Lead Jobs in the Thames Valley

Leader
South East > Thames Valley

The median Leader salary in the Thames Valley is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 46 50
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 533 318 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.23% 5.68% 5.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.64% 6.35% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 355 238 261
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £42,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,334 £66,000 £65,750
% change year-on-year -5.55% +0.38% +5.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,977 5,006 7,151
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 89.49% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,712 3,045 4,138
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £40,946
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Thames Valley

Lead
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Lead in the Thames Valley

Lead
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the Thames Valley

Lead
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Berkshire +31 270 £75,000 +7.14% 48
Buckinghamshire +43 148 £60,000 +4.35% 20
Oxfordshire -3 115 £52,500 -8.70% 21
Lead
South East

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 Thames Valley region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 154 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.33%) Agile
3 91 (17.07%) Mentoring
4 90 (16.89%) Software Engineering
5 84 (15.76%) Degree
6 82 (15.38%) Azure
7 78 (14.63%) .NET
8 75 (14.07%) Finance
9 72 (13.51%) C#
10 71 (13.32%) Microsoft
11 70 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (12.76%) Java
13 65 (12.20%) Project Management
14 64 (12.01%) JavaScript
15 60 (11.26%) Propensity Modelling
15 60 (11.26%) React
16 58 (10.88%) AWS
17 55 (10.32%) SQL
18 54 (10.13%) TypeScript
19 53 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
20 51 (9.57%) Analytics
20 51 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
21 50 (9.38%) Kubernetes
22 48 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
23 47 (8.82%) Docker
24 46 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence
24 46 (8.63%) Security Cleared
25 45 (8.44%) Project Delivery
26 44 (8.26%) NoSQL
27 40 (7.50%) Power Platform

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (0.75%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.56%) IIS
2 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 48 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 82 (15.38%) Azure
2 58 (10.88%) AWS
3 40 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 22 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (0.94%) SaaS
7 5 (0.94%) Serverless
8 4 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.75%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.75%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.75%) GCP
8 4 (0.75%) GitHub
9 3 (0.56%) Azure Storage
9 3 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.00%) DNS
1 16 (3.00%) Firewall
2 9 (1.69%) Broadband
3 7 (1.31%) LAN
3 7 (1.31%) OSPF
3 7 (1.31%) SSL
3 7 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.31%) WAN
4 4 (0.75%) BGP
4 4 (0.75%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) Internet
5 2 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.38%) Wireless
6 1 (0.19%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 34 (6.38%) Power BI
3 15 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.50%) MySQL
5 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.13%) CouchDB
5 6 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.94%) Data Mining
6 5 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.94%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.75%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.38%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.38%) Impala
10 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (4.32%) Git
2 22 (4.13%) Cypress.io
2 22 (4.13%) Selenium
2 22 (4.13%) SoapUI
3 8 (1.50%) GitLab
4 7 (1.31%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.13%) Gradle
6 3 (0.56%) NUnit
6 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.38%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.19%) ERwin
8 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 154 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.07%) Finance
3 53 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.50%) Marketing
6 23 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.94%) Legal
8 18 (3.38%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.63%) Banking
11 12 (2.25%) Automotive
11 12 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.25%) Retail
12 11 (2.06%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.88%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.69%) Advertising
15 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.31%) Brand Awareness
17 4 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (14.63%) .NET
2 60 (11.26%) React
3 22 (4.13%) Jest
4 19 (3.56%) EDI
5 13 (2.44%) ASP.NET
5 13 (2.44%) Kafka
6 11 (2.06%) Spring Boot
7 10 (1.88%) CSS
8 9 (1.69%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.50%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.50%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.50%) Spring
10 7 (1.31%) HTML
10 7 (1.31%) REST
11 6 (1.13%) Hibernate
11 6 (1.13%) IDoc
11 6 (1.13%) WPF
12 4 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.75%) Vue
13 3 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (2.81%) Life Science
2 14 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
4 9 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.50%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.31%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (1.31%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.13%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.13%) PropTech
8 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.94%) iPad
8 5 (0.94%) Operational Technology
8 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.75%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.56%) IoT
10 3 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.82%) Windows
2 21 (3.94%) Linux
3 11 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (22.33%) Agile
2 91 (17.07%) Mentoring
3 90 (16.89%) Software Engineering
4 70 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (12.20%) Project Management
6 60 (11.26%) Propensity Modelling
7 51 (9.57%) Analytics
7 51 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 45 (8.44%) Project Delivery
10 34 (6.38%) ITIL
11 32 (6.00%) Business Strategy
11 32 (6.00%) Coaching
12 31 (5.82%) DevOps
12 31 (5.82%) Machine Learning
12 31 (5.82%) Workflow
13 29 (5.44%) Data Science
14 28 (5.25%) Line Management
15 26 (4.88%) TDD
16 25 (4.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.51%) C#
2 68 (12.76%) Java
3 64 (12.01%) JavaScript
4 55 (10.32%) SQL
5 54 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.25%) Python
7 8 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.13%) VB.NET
9 5 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.94%) C
9 5 (0.94%) Scala
10 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) XAML
12 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.19%) Bash
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) Fortran
13 1 (0.19%) Julia
13 1 (0.19%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (15.76%) Degree
2 46 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.75%) CIPD
5 19 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.88%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.94%) PMP
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.38%) GCFA
10 2 (0.38%) GCFE
10 2 (0.38%) OSCP
10 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.38%) SLA
2 17 (3.19%) QA
3 15 (2.81%) Good Clinical Practice
4 11 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.69%) GDPR
6 8 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.94%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.56%) GRC
8 3 (0.56%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.38%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.38%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (8.82%) Docker
2 20 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.50%) Firmware
5 4 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.38%) HDFS
7 1 (0.19%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 50 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.63%) SCCM
3 13 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.31%) NetBackup
4 7 (1.31%) SCOM
5 4 (0.75%) Ansible
5 4 (0.75%) Terraform
6 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.19%) Netcool
7 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 71 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.69%) Oracle
3 23 (4.32%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.94%) SAP
5 10 (1.88%) OpenText
6 8 (1.50%) McAfee
7 7 (1.31%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.13%) Citrix
8 6 (1.13%) VMware
9 5 (0.94%) Splunk
10 4 (0.75%) Sparx
11 3 (0.56%) Cadence
11 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.56%) Databricks
12 2 (0.38%) Apple
12 2 (0.38%) BT
12 2 (0.38%) Cisco
12 2 (0.38%) Informatica
13 1 (0.19%) Commvault