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 26 October 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 40 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 249 109 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.53% 4.93% 6.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.87% 5.13% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 135 87 181
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £48,537 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +16.38% -1.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,427 £85,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,450 £75,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.04% +0.67% +7.14%

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 4,240 2,126 5,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 96.11% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,046 1,438 2,750
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +24 82 £54,000 +13.68% 18
Hertfordshire -18 48 £67,500 +3.85% 34
Essex +8 39 £52,500 -26.06% 9
Suffolk +20 31 £35,000 -36.36% 6
Norfolk -10 31 £90,000 +38.46% 4
Bedfordshire -19 18 £60,000 +0.84% 5
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2024, 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 59 (23.69%) Mentoring
2 57 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 45 (18.07%) Agile
4 42 (16.87%) Python
5 40 (16.06%) C#
6 35 (14.06%) Degree
6 35 (14.06%) Coaching
7 33 (13.25%) Software Engineering
8 31 (12.45%) Linux
8 31 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
9 30 (12.05%) WAN
9 30 (12.05%) LAN
9 30 (12.05%) Azure
10 29 (11.65%) Microsoft
11 28 (11.24%) Windows
11 28 (11.24%) SQL
12 27 (10.84%) Finance
12 27 (10.84%) TypeScript
13 26 (10.44%) Windows Server
13 26 (10.44%) Fibre Channel
13 26 (10.44%) Asset Management
14 25 (10.04%) Capacity Planning
14 25 (10.04%) NAS
14 25 (10.04%) SQL Server
14 25 (10.04%) SAN
14 25 (10.04%) Infrastructure Management
14 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.64%) .NET
16 23 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (9.24%) Analytics

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 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.81%) SAS
3 5 (2.01%) IIS
4 4 (1.61%) Confluence
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.05%) Azure
2 12 (4.82%) SaaS
3 9 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (3.61%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.41%) AWS
5 6 (2.41%) Serverless
6 5 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.01%) IaaS
6 5 (2.01%) PaaS
6 5 (2.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.61%) GCP
7 4 (1.61%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.61%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.05%) LAN
1 30 (12.05%) WAN
2 26 (10.44%) Fibre Channel
3 25 (10.04%) NAS
3 25 (10.04%) SAN
4 6 (2.41%) Internet
5 5 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.61%) Wireless
7 2 (0.80%) Firewall
7 2 (0.80%) H.323
7 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.80%) VLAN
7 2 (0.80%) VSAN
7 2 (0.80%) WebEx
8 1 (0.40%) BGP
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) DNS
8 1 (0.40%) HSRP
8 1 (0.40%) SSL
8 1 (0.40%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.42%) MySQL
3 9 (3.61%) SQLite
4 5 (2.01%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.61%) Looker
5 4 (1.61%) Power BI
5 4 (1.61%) Tableau
6 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Git
1 7 (2.81%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) Android Studio
2 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.80%) GitLab
2 2 (0.80%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.80%) Xcode
General
1 57 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.84%) Finance
3 22 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.42%) Marketing
5 10 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.81%) Law
6 7 (2.81%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.41%) Legal
7 6 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.01%) Electronics
8 5 (2.01%) Police
9 4 (1.61%) Games
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.80%) Automotive
11 2 (0.80%) Avionics
11 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) French Language
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.64%) .NET
2 22 (8.84%) React
3 10 (4.02%) Electron
4 7 (2.81%) .NET Framework
4 7 (2.81%) HTML
4 7 (2.81%) REST
4 7 (2.81%) Vue
5 5 (2.01%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.01%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.01%) CSS
5 5 (2.01%) Entity Framework
5 5 (2.01%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.01%) HTML5
5 5 (2.01%) WinForms
6 4 (1.61%) Node.js
7 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.20%) CSS3
7 3 (1.20%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (1.20%) RESTful
8 2 (0.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.21%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.81%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.81%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.01%) Biopharmaceutical
4 5 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.01%) Life Science
4 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.61%) Genomics
5 4 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.80%) Mobile Games
6 2 (0.80%) NHS
6 2 (0.80%) Online Games
6 2 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.45%) Linux
2 28 (11.24%) Windows
3 26 (10.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) Android
5 3 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Unix
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.69%) Mentoring
2 45 (18.07%) Agile
3 35 (14.06%) Coaching
4 33 (13.25%) Software Engineering
5 31 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
6 26 (10.44%) Asset Management
7 25 (10.04%) Capacity Planning
7 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (10.04%) Infrastructure Management
8 23 (9.24%) Analytics
8 23 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (6.83%) Project Management
10 16 (6.43%) OO
10 16 (6.43%) Roadmaps
11 15 (6.02%) DevOps
11 15 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (5.62%) People Management
13 13 (5.22%) Data Analysis
13 13 (5.22%) Service Delivery
14 12 (4.82%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.87%) Python
2 40 (16.06%) C#
3 28 (11.24%) SQL
4 27 (10.84%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.03%) Java
6 13 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.42%) C
8 10 (4.02%) VBA
9 9 (3.61%) C++
10 4 (1.61%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.20%) Ada
11 3 (1.20%) VB
12 2 (0.80%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Swift
12 2 (0.80%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (14.06%) Degree
2 18 (7.23%) Chartered Engineer
3 11 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.61%) CCNP
6 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CCNA
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.80%) CCIE
8 2 (0.80%) PhD
8 2 (0.80%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PgMP
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.02%) QA
2 9 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.61%) GDPR
3 4 (1.61%) SLA
4 3 (1.20%) PMO
5 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) DO-254
6 1 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.40%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (2.41%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.41%) Firmware
2 4 (1.61%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) NFS
3 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
3 2 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.40%) Autotask
4 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.61%) SAP
3 8 (3.21%) Cisco
4 6 (2.41%) Oracle
5 5 (2.01%) Google
5 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.61%) Ekahau
6 4 (1.61%) Epicor
6 4 (1.61%) Ruckus Wireless
6 4 (1.61%) VMware
7 3 (1.20%) Databricks
7 3 (1.20%) IFS
8 2 (0.80%) Actel
8 2 (0.80%) Altera
8 2 (0.80%) Cadence
8 2 (0.80%) Mentor Graphics
8 2 (0.80%) Microsemi
8 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.80%) Xilinx