Lead Jobs in Hertfordshire

Leader
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Leader salary in Hertfordshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 80 170 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.64% 8.22% 5.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.11% 8.85% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 51 114 63
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £58,875 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -6.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 791 1,920 1,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 92.84% 85.73%
Number of salaries quoted 437 1,520 759
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,821 £31,833 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £64,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Hertfordshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in Hertfordshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Hertfordshire

Lead
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hemel Hempstead +10 16 £61,750 +43.60% 104
Borehamwood +3 11 £32,500 -18.75%
Stevenage -8 8 £70,000 - 103
Hoddesdon +5 3 £45,000 -
Watford -11 3 £75,000 +7.14% 107
Cheshunt - 1 - -
Waltham Cross - 1 - - 1
Potters Bar - 1 - -
Radlett - 1 - -
Rickmansworth - 1 - - 1
Lead
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 31 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (36.25%) DevOps
3 28 (35.00%) Line Management
3 28 (35.00%) Mentoring
4 27 (33.75%) AWS
4 27 (33.75%) Java
5 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
6 22 (27.50%) Coaching
7 21 (26.25%) Project Management
7 21 (26.25%) Roadmaps
8 20 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (25.00%) Broadband
8 20 (25.00%) Relational Database
8 20 (25.00%) High Availability
8 20 (25.00%) Product Management
9 19 (23.75%) Bash
9 19 (23.75%) Python
9 19 (23.75%) Agile
10 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
11 16 (20.00%) Big Data
11 16 (20.00%) Analytics
12 15 (18.75%) Data Analytics
12 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (18.75%) Splunk
12 15 (18.75%) SIEM
12 15 (18.75%) SaaS
12 15 (18.75%) RESTful
12 15 (18.75%) Law
12 15 (18.75%) C#
12 15 (18.75%) AWS CodePipeline

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) AWS
2 15 (18.75%) AWS CodePipeline
2 15 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (18.75%) SaaS
2 15 (18.75%) Serverless
3 14 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (17.50%) Amazon EventBridge
3 14 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (17.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 14 (17.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 14 (17.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 14 (17.50%) Boomi
4 12 (15.00%) Pulumi
5 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) Azure
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.00%) Broadband
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 9 (11.25%) FTP
2 9 (11.25%) HTTP
2 9 (11.25%) LAN
2 9 (11.25%) SMTP
2 9 (11.25%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.25%) VPN
2 9 (11.25%) WAN
3 8 (10.00%) Network Security
4 6 (7.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (20.00%) Big Data
3 12 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (15.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (18.75%) Law
3 15 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.25%) Retail
5 7 (8.75%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (8.75%) Publishing
6 6 (7.50%) Automotive
7 5 (6.25%) Finance
7 5 (6.25%) Marketing
8 4 (5.00%) Dutch Language
8 4 (5.00%) French Language
8 4 (5.00%) Multimedia
9 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) RESTful
2 14 (17.50%) JWT
2 14 (17.50%) OAuth
3 12 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (15.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (10.00%) LDAP
5 2 (2.50%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) React Native
6 1 (1.25%) REST
6 1 (1.25%) Spring
6 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Client/Server
1 9 (11.25%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (7.50%) FMCG
3 3 (3.75%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) BBC
5 1 (1.25%) FPGA
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Linux
1 12 (15.00%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) DevOps
2 28 (35.00%) Line Management
2 28 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 22 (27.50%) Coaching
4 21 (26.25%) Project Management
4 21 (26.25%) Roadmaps
5 20 (25.00%) High Availability
5 20 (25.00%) Product Management
6 19 (23.75%) Agile
7 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 16 (20.00%) Analytics
9 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (18.75%) Data Analytics
9 15 (18.75%) SIEM
9 15 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
10 14 (17.50%) API Design
10 14 (17.50%) API Development
10 14 (17.50%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (17.50%) Event-Driven
10 14 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.75%) Java
2 19 (23.75%) Bash
2 19 (23.75%) Python
3 15 (18.75%) C#
4 12 (15.00%) C++
4 12 (15.00%) Go
4 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.50%) Ada
6 6 (7.50%) C
6 6 (7.50%) Perl
7 3 (3.75%) SQL
8 1 (1.25%) Swift
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) AWS Certification
2 13 (16.25%) DV Cleared
3 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (13.75%) Degree
5 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.25%) ACCA
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) CIMA
7 1 (1.25%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.25%) GCIA
7 1 (1.25%) GCIH
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.25%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (7.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (15.00%) Ansible
1 12 (15.00%) Argo
1 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (15.00%) Kustomize
1 12 (15.00%) Prometheus
1 12 (15.00%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Splunk
2 14 (17.50%) Informatica
2 14 (17.50%) MuleSoft
2 14 (17.50%) Salesforce
2 14 (17.50%) ServiceNow
3 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
4 12 (15.00%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle