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 22 May 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 30 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,119 6,472 11,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.22% 7.37% 8.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.69% 8.06% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,494 4,536 6,004
10th Percentile £40,750 £46,875 £43,269
25th Percentile £52,539 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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% - +3.57%

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 81,920 80,304 131,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 91.51% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,945 51,084 74,833
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,538 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +13 2,186 £87,500 -2.78% 657
North of England +29 1,690 £70,000 - 320
South East +18 1,188 £61,000 -9.63% 292
Midlands +5 941 £60,000 - 239
North West +23 833 £70,000 - 185
South West +22 674 £60,202 -10.81% 164
West Midlands +3 631 £65,000 +8.33% 137
Yorkshire +28 628 £70,000 - 94
East of England +37 361 £60,000 +4.35% 128
East Midlands +30 306 £51,500 -10.43% 102
North East +37 230 £70,000 +40.00% 42
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 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 1,775 (24.93%) Agile
2 1,522 (21.38%) Social Skills
3 1,436 (20.17%) Finance
4 1,332 (18.71%) Mentoring
5 1,260 (17.70%) Azure
6 1,152 (16.18%) AWS
7 930 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
8 880 (12.36%) Degree
9 872 (12.25%) Microsoft
10 813 (11.42%) Software Engineering
11 810 (11.38%) SQL
12 780 (10.96%) Coaching
13 729 (10.24%) Java
14 714 (10.03%) DevOps
15 634 (8.91%) Python
16 615 (8.64%) JavaScript
17 606 (8.51%) Analytics
18 605 (8.50%) Project Management
19 602 (8.46%) .NET
20 598 (8.40%) C#
21 586 (8.23%) Roadmaps
22 517 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
23 515 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
24 507 (7.12%) CI/CD
25 499 (7.01%) Windows
25 499 (7.01%) Security Cleared
26 418 (5.87%) Line Management
27 402 (5.65%) TypeScript
28 401 (5.63%) React
29 399 (5.60%) Stakeholder 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
1 147 (2.06%) Apache
2 138 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 131 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 125 (1.76%) Confluence
5 89 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (0.76%) CMS
7 47 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.52%) Tuxedo
9 30 (0.42%) IIS
10 29 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 28 (0.39%) Drupal
12 17 (0.24%) WordPress
13 12 (0.17%) Appian
13 12 (0.17%) SAS
14 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.098%) Apache Pig
17 5 (0.070%) Mendix
Applications
1 133 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.22%) Simulink
6 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
10 6 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.084%) EViews
11 4 (0.056%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.042%) Sketch
13 2 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.028%) InVision
13 2 (0.028%) MadCap Flare
13 2 (0.028%) Notion
13 2 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 80 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.28%) Shopify
4 20 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.24%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 10 (0.14%) Primavera
8 7 (0.098%) Dynamics AX
8 7 (0.098%) HFM
8 7 (0.098%) Hyperion Planning
8 7 (0.098%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.084%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.084%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.070%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.056%) MIS ActiveH
11 4 (0.056%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (17.70%) Azure
2 1,152 (16.18%) AWS
3 365 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 360 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 272 (3.82%) GCP
6 256 (3.60%) SaaS
7 206 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
8 169 (2.37%) Serverless
9 143 (2.01%) dbt
10 142 (1.99%) Snowflake
11 126 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
12 97 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
13 96 (1.35%) GitHub
14 94 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 86 (1.21%) PowerApps
16 84 (1.18%) Amazon S3
17 74 (1.04%) Entra ID
18 70 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
19 69 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
20 67 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 225 (3.16%) Firewall
2 193 (2.71%) Broadband
3 114 (1.60%) DNS
4 108 (1.52%) WAN
5 102 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.11%) Network Security
7 66 (0.93%) SSL
8 65 (0.91%) LAN
9 52 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.67%) VPN
11 45 (0.63%) Internet
12 41 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 41 (0.58%) Wireless
13 38 (0.53%) DHCP
14 34 (0.48%) BGP
15 32 (0.45%) SAN
16 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
18 22 (0.31%) HTTP
19 20 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 291 (4.09%) Power BI
3 171 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 157 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 143 (2.01%) MySQL
6 140 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 136 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 118 (1.66%) Tableau
9 109 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 108 (1.52%) Apache Arrow
11 105 (1.47%) Dremio
12 102 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 102 (1.43%) Apache Ignite
13 71 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (0.94%) RDBMS
15 62 (0.87%) MongoDB
16 51 (0.72%) DynamoDB
17 49 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
18 45 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
19 44 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 283 (3.98%) Git
2 217 (3.05%) JIRA
3 126 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 114 (1.60%) Selenium
5 102 (1.43%) GitLab
6 68 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 67 (0.94%) Postman
8 59 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 58 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 44 (0.62%) JUnit
11 32 (0.45%) CircleCI
12 30 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
13 25 (0.35%) SoapUI
14 23 (0.32%) TeamCity
15 22 (0.31%) JMeter
15 22 (0.31%) NUnit
16 19 (0.27%) Maven
17 16 (0.22%) Subversion
18 15 (0.21%) SpecFlow
19 14 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,522 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 1,436 (20.17%) Finance
3 517 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 376 (5.28%) Marketing
6 349 (4.90%) Banking
7 285 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 248 (3.48%) Retail
9 221 (3.10%) Law
10 216 (3.03%) Advertising
11 214 (3.01%) Legal
11 214 (3.01%) Manufacturing
12 148 (2.08%) Investment Banking
13 142 (1.99%) Automotive
14 140 (1.97%) Front Office
15 122 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
16 117 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
17 115 (1.62%) Telecoms
18 110 (1.55%) Aerospace
19 104 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (8.46%) .NET
2 401 (5.63%) React
3 217 (3.05%) HTML
4 210 (2.95%) CSS
5 188 (2.64%) REST
6 148 (2.08%) .NET Core
7 138 (1.94%) RESTful
8 137 (1.92%) Node.js
9 136 (1.91%) AngularJS
10 131 (1.84%) Spring Boot
11 130 (1.83%) Spring
12 123 (1.73%) Pandas
13 117 (1.64%) NumPy
14 114 (1.60%) Kafka
15 105 (1.47%) gRPC
15 105 (1.47%) JSON
15 105 (1.47%) Protocol Buffers
16 104 (1.46%) SciPy
17 94 (1.32%) ASP.NET
18 86 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 277 (3.89%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.60%) Marketing Technology
3 183 (2.57%) Product Ownership
4 136 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 132 (1.85%) Fixed Income
5 132 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 123 (1.73%) Derivative
6 123 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 122 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 116 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 115 (1.62%) Equities
10 107 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 98 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 92 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 88 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 80 (1.12%) Onboarding
15 78 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 78 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 74 (1.04%) Data Structures
17 70 (0.98%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 499 (7.01%) Windows
2 315 (4.42%) Linux
3 158 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 60 (0.84%) Android
6 51 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (0.44%) Unix
10 28 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 14 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
15 13 (0.18%) CentOS
15 13 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.17%) zOS
17 8 (0.11%) Debian
17 8 (0.11%) Solaris
18 5 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,775 (24.93%) Agile
2 1,332 (18.71%) Mentoring
3 930 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
4 813 (11.42%) Software Engineering
5 780 (10.96%) Coaching
6 714 (10.03%) DevOps
7 606 (8.51%) Analytics
8 605 (8.50%) Project Management
9 586 (8.23%) Roadmaps
10 515 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 507 (7.12%) CI/CD
12 418 (5.87%) Line Management
13 399 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 386 (5.42%) Scrum
15 381 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
16 380 (5.34%) Computer Science
17 378 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
18 363 (5.10%) ITIL
19 355 (4.99%) Process Improvement
20 352 (4.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 810 (11.38%) SQL
2 729 (10.24%) Java
3 634 (8.91%) Python
4 615 (8.64%) JavaScript
5 598 (8.40%) C#
6 402 (5.65%) TypeScript
7 176 (2.47%) C++
8 170 (2.39%) PHP
9 163 (2.29%) C
10 107 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 70 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 69 (0.97%) Go
13 66 (0.93%) COBOL
13 66 (0.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 58 (0.81%) Scala
15 42 (0.59%) R
16 40 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 37 (0.52%) Rust
18 33 (0.46%) Bicep
19 28 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 880 (12.36%) Degree
2 499 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 273 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 216 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 114 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 107 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 107 (1.50%) CISSP
8 103 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 89 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 81 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 77 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 74 (1.04%) CISM
13 43 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 40 (0.56%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.52%) CCSP
17 34 (0.48%) CISA
18 30 (0.42%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (4.99%) QA
2 168 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 127 (1.78%) SLA
4 117 (1.64%) GDPR
5 116 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (1.29%) NIST
7 70 (0.98%) PMO
8 60 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 44 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.42%) GMP
10 30 (0.42%) GRC
10 30 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.38%) NCSC
12 16 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.20%) IFRS
14 12 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.15%) Def Stans
16 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 357 (5.01%) Docker
2 242 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 53 (0.74%) Firmware
6 39 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.38%) vSphere
8 26 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 22 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.13%) HDFS
12 5 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.042%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.042%) Ceph
13 3 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.014%) KVM
15 1 (0.014%) Lustre
15 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 392 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 230 (3.23%) Terraform
3 96 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (0.79%) Ansible
5 54 (0.76%) SCCM
6 45 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (0.59%) Puppet
8 30 (0.42%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 15 (0.21%) Consul
11 15 (0.21%) Grafana
12 13 (0.18%) Istio
12 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
13 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.14%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.14%) WSUS
15 9 (0.13%) Nmap
16 7 (0.098%) SCOM
Vendors
1 872 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 237 (3.33%) Oracle
3 163 (2.29%) SAP
4 156 (2.19%) VMware
5 132 (1.85%) Google
6 128 (1.80%) Databricks
7 113 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 108 (1.52%) Cisco
9 76 (1.07%) Salesforce
10 69 (0.97%) Micro Focus
11 66 (0.93%) IBM
12 50 (0.70%) Citrix
13 46 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 28 (0.39%) Sparx
14 28 (0.39%) Splunk
15 27 (0.38%) Veeam
16 26 (0.37%) Workday
17 24 (0.34%) Meraki
18 23 (0.32%) Pega
19 22 (0.31%) SolarWinds