Lead Jobs in the North East

Leader
England > North East

The median Leader salary in the North East is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 191 55 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 11.44% 5.68% 6.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.13% 7.08% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 170 46 60
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,375 £39,596
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.26% -5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £84,919 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,750 £77,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 1,575 777 1,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 80.19% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 559 1,058
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,249 £49,557 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +10.13% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the North East

Lead
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Tyne and Wear +18 141 £73,805 +47.61% 18
Durham +16 48 £35,000 -23.08% 8
Northumberland -7 1 £30,000 -47.83%
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 North East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 71 (37.17%) Mentoring
2 57 (29.84%) Agile
3 55 (28.80%) Coaching
4 53 (27.75%) Social Skills
5 34 (17.80%) Finance
6 33 (17.28%) Azure
7 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.61%) AWS
9 21 (10.99%) Roadmaps
10 20 (10.47%) SQL
11 19 (9.95%) Microsoft
12 18 (9.42%) Software Engineering
12 18 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (9.42%) Customer Service
13 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
14 16 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (8.38%) Python
15 15 (7.85%) Supplier Management
15 15 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (7.33%) Product Roadmap
16 14 (7.33%) ITIL
16 14 (7.33%) DevOps
17 13 (6.81%) Data Architecture
17 13 (6.81%) Project Management
17 13 (6.81%) Project Delivery
17 13 (6.81%) Strategic Thinking
18 12 (6.28%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 12 (6.28%) Design Patterns
18 12 (6.28%) Architectural Patterns
18 12 (6.28%) Micro Focus

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
1 6 (3.14%) Tuxedo
2 4 (2.09%) Anypoint
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.09%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.57%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.52%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.28%) Azure
2 26 (13.61%) AWS
3 10 (5.24%) GCP
4 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.19%) dbt
5 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.66%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.09%) OCI
6 4 (2.09%) SaaS
6 4 (2.09%) Serverless
7 3 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.05%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.05%) Kong
9 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) WAN
2 6 (3.14%) Wireless
3 5 (2.62%) Network Security
4 4 (2.09%) Ethernet
4 4 (2.09%) LAN
5 3 (1.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.05%) Firewall
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DNS
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.66%) Power BI
2 6 (3.14%) Tableau
3 5 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.09%) Couchbase
4 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.09%) MySQL
4 4 (2.09%) Redis
5 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.05%) DB2
6 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.66%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 53 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.80%) Finance
3 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Games
6 7 (3.66%) Retail
7 6 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Law
8 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.09%) Marketing
9 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.05%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.28%) .NET
2 7 (3.66%) .NET Core
3 6 (3.14%) RESTful
4 4 (2.09%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.09%) CSS
4 4 (2.09%) Entity Framework
5 3 (1.57%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.57%) Django
5 3 (1.57%) HTML
5 3 (1.57%) Node.js
5 3 (1.57%) React
6 2 (1.05%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.05%) Vue
6 2 (1.05%) XML
7 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (0.52%) Blazor
7 1 (0.52%) jQuery
7 1 (0.52%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.66%) Client/Server
2 6 (3.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (2.09%) Cyberattack
4 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.57%) NHS
5 3 (1.57%) Online Games
5 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.57%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.05%) iPhone
6 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.52%) IoT
7 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.66%) Windows
2 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.17%) Mentoring
2 57 (29.84%) Agile
3 55 (28.80%) Coaching
4 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (10.99%) Roadmaps
6 18 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (9.42%) Customer Service
6 18 (9.42%) Software Engineering
7 16 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (7.85%) Supplier Management
9 14 (7.33%) DevOps
9 14 (7.33%) ITIL
9 14 (7.33%) Product Roadmap
10 13 (6.81%) Data Architecture
10 13 (6.81%) Project Delivery
10 13 (6.81%) Project Management
10 13 (6.81%) Strategic Thinking
11 12 (6.28%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (6.28%) Design Patterns
12 11 (5.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.47%) SQL
2 16 (8.38%) Python
3 12 (6.28%) COBOL
3 12 (6.28%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 11 (5.76%) C#
5 7 (3.66%) Java
6 6 (3.14%) C
6 6 (3.14%) C++
6 6 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.14%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (4.19%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.62%) Degree
4 3 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.57%) CCSK
4 3 (1.57%) CCSP
4 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.57%) CISM
4 3 (1.57%) CISSP
5 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.66%) SLA
2 5 (2.62%) QA
3 3 (1.57%) NIST
4 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) Docker
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Micro Focus
2 12 (6.28%) Oracle
3 7 (3.66%) Cisco
3 7 (3.66%) Google
4 6 (3.14%) IBM
5 5 (2.62%) SAP
6 4 (2.09%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.57%) Meraki
7 3 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.05%) Facebook
8 2 (1.05%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.05%) Northgate
8 2 (1.05%) Pinterest
8 2 (1.05%) Snapchat
8 2 (1.05%) TikTok
8 2 (1.05%) VMware
9 1 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce