Lead Jobs in Cumbria

Leader
North West > Cumbria

The median Leader salary in Cumbria is £70,000 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 23 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 179 31 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 8.80% 6.14% 11.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.03% 6.51% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16 24 13
10th Percentile £45,628 £31,000 -
25th Percentile £58,282 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% +35.56% -54.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £81,875 - -
North West median annual salary £57,560 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.77% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cumbria

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cumbria. 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 Cumbria with a recognized job title 1,983 476 192
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.44% 94.26% 99.48%
Number of salaries quoted 955 363 91
10th Percentile £7,000 £26,600 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,628 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £59,150
90th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £70,600
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cumbria

Lead
Salary Trend in Cumbria

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

Salary trend for Lead in Cumbria

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cumbria

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cumbria over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Cumbria

Lead
Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Barrow-in-Furness -1 28 £45,628 - 6
Dalton-in-Furness - 21 - -
Grange-over-Sands - 21 - -
Broughton-in-Furness -16 20 - -
Millom - 20 - - 3
Ulverston - 20 - - 1
Kirkby-in-Furness - 19 - -
Penrith - 6 £72,500 -
Carlisle - 4 £70,000 -
Lead
North West

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

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 Cumbria region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 160 (89.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 142 (79.33%) Manufacturing
3 104 (58.10%) Six Sigma
3 104 (58.10%) Coaching
4 80 (44.69%) Lean Manufacturing
4 80 (44.69%) ISO 9001
4 80 (44.69%) HND
4 80 (44.69%) CMMI
4 80 (44.69%) AQAP
4 80 (44.69%) Zero Defects
5 62 (34.64%) PLM
6 58 (32.40%) Enterprise Architecture
6 58 (32.40%) JIRA
6 58 (32.40%) SAP
6 58 (32.40%) ERP
6 58 (32.40%) CAD
6 58 (32.40%) Siemens
6 58 (32.40%) Confluence
6 58 (32.40%) Business Strategy
7 57 (31.84%) Agile
8 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (15.64%) Project Delivery
8 28 (15.64%) Mentoring
9 24 (13.41%) Cost Management
9 24 (13.41%) Lean Six Sigma
9 24 (13.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 24 (13.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 24 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (13.41%) Degree
9 24 (13.41%) Change Management

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

Application Platforms
1 58 (32.40%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.59%) Azure
2 9 (5.03%) GitHub
3 1 (0.56%) AWS
3 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (0.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (32.40%) JIRA
2 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.03%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (79.33%) Manufacturing
2 24 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.03%) Finance
4 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.47%) ADO
2 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (58.10%) Coaching
1 104 (58.10%) Six Sigma
2 80 (44.69%) CMMI
2 80 (44.69%) Lean Manufacturing
2 80 (44.69%) Zero Defects
3 62 (34.64%) PLM
4 58 (32.40%) Business Strategy
4 58 (32.40%) CAD
4 58 (32.40%) Enterprise Architecture
4 58 (32.40%) ERP
5 57 (31.84%) Agile
6 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (15.64%) Mentoring
6 28 (15.64%) Project Delivery
7 24 (13.41%) Change Management
7 24 (13.41%) Cost Management
7 24 (13.41%) Lean Six Sigma
8 11 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (5.59%) CI/CD
9 10 (5.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.59%) Bash
1 10 (5.59%) Bicep
1 10 (5.59%) Python
2 9 (5.03%) Ruby
3 1 (0.56%) Go
3 1 (0.56%) Java
3 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 160 (89.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 80 (44.69%) HND
3 24 (13.41%) Degree
3 24 (13.41%) HNC
3 24 (13.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 24 (13.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (44.69%) AQAP
1 80 (44.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.15%) Terraform
2 10 (5.59%) Ansible
3 9 (5.03%) Progress Chef
3 9 (5.03%) Puppet
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (32.40%) SAP
1 58 (32.40%) Siemens
2 1 (0.56%) Google