Lead Job Trends in the Channel Islands

Leader
UK > Channel Islands

The median Leader salary in the Channel Islands is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Channel Islands 29.41% - 7.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 33.33% - 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -4.61% +1.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Channel Islands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Channel Islands. 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 the Channel Islands with a recognized job title 15 30 11
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.24% 100.00% 84.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 9
10th Percentile £40,200 £22,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £49,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -45.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,000 £103,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

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

Lead job vacancy trend in the Channel Islands

Lead
Salary Trend in the Channel Islands

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in the Channel Islands.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in the Channel Islands

Lead
Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Guernsey - 1 £90,000 -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands

For the 6 months to 9 December 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 Channel Islands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) SOLID
2 1 (20.00%) SQL

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) SOLID
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes