Lead Jobs in Manchester

Leader
North West > Manchester

The median Leader salary in Manchester is £70,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 35 22
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 500 380 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.19% 8.12% 9.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.70% 8.82% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 413 279 314
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,742 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,400 £60,000 £52,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +13.82% -1.60%
75th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £95,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,153 4,307 5,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 92.07% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,945 2,570 3,590
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,588
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,874 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Stockport +30 8 £42,500 +112.50% 2
Salford +16 7 £58,800 -9.54% 3
Bolton +13 6 £38,750 -38.49% 3
Bury - 5 £68,750 - 5
Altrincham -11 4 - - 1
Rochdale - 3 £41,000 - 1
Wigan - 1 £28,500 - 1
Lead
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Manchester region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 168 (33.60%) Agile
2 126 (25.20%) Mentoring
3 122 (24.40%) Azure
4 97 (19.40%) AWS
5 90 (18.00%) Social Skills
6 88 (17.60%) Finance
7 86 (17.20%) Software Engineering
8 74 (14.80%) Coaching
9 71 (14.20%) DevOps
10 65 (13.00%) SQL
10 65 (13.00%) Microsoft
11 51 (10.20%) Java
11 51 (10.20%) TypeScript
12 49 (9.80%) .NET
12 49 (9.80%) CI/CD
13 46 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (9.20%) Public Sector
14 45 (9.00%) Project Management
15 42 (8.40%) JavaScript
15 42 (8.40%) C#
16 39 (7.80%) TDD
17 38 (7.60%) Linux
18 37 (7.40%) Degree
19 35 (7.00%) React
20 34 (6.80%) Full Stack Development
20 34 (6.80%) Design Patterns
21 33 (6.60%) Python
22 32 (6.40%) Node.js
22 32 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
23 30 (6.00%) Cybersecurity

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 21 (4.20%) Apache
2 16 (3.20%) Confluence
3 6 (1.20%) CMS
3 6 (1.20%) Tuxedo
4 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (24.40%) Azure
2 97 (19.40%) AWS
3 23 (4.60%) GCP
3 23 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.20%) Amazon Kinesis
6 15 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.80%) Serverless
8 13 (2.60%) SaaS
9 12 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.40%) dbt
12 6 (1.20%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.00%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.00%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.00%) PaaS
13 5 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.80%) WAN
2 10 (2.00%) Firewall
2 10 (2.00%) SSL
3 8 (1.60%) LAN
4 6 (1.20%) DNS
4 6 (1.20%) Network Security
4 6 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.20%) VPN
5 5 (1.00%) BGP
5 5 (1.00%) NAS
5 5 (1.00%) SAN
6 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.60%) Wireless
8 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.20%) DSL
9 1 (0.20%) Intranet
9 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.20%) OSPF
9 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 19 (3.80%) MySQL
2 19 (3.80%) Power BI
3 18 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.40%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.20%) Tableau
7 10 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.60%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.00%) Airbyte
9 5 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.00%) Looker
9 5 (1.00%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (3.60%) JIRA
2 9 (1.80%) Git
3 8 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.20%) GitLab
5 4 (0.80%) Postman
6 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.40%) Maven
7 2 (0.40%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 90 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.60%) Finance
3 46 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 17 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.20%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.00%) Retail
7 14 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.20%) Law
9 8 (1.60%) Games
10 7 (1.40%) Legal
11 5 (1.00%) Banking
12 4 (0.80%) Back Office
12 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Marketing
13 2 (0.40%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.20%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.80%) .NET
2 35 (7.00%) React
3 32 (6.40%) Node.js
4 21 (4.20%) REST
5 20 (4.00%) Web Services
6 18 (3.60%) HTML
7 17 (3.40%) GraphQL
8 16 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (3.20%) CSS
8 16 (3.20%) STL
9 15 (3.00%) .NET Framework
10 14 (2.80%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.40%) RESTful
11 12 (2.40%) Spring
12 11 (2.20%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (1.80%) Kafka
14 9 (1.80%) Spring Boot
15 8 (1.60%) Redux
15 8 (1.60%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.60%) Blog
7 8 (1.60%) Media Streaming
8 7 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
9 5 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.00%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.60%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.60%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.40%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.60%) Linux
2 28 (5.60%) Windows
3 10 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.40%) Android
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (33.60%) Agile
2 126 (25.20%) Mentoring
3 86 (17.20%) Software Engineering
4 74 (14.80%) Coaching
5 71 (14.20%) DevOps
6 49 (9.80%) CI/CD
7 46 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (9.00%) Project Management
9 39 (7.80%) TDD
10 34 (6.80%) Design Patterns
10 34 (6.80%) Full Stack Development
11 32 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (5.80%) Analytics
13 29 (5.80%) Project Delivery
14 28 (5.60%) Roadmaps
15 27 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (5.40%) User Experience
16 26 (5.20%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (5.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 65 (13.00%) SQL
2 51 (10.20%) Java
2 51 (10.20%) TypeScript
3 42 (8.40%) C#
3 42 (8.40%) JavaScript
4 33 (6.60%) Python
5 22 (4.40%) C
6 21 (4.20%) C++
7 10 (2.00%) COBOL
7 10 (2.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 10 (2.00%) Scala
8 7 (1.40%) PHP
9 6 (1.20%) Go
9 6 (1.20%) Swift
10 4 (0.80%) Objective-C
11 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.60%) VB
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (7.40%) Degree
2 28 (5.60%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.20%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.20%) CCNP
8 5 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.00%) CCSK
8 5 (1.00%) CCSP
8 5 (1.00%) CISM
8 5 (1.00%) CISSP
8 5 (1.00%) Citrix Certification
8 5 (1.00%) JNCIA
8 5 (1.00%) VCAP
8 5 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.80%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.20%) QA
2 8 (1.60%) SLA
3 7 (1.40%) NIST
4 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.60%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.40%) NCSC
6 2 (0.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (4.60%) Docker
2 11 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.20%) Firmware
4 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.80%) Terraform
3 5 (1.00%) SCCM
3 5 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.60%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.40%) Autotask
7 1 (0.20%) Kiali
7 1 (0.20%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) Nessus
7 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 65 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.00%) Oracle
3 14 (2.80%) VMware
4 11 (2.20%) Google
5 10 (2.00%) Micro Focus
6 7 (1.40%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.40%) Citrix
7 6 (1.20%) Cisco
7 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.00%) IBM
8 5 (1.00%) Teradata
8 5 (1.00%) Veeam
9 4 (0.80%) Databricks
9 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.80%) Snow
9 4 (0.80%) Sparx
10 2 (0.40%) Cognos
10 2 (0.40%) Datto
10 2 (0.40%) Juniper
11 1 (0.20%) Dell