Lead Jobs in Hampshire

Leader
South East > Hampshire

The median Leader salary in Hampshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 19 34
Rank change year-on-year -25 +15 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 90 354 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.54% 8.75% 6.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.77% 9.25% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 64 298 145
10th Percentile £36,975 £31,250 £51,100
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £92,500 £86,500
South East median annual salary £69,840 £62,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.65% -8.15% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,885 3,825 2,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 94.51% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 2,986 1,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,100
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Hampshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Portsmouth -20 23 £56,250 +2.27% 13
Southampton -7 13 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Farnborough -3 11 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Fareham -7 9 £50,000 -25.93% 6
Basingstoke -18 9 £72,500 -3.33% 17
Andover - 8 £67,500 -
Waterlooville - 4 £60,000 - 1
Petersfield -4 3 £60,000 +4.35%
Gosport -12 3 £60,000 +3.45% 2
Southsea - 3 £60,000 -
Eastleigh +5 1 £85,000 +21.43% 1
Yateley +3 1 £70,000 - 1
Lead
South East

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 Hampshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 34 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (36.67%) Agile
3 26 (28.89%) Azure
3 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
4 25 (27.78%) C#
5 23 (25.56%) Java
5 23 (25.56%) Containerisation
6 21 (23.33%) Microsoft
6 21 (23.33%) Test Automation
7 20 (22.22%) Scrum
8 18 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 18 (20.00%) Line Management
8 18 (20.00%) Rust
9 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
10 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 15 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
11 14 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (15.56%) DevOps
12 13 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (14.44%) Degree
13 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (12.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (11.11%) Process Improvement
16 9 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 8 (8.89%) Aviation
17 8 (8.89%) Robotics
17 8 (8.89%) VMware
17 8 (8.89%) Change Management
17 8 (8.89%) Management Information System

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (1.11%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Infor LN
1 2 (2.22%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) Azure
2 7 (7.78%) SaaS
3 6 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.22%) GCP
4 2 (2.22%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.11%) Datadog
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.11%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.11%) Serverless
5 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.67%) Firewall
2 6 (6.67%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) NAS
4 2 (2.22%) Broadband
5 1 (1.11%) DNS
5 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.11%) IPsec
5 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.22%) Tableau
4 1 (1.11%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Jaeger
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.11%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Aviation
3 7 (7.78%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.67%) Marketing
4 6 (6.67%) Tech for Good
5 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Finance
5 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Police
8 1 (1.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Games
8 1 (1.11%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) Kafka
2 6 (6.67%) .NET
2 6 (6.67%) React
2 6 (6.67%) REST
3 5 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.56%) Blazor
4 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.22%) Node.js
4 2 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.11%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.11%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.11%) RESTful
5 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.11%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
1 8 (8.89%) Robotics
2 3 (3.33%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.11%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Android
1 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 6 (6.67%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (36.67%) Agile
3 23 (25.56%) Containerisation
4 21 (23.33%) Test Automation
5 20 (22.22%) Scrum
6 18 (20.00%) Line Management
7 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
8 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 15 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
9 14 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (15.56%) DevOps
10 13 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (11.11%) Process Improvement
13 8 (8.89%) API Integration
13 8 (8.89%) Change Management
13 8 (8.89%) Microservices
14 7 (7.78%) Computer Science
14 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Development
14 7 (7.78%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.78%) C#
2 23 (25.56%) Java
3 18 (20.00%) Rust
4 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.78%) Python
6 3 (3.33%) Bash
7 2 (2.22%) C++
7 2 (2.22%) Go
7 2 (2.22%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) C
8 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) SQL
8 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.44%) Degree
3 11 (12.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.22%) ACCA
6 2 (2.22%) CIMA
6 2 (2.22%) CISSP
6 2 (2.22%) HNC
6 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.78%) Def Stans
3 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (5.56%) QA
5 3 (3.33%) GDPR
5 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.22%) GAAP
6 2 (2.22%) GRC
6 2 (2.22%) IFRS
6 2 (2.22%) NIST
7 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.11%) COBIT
7 1 (1.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (4.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) ArcSight ESM
1 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.67%) QRadar
1 6 (6.67%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (3.33%) EMC VPLEX
3 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.22%) Argo
4 2 (2.22%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.22%) Puppet
4 2 (2.22%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) VMware
3 6 (6.67%) ArcSight
3 6 (6.67%) LogLogic
3 6 (6.67%) McAfee
3 6 (6.67%) Splunk
4 3 (3.33%) EMC
4 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Cognos
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Infor
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Progress