Lead Jobs in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 30 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,867 6,977 10,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.10% 7.48% 8.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.57% 8.17% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,339 4,838 5,968
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £42,959
25th Percentile £53,346 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.74% +4.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +5.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
London +12 2,163 £87,500 -2.78% 641
North of England +26 1,634 £70,000 - 289
South East +16 1,125 £62,500 -3.85% 240
Midlands +3 876 £60,000 - 188
North West +24 822 £70,000 - 157
South West +19 617 £62,500 -2.34% 154
West Midlands +1 601 £65,000 +8.33% 130
Yorkshire +25 599 £70,000 - 96
East of England +32 364 £60,000 +4.35% 120
East Midlands +13 274 £50,000 -16.67% 57
North East +41 215 £70,500 +37.56% 38
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,718 (25.02%) Agile
2 1,508 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 1,389 (20.23%) Finance
4 1,292 (18.81%) Mentoring
5 1,233 (17.96%) Azure
6 1,096 (15.96%) AWS
7 871 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
8 840 (12.23%) Microsoft
8 840 (12.23%) Degree
9 815 (11.87%) SQL
10 725 (10.56%) Coaching
11 713 (10.38%) Software Engineering
12 712 (10.37%) DevOps
13 664 (9.67%) Java
14 611 (8.90%) Analytics
15 596 (8.68%) C#
16 591 (8.61%) Python
17 587 (8.55%) Project Management
18 585 (8.52%) JavaScript
19 577 (8.40%) .NET
20 571 (8.32%) Roadmaps
21 517 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
22 507 (7.38%) CI/CD
23 503 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
24 501 (7.30%) Windows
24 501 (7.30%) Security Cleared
25 404 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
26 399 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
27 398 (5.80%) React
28 396 (5.77%) Line Management

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
1 131 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 120 (1.75%) Confluence
3 109 (1.59%) Apache
4 92 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 89 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 57 (0.83%) CMS
7 46 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.54%) Tuxedo
9 32 (0.47%) IIS
10 29 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 27 (0.39%) Drupal
12 18 (0.26%) WordPress
13 12 (0.17%) Appian
14 10 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.15%) SAS
15 9 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 8 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 5 (0.073%) Ethereum
Applications
1 124 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.23%) Simulink
6 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 6 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.087%) EViews
11 4 (0.058%) CANalyzer
11 4 (0.058%) Sketch
12 3 (0.044%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.044%) InVision
13 2 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.029%) MadCap Flare
13 2 (0.029%) Notion
13 2 (0.029%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 23 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 21 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 20 (0.29%) Shopify
7 18 (0.26%) thinkFolio
8 12 (0.17%) SAP GRC
9 9 (0.13%) Primavera
10 8 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.10%) HFM
11 7 (0.10%) Hyperion Planning
11 7 (0.10%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.10%) SAP IBP
12 6 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.087%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.087%) SAP MM
12 6 (0.087%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (17.96%) Azure
2 1,096 (15.96%) AWS
3 369 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 360 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 260 (3.79%) SaaS
6 251 (3.66%) GCP
7 223 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 164 (2.39%) Serverless
9 120 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 111 (1.62%) Snowflake
11 106 (1.54%) dbt
12 101 (1.47%) GitHub
13 97 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 96 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
15 84 (1.22%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.15%) Amazon S3
17 72 (1.05%) Entra ID
18 70 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
19 67 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
20 66 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.26%) Firewall
2 191 (2.78%) Broadband
3 112 (1.63%) DNS
4 102 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 100 (1.46%) WAN
6 75 (1.09%) Network Security
7 66 (0.96%) SSL
8 62 (0.90%) LAN
9 51 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.70%) VPN
11 43 (0.63%) Internet
12 41 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
13 40 (0.58%) DHCP
13 40 (0.58%) Wireless
14 37 (0.54%) BGP
15 34 (0.50%) SAN
16 25 (0.36%) HTTP
16 25 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
18 17 (0.25%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 293 (4.27%) Power BI
3 154 (2.24%) NoSQL
4 146 (2.13%) MySQL
5 139 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 137 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 136 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 131 (1.91%) Tableau
9 90 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (1.02%) Apache Arrow
12 69 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
13 67 (0.98%) Dremio
14 64 (0.93%) Apache Ignite
15 63 (0.92%) RDBMS
16 60 (0.87%) MongoDB
17 55 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
18 49 (0.71%) Big Data
19 47 (0.68%) DynamoDB
20 43 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 286 (4.16%) Git
2 212 (3.09%) JIRA
3 141 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 125 (1.82%) Selenium
5 100 (1.46%) GitLab
6 76 (1.11%) Postman
7 69 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 67 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 57 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 41 (0.60%) JUnit
11 27 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
12 25 (0.36%) SoapUI
13 24 (0.35%) CircleCI
14 23 (0.33%) TeamCity
15 22 (0.32%) NUnit
16 21 (0.31%) JMeter
17 20 (0.29%) Maven
18 14 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
18 14 (0.20%) Subversion
19 13 (0.19%) Gradle
General
1 1,508 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 1,389 (20.23%) Finance
3 503 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 371 (5.40%) Marketing
6 320 (4.66%) Banking
7 253 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 244 (3.55%) Retail
9 217 (3.16%) Advertising
10 208 (3.03%) Manufacturing
11 203 (2.96%) Law
12 197 (2.87%) Legal
13 137 (2.00%) Automotive
14 120 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 112 (1.63%) Aerospace
16 111 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
17 109 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
18 107 (1.56%) Investment Banking
19 104 (1.51%) Front Office
19 104 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (8.40%) .NET
2 398 (5.80%) React
3 211 (3.07%) HTML
4 198 (2.88%) REST
5 197 (2.87%) CSS
6 143 (2.08%) .NET Core
6 143 (2.08%) Node.js
7 139 (2.02%) AngularJS
7 139 (2.02%) Spring Boot
8 135 (1.97%) Spring
9 132 (1.92%) RESTful
10 118 (1.72%) Kafka
11 109 (1.59%) JSON
12 93 (1.35%) ASP.NET
13 88 (1.28%) Web Services
14 86 (1.25%) Pandas
15 85 (1.24%) Vue
16 80 (1.16%) Laravel
16 80 (1.16%) NumPy
17 78 (1.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 279 (4.06%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.69%) Marketing Technology
3 176 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 122 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
5 117 (1.70%) Public Cloud
6 109 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 106 (1.54%) Hedge funds
8 105 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 104 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 104 (1.51%) Fixed Income
10 100 (1.46%) Data Centre
11 92 (1.34%) Derivative
12 91 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 89 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 84 (1.22%) Onboarding
15 80 (1.16%) Equities
15 80 (1.16%) Virtual Team
16 72 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
17 70 (1.02%) Client/Server
18 68 (0.99%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 501 (7.30%) Windows
2 331 (4.82%) Linux
3 157 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 57 (0.83%) Android
6 49 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 41 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (0.52%) Unix
9 27 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 25 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.29%) Ubuntu
13 15 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 13 (0.19%) CentOS
14 13 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.19%) Windows 7
15 12 (0.17%) zOS
16 9 (0.13%) Debian
17 8 (0.12%) Solaris
18 5 (0.073%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,718 (25.02%) Agile
2 1,292 (18.81%) Mentoring
3 871 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
4 725 (10.56%) Coaching
5 713 (10.38%) Software Engineering
6 712 (10.37%) DevOps
7 611 (8.90%) Analytics
8 587 (8.55%) Project Management
9 571 (8.32%) Roadmaps
10 517 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 507 (7.38%) CI/CD
12 404 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 399 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
14 396 (5.77%) Line Management
15 386 (5.62%) Computer Science
16 369 (5.37%) Scrum
17 362 (5.27%) Cybersecurity
18 345 (5.02%) Project Delivery
19 340 (4.95%) Microservices
20 339 (4.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 815 (11.87%) SQL
2 664 (9.67%) Java
3 596 (8.68%) C#
4 591 (8.61%) Python
5 585 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 366 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 178 (2.59%) C++
8 173 (2.52%) PHP
9 154 (2.24%) C
10 124 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 66 (0.96%) COBOL
11 66 (0.96%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 64 (0.93%) Go
13 57 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 47 (0.68%) Scala
15 41 (0.60%) T-SQL
16 39 (0.57%) R
17 36 (0.52%) Bash
17 36 (0.52%) Bicep
18 32 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 840 (12.23%) Degree
2 501 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 270 (3.93%) SC Cleared
4 218 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 113 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 113 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 110 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 104 (1.51%) CISSP
8 100 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 92 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 84 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 79 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 71 (1.03%) CISM
12 71 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 43 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 42 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 41 (0.60%) PMI Certification
16 38 (0.55%) CCSP
17 31 (0.45%) CISA
18 29 (0.42%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (5.14%) QA
2 135 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 127 (1.85%) SLA
4 116 (1.69%) GDPR
5 113 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 86 (1.25%) NIST
7 68 (0.99%) PMO
8 59 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 43 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.44%) GMP
11 28 (0.41%) GRC
12 27 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 26 (0.38%) NCSC
14 16 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.22%) IFRS
16 11 (0.16%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.12%) PSD2
19 7 (0.10%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 343 (4.99%) Docker
2 237 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 51 (0.74%) Firmware
6 27 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (0.36%) vSphere
9 23 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.15%) HDFS
12 7 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.044%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.029%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.015%) KVM
16 1 (0.015%) Lustre
16 1 (0.015%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 361 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 222 (3.23%) Terraform
3 91 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (0.82%) Ansible
4 56 (0.82%) SCCM
5 46 (0.67%) Puppet
6 45 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (0.44%) Functional Safety
8 22 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.20%) Consul
11 13 (0.19%) Grafana
11 13 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
12 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
13 11 (0.16%) Istio
13 11 (0.16%) Prometheus
14 10 (0.15%) WSUS
15 9 (0.13%) Nmap
16 7 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 840 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 235 (3.42%) Oracle
3 168 (2.45%) SAP
4 160 (2.33%) VMware
5 135 (1.97%) Google
6 123 (1.79%) Databricks
7 118 (1.72%) Cisco
8 113 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 69 (1.00%) Micro Focus
10 67 (0.98%) IBM
10 67 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 48 (0.70%) Citrix
12 47 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 29 (0.42%) Splunk
13 29 (0.42%) Workday
14 28 (0.41%) Sparx
15 26 (0.38%) Meraki
16 24 (0.35%) Red Hat
17 23 (0.33%) Pega
17 23 (0.33%) Veeam