Lead Jobs in Middlesex

Leader
South East > Middlesex

The median Leader salary in Middlesex is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 38 24 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Middlesex 12.62% 10.48% 9.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.38% 10.67% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £35,800 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,999 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,658 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.36% -44.18% -3.03%
75th Percentile £62,500 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £91,625
South East median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Middlesex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Middlesex. 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 Middlesex with a recognized job title 284 225 130
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 98.25% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16 71 115
10th Percentile £29,125 £30,050 £53,100
25th Percentile £48,500 £37,794 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £44,658 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.16% -47.46% +70.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £101,250
90th Percentile - £83,750 £107,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Middlesex

Lead
Salary Trend in Middlesex

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

Salary trend for Lead in Middlesex

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Middlesex region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 25 (65.79%) Mentoring
2 23 (60.53%) Degree
3 20 (52.63%) Product Management
4 18 (47.37%) Computer Science
4 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
4 18 (47.37%) Coaching
4 18 (47.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 16 (42.11%) DevOps
5 16 (42.11%) Finance
5 16 (42.11%) Agile
6 13 (34.21%) Security Testing
6 13 (34.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
6 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
6 13 (34.21%) YAML
6 13 (34.21%) OWASP
6 13 (34.21%) Azure
6 13 (34.21%) PaaS
6 13 (34.21%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (34.21%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (34.21%) SDLC
6 13 (34.21%) Threat Modelling
6 13 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (34.21%) Product Strategy
6 13 (34.21%) Creative Thinking
6 13 (34.21%) Master's Degree
6 13 (34.21%) DevSecOps
6 13 (34.21%) NCSC
6 13 (34.21%) NIST

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Middlesex 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 4 (10.53%) Apache
1 4 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP GRC
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
1 13 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
1 13 (34.21%) PaaS
2 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Hudi
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) Delta Lake
2 4 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.89%) Jaeger
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (18.42%) Law
4 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Games
5 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) YAML
2 4 (10.53%) Kafka
2 4 (10.53%) PyArrow
2 4 (10.53%) PySpark
3 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Mentoring
2 20 (52.63%) Product Management
3 18 (47.37%) Coaching
3 18 (47.37%) Computer Science
4 16 (42.11%) Agile
4 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 16 (42.11%) DevOps
5 13 (34.21%) Application Security
5 13 (34.21%) Backlog Management
5 13 (34.21%) Creative Thinking
5 13 (34.21%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (34.21%) DevSecOps
5 13 (34.21%) OWASP
5 13 (34.21%) Product Strategy
5 13 (34.21%) SDLC
5 13 (34.21%) Security Testing
5 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
5 13 (34.21%) Threat Modelling
5 13 (34.21%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (34.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
2 10 (26.32%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) Go
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) Bash
5 3 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Degree
2 18 (47.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (34.21%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (34.21%) NCSC
1 13 (34.21%) NIST
2 7 (18.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) GRC
4 1 (2.63%) ITGC
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) HDFS
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Argo
2 3 (7.89%) Kustomize
2 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.89%) Dell
3 3 (7.89%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) SAP