Lead Jobs in Leeds

Leader
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Leader salary in Leeds 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 11 20 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 252 320 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 11.08% 10.51% 7.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.54% 11.04% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 218 208 205
10th Percentile £50,875 £47,500 £43,319
25th Percentile £56,281 £59,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% +21.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 £81,700
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,183 2,899 3,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.21% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 1,732 2,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,156 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,375 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Leeds

Lead
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Lead in Leeds

Lead
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Leeds

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

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 Leeds region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 104 (41.27%) Agile
2 84 (33.33%) Azure
3 81 (32.14%) Finance
4 73 (28.97%) Mentoring
5 70 (27.78%) Social Skills
6 68 (26.98%) AWS
7 46 (18.25%) Coaching
8 43 (17.06%) DevOps
9 38 (15.08%) CI/CD
10 35 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (13.49%) SQL
12 32 (12.70%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.51%) Public Sector
14 27 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (10.71%) Firewall
14 27 (10.71%) Git
14 27 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (10.32%) Software Engineering
15 26 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.32%) Microsoft
16 25 (9.92%) Project Management
17 24 (9.52%) Law
17 24 (9.52%) Migration
17 24 (9.52%) C#
17 24 (9.52%) Windows
17 24 (9.52%) RESTful
18 22 (8.73%) Microservices
18 22 (8.73%) Terraform
19 21 (8.33%) GCP

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 17 (6.75%) Confluence
2 6 (2.38%) IIS
3 4 (1.59%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (33.33%) Azure
2 68 (26.98%) AWS
3 21 (8.33%) GCP
4 15 (5.95%) GitHub
5 14 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.57%) Serverless
9 8 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.17%) Slack
10 7 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.78%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.78%) OneDrive
11 6 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
11 6 (2.38%) BrowserStack
11 6 (2.38%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.38%) SaaS
12 5 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.71%) Firewall
2 17 (6.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.17%) WAN
5 7 (2.78%) DNS
5 7 (2.78%) LAN
5 7 (2.78%) SSL
6 5 (1.98%) NAS
6 5 (1.98%) SAN
6 5 (1.98%) VLAN
7 4 (1.59%) BGP
8 3 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.79%) Internet
10 1 (0.40%) Network Security
10 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.97%) Power BI
3 9 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 8 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.17%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.59%) MySQL
6 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.79%) Metadata
7 2 (0.79%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.40%) QualityStage
8 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.71%) Git
2 20 (7.94%) JIRA
3 19 (7.54%) CircleCI
4 14 (5.56%) Selenium
5 10 (3.97%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.57%) GitLab
7 8 (3.17%) Jenkins
7 8 (3.17%) JUnit
8 6 (2.38%) Appium
8 6 (2.38%) JMeter
9 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.59%) Postman
10 3 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.79%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (32.14%) Finance
2 70 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.51%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.52%) Law
5 18 (7.14%) Banking
6 16 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.38%) Retail
9 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.59%) Back Office
10 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Aviation
12 2 (0.79%) Games
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
13 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.52%) RESTful
2 21 (8.33%) .NET
3 19 (7.54%) React
4 9 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 9 (3.57%) OAuth
5 8 (3.17%) HTML
5 8 (3.17%) JSON
5 8 (3.17%) REST
5 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.78%) jQuery
7 5 (1.98%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.98%) PySpark
7 5 (1.98%) Web Services
8 4 (1.59%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.59%) CSS
8 4 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.59%) Spring
9 3 (1.19%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (1.19%) OpenID
9 3 (1.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.95%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.16%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.37%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.19%) Blog
9 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.79%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) IoT
11 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.52%) Windows
2 18 (7.14%) Linux
3 12 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.98%) Android
4 5 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.27%) Agile
2 73 (28.97%) Mentoring
3 46 (18.25%) Coaching
4 43 (17.06%) DevOps
5 38 (15.08%) CI/CD
6 35 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (12.70%) Roadmaps
8 27 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
8 27 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (10.32%) Software Engineering
9 26 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (9.92%) Project Management
11 24 (9.52%) Migration
12 22 (8.73%) Microservices
13 21 (8.33%) SIEM
14 20 (7.94%) Line Management
15 19 (7.54%) Containerisation
15 19 (7.54%) Incident Response
16 17 (6.75%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.49%) SQL
2 24 (9.52%) C#
3 18 (7.14%) PHP
4 17 (6.75%) Python
5 14 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.97%) Java
7 5 (1.98%) COBOL
7 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.98%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 5 (1.98%) Swift
8 3 (1.19%) C
8 3 (1.19%) C++
8 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.19%) Ruby
8 3 (1.19%) XAML
9 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (6.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.95%) Degree
2 15 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.59%) CCNA
5 4 (1.59%) CEH
5 4 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.59%) MCSE
5 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.59%) OSCP
5 4 (1.59%) SSCP
6 2 (0.79%) ISEB
6 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) CCSP
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) QA
2 11 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.17%) GDPR
3 8 (3.17%) PSD2
4 6 (2.38%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.35%) Docker
2 13 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.38%) vSphere
5 3 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (8.73%) Terraform
2 17 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.38%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.38%) Nagios
4 3 (1.19%) Puppet
5 2 (0.79%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.79%) Grafana
6 1 (0.40%) Istio
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 26 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.37%) Databricks
3 9 (3.57%) VMware
4 8 (3.17%) Duck Creek
4 8 (3.17%) Google
4 8 (3.17%) Oracle
5 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.38%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.38%) IBM
6 6 (2.38%) Splunk
6 6 (2.38%) Veeam
7 5 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.98%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.59%) Cisco
8 4 (1.59%) Sparx
9 3 (1.19%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.40%) SAP
11 1 (0.40%) Snow