Lead Job Trends in Middlesbrough

Leader
North Yorkshire > Middlesbrough

The median Leader salary in Middlesbrough is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Middlesbrough 1.85% 4.26% 9.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 4.35% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £60,375 £38,625
25th Percentile £68,750 £60,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £63,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +41.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,438 £62,813
90th Percentile - £70,125 £68,625
North Yorkshire median annual salary £42,250 £56,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -24.55% -8.94% -5.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Middlesbrough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Middlesbrough. 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 Middlesbrough with a recognized job title 105 46 77
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.22% 97.87% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 24 43 61
10th Percentile £26,561 £25,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £52,813 £49,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £53,000 £67,500
North Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesbrough

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Middlesbrough

Lead
Salary Trend in Middlesbrough

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Middlesbrough.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Middlesbrough

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 Middlesbrough region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Middlesbrough 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) MACH
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce