Lead Jobs in Chatham

Leader
Kent > Chatham

The median Leader salary in Chatham is £90,000 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 6 9 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 4 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chatham 22.22% 13.51% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 23.53% 13.89% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 1
10th Percentile £84,750 £37,000 -
25th Percentile £88,125 £46,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £91,875 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £73,750 -
Kent median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chatham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chatham. 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 Chatham with a recognized job title 17 72 78
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 97.30% 98.73%
Number of salaries quoted 17 64 35
10th Percentile - £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £25,250 £35,563 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -11.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £87,500 £110,500
Kent median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -8.60% +3.33%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Chatham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Chatham

Lead
Salary Trend in Chatham

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

Salary trend for Lead in Chatham

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

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 Chatham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google