Lead Jobs in Milton Keynes

Leader
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Leader salary in Milton Keynes is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 13 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 12 99 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 5.36% 9.27% 4.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.80% 9.75% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9 69 27
10th Percentile £30,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,532 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £93,250 £76,250 £76,875
90th Percentile - £86,250 £88,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £58,835 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.94% +9.09% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 207 1,015 756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 95.04% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 107 668 518
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £77,500 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Milton Keynes

Lead
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for Lead in Milton Keynes

Lead
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) SLA
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (33.33%) Coaching
4 4 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (33.33%) Budgeting
4 4 (33.33%) Threat Management
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Java
5 3 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Veeam
6 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) 5G
2 1 (8.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (8.33%) LTE
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Coaching
2 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Line Management
4 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Veeam