Lead Jobs in the East Midlands

Leader
England > East Midlands

The median Leader salary in the East Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 23 50
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 112 319 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.17% 6.61% 5.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.40% 6.98% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 76 223 96
10th Percentile £31,125 £31,350 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,214 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -10.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -5.41% -1.33%

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 2,544 4,571 2,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 94.72% 88.70%
Number of salaries quoted 997 3,254 1,275
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.84% +6.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Derbyshire +3 26 £35,000 -41.67% 189
Northamptonshire -29 25 £65,000 +40.54% 94
Nottinghamshire -18 23 £65,000 +8.33% 104
Lincolnshire +4 22 £68,750 +105.22% 91
Leicestershire -32 15 £54,960 -8.40% 102
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 East Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 31 (27.68%) Mentoring
2 27 (24.11%) Degree
2 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
3 24 (21.43%) Finance
4 23 (20.54%) AWS
4 23 (20.54%) SaaS
5 22 (19.64%) Systems Engineering
6 21 (18.75%) Azure
6 21 (18.75%) C#
7 20 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (16.96%) Windows
9 18 (16.07%) JavaScript
9 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.18%) ITIL
10 17 (15.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.29%) Agile
12 15 (13.39%) Driving Licence
13 13 (11.61%) Rational DOORS
13 13 (11.61%) Requirements Management
13 13 (11.61%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (11.61%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.71%) Line Management
14 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
15 11 (9.82%) ERP
15 11 (9.82%) SQL
15 11 (9.82%) ITSM
16 10 (8.93%) Linux
16 10 (8.93%) SDLC
16 10 (8.93%) Organisational Skills

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 2 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.89%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.89%) Moqups
2 1 (0.89%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Magento
1 8 (7.14%) Shopify
2 4 (3.57%) Infor LN
2 4 (3.57%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.89%) Maximo
4 1 (0.89%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) AWS
1 23 (20.54%) SaaS
2 21 (18.75%) Azure
3 20 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.04%) PaaS
5 8 (7.14%) BigCommerce
6 2 (1.79%) OCI
6 2 (1.79%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.89%) Datadog
7 1 (0.89%) Figma
7 1 (0.89%) Google Play
7 1 (0.89%) IaaS
7 1 (0.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.25%) 3G
2 7 (6.25%) 4G
2 7 (6.25%) ADSL
3 4 (3.57%) Broadband
4 2 (1.79%) Firewall
4 2 (1.79%) LAN
4 2 (1.79%) WAN
4 2 (1.79%) Wireless
5 1 (0.89%) 5G
5 1 (0.89%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.89%) Internet
5 1 (0.89%) LTE
5 1 (0.89%) Modbus
5 1 (0.89%) MQTT
5 1 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.89%) VLAN
5 1 (0.89%) VPN
5 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.46%) Tableau
3 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (11.61%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.57%) Selenium
3 2 (1.79%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.89%) Appium
4 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.89%) Git
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) JIRA
4 1 (0.89%) JMeter
4 1 (0.89%) JUnit
4 1 (0.89%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.89%) Maven
4 1 (0.89%) Postman
4 1 (0.89%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.89%) TestNG
General
1 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.43%) Finance
3 13 (11.61%) Influencing Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Retail
6 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.46%) Banking
8 4 (3.57%) Police
8 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.68%) Law
9 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.68%) Marketing
9 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.79%) Aviation
10 2 (1.79%) Electronics
10 2 (1.79%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.89%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) .NET
1 8 (7.14%) HTML
2 3 (2.68%) Node.js
2 3 (2.68%) React
2 3 (2.68%) REST
2 3 (2.68%) SOAP
3 2 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.89%) Enzyme
4 1 (0.89%) Jest
4 1 (0.89%) JSON
4 1 (0.89%) Kafka
4 1 (0.89%) MACH
4 1 (0.89%) Next.js
4 1 (0.89%) Spring
4 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.39%) Driving Licence
2 8 (7.14%) EPoS
3 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.68%) IoT
7 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.79%) SCADA
8 1 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.89%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.96%) Windows
2 10 (8.93%) Linux
3 9 (8.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.68%) Mentoring
2 22 (19.64%) Systems Engineering
3 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
4 17 (15.18%) ITIL
5 16 (14.29%) Agile
5 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (11.61%) Requirements Management
6 13 (11.61%) Roadmaps
7 12 (10.71%) Line Management
8 11 (9.82%) ERP
8 11 (9.82%) ITSM
9 10 (8.93%) SDLC
10 9 (8.04%) Coaching
10 9 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.04%) Front End Development
10 9 (8.04%) Logistics
10 9 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (7.14%) Data Privacy
11 8 (7.14%) E-Commerce
11 8 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.75%) C#
2 18 (16.07%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.82%) SQL
4 8 (7.14%) Delphi
5 7 (6.25%) Python
6 4 (3.57%) Java
7 3 (2.68%) Bash
7 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.79%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) Groovy
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Degree
2 17 (15.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (7.14%) CCNP
3 8 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.25%) CCNA
4 7 (6.25%) MCP
4 7 (6.25%) MCSA
4 7 (6.25%) MCSE
4 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.57%) ACCA
6 4 (3.57%) CIMA
6 4 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.79%) ISEB
7 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) GAAP
2 4 (3.57%) IFRS
2 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.79%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.68%) Ansible
2 3 (2.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.79%) Argo
3 2 (1.79%) Kustomize
3 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.89%) Puppet
4 1 (0.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) SAP
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.57%) Cognos
5 4 (3.57%) Infor
5 4 (3.57%) VMware
6 3 (2.68%) Google
7 2 (1.79%) IBM
8 1 (0.89%) Adobe
8 1 (0.89%) Apple
8 1 (0.89%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.89%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.89%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.89%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.89%) Siemens
8 1 (0.89%) Splunk