Lead Jobs in Leeds

Leader
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Leader salary in Leeds is £68,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 20 38
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 270 308 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 11.80% 10.53% 7.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.29% 11.07% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 235 208 208
10th Percentile £48,173 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,250 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +4.48% +21.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 £82,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,066 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.05% +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 2,197 2,783 3,767
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.02% 95.18% 97.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,593 1,678 2,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,675 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,914 £73,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,995 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +0.35%

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 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 102 (37.78%) Agile
2 87 (32.22%) Azure
3 77 (28.52%) Finance
4 74 (27.41%) Mentoring
5 71 (26.30%) Social Skills
6 70 (25.93%) AWS
7 45 (16.67%) Coaching
7 45 (16.67%) DevOps
8 39 (14.44%) CI/CD
9 37 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (12.96%) Public Sector
11 33 (12.22%) SQL
12 31 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (10.74%) Roadmaps
14 28 (10.37%) C#
14 28 (10.37%) Software Engineering
15 27 (10.00%) Git
15 27 (10.00%) Firewall
15 27 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
16 26 (9.63%) .NET
16 26 (9.63%) Microsoft
16 26 (9.63%) RESTful
17 25 (9.26%) Project Management
17 25 (9.26%) Law
17 25 (9.26%) GCP
18 24 (8.89%) Microservices
18 24 (8.89%) Migration
18 24 (8.89%) Windows
19 23 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement

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 (6.30%) Confluence
2 6 (2.22%) IIS
3 4 (1.48%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) SAS
5 2 (0.74%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (32.22%) Azure
2 70 (25.93%) AWS
3 25 (9.26%) GCP
4 19 (7.04%) GitHub
5 16 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.33%) Slack
10 8 (2.96%) Serverless
11 7 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.59%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.59%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.59%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
12 6 (2.22%) BrowserStack
12 6 (2.22%) SaaS
13 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.00%) Firewall
2 17 (6.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.96%) WAN
5 7 (2.59%) DNS
5 7 (2.59%) LAN
5 7 (2.59%) SSL
6 5 (1.85%) NAS
6 5 (1.85%) SAN
6 5 (1.85%) VLAN
7 4 (1.48%) BGP
8 3 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.74%) Internet
10 1 (0.37%) Network Security
10 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.96%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.96%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.96%) Power BI
3 8 (2.96%) RDBMS
4 7 (2.59%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.48%) MySQL
5 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.74%) Metadata
6 2 (0.74%) SAS EBI
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.00%) Git
2 23 (8.52%) CircleCI
3 20 (7.41%) JIRA
4 14 (5.19%) Selenium
5 10 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.33%) GitLab
7 8 (2.96%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.96%) JUnit
8 6 (2.22%) Appium
8 6 (2.22%) JMeter
9 4 (1.48%) Postman
10 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.74%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (28.52%) Finance
2 71 (26.30%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.26%) Law
5 17 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (5.93%) Banking
7 6 (2.22%) Retail
8 5 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.48%) Back Office
9 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Games
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.63%) .NET
1 26 (9.63%) RESTful
2 21 (7.78%) React
3 11 (4.07%) AngularJS
4 10 (3.70%) HTML
4 10 (3.70%) JSON
5 9 (3.33%) OAuth
6 8 (2.96%) REST
6 8 (2.96%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.59%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.59%) jQuery
8 6 (2.22%) CSS
9 5 (1.85%) Web Services
10 4 (1.48%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.48%) PySpark
10 4 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.48%) Spring
11 3 (1.11%) Playwright
11 3 (1.11%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.04%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.81%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.11%) Blog
10 3 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.74%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.74%) IoT
11 2 (0.74%) NHS
12 1 (0.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.89%) Windows
2 16 (5.93%) Linux
3 12 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Android
4 5 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.74%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (37.78%) Agile
2 74 (27.41%) Mentoring
3 45 (16.67%) Coaching
3 45 (16.67%) DevOps
4 39 (14.44%) CI/CD
5 37 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (10.74%) Roadmaps
8 28 (10.37%) Software Engineering
9 27 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 27 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (9.26%) Project Management
11 24 (8.89%) Microservices
11 24 (8.89%) Migration
12 23 (8.52%) Containerisation
12 23 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (7.78%) SIEM
14 19 (7.04%) Incident Response
15 18 (6.67%) Line Management
16 17 (6.30%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.22%) SQL
2 28 (10.37%) C#
3 21 (7.78%) PHP
4 16 (5.93%) Python
5 14 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.81%) Java
7 5 (1.85%) COBOL
7 5 (1.85%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 5 (1.85%) Swift
8 3 (1.11%) C
8 3 (1.11%) C++
8 3 (1.11%) Scala
8 3 (1.11%) XAML
9 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) Bicep
10 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (6.30%) Degree
2 16 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.48%) CCNA
6 4 (1.48%) CEH
6 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.48%) MCSE
6 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.48%) OSCP
6 4 (1.48%) SSCP
7 2 (0.74%) CIPD
7 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.74%) ISEB
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.07%) QA
2 10 (3.70%) GDPR
3 8 (2.96%) PSD2
4 6 (2.22%) SLA
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (7.04%) Docker
2 15 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.22%) vSphere
5 3 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (8.52%) Terraform
2 20 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.22%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.22%) Nagios
4 3 (1.11%) Grafana
5 2 (0.74%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.37%) Istio
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.37%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 26 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.70%) Databricks
3 9 (3.33%) VMware
4 8 (2.96%) Duck Creek
4 8 (2.96%) Google
4 8 (2.96%) Oracle
5 6 (2.22%) CheckPoint
5 6 (2.22%) IBM
5 6 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.22%) Splunk
5 6 (2.22%) Veeam
6 5 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.85%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.48%) Cisco
7 4 (1.48%) Sparx
8 3 (1.11%) Citrix
9 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.37%) SAP
10 1 (0.37%) Snow
10 1 (0.37%) UiPath