Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 27 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3,338 3,599 5,300
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.86% 8.66% 7.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.27% 9.02% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,654 2,697 3,210
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,086 (32.53%) Agile
2 855 (25.61%) Mentoring
3 743 (22.26%) Azure
4 735 (22.02%) Social Skills
5 713 (21.36%) AWS
6 694 (20.79%) Finance
7 526 (15.76%) Coaching
8 467 (13.99%) SQL
9 413 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
10 410 (12.28%) Microsoft
11 384 (11.50%) Python
12 371 (11.11%) Java
13 369 (11.05%) Analytics
14 368 (11.02%) DevOps
15 362 (10.84%) Security Cleared
16 359 (10.75%) Software Engineering
17 353 (10.58%) Roadmaps
18 346 (10.37%) JavaScript
19 335 (10.04%) C#
20 332 (9.95%) .NET
21 310 (9.29%) Degree
22 303 (9.08%) CI/CD
23 267 (8.00%) Scrum
24 262 (7.85%) Marketing
25 260 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
26 259 (7.76%) TypeScript
27 258 (7.73%) Public Sector
28 253 (7.58%) Process Improvement
29 247 (7.40%) Project Management
30 235 (7.04%) Analytical Skills

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 102 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (2.70%) Apache
2 90 (2.70%) Confluence
3 48 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.38%) WebLogic
5 37 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.11%) Tuxedo
6 27 (0.81%) IIS
7 17 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.48%) CMS
9 13 (0.39%) WordPress
10 11 (0.33%) SAS
11 10 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.27%) Appian
13 5 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.090%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.090%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.060%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.060%) Ethereum
15 2 (0.060%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 62 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.42%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.060%) Notion
7 2 (0.060%) Sketch
8 1 (0.030%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.030%) CATIA
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) InDesign
8 1 (0.030%) InVision
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 66 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.30%) Shopify
5 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.18%) Primavera
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.12%) thinkFolio
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.090%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.060%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.060%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.060%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.060%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 743 (22.26%) Azure
2 713 (21.36%) AWS
3 187 (5.60%) GCP
4 173 (5.18%) SaaS
5 158 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 155 (4.64%) Power Platform
7 132 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (3.68%) Serverless
9 119 (3.57%) dbt
10 113 (3.39%) Snowflake
11 84 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
12 81 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
14 69 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
15 49 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
16 48 (1.44%) GitHub
17 42 (1.26%) Entra ID
18 38 (1.14%) Amazon S3
19 34 (1.02%) PaaS
20 33 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 188 (5.63%) Broadband
2 130 (3.89%) Firewall
3 95 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.64%) DNS
5 71 (2.13%) SSL
6 54 (1.62%) WAN
7 49 (1.47%) BGP
8 36 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (1.05%) SD-WAN
10 29 (0.87%) Network Security
11 25 (0.75%) LAN
12 24 (0.72%) VPN
13 22 (0.66%) Internet
14 20 (0.60%) Wireless
15 13 (0.39%) DHCP
15 13 (0.39%) SAN
15 13 (0.39%) VLAN
16 12 (0.36%) HTTP
17 11 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
18 9 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (6.50%) SQL Server
2 140 (4.19%) Power BI
3 118 (3.54%) Data Lake
4 95 (2.85%) Relational Database
5 87 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
6 85 (2.55%) Apache Arrow
6 85 (2.55%) Dremio
7 83 (2.49%) Tableau
8 82 (2.46%) Apache Ignite
9 77 (2.31%) MySQL
10 65 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
11 56 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 54 (1.62%) NoSQL
13 52 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 48 (1.44%) RDBMS
15 45 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
16 42 (1.26%) MongoDB
17 41 (1.23%) DynamoDB
18 27 (0.81%) DB2
18 27 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (3.80%) Git
2 122 (3.65%) JIRA
3 79 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 73 (2.19%) GitLab
5 59 (1.77%) Selenium
6 52 (1.56%) Postman
7 46 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 39 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.54%) NUnit
13 14 (0.42%) JMeter
14 13 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
15 11 (0.33%) SoapUI
16 9 (0.27%) JUnit
16 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.24%) Gradle
17 8 (0.24%) Maven
18 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
General
1 735 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 694 (20.79%) Finance
3 262 (7.85%) Marketing
4 258 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 235 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
6 206 (6.17%) Banking
7 195 (5.84%) Advertising
8 122 (3.65%) Retail
9 110 (3.30%) Legal
10 107 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 96 (2.88%) Front Office
12 92 (2.76%) Investment Banking
13 77 (2.31%) Law
13 77 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 60 (1.80%) Telecoms
15 52 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (1.47%) Manufacturing
17 46 (1.38%) Automotive
18 39 (1.17%) Games
19 34 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (9.95%) .NET
2 164 (4.91%) React
3 135 (4.04%) HTML
4 121 (3.62%) CSS
5 98 (2.94%) Node.js
6 96 (2.88%) RESTful
7 95 (2.85%) Pandas
7 95 (2.85%) REST
8 88 (2.64%) NumPy
9 85 (2.55%) gRPC
9 85 (2.55%) Protocol Buffers
10 84 (2.52%) .NET Core
10 84 (2.52%) SciPy
11 76 (2.28%) Spring Boot
12 64 (1.92%) AngularJS
12 64 (1.92%) Vue
13 59 (1.77%) .NET Framework
13 59 (1.77%) ASP.NET
14 56 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
15 48 (1.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.51%) Marketing Technology
2 124 (3.71%) Management Information System
3 111 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 97 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
4 97 (2.91%) Hedge funds
5 94 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 91 (2.73%) Fixed Income
7 89 (2.67%) Derivative
8 87 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 86 (2.58%) Equities
10 69 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 66 (1.98%) Algorithms
12 64 (1.92%) Virtual Team
13 61 (1.83%) Client/Server
14 52 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
15 49 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 46 (1.38%) Data Centre
17 40 (1.20%) Mobile App
18 38 (1.14%) Data Structures
19 36 (1.08%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 200 (5.99%) Windows
2 163 (4.88%) Linux
3 63 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 51 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.84%) Android
7 27 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.54%) Unix
9 17 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.36%) zOS
11 11 (0.33%) CentOS
12 8 (0.24%) Solaris
13 7 (0.21%) Debian
14 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) VMS
16 4 (0.12%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (32.53%) Agile
2 855 (25.61%) Mentoring
3 526 (15.76%) Coaching
4 413 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
5 369 (11.05%) Analytics
6 368 (11.02%) DevOps
7 359 (10.75%) Software Engineering
8 353 (10.58%) Roadmaps
9 303 (9.08%) CI/CD
10 267 (8.00%) Scrum
11 260 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 253 (7.58%) Process Improvement
13 247 (7.40%) Project Management
14 231 (6.92%) Line Management
15 218 (6.53%) Business Case
16 215 (6.44%) Microservices
17 213 (6.38%) Data Strategy
18 212 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
19 211 (6.32%) Use Case
20 202 (6.05%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 467 (13.99%) SQL
2 384 (11.50%) Python
3 371 (11.11%) Java
4 346 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 335 (10.04%) C#
6 259 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 66 (1.98%) COBOL
7 66 (1.98%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 65 (1.95%) PHP
9 63 (1.89%) C
10 58 (1.74%) C++
11 56 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 30 (0.90%) Go
13 28 (0.84%) Bash
14 27 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.57%) XAML
17 17 (0.51%) MATLAB
18 16 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 362 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 310 (9.29%) Degree
3 205 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 104 (3.12%) Azure Certification
5 98 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.10%) CISSP
7 68 (2.04%) DBS Check
8 65 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 63 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 51 (1.53%) CISM
12 42 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 37 (1.11%) CCSP
14 35 (1.05%) DV Cleared
15 27 (0.81%) CCSK
16 21 (0.63%) SSCP
17 17 (0.51%) CISA
17 17 (0.51%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.60%) QA
2 89 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (1.47%) NIST
5 42 (1.26%) GDPR
6 39 (1.17%) SLA
7 29 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.57%) PMO
9 15 (0.45%) GRC
10 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.33%) HL7
12 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.27%) NCSC
13 5 (0.15%) GAAP
13 5 (0.15%) IFRS
13 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.15%) RMADS
13 5 (0.15%) WCAG
14 4 (0.12%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 198 (5.93%) Docker
2 85 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.18%) Firmware
8 6 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.060%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.030%) KVM
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 187 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 123 (3.68%) Terraform
3 49 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (1.29%) Ansible
4 43 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
5 28 (0.84%) Puppet
6 19 (0.57%) SCCM
7 17 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.39%) Grafana
9 11 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (0.30%) ZABBIX
11 9 (0.27%) Nmap
11 9 (0.27%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.21%) MIIS
12 7 (0.21%) Nagios
12 7 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.21%) SysTrack
13 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.15%) Consul
15 4 (0.12%) Autotask
Vendors
1 410 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 149 (4.46%) Oracle
3 85 (2.55%) Databricks
4 74 (2.22%) Google
5 68 (2.04%) VMware
6 66 (1.98%) Micro Focus
7 58 (1.74%) SAP
8 56 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.38%) Sparx
10 43 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 41 (1.23%) IBM
12 27 (0.81%) Cisco
13 21 (0.63%) Splunk
14 19 (0.57%) Salesforce
15 15 (0.45%) Sun
16 14 (0.42%) Commvault
16 14 (0.42%) ForgeRock
16 14 (0.42%) Sitecore
17 11 (0.33%) Qualys
18 10 (0.30%) Veeam