Lead Jobs in Cardiff

Leader
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Leader salary in Cardiff is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 8 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 16 95 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 8.56% 11.88% 6.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.65% 12.57% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 89 33
10th Percentile £49,427 £48,829 £32,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 -
90th Percentile £85,500 £80,000 £74,500
South Wales median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 185 756 498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.93% 94.50% 91.38%
Number of salaries quoted 127 646 386
10th Percentile £24,162 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,101 £40,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,838 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cardiff

Lead
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Lead in Cardiff

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cardiff over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 Cardiff region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Mentoring
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) Coaching
3 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 4 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Google
5 3 (18.75%) Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Web Development
5 3 (18.75%) Google Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
5 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) JMeter
5 3 (18.75%) SEO
5 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) REST
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Git
5 3 (18.75%) BDD

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) AutoCAD
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Google Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Modbus
2 1 (6.25%) OSPF
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Looker
2 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) Appium
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) TestNG
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (25.00%) Legal
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Games
4 1 (6.25%) iGaming
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Java EE
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Mentoring
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Coaching
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) BDD
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Paid Search
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) SEO
4 3 (18.75%) Web Development
5 2 (12.50%) API Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Data Science
5 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Groovy
4 2 (12.50%) R
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CISA
2 1 (6.25%) CISM
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) CRISC
2 1 (6.25%) HNC
2 1 (6.25%) HND
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Iperf
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Ahrefs
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
61 Lead jobs in South Wales