Lead Jobs in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -28 +5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 344 981 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.98% 7.63% 8.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.40% 8.07% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 235 694 415
10th Percentile £38,450 £35,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,986 £48,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -4.11% -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,368 12,163 7,840
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 94.57% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 8,888 4,539
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,313 £60,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
West Midlands -21 231 £60,000 -7.69% 148
East Midlands -41 113 £60,000 +16.50% 64
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 87 (25.29%) Mentoring
2 74 (21.51%) Azure
3 68 (19.77%) Social Skills
4 64 (18.60%) Agile
5 61 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (16.86%) Degree
6 58 (16.86%) Finance
7 53 (15.41%) Systems Engineering
8 51 (14.83%) Windows
9 49 (14.24%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (13.08%) Microsoft
11 44 (12.79%) Requirements Management
12 43 (12.50%) C#
12 43 (12.50%) SQL
13 42 (12.21%) Software Engineering
14 41 (11.92%) AWS
15 39 (11.34%) Rational DOORS
16 37 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
17 36 (10.47%) Roadmaps
18 34 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
19 33 (9.59%) DevOps
19 33 (9.59%) SCADA
19 33 (9.59%) Computer Science
20 32 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
20 32 (9.30%) ITIL
21 31 (9.01%) Law
22 30 (8.72%) Test Automation
23 29 (8.43%) JIRA
23 29 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
23 29 (8.43%) Python

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (0.87%) Confluence
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.29%) CMS
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.29%) nginx
3 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) Moqups
4 1 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.33%) Magento
1 8 (2.33%) Shopify
2 5 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.16%) Infor LN
3 4 (1.16%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.29%) Maximo
6 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.51%) Azure
2 41 (11.92%) AWS
3 29 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.56%) SaaS
5 19 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.49%) PaaS
7 8 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (2.33%) BigCommerce
7 8 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.03%) GCP
8 7 (2.03%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.74%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.16%) IaaS
11 4 (1.16%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.07%) Firewall
2 12 (3.49%) Broadband
3 11 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (2.91%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.03%) 3G
5 7 (2.03%) 4G
5 7 (2.03%) ADSL
6 3 (0.87%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.87%) LAN
6 3 (0.87%) WAN
7 2 (0.58%) 5G
7 2 (0.58%) DNS
7 2 (0.58%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.58%) LTE
7 2 (0.58%) VPN
7 2 (0.58%) Wireless
8 1 (0.29%) FlexRay
8 1 (0.29%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.20%) Power BI
4 8 (2.33%) Metadata
5 7 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.74%) Power Query
7 5 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.45%) Tableau
8 4 (1.16%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.87%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.87%) MySQL
10 2 (0.58%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 39 (11.34%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (8.43%) JIRA
3 22 (6.40%) Selenium
4 11 (3.20%) Git
5 6 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.74%) Maven
6 5 (1.45%) JUnit
7 4 (1.16%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.16%) Mockito
7 4 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.87%) DbUnit
8 3 (0.87%) ERwin
8 3 (0.87%) jMock
9 1 (0.29%) Appium
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) JMeter
9 1 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 68 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.86%) Finance
3 49 (14.24%) Influencing Skills
4 37 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (9.01%) Law
6 27 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (6.10%) Electronics
7 21 (6.10%) Public Sector
8 19 (5.52%) Manufacturing
9 14 (4.07%) Retail
10 11 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.33%) Banking
12 7 (2.03%) Games
13 6 (1.74%) Automotive
14 5 (1.45%) Marketing
15 4 (1.16%) Police
16 3 (0.87%) Local Government
16 3 (0.87%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.49%) .NET
2 10 (2.91%) HTML
3 9 (2.62%) AngularJS
3 9 (2.62%) SOAP
4 8 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (2.33%) React
5 7 (2.03%) Spring
5 7 (2.03%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.74%) EDI
6 6 (1.74%) REST
6 6 (1.74%) RESTful
7 5 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (1.45%) Kafka
7 5 (1.45%) Middleware
8 4 (1.16%) Bootstrap
8 4 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.16%) JPA
8 4 (1.16%) Node.js
8 4 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.59%) SCADA
2 23 (6.69%) Operational Technology
3 19 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 18 (5.23%) Driving Licence
4 18 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (4.65%) IoT
5 16 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.36%) Social Media
7 12 (3.49%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 10 (2.91%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.33%) EPoS
10 7 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.74%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.87%) iPad
13 3 (0.87%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.83%) Windows
2 17 (4.94%) Linux
3 14 (4.07%) Windows Vista
4 11 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.16%) Unix
7 2 (0.58%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (25.29%) Mentoring
2 64 (18.60%) Agile
3 61 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (15.41%) Systems Engineering
5 44 (12.79%) Requirements Management
6 42 (12.21%) Software Engineering
7 36 (10.47%) Roadmaps
8 34 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (9.59%) Computer Science
9 33 (9.59%) DevOps
10 32 (9.30%) ITIL
10 32 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (8.72%) Test Automation
12 28 (8.14%) Line Management
13 24 (6.98%) Validation
14 22 (6.40%) Penetration Testing
14 22 (6.40%) Project Management
15 21 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence
15 21 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (5.81%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.50%) C#
1 43 (12.50%) SQL
2 29 (8.43%) Python
3 25 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 17 (4.94%) Java
5 16 (4.65%) Bash
6 13 (3.78%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.33%) Delphi
8 6 (1.74%) Go
8 6 (1.74%) PHP
8 6 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.58%) R
9 2 (0.58%) Swift
10 1 (0.29%) C
10 1 (0.29%) Groovy
10 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (16.86%) Degree
2 27 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (6.10%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.52%) ISTQB
5 16 (4.65%) DBS Check
6 13 (3.78%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.33%) CCNP
8 8 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.03%) CCNA
9 7 (2.03%) MCP
9 7 (2.03%) MCSA
9 7 (2.03%) MCSE
10 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.45%) CITP
12 4 (1.16%) ACCA
12 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.16%) CIMA
12 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.23%) QA
2 17 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.20%) COBIT
4 5 (1.45%) Automotive SPICE
4 5 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.45%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.45%) PMO
5 4 (1.16%) GAAP
5 4 (1.16%) IFRS
6 3 (0.87%) SLA
7 2 (0.58%) GDPR
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.58%) NIST
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) JTAG
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.78%) Docker
3 7 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.87%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.87%) Firmware
5 2 (0.58%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (2.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (2.91%) Terraform
2 8 (2.33%) SCCM
3 7 (2.03%) Ansible
4 6 (1.74%) Functional Safety
4 6 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.16%) Argo
6 4 (1.16%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.58%) Grafana
7 2 (0.58%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) QRadar
8 1 (0.29%) SCOM
8 1 (0.29%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.29%) SCSM
Vendors
1 45 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.65%) Oracle
3 14 (4.07%) SAP
3 14 (4.07%) Siemens
4 13 (3.78%) Rockwell
5 12 (3.49%) Google
6 11 (3.20%) Databricks
7 8 (2.33%) Apple
8 7 (2.03%) HP
8 7 (2.03%) VMware
9 6 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.16%) Cognos
10 4 (1.16%) Infor
11 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.87%) Informatica
11 3 (0.87%) MobileIron
11 3 (0.87%) Sparx
12 2 (0.58%) IBM