Lead Jobs in Liverpool

Leader
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Leader salary in Liverpool is £60,394 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 21 42
Rank change year-on-year -14 +21 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 9 86 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 3.38% 7.96% 5.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.72% 8.27% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 69 47
10th Percentile £57,223 £32,500 £32,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,394 £63,217 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -9.69% +108.96%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 -
90th Percentile £98,500 £102,000 £86,250
Merseyside median annual salary £66,447 £63,217 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.11% -9.69% +69.61%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 242 1,040 790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 96.21% 84.22%
Number of salaries quoted 156 708 386
10th Percentile £27,625 £26,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £64,125 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
Merseyside median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.10% -3.68%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Liverpool

Lead
Salary Trend in Liverpool

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

Salary trend for Lead in Liverpool

Lead
Salary Histogram in Liverpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Liverpool over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 Liverpool region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Life Science
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Community of Practice
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) QA
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Google
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (55.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Google Ads
2 1 (11.11%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Power Query
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ESLint
1 1 (11.11%) Storybook
1 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) JWT
2 1 (11.11%) Loki
2 1 (11.11%) MassTransit
2 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
2 1 (11.11%) MediatR
2 1 (11.11%) Next.js
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Life Science
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Community of Practice
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Product Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) SOLID
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Google