Lead Jobs in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader salary in England is £70,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 4,270 7,227 5,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.07% 8.46% 7.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.95% 8.93% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 5,417 4,046
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 47,711 80,899 67,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 94.69% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,594 57,551 47,157
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
London -7 1,397 £93,750 +4.17% 989
South East +9 944 £75,000 +20.00% 523
North of England -24 781 £57,836 -17.38% 476
North West -24 525 £57,560 -18.36% 262
Midlands -21 374 £60,000 - 289
South West +2 309 £70,000 +12.00% 230
East of England -17 246 £57,000 +1.63% 244
West Midlands -14 242 £60,000 -7.69% 173
Yorkshire -30 217 £67,500 -0.74% 161
East Midlands -26 132 £60,000 +14.29% 115
North East -26 39 £48,000 -31.43% 54
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,204 (28.20%) Agile
2 1,192 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 1,117 (26.16%) Mentoring
4 1,057 (24.75%) Degree
5 994 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
6 943 (22.08%) Finance
7 934 (21.87%) Roadmaps
8 866 (20.28%) AWS
9 746 (17.47%) Azure
10 716 (16.77%) Python
10 716 (16.77%) DevOps
11 695 (16.28%) Law
12 666 (15.60%) Software Engineering
13 647 (15.15%) Java
14 627 (14.68%) Product Management
15 589 (13.79%) Computer Science
16 584 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 580 (13.58%) Microsoft
18 518 (12.13%) Analytics
19 511 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
20 500 (11.71%) JavaScript
21 499 (11.69%) Kubernetes
22 492 (11.52%) High Availability
23 473 (11.08%) BPSS Clearance
24 459 (10.75%) Broadband
25 451 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
26 450 (10.54%) CI/CD
27 436 (10.21%) Coaching
28 428 (10.02%) Docker
29 413 (9.67%) Containerisation

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 93 (2.18%) Confluence
2 78 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.59%) CMS
5 24 (0.56%) Apache
6 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.44%) Kinematics
8 16 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.16%) WordPress
10 6 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.14%) nginx
11 5 (0.12%) IIS
11 5 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.094%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.094%) SAS
12 4 (0.094%) Traefik
13 3 (0.070%) Appian
13 3 (0.070%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 98 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (1.38%) Simulink
3 45 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.14%) Maya
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.094%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.047%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.023%) TeamGantt
Business Applications
1 50 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.66%) Infor LN
2 28 (0.66%) SAP BPC
3 26 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.26%) Magento
6 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.23%) Shopify
7 7 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 7 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.070%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.070%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 866 (20.28%) AWS
2 746 (17.47%) Azure
3 238 (5.57%) GCP
4 235 (5.50%) Power Platform
5 221 (5.18%) Pulumi
6 169 (3.96%) SaaS
7 121 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
8 113 (2.65%) Serverless
9 95 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 78 (1.83%) GitHub
11 62 (1.45%) Snowflake
12 61 (1.43%) PaaS
13 58 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 55 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 55 (1.29%) PowerApps
15 52 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 41 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 39 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 459 (10.75%) Broadband
2 103 (2.41%) Firewall
3 83 (1.94%) WAN
4 72 (1.69%) VPN
5 59 (1.38%) LAN
6 56 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 55 (1.29%) Network Security
8 34 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.66%) DNS
10 26 (0.61%) HTTP
10 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (0.47%) Internet
11 20 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
12 19 (0.44%) VLAN
13 16 (0.37%) OSPF
14 15 (0.35%) 5G
14 15 (0.35%) BGP
14 15 (0.35%) MPLS
15 14 (0.33%) SSL
15 14 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (7.03%) NoSQL
2 269 (6.30%) Relational Database
3 223 (5.22%) RDBMS
4 204 (4.78%) Power BI
5 116 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 114 (2.67%) Tableau
7 102 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.32%) Data Lake
9 83 (1.94%) Big Data
10 80 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
11 73 (1.71%) MongoDB
12 72 (1.69%) Metadata
13 45 (1.05%) Data Mining
13 45 (1.05%) MySQL
14 29 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 25 (0.59%) DynamoDB
15 25 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (0.56%) Power Query
17 22 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
17 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 215 (5.04%) Jaeger
2 174 (4.07%) JIRA
3 106 (2.48%) Git
4 63 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 40 (0.94%) Selenium
6 34 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 31 (0.73%) GitLab
8 21 (0.49%) JUnit
9 18 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
10 16 (0.37%) Maven
10 16 (0.37%) webpack
11 15 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.28%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 11 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
13 11 (0.26%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.23%) IntelliJ
15 9 (0.21%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,192 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 943 (22.08%) Finance
3 695 (16.28%) Law
4 584 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 451 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
6 292 (6.84%) Banking
7 243 (5.69%) Marketing
8 181 (4.24%) Retail
9 142 (3.33%) Legal
10 141 (3.30%) Aerospace
11 136 (3.19%) Electronics
12 125 (2.93%) Manufacturing
13 114 (2.67%) Public Sector
14 103 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
15 83 (1.94%) Multimedia
16 82 (1.92%) Aeronautics
17 74 (1.73%) Front Office
18 63 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
19 58 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
20 55 (1.29%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (5.64%) React
2 222 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
3 217 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 181 (4.24%) .NET
5 124 (2.90%) Kafka
6 119 (2.79%) RESTful
7 101 (2.37%) REST
8 94 (2.20%) Node.js
9 87 (2.04%) CSS
10 83 (1.94%) AngularJS
11 81 (1.90%) HTML
12 72 (1.69%) Spring
13 63 (1.48%) GraphQL
14 60 (1.41%) Spring Boot
15 50 (1.17%) .NET Core
16 47 (1.10%) SOAP
17 46 (1.08%) Middleware
18 40 (0.94%) Vue
19 36 (0.84%) OAuth
20 35 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 228 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 206 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 183 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 91 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 90 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 81 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 64 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 60 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 54 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 50 (1.17%) Social Media
11 48 (1.12%) FMCG
11 48 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 42 (0.98%) Security Posture
15 41 (0.96%) Derivative
15 41 (0.96%) Driving Licence
15 41 (0.96%) Robotics
16 40 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 34 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 338 (7.92%) Linux
2 239 (5.60%) Unix
3 179 (4.19%) Windows
4 49 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 34 (0.80%) Windows Vista
6 23 (0.54%) Android
6 23 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.16%) CentOS
9 4 (0.094%) VMS
10 3 (0.070%) Debian
10 3 (0.070%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.070%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.023%) AIX
12 1 (0.023%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.023%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.023%) SUSE
12 1 (0.023%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (28.20%) Agile
2 1,117 (26.16%) Mentoring
3 994 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
4 934 (21.87%) Roadmaps
5 716 (16.77%) DevOps
6 666 (15.60%) Software Engineering
7 627 (14.68%) Product Management
8 589 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 518 (12.13%) Analytics
10 511 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 492 (11.52%) High Availability
12 450 (10.54%) CI/CD
13 436 (10.21%) Coaching
14 413 (9.67%) Containerisation
15 408 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 389 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
17 371 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 363 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
19 354 (8.29%) Project Management
20 344 (8.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 716 (16.77%) Python
2 647 (15.15%) Java
3 500 (11.71%) JavaScript
4 389 (9.11%) SQL
5 310 (7.26%) Go
6 293 (6.86%) C#
7 268 (6.28%) Bash
8 191 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 134 (3.14%) MATLAB
10 122 (2.86%) C++
11 102 (2.39%) C
12 101 (2.37%) PowerShell
13 49 (1.15%) PHP
13 49 (1.15%) Scala
14 47 (1.10%) Kotlin
15 42 (0.98%) Rust
16 23 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 22 (0.52%) Ruby
18 19 (0.44%) Ada
19 18 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,057 (24.75%) Degree
2 473 (11.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 370 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 264 (6.18%) AWS Certification
5 220 (5.15%) Security Cleared
6 134 (3.14%) SC Cleared
7 92 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 73 (1.71%) DBS Check
9 68 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.05%) ACCA
11 41 (0.96%) CIMA
12 39 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 37 (0.87%) HNC
13 37 (0.87%) PMP
14 33 (0.77%) Azure Certification
14 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.73%) PhD
16 29 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 24 (0.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (3.61%) QA
2 136 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 93 (2.18%) GDPR
5 86 (2.01%) NIST
6 84 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 57 (1.33%) SLA
8 40 (0.94%) NCSC
9 36 (0.84%) IFRS
10 30 (0.70%) GAAP
11 24 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.54%) PMO
13 22 (0.52%) GxP
14 16 (0.37%) COBIT
15 14 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.28%) Def Stans
16 12 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 10 (0.23%) ISO 9001
18 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 428 (10.02%) Docker
2 79 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.52%) Firmware
5 21 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.094%) ProxySG
10 3 (0.070%) HDFS
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.047%) vSphere
12 1 (0.023%) Postfix
12 1 (0.023%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 499 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 402 (9.41%) Terraform
3 291 (6.81%) Ansible
4 240 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 225 (5.27%) Argo
6 215 (5.04%) Kustomize
7 37 (0.87%) Grafana
8 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.33%) QRadar
10 13 (0.30%) Functional Safety
10 13 (0.30%) Puppet
11 11 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.14%) ArcSight ESM
13 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.12%) SCCM
14 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.094%) Salt
15 2 (0.047%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.047%) Mesos
Vendors
1 580 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 360 (8.43%) Google
3 220 (5.15%) SAP
4 119 (2.79%) Oracle
5 112 (2.62%) Databricks
6 88 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 76 (1.78%) VMware
8 70 (1.64%) Siemens
9 68 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 52 (1.22%) Cisco
10 52 (1.22%) Informatica
11 50 (1.17%) MathWorks
12 39 (0.91%) IBM
13 37 (0.87%) OpenAI
14 33 (0.77%) Cognos
15 29 (0.68%) Splunk
16 28 (0.66%) Concur
16 28 (0.66%) Infor
17 27 (0.63%) Workday
18 25 (0.59%) MuleSoft