Lead Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Leader
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Leader salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 40 36 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.10% 6.39% 8.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.35% 6.57% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 30
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £44,983
25th Percentile £74,375 £63,149 £61,645
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,375 £80,326
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £84,967
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £82,511 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.01% +7.14% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 544 548 367
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.63% 97.34% 97.87%
Number of salaries quoted 411 238 322
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,053 £38,627
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,028
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.94% -9.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,444 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,375 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Lead job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Lead
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Lead
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead in Newcastle upon Tyne

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 11 (27.50%) Mentoring
2 7 (17.50%) Coaching
2 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
2 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (12.50%) Agile
3 5 (12.50%) Analytics
3 5 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (12.50%) ITIL
3 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.00%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (10.00%) Fintech
4 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 4 (10.00%) NIST
4 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (10.00%) SABSA
4 4 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (7.50%) .NET

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) IaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (2.50%) Finance
1 1 (2.50%) Law
1 1 (2.50%) Legal
1 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (2.50%) Retail
1 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) Spring
2 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 4 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Mentoring
2 7 (17.50%) Coaching
2 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
2 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (12.50%) Agile
3 5 (12.50%) Analytics
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (12.50%) ITIL
4 4 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (10.00%) Fintech
4 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (10.00%) SABSA
4 4 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) C#
1 3 (7.50%) Python
1 3 (7.50%) Scala
2 2 (5.00%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 4 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow