Lead Jobs in the East of England

Leader
England > East of England

The median Leader salary in the East of England is £58,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 25 60
Rank change year-on-year -24 +35 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 207 411 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.07% 5.97% 4.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 6.34% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 121 311 127
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £93,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 3,207 6,478 3,827
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 94.09% 82.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 4,903 2,043
10th Percentile £27,325 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,392 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,259
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.88% +0.43%

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 15 June 2025.

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 15 June 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
Hertfordshire -6 82 £62,000 - 97
Cambridgeshire +9 58 £55,000 -8.33% 46
Essex 0 34 £32,500 -45.83% 25
Norfolk +26 19 £60,000 +16.21% 12
Suffolk -46 13 £53,000 +32.50% 8
Bedfordshire -32 1 £80,000 +16.36% 25
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 85 (41.06%) Mentoring
2 66 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 52 (25.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (22.22%) DevOps
5 45 (21.74%) Roadmaps
6 42 (20.29%) Coaching
7 41 (19.81%) High Availability
7 41 (19.81%) Product Management
7 41 (19.81%) AWS
7 41 (19.81%) Java
7 41 (19.81%) Broadband
7 41 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (18.36%) Agile
9 36 (17.39%) Project Management
10 34 (16.43%) Python
10 34 (16.43%) Degree
10 34 (16.43%) Bash
10 34 (16.43%) Relational Database
11 32 (15.46%) Security Cleared
12 30 (14.49%) JavaScript
12 30 (14.49%) C#
12 30 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (14.01%) Line Management
14 28 (13.53%) Linux
14 28 (13.53%) Microsoft
15 27 (13.04%) Resource Management
15 27 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (13.04%) AWS Certification
15 27 (13.04%) Terraform
16 26 (12.56%) Elastic Stack

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 13 (6.28%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Infor LN
1 4 (1.93%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 41 (19.81%) AWS
2 26 (12.56%) Pulumi
3 20 (9.66%) Azure
4 18 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.25%) AWS CodePipeline
5 15 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (7.25%) SaaS
5 15 (7.25%) Serverless
6 14 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (6.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (6.76%) AWS CodeBuild
6 14 (6.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 14 (6.76%) AWS Step Functions
6 14 (6.76%) Boomi
7 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.81%) Broadband
2 11 (5.31%) LAN
2 11 (5.31%) WAN
3 10 (4.83%) Firewall
3 10 (4.83%) VPN
4 9 (4.35%) FTP
4 9 (4.35%) HTTP
4 9 (4.35%) SMTP
4 9 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.86%) Network Security
6 7 (3.38%) VoIP
7 6 (2.90%) Internet
8 5 (2.42%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.48%) H.323
10 1 (0.48%) VLAN
10 1 (0.48%) VSAN
10 1 (0.48%) WebEx
10 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.43%) Relational Database
2 26 (12.56%) NoSQL
2 26 (12.56%) RDBMS
3 18 (8.70%) Power BI
4 16 (7.73%) Big Data
5 9 (4.35%) Tableau
6 5 (2.42%) Power Query
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (12.56%) Jaeger
2 4 (1.93%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.97%) JIRA
4 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.48%) GDB
4 1 (0.48%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) KGDB
4 1 (0.48%) Moq
4 1 (0.48%) NUnit
4 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.48%) Xcode
General
1 66 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (12.56%) Finance
4 17 (8.21%) Law
5 16 (7.73%) Electronics
6 15 (7.25%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.35%) Retail
9 8 (3.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.38%) Automotive
10 7 (3.38%) Banking
10 7 (3.38%) Publishing
11 6 (2.90%) Marketing
12 5 (2.42%) Multimedia
13 4 (1.93%) Back Office
13 4 (1.93%) Dutch Language
13 4 (1.93%) French Language
13 4 (1.93%) Police
14 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.56%) Elastic Stack
1 26 (12.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (7.73%) RESTful
3 14 (6.76%) JWT
3 14 (6.76%) OAuth
4 13 (6.28%) Middleware
5 8 (3.86%) LDAP
6 4 (1.93%) .NET
7 3 (1.45%) React
8 2 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.97%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.97%) REST
9 1 (0.48%) CSS
9 1 (0.48%) OpenEmbedded
9 1 (0.48%) React Native
9 1 (0.48%) Spring
9 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.48%) Swagger
9 1 (0.48%) XMPP
9 1 (0.48%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.76%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.28%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.28%) Robotics
3 9 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 9 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (2.90%) FMCG
5 3 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.97%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.48%) BBC
7 1 (0.48%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.48%) FPGA
7 1 (0.48%) Online Games
7 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.53%) Linux
2 26 (12.56%) Unix
3 8 (3.86%) Windows
4 5 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.06%) Mentoring
2 46 (22.22%) DevOps
3 45 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 42 (20.29%) Coaching
5 41 (19.81%) High Availability
5 41 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (19.81%) Product Management
6 38 (18.36%) Agile
7 36 (17.39%) Project Management
8 30 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (14.01%) Line Management
10 27 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (13.04%) Resource Management
11 26 (12.56%) Budget Control
11 26 (12.56%) Containerisation
11 26 (12.56%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (12.56%) Cost Optimisation
11 26 (12.56%) Customer Service
11 26 (12.56%) GitOps
11 26 (12.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.81%) Java
2 34 (16.43%) Bash
2 34 (16.43%) Python
3 30 (14.49%) C#
3 30 (14.49%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.56%) Go
5 25 (12.08%) C++
6 20 (9.66%) C
7 11 (5.31%) SQL
8 7 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.90%) Ada
9 6 (2.90%) Perl
10 5 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.48%) Swift
11 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.43%) Degree
2 32 (15.46%) Security Cleared
3 27 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.28%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.83%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.42%) ACCA
8 5 (2.42%) CIMA
9 3 (1.45%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.97%) MCAD
11 1 (0.48%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.48%) GCIA
11 1 (0.48%) GCIH
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) PhD
11 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.70%) QA
2 12 (5.80%) SLA
3 4 (1.93%) GAAP
3 4 (1.93%) IFRS
4 3 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) JTAG
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (12.56%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Firmware
3 6 (2.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (13.04%) Terraform
2 26 (12.56%) Ansible
2 26 (12.56%) Argo
2 26 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.56%) Kustomize
2 26 (12.56%) Prometheus
3 7 (3.38%) QRadar
4 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.56%) Google
3 17 (8.21%) ServiceNow
4 15 (7.25%) Splunk
5 14 (6.76%) Informatica
5 14 (6.76%) MuleSoft
5 14 (6.76%) Salesforce
6 12 (5.80%) Autodesk
7 5 (2.42%) Cisco
7 5 (2.42%) Oracle
8 4 (1.93%) Cognos
8 4 (1.93%) Genesys
8 4 (1.93%) Infor
8 4 (1.93%) SAP
9 1 (0.48%) VMware