Lead Jobs in Coventry

Leader
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Leader salary in Coventry is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 19 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 14 19 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 4.83% 8.52% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% 8.76% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £49,250 £43,600 £43,878
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,500 £47,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -23.14% +77.08%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £67,400 £71,625
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 266 217 408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 97.31% 93.36%
Number of salaries quoted 34 153 300
10th Percentile £33,751 £26,250 £35,450
25th Percentile £46,563 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,300 £48,525
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% +5.72% +4.98%
75th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,975 £70,000 £74,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.73% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Coventry

Lead
Salary Trend in Coventry

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

Salary trend for Lead in Coventry

Lead
Salary Histogram in Coventry

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Coventry over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Coventry region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 5 (35.71%) Requirements Management
1 5 (35.71%) Rational DOORS
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
1 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
1 5 (35.71%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Emotional Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) User Research
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Open Source
4 2 (14.29%) Software Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 2 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) R

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) jQuery
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) React Native
1 1 (7.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
1 5 (35.71%) Requirements Management
1 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 4 (28.57%) Emotional Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Neural Network
4 2 (14.29%) Statistical Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) R
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Databricks