Lead Jobs in the East of England

Leader
England > East of England

The median Leader salary in the East of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 28 61
Rank change year-on-year -26 +33 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 191 375 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.71% 5.82% 4.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 6.20% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 108 277 135
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £43,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,007 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £91,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -4.11% -2.67%

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 3,158 6,051 4,109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 93.97% 83.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 4,612 2,132
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £36,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

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 31 May 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 31 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
Hertfordshire -10 80 £70,000 +10.24% 51
Cambridgeshire +10 53 £57,697 -1.37% 49
Essex +1 26 £32,500 -45.83% 20
Norfolk +30 19 £60,000 +50.00% 6
Suffolk -35 12 £52,500 +31.25% 4
Bedfordshire -28 1 £80,000 +20.75% 16
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 75 (39.27%) Mentoring
2 60 (31.41%) Social Skills
3 47 (24.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (24.08%) DevOps
5 45 (23.56%) Roadmaps
6 41 (21.47%) High Availability
6 41 (21.47%) Product Management
6 41 (21.47%) AWS
6 41 (21.47%) Java
6 41 (21.47%) Broadband
7 38 (19.90%) Agile
8 35 (18.32%) Project Management
8 35 (18.32%) Coaching
9 34 (17.80%) Relational Database
9 34 (17.80%) Bash
9 34 (17.80%) Python
9 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (16.23%) Security Cleared
11 30 (15.71%) Line Management
11 30 (15.71%) JavaScript
12 29 (15.18%) C#
12 29 (15.18%) Degree
13 28 (14.66%) Linux
14 27 (14.14%) Microsoft
14 27 (14.14%) Resource Management
14 27 (14.14%) AWS Certification
14 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (14.14%) Terraform
15 26 (13.61%) Elastic Stack
15 26 (13.61%) Performance Optimisation

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 12 (6.28%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Infor LN
1 4 (2.09%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.47%) AWS
2 26 (13.61%) Pulumi
3 15 (7.85%) AWS CodePipeline
3 15 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (7.85%) Azure
3 15 (7.85%) SaaS
3 15 (7.85%) Serverless
4 14 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (7.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 14 (7.33%) Amazon SQS
4 14 (7.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 14 (7.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 14 (7.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 14 (7.33%) Boomi
5 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.05%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 41 (21.47%) Broadband
2 11 (5.76%) Firewall
2 11 (5.76%) LAN
2 11 (5.76%) VPN
2 11 (5.76%) WAN
3 9 (4.71%) FTP
3 9 (4.71%) HTTP
3 9 (4.71%) SMTP
3 9 (4.71%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.19%) Network Security
5 7 (3.66%) VoIP
6 6 (3.14%) Internet
7 5 (2.62%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.05%) VLAN
10 1 (0.52%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.80%) Relational Database
2 26 (13.61%) NoSQL
2 26 (13.61%) RDBMS
3 16 (8.38%) Big Data
4 11 (5.76%) Power BI
5 9 (4.71%) Tableau
6 4 (2.09%) Power Query
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (13.61%) Jaeger
2 4 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.05%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.52%) GDB
4 1 (0.52%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) KGDB
4 1 (0.52%) Moq
4 1 (0.52%) NUnit
4 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 60 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (13.61%) Finance
4 17 (8.90%) Law
5 15 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.81%) Electronics
7 12 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (4.71%) Retail
9 7 (3.66%) Automotive
9 7 (3.66%) Banking
9 7 (3.66%) Publishing
10 6 (3.14%) Marketing
11 5 (2.62%) Multimedia
12 4 (2.09%) Back Office
12 4 (2.09%) Dutch Language
12 4 (2.09%) French Language
12 4 (2.09%) Police
13 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.61%) Elastic Stack
1 26 (13.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (8.38%) RESTful
3 14 (7.33%) JWT
3 14 (7.33%) OAuth
4 12 (6.28%) Middleware
5 8 (4.19%) LDAP
6 4 (2.09%) .NET
7 3 (1.57%) React
8 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.05%) OpenGL
8 2 (1.05%) REST
9 1 (0.52%) CSS
9 1 (0.52%) Next.js
9 1 (0.52%) OpenEmbedded
9 1 (0.52%) React Native
9 1 (0.52%) Spring
9 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.52%) Swagger
9 1 (0.52%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.81%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.28%) Robotics
4 9 (4.71%) Client/Server
4 9 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (3.14%) FMCG
6 3 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.05%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) BBC
8 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.52%) FPGA
8 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.52%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.66%) Linux
2 26 (13.61%) Unix
3 9 (4.71%) Windows
4 6 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.27%) Mentoring
2 46 (24.08%) DevOps
3 45 (23.56%) Roadmaps
4 41 (21.47%) High Availability
4 41 (21.47%) Product Management
5 38 (19.90%) Agile
6 35 (18.32%) Coaching
6 35 (18.32%) Project Management
7 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (15.71%) Line Management
9 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (14.14%) Resource Management
10 26 (13.61%) Budget Control
10 26 (13.61%) Containerisation
10 26 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (13.61%) Cost Optimisation
10 26 (13.61%) GitOps
10 26 (13.61%) Performance Optimisation
10 26 (13.61%) Task Automation
11 25 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.47%) Java
2 34 (17.80%) Bash
2 34 (17.80%) Python
3 30 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 29 (15.18%) C#
5 26 (13.61%) Go
6 24 (12.57%) C++
7 19 (9.95%) C
8 10 (5.24%) SQL
9 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.14%) Ada
10 6 (3.14%) Perl
11 4 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.52%) Swift
12 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.18%) Degree
3 27 (14.14%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.81%) DV Cleared
6 12 (6.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (6.28%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.62%) ACCA
7 5 (2.62%) CIMA
8 4 (2.09%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.57%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.52%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.52%) GCIA
11 1 (0.52%) GCIH
11 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.52%) MCAD
11 1 (0.52%) PhD
11 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.33%) QA
2 12 (6.28%) SLA
3 4 (2.09%) GAAP
3 4 (2.09%) IFRS
4 3 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.57%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
5 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) JTAG
System Software
1 26 (13.61%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Firmware
3 6 (3.14%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (14.14%) Terraform
2 26 (13.61%) Ansible
2 26 (13.61%) Argo
2 26 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.61%) Kustomize
2 26 (13.61%) Prometheus
3 7 (3.66%) QRadar
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.61%) Google
3 17 (8.90%) ServiceNow
4 15 (7.85%) Splunk
5 14 (7.33%) Informatica
5 14 (7.33%) MuleSoft
5 14 (7.33%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.19%) Autodesk
7 5 (2.62%) Oracle
8 4 (2.09%) Cisco
8 4 (2.09%) Cognos
8 4 (2.09%) Genesys
8 4 (2.09%) Infor
8 4 (2.09%) SAP