Lead Jobs in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader salary in the Midlands is £63,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 28 19 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 352 1,250 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.93% 11.14% 6.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 11.77% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 253 624 548
10th Percentile £41,187 £42,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,840 10,623 10,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.35% 94.65% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 6,307 7,635
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,050 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -7 248 £60,500 +10.00% 192
East Midlands -11 101 £65,000 - 66
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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.

1 110 (31.25%) Agile
2 105 (29.83%) Social Skills
3 92 (26.14%) Azure
4 85 (24.15%) Microsoft
5 74 (21.02%) Degree
6 70 (19.89%) SQL
7 63 (17.90%) DevOps
8 62 (17.61%) Finance
9 54 (15.34%) Automotive
10 52 (14.77%) Mentoring
11 51 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (13.64%) .NET
13 46 (13.07%) AWS
14 45 (12.78%) Test Automation
15 44 (12.50%) Line Management
15 44 (12.50%) C#
16 42 (11.93%) JavaScript
16 42 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (11.65%) CI/CD
18 38 (10.80%) ITIL
19 35 (9.94%) Scrum
19 35 (9.94%) Coaching
19 35 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
20 34 (9.66%) Project Management
21 32 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
21 32 (9.09%) Roadmaps
22 30 (8.52%) SQL Server
23 29 (8.24%) Software Engineering
24 28 (7.95%) Windows
24 28 (7.95%) QA

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 13 (3.69%) Confluence
2 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) MS Exchange
4 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.57%) IIS
5 2 (0.57%) JBoss
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.57%) TPMS
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.99%) Simulink
2 7 (1.99%) SPSS
3 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.85%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.57%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 92 (26.14%) Azure
2 46 (13.07%) AWS
3 27 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (5.40%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.13%) SaaS
7 10 (2.84%) GCP
7 10 (2.84%) PowerApps
8 9 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
9 8 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.99%) PaaS
10 7 (1.99%) Serverless
11 6 (1.70%) IaaS
12 5 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.42%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.85%) GitHub
14 2 (0.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.26%) Network Security
2 13 (3.69%) Firewall
3 7 (1.99%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.70%) DHCP
4 6 (1.70%) DNS
5 5 (1.42%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (1.42%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.42%) Wireless
6 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.85%) FTP
7 3 (0.85%) HTTP
7 3 (0.85%) SMTP
7 3 (0.85%) SNMP
7 3 (0.85%) SSH
7 3 (0.85%) SSL
7 3 (0.85%) Telnet
8 2 (0.57%) Internet
8 2 (0.57%) Intranet
8 2 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.26%) Power BI
3 10 (2.84%) Tableau
4 7 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.99%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.70%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.42%) Big Data
6 5 (1.42%) GIS
7 4 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.85%) Flink
8 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.57%) MySQL
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.57%) Power Query
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (2.84%) JIRA
2 8 (2.27%) Git
3 6 (1.70%) Selenium
4 4 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (0.85%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.85%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.57%) LSMW
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) GCC
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.28%) Maven
7 1 (0.28%) MLflow
7 1 (0.28%) Subversion
7 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.28%) TestNG
7 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.61%) Finance
3 54 (15.34%) Automotive
4 35 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 18 (5.11%) Law
6 18 (5.11%) Retail
7 15 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.98%) Marketing
9 12 (3.41%) Legal
9 12 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.13%) Local Government
11 10 (2.84%) Electronics
12 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.27%) Games
13 8 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.99%) Social Science
15 6 (1.70%) Back Office
16 4 (1.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.64%) .NET
2 27 (7.67%) CSS
3 26 (7.39%) HTML
4 20 (5.68%) REST
5 18 (5.11%) .NET Core
6 17 (4.83%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.26%) .NET Framework
7 15 (4.26%) ASP.NET
7 15 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
7 15 (4.26%) React
8 14 (3.98%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.69%) jQuery
10 12 (3.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 11 (3.13%) Node.js
11 11 (3.13%) Web Services
11 11 (3.13%) XML
12 7 (1.99%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (1.99%) Classic ASP
13 5 (1.42%) JSON
14 4 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.41%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.27%) Mobile Games
4 7 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.42%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.14%) Cybercrime
6 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.85%) EFT
7 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.85%) PMI
7 3 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.57%) Blog
8 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.57%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.57%) NHS
8 2 (0.57%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.95%) Windows
2 17 (4.83%) Linux
3 10 (2.84%) Android
4 9 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.14%) Unix
7 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.57%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.57%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (31.25%) Agile
2 63 (17.90%) DevOps
3 52 (14.77%) Mentoring
4 51 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (12.78%) Test Automation
6 44 (12.50%) Line Management
7 42 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 38 (10.80%) ITIL
10 35 (9.94%) Coaching
10 35 (9.94%) Scrum
11 34 (9.66%) Project Management
12 32 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 32 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (8.24%) Software Engineering
14 28 (7.95%) Project Delivery
15 27 (7.67%) Change Management
15 27 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (6.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 70 (19.89%) SQL
2 44 (12.50%) C#
3 42 (11.93%) JavaScript
4 24 (6.82%) Python
5 17 (4.83%) T-SQL
6 16 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.41%) Java
8 8 (2.27%) MATLAB
8 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.70%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Bash
10 2 (0.57%) Dart
10 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.57%) PHP
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (21.02%) Degree
2 20 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.55%) CISSP
5 7 (1.99%) CCNP
5 7 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.99%) Postgraduate
5 7 (1.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 6 (1.70%) CISM
6 6 (1.70%) CRISC
7 5 (1.42%) CCNA
7 5 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.14%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.14%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.14%) JNCIP
8 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.95%) QA
2 10 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.56%) NIST
4 6 (1.70%) ISO 26262
5 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.14%) GRC
6 3 (0.85%) AUTOSAR
6 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
6 3 (0.85%) PMO
7 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.57%) IFRS
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) WCAG
8 1 (0.28%) GDPR
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 20 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.26%) Docker
3 3 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.41%) SCCM
2 12 (3.41%) Terraform
3 7 (1.99%) Ansible
3 7 (1.99%) Nessus
4 6 (1.70%) AirWatch
4 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.42%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.57%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 85 (24.15%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.83%) Cisco
3 16 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.69%) SAP
6 9 (2.56%) Databricks
6 9 (2.56%) Juniper
6 9 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.27%) SolarWinds
8 7 (1.99%) Apple
8 7 (1.99%) Aruba
8 7 (1.99%) Darktrace
8 7 (1.99%) OneTrust
8 7 (1.99%) Remedy
8 7 (1.99%) VMware
9 6 (1.70%) Samsung
10 5 (1.42%) F5
10 5 (1.42%) IBM
10 5 (1.42%) Meraki
10 5 (1.42%) Oracle