Lead Jobs in Leeds

Leader
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Leader salary in Leeds is £76,250 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 18 10 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 77 295 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 9.88% 12.43% 9.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.50% 12.90% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 62 255 197
10th Percentile £47,961 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,201 £55,875 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -2.86% +4.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £99,847 £87,500 £97,328
West Yorkshire median annual salary £76,250 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 733 2,287 2,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 96.38% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 482 1,652 1,636
10th Percentile £28,525 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -0.18% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,959 £86,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Leeds

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

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 Leeds region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 27 (35.06%) Finance
1 27 (35.06%) Mentoring
2 24 (31.17%) SQL
3 22 (28.57%) Banking
3 22 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 21 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
5 20 (25.97%) Python
5 20 (25.97%) AWS
6 19 (24.68%) Azure
7 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (22.08%) GCP
7 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.78%) Product Ownership
9 15 (19.48%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (19.48%) Analytics
9 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
10 14 (18.18%) Agile
10 14 (18.18%) DevOps
10 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
11 13 (16.88%) Docker
12 12 (15.58%) Terraform
12 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
12 12 (15.58%) Ansible
12 12 (15.58%) SaaS
12 12 (15.58%) Decision-Making
13 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
13 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering

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 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.19%) SAS
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.97%) AWS
2 19 (24.68%) Azure
3 17 (22.08%) GCP
4 12 (15.58%) SaaS
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.19%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.19%) GitHub
6 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.19%) Serverless
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.90%) OCI
7 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.60%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.60%) IaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) LAN
1 6 (7.79%) WAN
2 5 (6.49%) DKIM
2 5 (6.49%) DMARC
2 5 (6.49%) DNSSEC
2 5 (6.49%) Internet
2 5 (6.49%) SMTP
3 4 (5.19%) Network Security
4 3 (3.90%) BGP
4 3 (3.90%) Firewall
4 3 (3.90%) OSPF
4 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.90%) VLAN
4 3 (3.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) Power BI
2 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.60%) Tableau
3 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.30%) Metadata
3 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.30%) MySQL
3 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Redis
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) JIRA
2 6 (7.79%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.90%) GitLab
5 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.30%) Git
General
1 27 (35.06%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Banking
3 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (10.39%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.90%) Law
8 3 (3.90%) Marketing
9 2 (2.60%) Legal
10 1 (1.30%) Electronics
10 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) .NET
2 9 (11.69%) React
3 8 (10.39%) Node.js
4 6 (7.79%) Express.js
4 6 (7.79%) Kafka
5 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.90%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.90%) RESTful
7 1 (1.30%) ADO
7 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.30%) Blazor
7 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.30%) Flask
7 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.30%) React Native
7 1 (1.30%) REST
7 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Product Ownership
2 15 (19.48%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
4 9 (11.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (10.39%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) Credit Risk
6 4 (5.19%) Hackathon
6 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.19%) Market Risk
7 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.30%) NHS
8 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) Mentoring
2 22 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 21 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.48%) Analytics
6 14 (18.18%) Agile
6 14 (18.18%) DevOps
7 12 (15.58%) Decision-Making
8 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.99%) Coaching
9 10 (12.99%) Microservices
10 9 (11.69%) Containerisation
11 8 (10.39%) Customer-Centricity
11 8 (10.39%) Line Management
11 8 (10.39%) SDLC
11 8 (10.39%) Software Testing
11 8 (10.39%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) SQL
2 20 (25.97%) Python
3 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.29%) C#
4 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.69%) Java
6 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.19%) R
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.60%) Bash
9 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.30%) ABAP
10 1 (1.30%) Go
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
10 1 (1.30%) Scala
10 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.60%) MCITP
4 2 (2.60%) MCSE
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) MCSD
5 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) NIST
2 4 (5.19%) Basel II
2 4 (5.19%) Basel III
2 4 (5.19%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
2 4 (5.19%) IFRS
2 4 (5.19%) IFRS 9
2 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.60%) GRC
4 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.58%) Ansible
2 12 (15.58%) Terraform
3 5 (6.49%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Cisco
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Aruba
3 6 (7.79%) Fortinet
3 6 (7.79%) Mellanox
3 6 (7.79%) NVIDIA
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.49%) IronPort
4 5 (6.49%) Veritas
5 4 (5.19%) Databricks
5 4 (5.19%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) Google
6 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.60%) Zoho
7 1 (1.30%) Sage
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce