Lead Job Trends in Derbyshire

Leader
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Leader salary in Derbyshire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 37 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 34 5 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 6.71% 1.78% 6.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.46% 1.84% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 8
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,915 £40,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,697 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -36.84% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,125 £74,688
90th Percentile £65,550 £56,400 £79,000
East Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 456 272 224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 96.80% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 230 165 154
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £24,572
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £28,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £69,400
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -2.91%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Lead job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Derbyshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Derbyshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Derbyshire

Lead
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Derby +5 20 £52,500 +16.67% 61
Chesterfield - 7 £54,000 - 62
Matlock - 5 £40,000 -
Lead
East Midlands

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire

For the 6 months to 31 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 Derbyshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
2 9 (26.47%) Coaching
3 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (20.59%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
5 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.71%) Docker
5 5 (14.71%) High Availability
5 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
5 5 (14.71%) Linux
5 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
5 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (11.76%) Business Strategy
6 4 (11.76%) Change Advisory Board
6 4 (11.76%) Cyber Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 4 (11.76%) Line Management
6 4 (11.76%) NIST
6 4 (11.76%) Oracle
6 4 (11.76%) Oracle Database
6 4 (11.76%) SABSA
6 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
6 4 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) SaaS
2 1 (2.94%) AWS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
2 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Jaeger
1 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 6 (17.65%) Aeronautics
1 6 (17.65%) Aerospace
1 6 (17.65%) Automotive
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Games
3 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
1 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
1 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Operational Technology
2 4 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
2 9 (26.47%) Coaching
3 7 (20.59%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
5 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.71%) High Availability
5 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (11.76%) Business Strategy
6 4 (11.76%) Change Advisory Board
6 4 (11.76%) Cyber Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Line Management
6 4 (11.76%) SABSA
6 4 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (11.76%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 4 (11.76%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.94%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
3 2 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Argo
2 1 (2.94%) Kustomize
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Databricks
2 1 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.94%) NEC
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce