Lead Jobs in Birmingham

Leader
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Leader salary in Birmingham is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 12 32
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 86 296 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.44% 10.06% 7.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 10.63% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 69 267 120
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,805 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +18.09% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,964 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £96,250 £82,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,261 2,784 1,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 94.60% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 715 2,248 1,343
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £84,964 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Birmingham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 33 (38.37%) Agile
2 25 (29.07%) Azure
3 21 (24.42%) DevOps
4 19 (22.09%) Mentoring
5 18 (20.93%) SQL
6 16 (18.60%) Line Management
7 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
7 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
8 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (16.28%) Law
9 13 (15.12%) Project Management
9 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
9 13 (15.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering
10 10 (11.63%) People Management
10 10 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
10 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (10.47%) JIRA
11 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
11 9 (10.47%) Finance
11 9 (10.47%) Incident Management
11 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
11 9 (10.47%) Active Directory
11 9 (10.47%) Data Modelling
12 8 (9.30%) PRINCE2
12 8 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (9.30%) QA
12 8 (9.30%) AWS

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (3.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.07%) Azure
2 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
3 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.30%) AWS
5 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.14%) PowerApps
6 6 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.98%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.49%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.49%) Route 53
9 2 (2.33%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.16%) IPsec
2 1 (1.16%) Network Security
2 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) Power BI
2 6 (6.98%) Power Query
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.65%) Metadata
3 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.49%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.16%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) JIRA
2 8 (9.30%) Git
3 5 (5.81%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.65%) Maven
5 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.49%) DbUnit
5 3 (3.49%) ERwin
5 3 (3.49%) jMock
5 3 (3.49%) JUnit
5 3 (3.49%) Mockito
5 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (16.28%) Law
2 13 (15.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (10.47%) Finance
5 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Games
6 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Electronics
7 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Billing
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) AngularJS
1 6 (6.98%) EDI
1 6 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (5.81%) Middleware
2 5 (5.81%) RESTful
2 5 (5.81%) Spring
2 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (4.65%) SOAP
3 4 (4.65%) Web Services
4 3 (3.49%) Bootstrap
4 3 (3.49%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.49%) JPA
4 3 (3.49%) PowerMock
4 3 (3.49%) React
4 3 (3.49%) Spring Batch
4 3 (3.49%) Spring Integration
5 2 (2.33%) HTML
5 2 (2.33%) LAMP
5 2 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.65%) SCADA
2 3 (3.49%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (3.49%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.49%) IoT
2 3 (3.49%) iPad
2 3 (3.49%) iPhone
2 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.33%) Acoustics
3 2 (2.33%) Animation
3 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.16%) Life Science
4 1 (1.16%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Apple iOS
1 5 (5.81%) Windows
2 3 (3.49%) Linux
3 2 (2.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.37%) Agile
2 21 (24.42%) DevOps
3 19 (22.09%) Mentoring
4 16 (18.60%) Line Management
5 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.12%) Project Management
7 10 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (11.63%) People Management
7 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
7 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.47%) Data Modelling
8 9 (10.47%) Incident Management
8 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
9 8 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (9.30%) PRINCE2
9 8 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.14%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (8.14%) Customer-Centricity
10 7 (8.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.93%) SQL
2 7 (8.14%) C#
3 6 (6.98%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) PHP
5 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.49%) Python
7 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.33%) Swift
7 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.16%) Go
8 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.81%) CITP
2 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.16%) NCSC
3 1 (1.16%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (10.47%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.14%) Docker
3 3 (3.49%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) SCCM
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.49%) Terraform
4 1 (1.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) Apple
2 7 (8.14%) HP
2 7 (8.14%) Oracle
2 7 (8.14%) SAP
3 6 (6.98%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.81%) Databricks
4 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.49%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.49%) MobileIron
5 3 (3.49%) Rockwell
5 3 (3.49%) Siemens
5 3 (3.49%) Sparx
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco
6 1 (1.16%) Google
6 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.16%) Twitter