Lead Jobs in Farnborough

Leader
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Leader salary in Farnborough is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 August 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Farnborough 4.14% 7.74% 8.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.46% 8.63% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 18
10th Percentile £68,625 £53,750 £72,500
25th Percentile £72,188 £60,313 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £71,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -16.18% +41.67%
75th Percentile £84,688 £92,500 -
90th Percentile £87,875 £93,850 £86,125
Hampshire median annual salary £60,750 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.25% -17.24% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 157 139 206
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 89.68% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 79 106 170
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,150 £53,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% -2.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,750 £86,250 £88,875
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Farnborough

Lead
Salary Trend in Farnborough

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

Salary trend for Lead in Farnborough

Lead
Salary Histogram in Farnborough

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Farnborough over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Farnborough

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 Farnborough region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) QA
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Argo
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) GitOps
4 1 (14.29%) Blazor
4 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
4 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jaeger
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Budget Control
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) GitOps
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Presales
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) Record to Report
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) ACCA
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) SAP