Lead Jobs in the East Midlands

Leader
England > East Midlands

The median Leader salary in the East Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 164 100 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.97% 5.74% 8.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.18% 5.94% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 77 79 191
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,375 £79,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 3,163 1,683 2,886
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 96.61% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 1,115 1,800
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,800 £76,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the East Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead in the East Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the East Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 December 2024. 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
Nottinghamshire +1 59 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Northamptonshire -8 50 £75,000 +11.11% 7
Leicestershire +4 29 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Lincolnshire -5 16 £27,500 -41.49% 14
Derbyshire -9 9 £43,164 -33.59% 3
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 December 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 44 (26.83%) Degree
2 36 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 33 (20.12%) Software Engineering
4 31 (18.90%) Mentoring
5 30 (18.29%) Agile
6 29 (17.68%) AWS
7 26 (15.85%) SaaS
8 22 (13.41%) C#
9 20 (12.20%) JavaScript
9 20 (12.20%) ITIL
9 20 (12.20%) Python
9 20 (12.20%) QA
10 19 (11.59%) Chartered Engineer
10 19 (11.59%) SDLC
10 19 (11.59%) .NET
10 19 (11.59%) Software Testing
10 19 (11.59%) Data Science
10 19 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.98%) SQL
12 17 (10.37%) Coaching
12 17 (10.37%) Process Improvement
12 17 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (9.76%) Node.js
13 16 (9.76%) Data Analysis
14 15 (9.15%) Scrum
15 14 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (8.54%) Retail
15 14 (8.54%) Logistics
15 14 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (7.93%) DevOps

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.22%) Sketch
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.61%) Moqups
2 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.68%) AWS
2 26 (15.85%) SaaS
3 7 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (4.27%) Azure
4 5 (3.05%) iPaaS
4 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.05%) Workato
5 4 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.44%) Boomi
5 4 (2.44%) Zapier
6 2 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.22%) Figma
6 2 (1.22%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.22%) Serverless
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.61%) GitHub
7 1 (0.61%) npm
7 1 (0.61%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.61%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) DHCP
1 1 (0.61%) DNS
1 1 (0.61%) LAN
1 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.61%) WAN
1 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (4.27%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) Selenium
3 4 (2.44%) Postman
4 2 (1.22%) Storybook
5 1 (0.61%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.61%) Babel
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
5 1 (0.61%) Xcode
General
1 36 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.54%) Retail
3 12 (7.32%) Finance
3 12 (7.32%) Law
3 12 (7.32%) Legal
4 6 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.05%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.22%) Banking
6 2 (1.22%) Billing
6 2 (1.22%) Electronics
6 2 (1.22%) Games
7 1 (0.61%) Local Government
7 1 (0.61%) Marketing
7 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.59%) .NET
2 16 (9.76%) Node.js
3 10 (6.10%) React
4 6 (3.66%) Redux
5 4 (2.44%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.83%) CSS
6 3 (1.83%) RESTful
7 2 (1.22%) Enzyme
7 2 (1.22%) Jest
7 2 (1.22%) Laravel
7 2 (1.22%) Material-UI
7 2 (1.22%) React Native
7 2 (1.22%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.61%) Kafka
8 1 (0.61%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.61%) Next.js
8 1 (0.61%) Pixi.js
8 1 (0.61%) SOAP
8 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.93%) Legacy Code
2 10 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.66%) Credit Risk
3 6 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.22%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) FMCG
8 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.61%) Online Games
8 1 (0.61%) PropTech
8 1 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Windows
2 3 (1.83%) Android
2 3 (1.83%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.61%) Linux
4 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.12%) Software Engineering
2 31 (18.90%) Mentoring
3 30 (18.29%) Agile
4 20 (12.20%) ITIL
5 19 (11.59%) Data Science
5 19 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (11.59%) SDLC
5 19 (11.59%) Software Testing
6 17 (10.37%) Coaching
6 17 (10.37%) Process Improvement
6 17 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (9.76%) Data Analysis
8 15 (9.15%) Scrum
9 14 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (8.54%) Logistics
9 14 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (7.93%) DevOps
10 13 (7.93%) Mathematics
10 13 (7.93%) Microservices
11 12 (7.32%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.41%) C#
2 20 (12.20%) JavaScript
2 20 (12.20%) Python
3 18 (10.98%) SQL
4 12 (7.32%) C++
5 11 (6.71%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.71%) VBA
6 7 (4.27%) C
7 5 (3.05%) R
8 4 (2.44%) PHP
9 2 (1.22%) Ruby
10 1 (0.61%) Ada
10 1 (0.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 44 (26.83%) Degree
2 19 (11.59%) Chartered Engineer
3 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (1.22%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.20%) QA
2 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.61%) PMO
2 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.66%) Firmware
2 3 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.83%) Terraform
2 2 (1.22%) Grafana
2 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (2.44%) Okta
1 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
1 4 (2.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.22%) Google
3 2 (1.22%) Splunk
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe
4 1 (0.61%) SAP
4 1 (0.61%) Zscaler