Lead Jobs in Southampton

Leader
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Leader salary in Southampton is £54,500 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 19 29 81
Rank change year-on-year +10 +52 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 70 56 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 8.27% 7.13% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.53% 7.65% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 64 47 19
10th Percentile £30,000 £59,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £31,250 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £70,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.14% +14.75% +7.02%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,500 £91,500
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 821 732 1,179
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.04% 93.25% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 695 586 994
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £31,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Southampton

Lead
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Lead in Southampton

Lead
Salary Histogram in Southampton

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Southampton

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

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 Southampton region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 29 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (32.86%) Windows
4 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
5 17 (24.29%) Agile
6 16 (22.86%) Finance
7 15 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
8 12 (17.14%) Azure
8 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (17.14%) C#
9 11 (15.71%) Active Directory
9 11 (15.71%) SharePoint
9 11 (15.71%) Windows Server
9 11 (15.71%) Git
9 11 (15.71%) Customer Service
10 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (14.29%) .NET
11 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Office
11 9 (12.86%) Visual Studio
11 9 (12.86%) VoIP
11 9 (12.86%) CTI
11 9 (12.86%) Firewall
11 9 (12.86%) Entra ID
11 9 (12.86%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (12.86%) Police
12 7 (10.00%) Telecoms
13 6 (8.57%) Degree
13 6 (8.57%) V-Model
13 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 11 (15.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) Azure
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (12.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (4.29%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.86%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) Mimecast
4 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) CTI
1 9 (12.86%) Firewall
1 9 (12.86%) VoIP
2 3 (4.29%) LAN
2 3 (4.29%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (4.29%) WAN
3 2 (2.86%) 3GPP
3 2 (2.86%) 5G
3 2 (2.86%) DHCP
3 2 (2.86%) DNS
3 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Git
2 9 (12.86%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (12.86%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Police
5 7 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (8.57%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.29%) Aviation
8 3 (4.29%) Law
8 3 (4.29%) Legal
9 1 (1.43%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) .NET
2 6 (8.57%) React
3 5 (7.14%) HTML
4 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.29%) CSS
4 3 (4.29%) jQuery
4 3 (4.29%) Vue
5 2 (2.86%) HTML5
5 2 (2.86%) Spring
6 1 (1.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
1 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.86%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Windows
2 11 (15.71%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.14%) Linux
4 2 (2.86%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.43%) CentOS
5 1 (1.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (24.29%) Agile
3 15 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 11 (15.71%) Customer Service
5 6 (8.57%) Analytical Thinking
5 6 (8.57%) Business Analysis
5 6 (8.57%) Customer Experience
5 6 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (8.57%) Scrum
5 6 (8.57%) SSADM
5 6 (8.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (8.57%) V-Model
5 6 (8.57%) Wireframes
6 5 (7.14%) Front End Development
7 4 (5.71%) Data Migration
7 4 (5.71%) Data Protection
7 4 (5.71%) High Availability
7 4 (5.71%) Migration
8 3 (4.29%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.14%) C#
2 5 (7.14%) C++
2 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
3 4 (5.71%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.29%) Python
5 2 (2.86%) Assembly Language
5 2 (2.86%) C
6 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) WSUS
2 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) SAP
3 2 (2.86%) Acronis
3 2 (2.86%) Apple
3 2 (2.86%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Sophos
3 2 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat