Lead Jobs in the East of England

Leader
England > East of England

The median Leader salary in the East of England is £70,000 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 36 35 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 115 360 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.73% 6.27% 7.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.01% 6.66% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 91 178 204
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £88,375
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 of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,914 5,405 5,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 94.20% 92.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,661 2,945
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £26,100
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £73,750
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the East of England

Lead
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Lead in the East of England

Lead
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Lead in the East of England

Lead
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +14 42 £70,000 -12.50% 56
Cambridgeshire +14 30 £47,500 +14.46% 65
Essex +17 29 £71,000 +16.39% 17
Bedfordshire +11 10 £59,500 -16.49% 16
Norfolk -3 3 £65,000 +4.00% 12
Suffolk +9 1 £55,000 +23.60% 6
Lead
England

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

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 of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 43 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) DevOps
3 23 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 22 (19.13%) Agile
5 20 (17.39%) Azure
6 19 (16.52%) Linux
7 18 (15.65%) Finance
7 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.78%) Windows
9 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
10 14 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (11.30%) Degree
11 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (11.30%) Line Management
11 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (10.43%) Network Security
13 11 (9.57%) C#
13 11 (9.57%) Docker
13 11 (9.57%) Kubernetes
14 10 (8.70%) Information Security
14 10 (8.70%) Firewall
14 10 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.70%) AWS
14 10 (8.70%) SIEM
15 9 (7.83%) Security Testing
15 9 (7.83%) Manufacturing
15 9 (7.83%) MySQL
15 9 (7.83%) Terraform
15 9 (7.83%) Application Security

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) IIS
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) iTrent
2 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.87%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.39%) Azure
2 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.70%) AWS
4 7 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.74%) IaaS
6 2 (1.74%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.74%) SaaS
7 1 (0.87%) GCP
7 1 (0.87%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.87%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.87%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) Network Security
2 10 (8.70%) Firewall
3 2 (1.74%) LAN
3 2 (1.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) MySQL
2 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.35%) Tableau
4 4 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.48%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.61%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) Big Data
7 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) Looker
7 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) JIRA
2 6 (5.22%) LabVIEW
3 4 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.48%) Maven
4 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.87%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.87%) Git
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.87%) NUnit
5 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.83%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.22%) Aviation
6 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Legal
7 4 (3.48%) Marketing
8 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Automotive
9 2 (1.74%) Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Games
9 2 (1.74%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Electronics
10 1 (0.87%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.09%) RESTful
2 5 (4.35%) .NET
2 5 (4.35%) ADO
2 5 (4.35%) Nuxt
3 4 (3.48%) HTML
3 4 (3.48%) React
3 4 (3.48%) Spring
3 4 (3.48%) Vue
4 3 (2.61%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.61%) CSS
4 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.74%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.74%) HTML5
5 2 (1.74%) Node.js
5 2 (1.74%) WPF
6 1 (0.87%) Middleware
6 1 (0.87%) SOAP
6 1 (0.87%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.74%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.87%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.87%) IoT
5 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.52%) Linux
2 17 (14.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.87%) Android
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (20.87%) DevOps
2 22 (19.13%) Agile
3 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
5 14 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (11.30%) Line Management
7 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.70%) Information Security
7 10 (8.70%) SIEM
8 9 (7.83%) Application Security
8 9 (7.83%) CI/CD
8 9 (7.83%) Customer Experience
8 9 (7.83%) Decision-Making
8 9 (7.83%) Incident Response
8 9 (7.83%) Security Testing
9 8 (6.96%) Coaching
9 8 (6.96%) Customer Service
9 8 (6.96%) Microservices
9 8 (6.96%) Visualisation
9 8 (6.96%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.57%) C#
2 8 (6.96%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.09%) Ruby
3 7 (6.09%) SQL
3 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.22%) C++
4 6 (5.22%) MATLAB
5 5 (4.35%) Java
6 3 (2.61%) Python
7 1 (0.87%) PHP
7 1 (0.87%) XAML
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Degree
2 7 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.48%) CISSP
4 3 (2.61%) CISM
4 3 (2.61%) OSCP
4 3 (2.61%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.74%) CCSP
5 2 (1.74%) CEH
5 2 (1.74%) CISA
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) CISMP
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.87%) GIAC
6 1 (0.87%) ISEB
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) COBIT
3 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (9.57%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.83%) Terraform
3 8 (6.96%) Puppet
4 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.09%) SAP
3 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco
5 2 (1.74%) Cognos
5 2 (1.74%) IBM
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle
5 2 (1.74%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (0.87%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.87%) BMC
6 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.87%) Remedy
6 1 (0.87%) Sage
6 1 (0.87%) Splunk
6 1 (0.87%) Workday