Lead Jobs in Berkshire

Leader
South East > Berkshire

The median Leader salary in Berkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 31 48
Rank change year-on-year +24 +17 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 305 220 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.96% 7.20% 5.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 24.00% 7.54% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50 154 145
10th Percentile £48,900 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -2.44%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £69,920 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.87% -7.41% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,271 2,919 2,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.99% 95.49% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 575 2,064 1,632
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.09% +0.43%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Slough +13 101 - - 21
Windsor +17 76 £62,500 -21.88%
Maidenhead +15 73 £70,000 - 3
Reading +2 33 £70,500 +12.80% 41
Bracknell +1 17 £90,000 - 10
Wokingham +6 2 £87,500 +59.09% 2
Lead
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 Berkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 243 (79.67%) Law
2 156 (51.15%) Analytics
3 122 (40.00%) Degree
4 109 (35.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 107 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (34.10%) Social Skills
7 100 (32.79%) Roadmaps
8 99 (32.46%) Data Management
8 99 (32.46%) Business Transformation
9 93 (30.49%) Azure
10 84 (27.54%) Data Modelling
11 83 (27.21%) Data Architecture
12 81 (26.56%) Product Management
13 80 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
14 78 (25.57%) Computer Science
15 77 (25.25%) Microsoft
16 76 (24.92%) Data Engineering
17 74 (24.26%) SAP
18 71 (23.28%) Data Governance
19 67 (21.97%) Agile
20 65 (21.31%) Project Management
20 65 (21.31%) Data Science
21 60 (19.67%) Data Lake
22 58 (19.02%) Strategic Thinking
23 56 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
23 56 (18.36%) Data Quality
24 54 (17.70%) Artificial Intelligence
25 53 (17.38%) Finance
26 49 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
26 49 (16.07%) Machine Learning

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 26 (8.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.66%) Apache
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) IIS
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 93 (30.49%) Azure
2 34 (11.15%) GCP
3 30 (9.84%) AWS
4 28 (9.18%) Power Platform
5 26 (8.52%) Power Automate
5 26 (8.52%) PowerApps
6 24 (7.87%) Snowflake
7 15 (4.92%) Vertex AI
8 12 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.64%) Collibra
11 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.66%) GitHub
13 2 (0.66%) IaaS
13 2 (0.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) LAN
1 6 (1.97%) WAN
2 4 (1.31%) Broadband
3 3 (0.98%) SSL
4 2 (0.66%) DMZ
4 2 (0.66%) DWDM
4 2 (0.66%) Firewall
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) MPLS
4 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.66%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.33%) HTTP
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (19.67%) Data Lake
2 28 (9.18%) Power BI
3 26 (8.52%) Big Data
3 26 (8.52%) Tableau
4 25 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (7.87%) Data Mining
5 24 (7.87%) Metadata
6 7 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.66%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (3.61%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) Cypress.io
2 7 (2.30%) Selenium
2 7 (2.30%) SoapUI
3 5 (1.64%) JIRA
4 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.98%) JUnit
4 3 (0.98%) Maven
4 3 (0.98%) Mockito
4 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (0.66%) DbUnit
5 2 (0.66%) jMock
5 2 (0.66%) MLflow
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 243 (79.67%) Law
2 104 (34.10%) Social Skills
3 56 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (17.38%) Finance
5 34 (11.15%) Retail
6 18 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.90%) Legal
7 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.31%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.98%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.98%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.66%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) French Language
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.28%) React
2 9 (2.95%) .NET
3 7 (2.30%) Jest
4 4 (1.31%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.98%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.98%) Bootstrap
5 3 (0.98%) FHIR
5 3 (0.98%) JPA
5 3 (0.98%) Kafka
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.98%) SOAP
5 3 (0.98%) Spring
5 3 (0.98%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.66%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.66%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.66%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (0.66%) Swagger
6 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.80%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.18%) Algorithms
3 21 (6.89%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (0.98%) NHS
5 3 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.66%) Home Automation
7 1 (0.33%) Blog
7 1 (0.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.33%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.33%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.98%) Linux
2 1 (0.33%) AIX
2 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (51.15%) Analytics
2 109 (35.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (32.79%) Roadmaps
5 99 (32.46%) Business Transformation
5 99 (32.46%) Data Management
6 84 (27.54%) Data Modelling
7 83 (27.21%) Data Architecture
8 81 (26.56%) Product Management
9 80 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (25.57%) Computer Science
11 76 (24.92%) Data Engineering
12 71 (23.28%) Data Governance
13 67 (21.97%) Agile
14 65 (21.31%) Data Science
14 65 (21.31%) Project Management
15 58 (19.02%) Strategic Thinking
16 54 (17.70%) Artificial Intelligence
17 49 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 49 (16.07%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.80%) SQL
2 30 (9.84%) Python
3 10 (3.28%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.95%) C#
5 7 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.97%) Java
7 2 (0.66%) C++
7 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (40.00%) Degree
2 19 (6.23%) PMI Certification
2 19 (6.23%) PMP
3 11 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.64%) MBA
6 4 (1.31%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.31%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.66%) CCNP
7 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.66%) CISSP
7 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CCIE
8 1 (0.33%) ISEB
8 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.36%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.52%) QA
3 25 (8.20%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.98%) HL7
4 3 (0.98%) SLA
4 3 (0.98%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (0.66%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) HDFS
2 1 (0.33%) Postfix
2 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.64%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) Ansible
4 2 (0.66%) Grafana
4 2 (0.66%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 77 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 74 (24.26%) SAP
3 26 (8.52%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.87%) IBM
5 20 (6.56%) Concur
6 19 (6.23%) Workday
7 15 (4.92%) Google
7 15 (4.92%) OpenAI
8 12 (3.93%) Databricks
9 10 (3.28%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.62%) Oracle
11 6 (1.97%) VMware
12 5 (1.64%) Informatica
13 4 (1.31%) Aruba
13 4 (1.31%) Cisco
13 4 (1.31%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.31%) Mellanox
13 4 (1.31%) NVIDIA
13 4 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.66%) Atlassian