Lead Jobs in Basingstoke

Leader
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Leader salary in Basingstoke is £64,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 34 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +13
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead 18 16 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 6.25% 3.25% 6.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.77% 3.36% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16 11 18
10th Percentile £55,750 £66,250 £51,025
25th Percentile £57,750 £75,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £95,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.84% +82.69% -32.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £103,500 £107,500 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £60,750 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.25% -17.24% +7.41%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Basingstoke with a recognized job title 266 476 298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 96.75% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 225 369 225
10th Percentile £39,400 £37,050 £26,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £79,000
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Basingstoke

Lead
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Basingstoke

Lead
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Basingstoke

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 2025, 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 Basingstoke region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Apache
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
5 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (22.22%) Chatbot
5 4 (22.22%) IaaS
5 4 (22.22%) Azure
5 4 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) PaaS
5 4 (22.22%) CentOS
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (22.22%) PHP
5 4 (22.22%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Conversational UI
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Batch Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) OCI

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) GCP
1 4 (22.22%) IaaS
1 4 (22.22%) OCI
1 4 (22.22%) PaaS
1 4 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) SMTP
3 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) CentOS
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Batch Scripting
3 4 (22.22%) Conversational UI
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) BPMN
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Process Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 2 (11.11%) Six Sigma
6 1 (5.56%) Sales Enablement
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PHP
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) GRC
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce