Lead Job Trends in Bridgend

Leader
South Wales > Bridgend

The median Leader salary in Bridgend is £29,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 10 35
Rank change year-on-year -8 +25 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgend 4.29% 2.04% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.48% 2.04% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £30,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £29,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +1.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bridgend

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bridgend. 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 Bridgend with a recognized job title 67 49 91
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.71% 100.00% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54 31 26
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,000 £32,620
25th Percentile £33,500 £28,000 £40,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £31,500 £43,190
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.07% +31.42%
75th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £62,188
90th Percentile - £50,000 £67,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -0.52%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bridgend.

Lead job vacancy trend in Bridgend

Lead
Salary Trend in Bridgend

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Bridgend.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Bridgend

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bridgend region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Appium
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) QA