Lead Jobs in the North East

Leader
England > North East

The median Leader salary in the North East is £70,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 50 53
Rank change year-on-year +39 +3 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 216 66 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 11.82% 5.16% 4.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.36% 6.46% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 205 40 56
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,475 £28,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £38,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.00% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £84,919 £70,000 £61,375
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,747 1,021 1,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.62% 79.89% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 612 1,004
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £36,881 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,641 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +19.10% -8.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +35 167 £73,805 +47.61% 33
Durham +25 47 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Northumberland - 1 £30,000 -
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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.

1 100 (46.30%) Mentoring
2 82 (37.96%) Agile
3 72 (33.33%) Coaching
4 66 (30.56%) Social Skills
5 48 (22.22%) Finance
6 44 (20.37%) SQL
6 44 (20.37%) AWS
7 38 (17.59%) Azure
8 32 (14.81%) Public Sector
9 31 (14.35%) Roadmaps
10 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (12.04%) Data Architecture
11 26 (12.04%) Microsoft
11 26 (12.04%) Project Delivery
12 25 (11.57%) Project Management
12 25 (11.57%) .NET
13 23 (10.65%) Python
14 21 (9.72%) C#
14 21 (9.72%) ETL
15 19 (8.80%) Supplier Management
15 19 (8.80%) Product Roadmap
16 18 (8.33%) Decision-Making
16 18 (8.33%) Data Engineering
16 18 (8.33%) Games
16 18 (8.33%) Client/Server
16 18 (8.33%) Kanban
17 17 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (7.87%) CI/CD
18 16 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management

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 11 (5.09%) Confluence
2 9 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.24%) Tuxedo
4 4 (1.85%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.85%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.39%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.93%) CMS
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.46%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 44 (20.37%) AWS
2 38 (17.59%) Azure
3 15 (6.94%) Amazon S3
4 14 (6.48%) SaaS
5 11 (5.09%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.63%) dbt
6 10 (4.63%) GCP
7 9 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (4.17%) Serverless
8 8 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.78%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 6 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.39%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.09%) Firewall
2 8 (3.70%) Network Security
3 4 (1.85%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.85%) WAN
4 2 (0.93%) DMZ
4 2 (0.93%) Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) DHCP
5 1 (0.46%) DNS
5 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.56%) MySQL
2 11 (5.09%) Power BI
3 9 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 9 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.17%) Redis
3 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.78%) Couchbase
5 6 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.78%) Tableau
6 5 (2.31%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.85%) DB2
8 3 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.39%) Gradle
2 3 (1.39%) Maven
2 3 (1.39%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 66 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.22%) Finance
3 32 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.33%) Games
5 13 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.56%) Retail
7 8 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Banking
8 4 (1.85%) Legal
9 3 (1.39%) Law
9 3 (1.39%) Marketing
9 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.57%) .NET
2 11 (5.09%) .NET Core
3 10 (4.63%) RESTful
4 6 (2.78%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.31%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.31%) CSS
5 5 (2.31%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.85%) HTML
6 4 (1.85%) Node.js
7 3 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.39%) OAuth
7 3 (1.39%) OpenID
7 3 (1.39%) REST
7 3 (1.39%) Vue
7 3 (1.39%) Web Services
7 3 (1.39%) XML
8 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.93%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) jQuery
9 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 14 (6.48%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.56%) Online Games
4 11 (5.09%) NHS
5 8 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.31%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) iPhone
11 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.63%) Linux
2 5 (2.31%) Windows
3 3 (1.39%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (46.30%) Mentoring
2 82 (37.96%) Agile
3 72 (33.33%) Coaching
4 31 (14.35%) Roadmaps
5 28 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (12.04%) Data Architecture
6 26 (12.04%) Project Delivery
7 25 (11.57%) Project Management
8 21 (9.72%) ETL
9 19 (8.80%) Product Roadmap
9 19 (8.80%) Supplier Management
10 18 (8.33%) Data Engineering
10 18 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 18 (8.33%) Kanban
11 17 (7.87%) CI/CD
11 17 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (6.94%) Scrum
13 15 (6.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.37%) SQL
2 23 (10.65%) Python
3 21 (9.72%) C#
4 14 (6.48%) Java
5 13 (6.02%) COBOL
5 13 (6.02%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 8 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.24%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.78%) C
8 6 (2.78%) C++
9 3 (1.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (7.41%) Degree
2 7 (3.24%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.31%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.85%) CCSK
5 4 (1.85%) CCSP
5 4 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.85%) CISM
5 4 (1.85%) CISSP
6 2 (0.93%) HNC
7 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.70%) NCSC
2 8 (3.70%) QA
3 7 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.24%) SLA
4 6 (2.78%) GDPR
4 6 (2.78%) NIST
5 5 (2.31%) PMO
6 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (4.17%) Docker
2 6 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.31%) Terraform
3 4 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.93%) Ansible
5 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.41%) Oracle
3 14 (6.48%) Cisco
4 13 (6.02%) Micro Focus
5 11 (5.09%) Google
6 8 (3.70%) IBM
7 7 (3.24%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.24%) Juniper
8 4 (1.85%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.39%) Northgate
10 2 (0.93%) Facebook
10 2 (0.93%) Meraki
10 2 (0.93%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.93%) Pinterest
10 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.93%) Snapchat
10 2 (0.93%) TikTok
10 2 (0.93%) VMware
11 1 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.46%) SAP