.44%) PHP
5 6 (4.08%) Python
6 5 (3.40%) Ada
6 5 (3.40%) C
6 5 (3.40%) C++
7 3 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (7.48%) Degree
2 9 (6.12%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (2.72%) HNC
4 4 (2.72%) HND
5 3 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.04%) CCSK
5 3 (2.04%) CCSP
5 3 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.04%) CISM
5 3 (2.04%) CISSP
5 3 (2.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.36%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.36%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.16%) SLA
2 3 (2.04%) NIST
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.36%) PMO
3 2 (1.36%) QA
System Software
1 13 (8.84%) Hyper-V
2 6 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.08%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.88%) Citrix
2 12 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.16%) VMware
3 10 (6.80%) Micro Focus
4 9 (6.12%) Oracle
5 7 (4.76%) Google
6 6 (4.08%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.72%) IBM
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco
8 2 (1.36%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.36%) Juniper
8 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.68%) Infor