Lead Jobs in Devon

Leader
South West > Devon

The median Leader salary in Devon is £63,597 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 37 36 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 26 46 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 5.23% 4.83% 5.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.12% 5.06% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6 34 19
10th Percentile £48,894 £41,441 £37,259
25th Percentile £50,618 - £37,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,597 £50,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.19% +24.22% +0.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,069 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,125 £74,041 £72,195
South West median annual salary £72,500 £60,202 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.43% -10.81% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Devon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 425 909 493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.51% 95.38% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 206 698 387
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £30,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,001 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,375 £65,000 £61,039
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Devon

Lead
Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for Lead in Devon

Lead
Salary Histogram in Devon

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Devon

Lead
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Devon 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
Paignton +6 8 - -
Plymouth +7 5 £57,194 +14.39% 4
Lead
South West

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

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 Devon region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 19 (73.08%) Degree
2 17 (65.38%) Computer Science
3 16 (61.54%) Product Management
3 16 (61.54%) Mentoring
4 13 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
5 12 (46.15%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (46.15%) SD-WAN
5 12 (46.15%) 5G
5 12 (46.15%) Agile
5 12 (46.15%) WAN
5 12 (46.15%) B2B
5 12 (46.15%) Self-Driving Car
6 11 (42.31%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (42.31%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
8 8 (30.77%) Validation
8 8 (30.77%) Programme Management
8 8 (30.77%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (30.77%) Broadband
8 8 (30.77%) Project Management
8 8 (30.77%) Electronics
8 8 (30.77%) Creative Thinking
8 8 (30.77%) Innovative Thinking
8 8 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (30.77%) PMO
8 8 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (30.77%) Test Assurance

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Pulumi
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) 5G
1 12 (46.15%) SD-WAN
1 12 (46.15%) WAN
2 8 (30.77%) Broadband
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jaeger
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 12 (46.15%) Presentation Skills
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Electronics
2 8 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Military
3 4 (15.38%) Retail
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Games
5 2 (7.69%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) LAMP
2 2 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (3.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Self-Driving Car
2 8 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Computer Science
2 16 (61.54%) Mentoring
2 16 (61.54%) Product Management
3 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 12 (46.15%) Agile
4 12 (46.15%) B2B
5 11 (42.31%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (42.31%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) Conflict Resolution
7 8 (30.77%) Creative Thinking
7 8 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
7 8 (30.77%) Innovative Thinking
7 8 (30.77%) Programme Management
7 8 (30.77%) Project Delivery
7 8 (30.77%) Project Management
7 8 (30.77%) Requirements Analysis
7 8 (30.77%) Validation
7 8 (30.77%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) C++
3 4 (15.38%) MATLAB
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 3 (11.54%) Go
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) PMO
2 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
1 3 (11.54%) Argo
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Kustomize
1 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google