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 to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 35 24 51
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 101 270 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.77% 9.02% 5.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.97% 9.35% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 78 193 140
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,400 £37,375
25th Percentile £56,563 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75,313 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,375 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,693 2,889 3,296
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.74% 96.49% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 1,809 2,243
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,688 £37,828 £34,242
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,750 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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
Leicestershire -5 34 £65,000 +36.84% 16
Northamptonshire +7 29 £67,500 -3.57% 6
Nottinghamshire -5 23 £67,500 +3.85% 19
Derbyshire -5 8 £65,000 -13.33% 12
Lincolnshire -1 2 £54,750 -21.79% 8
Rutland - 2 £36,000 - 1
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 48 (47.52%) Agile
2 42 (41.58%) Azure
2 42 (41.58%) DevOps
3 30 (29.70%) CI/CD
4 29 (28.71%) Test Automation
5 27 (26.73%) Mentoring
5 27 (26.73%) SQL
5 27 (26.73%) Microsoft
5 27 (26.73%) Social Skills
6 25 (24.75%) C#
7 24 (23.76%) .NET
7 24 (23.76%) Coaching
7 24 (23.76%) AWS
8 22 (21.78%) Finance
9 21 (20.79%) MVC
9 21 (20.79%) Scrum
9 21 (20.79%) SQL Server
10 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
10 19 (18.81%) SOLID
10 19 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (17.82%) Design Patterns
12 17 (16.83%) Unit Testing
12 17 (16.83%) .NET Core
12 17 (16.83%) T-SQL
12 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
13 16 (15.84%) Code Coverage
13 16 (15.84%) QA
14 15 (14.85%) Line Management
14 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.98%) JBoss
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.99%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) SAP CO
1 3 (2.97%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.97%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.98%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.99%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.99%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.58%) Azure
2 24 (23.76%) AWS
3 19 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.91%) Azure Pipelines
5 5 (4.95%) GCP
6 4 (3.96%) SaaS
7 3 (2.97%) IaaS
7 3 (2.97%) PaaS
8 2 (1.98%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.98%) Serverless
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) AMQP
1 2 (1.98%) DHCP
1 2 (1.98%) DNS
1 2 (1.98%) Internet
1 2 (1.98%) Wireless
2 1 (0.99%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.97%) Flink
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.99%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Terragrunt
2 2 (1.98%) GitLab
2 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) Maven
3 1 (0.99%) Selenium
3 1 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.78%) Finance
3 10 (9.90%) Manufacturing
4 9 (8.91%) Retail
5 6 (5.94%) Back Office
6 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Law
7 4 (3.96%) Aviation
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.76%) .NET
2 17 (16.83%) .NET Core
3 14 (13.86%) .NET Framework
4 12 (11.88%) Entity Framework
5 11 (10.89%) jQuery
6 10 (9.90%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (9.90%) React
6 10 (9.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 9 (8.91%) CSS
7 9 (8.91%) HTML
8 8 (7.92%) ASP.NET
8 8 (7.92%) REST
9 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (3.96%) Kafka
10 4 (3.96%) Node.js
10 4 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.97%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.97%) JSON
11 3 (2.97%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.97%) PMI
3 2 (1.98%) RIA
4 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.99%) FMCG
4 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.99%) Smart Meter
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.87%) Linux
2 12 (11.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Android
3 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
4 1 (0.99%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (47.52%) Agile
2 42 (41.58%) DevOps
3 30 (29.70%) CI/CD
4 29 (28.71%) Test Automation
5 27 (26.73%) Mentoring
6 24 (23.76%) Coaching
7 21 (20.79%) MVC
7 21 (20.79%) Scrum
8 19 (18.81%) SOLID
9 18 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (17.82%) Design Patterns
10 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
10 17 (16.83%) Unit Testing
11 16 (15.84%) Code Coverage
12 15 (14.85%) Line Management
12 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (13.86%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (11.88%) Microservices
15 11 (10.89%) TDD
16 10 (9.90%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.73%) SQL
2 25 (24.75%) C#
3 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.83%) T-SQL
5 7 (6.93%) Java
6 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.99%) C++
7 1 (0.99%) PHP
7 1 (0.99%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (5.94%) Degree
2 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.96%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.98%) ISEB
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.99%) CFA
4 1 (0.99%) CIMA
4 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.84%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.97%) NCSC
2 3 (2.97%) NIST
3 2 (1.98%) PMO
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (8.91%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.93%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.93%) Terraform
2 5 (4.95%) Ansible
3 1 (0.99%) Grafana
3 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) SAP
3 4 (3.96%) Oracle
4 3 (2.97%) IBM
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) Splunk