Lead Jobs in Cambridge

Leader
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Leader salary in Cambridge is £54,225 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 21 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 74 45 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.51% 4.48% 4.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.73% 5.24% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46 19 39
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,800 £43,269
25th Percentile £43,781 £66,875 £59,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,225 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.27% +17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £68,901 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 - £97,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +13.68% -32.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 957 859 1,516
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.06% 85.47% 93.12%
Number of salaries quoted 737 403 591
10th Percentile £30,850 £30,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cambridge

Lead
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Lead in Cambridge

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Cambridge

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

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 Cambridge region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Degree
3 15 (20.27%) Line Management
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Python
5 9 (12.16%) Biotechnology
5 9 (12.16%) Life Science
5 9 (12.16%) PhD
5 9 (12.16%) SQL
5 9 (12.16%) Bioinformatics
5 9 (12.16%) Data Science
6 8 (10.81%) Games
6 8 (10.81%) Finance
6 8 (10.81%) ERP
6 8 (10.81%) Project Management
7 7 (9.46%) Agile
7 7 (9.46%) Open Source
7 7 (9.46%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.11%) Docker
8 6 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (6.76%) Internet
9 5 (6.76%) Oracle
9 5 (6.76%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (6.76%) Service Delivery
9 5 (6.76%) Data Management
9 5 (6.76%) DevOps
9 5 (6.76%) IoT

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (1.35%) Drupal
1 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (4.05%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.76%) AWS
2 3 (4.05%) SaaS
3 1 (1.35%) GCP
3 1 (1.35%) GitHub
3 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.70%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Big Data
3 1 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) GitLab
1 2 (2.70%) Phabricator
General
1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Games
4 4 (5.41%) Agriculture
4 4 (5.41%) Law
5 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) .NET
1 3 (4.05%) CryEngine
1 3 (4.05%) CSS
1 3 (4.05%) DirectX
1 3 (4.05%) HTML
1 3 (4.05%) Node.js
1 3 (4.05%) OpenID
1 3 (4.05%) SAML
1 3 (4.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 3 (4.05%) Unreal Engine
1 3 (4.05%) Vulkan
2 2 (2.70%) Django
3 1 (1.35%) Electron
3 1 (1.35%) Flask
3 1 (1.35%) Laravel
3 1 (1.35%) React
3 1 (1.35%) REST
3 1 (1.35%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Life Science
2 5 (6.76%) IoT
3 4 (5.41%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Ray Tracing
5 1 (1.35%) Blog
5 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.27%) Line Management
2 9 (12.16%) Bioinformatics
2 9 (12.16%) Biotechnology
2 9 (12.16%) Data Science
3 8 (10.81%) ERP
3 8 (10.81%) Project Management
4 7 (9.46%) Agile
4 7 (9.46%) Decision-Making
4 7 (9.46%) Open Source
5 6 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
5 6 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (6.76%) Data Engineering
6 5 (6.76%) Data Management
6 5 (6.76%) DevOps
6 5 (6.76%) Service Delivery
6 5 (6.76%) Stakeholder Analysis
7 4 (5.41%) People Management
7 4 (5.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.22%) Python
2 9 (12.16%) SQL
3 4 (5.41%) C#
4 3 (4.05%) C
4 3 (4.05%) Embedded C
5 2 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) PHP
6 1 (1.35%) Ruby
6 1 (1.35%) Rust
6 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) PhD
3 4 (5.41%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) COBIT
1 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Ansible
1 2 (2.70%) Grafana
1 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) Oracle
2 4 (5.41%) Cognos
2 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft