Lead Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Leader
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Leader salary in Cambridgeshire is £57,697 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 40
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 53 94 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.66% 5.70% 5.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.18% 6.07% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 28 64 47
10th Percentile - £40,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,375 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,697 £58,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +8.33% +13.68%
75th Percentile £78,007 £68,901 £79,375
90th Percentile £84,117 £85,000 £95,000
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 474 1,548 1,113
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.37% 93.82% 85.29%
Number of salaries quoted 305 1,184 556
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,400 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,723 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,788 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,001 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cambridgeshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in Cambridgeshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Cambridgeshire

Lead
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cambridge +2 25 £55,000 - 29
Peterborough +15 21 £63,908 +99.71% 16
Lead
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 16 (30.19%) Software Engineering
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Finance
2 14 (26.42%) C#
3 13 (24.53%) C
3 13 (24.53%) Electronics
3 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (22.64%) Middleware
4 12 (22.64%) Project Management
4 12 (22.64%) C++
4 12 (22.64%) OO
4 12 (22.64%) Degree
4 12 (22.64%) Robotics
4 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
4 12 (22.64%) Kinematics
4 12 (22.64%) Algorithms
4 12 (22.64%) Control Theory
5 11 (20.75%) QA
6 10 (18.87%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (18.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (15.09%) Customer Service
7 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (15.09%) Strategic Thinking
7 8 (15.09%) Asset Management
7 8 (15.09%) Risk Management
7 8 (15.09%) Autodesk
8 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (13.21%) VoIP
8 7 (13.21%) Workflow

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 12 (22.64%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.55%) Azure
2 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.89%) AWS
4 1 (1.89%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) VoIP
2 5 (9.43%) Unified Communications
3 3 (5.66%) Broadband
3 3 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.77%) Firewall
4 2 (3.77%) LAN
4 2 (3.77%) VLAN
4 2 (3.77%) VPN
4 2 (3.77%) WAN
5 1 (1.89%) Bluetooth
5 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Power BI
1 3 (5.66%) Tableau
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.89%) GDB
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) Jaeger
1 1 (1.89%) KGDB
1 1 (1.89%) Moq
1 1 (1.89%) NUnit
1 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Finance
3 13 (24.53%) Electronics
4 10 (18.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Back Office
6 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Automotive
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) Middleware
2 3 (5.66%) React
3 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.77%) OpenGL
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.89%) CSS
4 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.89%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) RESTful
4 1 (1.89%) Swagger
4 1 (1.89%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Algorithms
1 12 (22.64%) Robotics
2 2 (3.77%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (3.77%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Software Engineering
2 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (22.64%) Control Theory
3 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
3 12 (22.64%) OO
3 12 (22.64%) Project Management
4 10 (18.87%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (15.09%) Asset Management
5 8 (15.09%) Customer Service
5 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (15.09%) Risk Management
5 8 (15.09%) Strategic Thinking
5 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (13.21%) Workflow
6 7 (13.21%) Workflow Management
7 6 (11.32%) Analytics
7 6 (11.32%) Business Continuity
7 6 (11.32%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) C#
2 13 (24.53%) C
3 12 (22.64%) C++
4 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) Python
5 2 (3.77%) SQL
6 1 (1.89%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) A+ Certification
2 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (5.66%) SLA
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.89%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (3.77%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Ansible
2 1 (1.89%) Argo
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
2 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Autodesk
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.55%) Cisco
3 4 (7.55%) Genesys
4 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Google