Lead Job Trends in Merseyside

Leader
North West > Merseyside

The median Leader salary in Merseyside is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 19 32 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 3.06% 6.13% 7.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.53% 7.71% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 35
10th Percentile £60,000 £41,000 £38,950
25th Percentile £65,625 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,343 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% +3.60% +1.96%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £91,875
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £95,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 538 415 489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.77% 79.50% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 310 238 356
10th Percentile £27,860 £30,350 £27,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £46,921
Median % change year-on-year - -4.09% -1.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,688 £64,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,854 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.68% -3.14% -0.94%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Lead job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Lead
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Merseyside

Lead
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Merseyside over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Liverpool -18 19 £75,000 +15.95% 8
Lead
North West

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Merseyside region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
2 6 (31.58%) QA
2 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) JSON
4 4 (21.05%) API Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (21.05%) CMS
4 4 (21.05%) Coaching
4 4 (21.05%) CRM
4 4 (21.05%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) HubSpot
4 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) Middleware
4 4 (21.05%) NetSuite
4 4 (21.05%) NIST
4 4 (21.05%) Postman
4 4 (21.05%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) SABSA
4 4 (21.05%) Sales Enablement

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Slack
1 4 (21.05%) Zapier
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
3 2 (10.53%) Sentry
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Google Ads
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) PostHog
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) ESLint
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Storybook
2 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Marketing
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) JSON
2 4 (21.05%) Middleware
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) Loki
3 3 (15.79%) MassTransit
3 3 (15.79%) Next.js
3 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (15.79%) React
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.53%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.26%) Jest
5 1 (5.26%) JWT
5 1 (5.26%) Material-UI
5 1 (5.26%) MediatR
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth
5 1 (5.26%) React Native
5 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (21.05%) Operational Technology
1 4 (21.05%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
2 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) API Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (21.05%) Coaching
4 4 (21.05%) CRM
4 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) SABSA
4 4 (21.05%) Sales Enablement
4 4 (21.05%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (21.05%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 4 (21.05%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) HubSpot
1 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft