Lead Jobs in Bristol

Leader
South West > Bristol

The median Leader salary in Bristol is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 38 52
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 288 188 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 9.30% 7.05% 5.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.60% 7.59% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 238 156 147
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,633
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,870 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £89,000 £76,520
90th Percentile £90,000 £117,236 £89,800
South West median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 2,999 2,476 3,213
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 92.87% 98.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 1,556 2,224
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,719 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +9.20% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Bristol

Lead
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Lead in Bristol

Lead
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Bristol region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 73 (25.35%) Agile
2 67 (23.26%) Security Cleared
3 64 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 56 (19.44%) Azure
5 53 (18.40%) Degree
6 48 (16.67%) AWS
7 46 (15.97%) SQL
8 42 (14.58%) Finance
9 34 (11.81%) Software Engineering
9 34 (11.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (11.46%) Java
11 32 (11.11%) Algorithms
11 32 (11.11%) DevOps
12 31 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (10.76%) Mathematics
13 30 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (10.42%) Mentoring
14 27 (9.38%) Coaching
15 26 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (9.03%) C#
16 25 (8.68%) QA
16 25 (8.68%) CI/CD
17 22 (7.64%) Project Management
18 21 (7.29%) JavaScript
18 21 (7.29%) Oracle
18 21 (7.29%) Microsoft
18 21 (7.29%) Test Automation
18 21 (7.29%) SC Cleared
18 21 (7.29%) Machine Learning
19 17 (5.90%) Manufacturing

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
2 4 (1.39%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.04%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Mule
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.43%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (1.39%) Simulink
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.43%) HFM
1 7 (2.43%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.44%) Azure
2 48 (16.67%) AWS
3 16 (5.56%) GCP
4 14 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.43%) OCI
5 7 (2.43%) Serverless
6 6 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.08%) Slack
7 5 (1.74%) SaaS
8 4 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) GitHub
9 2 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.69%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.69%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.43%) DNS
1 7 (2.43%) SSL
1 7 (2.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.08%) Firewall
2 6 (2.08%) Telepresence
3 4 (1.39%) BGP
4 3 (1.04%) SAN
4 3 (1.04%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.69%) MPLS
5 2 (0.69%) Multicast
5 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.69%) VPN
5 2 (0.69%) WAN
5 2 (0.69%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.35%) Broadband
6 1 (0.35%) IKE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.86%) Data Lake
1 14 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.43%) Big Data
4 7 (2.43%) Essbase
4 7 (2.43%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.43%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.39%) Flink
6 4 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.39%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.39%) Power BI
7 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.04%) MySQL
7 3 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (3.82%) JIRA
2 8 (2.78%) Git
2 8 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (2.78%) Selenium
3 7 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.08%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.39%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.58%) Finance
3 17 (5.90%) Manufacturing
4 16 (5.56%) Banking
5 11 (3.82%) Law
6 8 (2.78%) Retail
7 6 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.74%) Marketing
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.04%) Electronics
10 3 (1.04%) Legal
10 3 (1.04%) Polish Language
10 3 (1.04%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.69%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.56%) .NET
2 15 (5.21%) Spring
2 15 (5.21%) Spring Boot
3 12 (4.17%) RESTful
4 11 (3.82%) CSS
5 10 (3.47%) HTML
6 9 (3.13%) Node.js
6 9 (3.13%) React
7 7 (2.43%) Kafka
7 7 (2.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (2.08%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.39%) Apache Beam
9 4 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (1.39%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.04%) REST
10 3 (1.04%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 3 (1.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 9 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.78%) NHS
4 7 (2.43%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.08%) Digital Signage
5 6 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.69%) IoT
8 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.69%) Smart Home
9 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.86%) Windows
2 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.39%) Linux
3 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.69%) Android
4 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (25.35%) Agile
2 34 (11.81%) Software Engineering
3 32 (11.11%) DevOps
4 31 (10.76%) Mathematics
4 31 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
5 30 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (10.42%) Mentoring
6 27 (9.38%) Coaching
7 26 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (8.68%) CI/CD
9 22 (7.64%) Project Management
10 21 (7.29%) Machine Learning
10 21 (7.29%) Test Automation
11 17 (5.90%) Actionable Insight
11 17 (5.90%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (5.90%) Microservices
12 16 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
13 14 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 14 (4.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (15.97%) SQL
2 33 (11.46%) Java
3 26 (9.03%) C#
4 21 (7.29%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.21%) Python
6 11 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.43%) C++
7 7 (2.43%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.74%) Go
9 4 (1.39%) C
9 4 (1.39%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.39%) Scala
10 3 (1.04%) Ada
10 3 (1.04%) XAML
11 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.69%) PHP
11 2 (0.69%) Swift
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 67 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.40%) Degree
3 34 (11.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (7.29%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.51%) CISSP
5 13 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.13%) CISM
7 8 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.74%) CEH
8 5 (1.74%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.39%) CISA
9 4 (1.39%) GSEC
9 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) OSCP
10 2 (0.69%) CCDA
10 2 (0.69%) CCDP
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.68%) QA
2 9 (3.13%) Def Stans
3 6 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.08%) GMP
3 6 (2.08%) IEC 61508
3 6 (2.08%) JSP 440
3 6 (2.08%) NCSC
3 6 (2.08%) RMADS
4 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.74%) NIST
5 4 (1.39%) MISRA
5 4 (1.39%) MISRA C
6 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.04%) DO-178B
6 3 (1.04%) WCAG
7 2 (0.69%) DO-254
7 2 (0.69%) GDPR
8 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.08%) ServiceCenter
3 3 (1.04%) Terraform
4 2 (0.69%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (7.29%) Microsoft
1 21 (7.29%) Oracle
2 11 (3.82%) Google
3 7 (2.43%) Hyperion
4 6 (2.08%) HP
5 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.74%) VMware
6 4 (1.39%) Cisco
6 4 (1.39%) EMC
6 4 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (1.39%) Sparx
6 4 (1.39%) Teradata
7 3 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (0.69%) Dell
8 2 (0.69%) Meraki