Lead Jobs in Belfast

Leader
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Leader salary in Belfast is £75,000 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 32 46 54
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 30 49 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 5.93% 6.56% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.21% 6.93% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19 32 4
10th Percentile £54,000 £26,250 -
25th Percentile £55,400 £51,688 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +54.84% -13.89%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £68,975 £111,750
County Antrim median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% +54.84% -13.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 483 707 462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.65% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 245 399 254
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,725
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,276 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,188
90th Percentile £89,000 £67,750 £70,875
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.89% +10.30%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Belfast

Lead
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Lead in Belfast

Lead
Salary Histogram in Belfast

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Belfast

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

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 Belfast region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (26.67%) Finance
4 7 (23.33%) AWS
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Azure
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (16.67%) User Research
6 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (13.33%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 4 (13.33%) Docker
7 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Degree
7 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
7 4 (13.33%) Java
8 3 (10.00%) MySQL
8 3 (10.00%) Windows
8 3 (10.00%) IntelliJ
8 3 (10.00%) MQSeries
8 3 (10.00%) TIBCO
8 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 3 (10.00%) JSON
8 3 (10.00%) QA
8 3 (10.00%) Multithreading
8 3 (10.00%) Fixed Income

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 3 (10.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (6.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (10.00%) dbt
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (6.67%) BGP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (10.00%) JSON
1 3 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Agile
2 5 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 5 (16.67%) User Research
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (10.00%) Microservices
4 3 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (10.00%) Presales
4 3 (10.00%) SDLC
4 3 (10.00%) Service Design
4 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) C#
2 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Solace
2 3 (10.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) Sparx
3 2 (6.67%) Thales