Lead Jobs in the East of England

Leader
England > East of England

The median Leader salary in the East of England is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 28 60
Rank change year-on-year -30 +32 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 146 362 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.45% 5.91% 4.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 6.29% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 100 267 144
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

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 2,999 5,752 4,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.93% 83.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 4,392 2,235
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,338 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 11 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 11 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 -9 73 £62,500 -3.85% 64
Cambridgeshire +5 41 £60,394 +9.81% 66
Norfolk +26 16 £60,000 +50.00% 14
Essex -2 9 £32,500 -45.83% 27
Suffolk -37 6 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Bedfordshire -31 1 £80,000 +18.52% 33
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 49 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.29%) Mentoring
3 33 (22.60%) Security Cleared
3 33 (22.60%) Project Management
3 33 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (21.23%) Coaching
5 29 (19.86%) Line Management
6 28 (19.18%) C#
7 26 (17.81%) Microsoft
8 24 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (15.75%) Analytics
9 23 (15.75%) Finance
10 21 (14.38%) Software Engineering
10 21 (14.38%) C++
10 21 (14.38%) DevOps
10 21 (14.38%) Degree
11 20 (13.70%) CI/CD
12 19 (13.01%) Computer Science
12 19 (13.01%) ServiceNow
12 19 (13.01%) Service Delivery
13 18 (12.33%) Law
13 18 (12.33%) Big Data
13 18 (12.33%) RESTful
13 18 (12.33%) AWS
14 17 (11.64%) Roadmaps
14 17 (11.64%) API Design
14 17 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (10.96%) API Development
15 16 (10.96%) Customer Service
15 16 (10.96%) Public Sector

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 9 (6.16%) Kinematics
2 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Infor LN
1 4 (2.74%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.33%) AWS
2 15 (10.27%) Amazon SQS
2 15 (10.27%) AWS CodePipeline
2 15 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (10.27%) Azure
2 15 (10.27%) SaaS
2 15 (10.27%) Serverless
3 14 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (9.59%) Amazon EventBridge
3 14 (9.59%) AWS CodeBuild
3 14 (9.59%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 14 (9.59%) AWS Step Functions
3 14 (9.59%) Boomi
4 9 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.27%) Broadband
2 12 (8.22%) Firewall
2 12 (8.22%) WAN
3 10 (6.85%) LAN
3 10 (6.85%) VPN
4 8 (5.48%) FTP
4 8 (5.48%) HTTP
4 8 (5.48%) SMTP
4 8 (5.48%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.79%) Network Security
6 6 (4.11%) Internet
6 6 (4.11%) VoIP
7 5 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.74%) Unified Communications
8 4 (2.74%) VLAN
9 2 (1.37%) Converged Networks
9 2 (1.37%) DNS
9 2 (1.37%) LLU
9 2 (1.37%) PBX
9 2 (1.37%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.33%) Big Data
2 7 (4.79%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.79%) Tableau
3 4 (2.74%) Power BI
4 2 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.05%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.68%) GDB
3 1 (0.68%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) KGDB
3 1 (0.68%) Moq
3 1 (0.68%) NUnit
3 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.68%) Xcode
General
1 49 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.75%) Finance
3 18 (12.33%) Law
4 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.85%) Electronics
7 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.48%) Retail
8 6 (4.11%) Marketing
9 5 (3.42%) Automotive
9 5 (3.42%) Banking
9 5 (3.42%) Multimedia
9 5 (3.42%) Publishing
10 4 (2.74%) Back Office
10 4 (2.74%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.74%) French Language
10 4 (2.74%) Police
11 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.33%) RESTful
2 14 (9.59%) JWT
2 14 (9.59%) OAuth
3 9 (6.16%) Middleware
4 7 (4.79%) LDAP
5 4 (2.74%) .NET
6 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.05%) React
7 2 (1.37%) OpenGL
7 2 (1.37%) REST
7 2 (1.37%) SOAP
8 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.68%) CSS
8 1 (0.68%) Next.js
8 1 (0.68%) OpenEmbedded
8 1 (0.68%) React Native
8 1 (0.68%) Spring
8 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.68%) Swagger
8 1 (0.68%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Algorithms
1 11 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.85%) Robotics
3 8 (5.48%) Client/Server
3 8 (5.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.74%) FMCG
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.37%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (1.37%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.68%) BBC
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) EPoS
6 1 (0.68%) FPGA
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Online Games
6 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.22%) Windows
2 7 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.42%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.74%) Linux
5 2 (1.37%) VMS
5 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.29%) Mentoring
2 33 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (22.60%) Project Management
3 31 (21.23%) Coaching
4 29 (19.86%) Line Management
5 24 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (15.75%) Analytics
7 21 (14.38%) DevOps
7 21 (14.38%) Software Engineering
8 20 (13.70%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.01%) Computer Science
9 19 (13.01%) Service Delivery
10 17 (11.64%) API Design
10 17 (11.64%) Roadmaps
11 16 (10.96%) API Development
11 16 (10.96%) Customer Service
11 16 (10.96%) Data Analytics
12 15 (10.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (10.27%) High Availability
12 15 (10.27%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.18%) C#
2 21 (14.38%) C++
3 16 (10.96%) C
3 16 (10.96%) Java
4 9 (6.16%) Python
5 8 (5.48%) Bash
6 7 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.11%) Ada
7 6 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.11%) Perl
7 6 (4.11%) SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Swift
8 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.38%) Degree
3 17 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.90%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.90%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.42%) ACCA
6 5 (3.42%) CIMA
7 2 (1.37%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.68%) GCIA
8 1 (0.68%) GCIH
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) SLA
2 7 (4.79%) QA
3 4 (2.74%) GAAP
3 4 (2.74%) IFRS
4 3 (2.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.37%) NIST
5 2 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) JTAG
System Software
1 7 (4.79%) Firmware
2 6 (4.11%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.37%) pfSense
5 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.79%) QRadar
2 2 (1.37%) cPanel
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) ServiceNow
3 14 (9.59%) Informatica
3 14 (9.59%) MuleSoft
3 14 (9.59%) Salesforce
3 14 (9.59%) Splunk
4 6 (4.11%) Cisco
4 6 (4.11%) Oracle
5 4 (2.74%) Cognos
5 4 (2.74%) Genesys
5 4 (2.74%) Infor
5 4 (2.74%) SAP
6 2 (1.37%) Draytek
7 1 (0.68%) VMware