Lead Jobs in Chesterfield

Leader
Derbyshire > Chesterfield

The median Leader salary in Chesterfield is £52,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 4 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chesterfield 7.55% 5.06% 7.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% 5.56% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £36,575 - -
25th Percentile £44,563 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +48.15% -
75th Percentile £57,000 - £42,250
90th Percentile £58,800 - -
Derbyshire median annual salary £35,000 £60,000 £47,365
% change year-on-year -41.67% +26.68% +10.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chesterfield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chesterfield. 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 Chesterfield with a recognized job title 52 72 54
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.11% 91.14% 61.36%
Number of salaries quoted 33 49 34
10th Percentile £25,625 £18,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £27,000 £29,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -10.27% +2.78%
75th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,200 £51,000 £66,375
Derbyshire median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.76%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Chesterfield

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Chesterfield

Lead
Salary Trend in Chesterfield

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

Salary trend for Lead in Chesterfield

Lead
Salary Histogram in Chesterfield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Chesterfield over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Chesterfield

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Chesterfield region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chesterfield 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware