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 23 October 2024.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 29 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 600 390 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.43% 6.94% 10.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.77% 7.22% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 347 287 633
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,625 £41,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,140
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.68% +7.53%
75th Percentile £74,375 £73,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% - +7.14%

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 8,857 5,404 10,677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 96.23% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,357 3,943 6,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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
West Midlands -2 374 £60,000 - 95
East Midlands +9 222 £60,000 -7.69% 43
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 120 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.67%) Agile
3 91 (15.17%) Degree
4 83 (13.83%) Coaching
5 81 (13.50%) Software Engineering
6 77 (12.83%) AWS
7 69 (11.50%) Mentoring
8 68 (11.33%) ITIL
9 66 (11.00%) C#
9 66 (11.00%) Azure
10 62 (10.33%) Retail
11 57 (9.50%) JavaScript
12 56 (9.33%) Project Management
12 56 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (9.00%) SDLC
14 52 (8.67%) Process Improvement
14 52 (8.67%) QA
15 51 (8.50%) DevOps
15 51 (8.50%) Finance
16 50 (8.33%) Software Testing
17 49 (8.17%) Legal
17 49 (8.17%) Microsoft
18 48 (8.00%) .NET
19 46 (7.67%) SQL
20 44 (7.33%) Business Analysis
21 43 (7.17%) SaaS
22 42 (7.00%) Requirements Analysis
23 41 (6.83%) Disaster Recovery
23 41 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
24 39 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management

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 12 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.83%) Trello
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.17%) Blender
5 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 77 (12.83%) AWS
2 66 (11.00%) Azure
3 43 (7.17%) SaaS
4 33 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.50%) Power Platform
5 25 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.67%) Power Automate
8 14 (2.33%) MailChimp
9 11 (1.83%) Serverless
10 8 (1.33%) PaaS
11 7 (1.17%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.17%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.00%) Azure Stack
12 6 (1.00%) GCP
13 5 (0.83%) Boomi
13 5 (0.83%) dbt
13 5 (0.83%) iPaaS
13 5 (0.83%) Workato
14 4 (0.67%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.33%) DNS
1 8 (1.33%) Firewall
2 7 (1.17%) WAN
3 5 (0.83%) LAN
4 4 (0.67%) DHCP
4 4 (0.67%) FTP
4 4 (0.67%) Network Security
5 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.50%) Wireless
6 2 (0.33%) Internet
6 2 (0.33%) MPLS
6 2 (0.33%) WLAN
7 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) VoIP
7 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.83%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.50%) Power BI
3 10 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.33%) MySQL
5 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.17%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
10 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Git
2 9 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.33%) GitLab
4 7 (1.17%) JIRA
5 6 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.00%) Selenium
5 6 (1.00%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.17%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 120 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.33%) Retail
3 51 (8.50%) Finance
4 49 (8.17%) Legal
5 25 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.67%) Marketing
6 22 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (2.17%) Games
10 12 (2.00%) Automotive
11 11 (1.83%) Law
12 10 (1.67%) Electronics
12 10 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.17%) Banking
15 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Police
17 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (8.00%) .NET
2 27 (4.50%) Node.js
3 25 (4.17%) React
4 11 (1.83%) Laravel
4 11 (1.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 8 (1.33%) CSS
6 6 (1.00%) HTML
6 6 (1.00%) MHP
6 6 (1.00%) Vue
7 5 (0.83%) Symfony
8 4 (0.67%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.50%) Django
9 3 (0.50%) Redux
9 3 (0.50%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.50%) SAP Smart Forms
9 3 (0.50%) SAPUI5
10 2 (0.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (2.50%) Low-Code
1 15 (2.50%) Mobile App
1 15 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.00%) Augmented Reality
4 12 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (1.83%) e-Learning
5 11 (1.83%) Virtual Reality
6 10 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.17%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.17%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.00%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.67%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.83%) Windows
2 14 (2.33%) Linux
3 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (0.83%) Android
5 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (15.67%) Agile
2 83 (13.83%) Coaching
3 81 (13.50%) Software Engineering
4 69 (11.50%) Mentoring
5 68 (11.33%) ITIL
6 56 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (9.33%) Project Management
7 54 (9.00%) SDLC
8 52 (8.67%) Process Improvement
9 51 (8.50%) DevOps
10 50 (8.33%) Software Testing
11 44 (7.33%) Business Analysis
12 42 (7.00%) Requirements Analysis
13 41 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (6.83%) Disaster Recovery
14 39 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 38 (6.33%) Business Process Analysis
15 38 (6.33%) CI/CD
15 38 (6.33%) Telematics
16 37 (6.17%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 66 (11.00%) C#
2 57 (9.50%) JavaScript
3 46 (7.67%) SQL
4 33 (5.50%) Python
5 31 (5.17%) C++
6 17 (2.83%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.67%) C
7 16 (2.67%) PHP
8 14 (2.33%) VBA
9 13 (2.17%) Java
10 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.50%) ABAP
11 3 (0.50%) Bash
11 3 (0.50%) Go
11 3 (0.50%) Ruby
11 3 (0.50%) SAPscript
12 2 (0.33%) Ada
12 2 (0.33%) R
13 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 91 (15.17%) Degree
2 23 (3.83%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.17%) Chartered Engineer
4 15 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.33%) CISSP
8 7 (1.17%) CISM
9 5 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
9 5 (0.83%) CISA
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.67%) MCSA
10 4 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.67%) PMP
11 3 (0.50%) CCNA
11 3 (0.50%) CCNP
11 3 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.50%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.67%) QA
2 21 (3.50%) PMO
3 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.67%) NIST
5 3 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.33%) GRC
6 2 (0.33%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 14 (2.33%) Docker
1 14 (2.33%) Firmware
2 9 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (2.83%) Terraform
2 16 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.17%) Grafana
3 7 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.00%) SCCM
5 4 (0.67%) Ansible
5 4 (0.67%) SCOM
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.83%) Salesforce
2 11 (1.83%) ServiceNow
3 10 (1.67%) SAP
4 8 (1.33%) VMware
5 7 (1.17%) Splunk
6 6 (1.00%) Siemens
7 5 (0.83%) Citrix
8 4 (0.67%) BT
8 4 (0.67%) Cisco
8 4 (0.67%) Google
8 4 (0.67%) IBM
8 4 (0.67%) Okta
9 3 (0.50%) Meraki
10 2 (0.33%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.33%) Genesys
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle
10 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.33%) Veeam
10 2 (0.33%) Verint