Lead Jobs in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 14 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 885 1,639 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.08% 9.48% 7.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.84% 9.99% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 567 1,410 865
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,793 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,759 £83,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West +1 684 £57,836 -17.38% 286
Yorkshire -20 173 £69,018 -1.40% 97
North East -29 28 £48,000 -31.91% 38
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 348 (39.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 280 (31.64%) Coaching
3 269 (30.40%) Agile
4 224 (25.31%) Social Skills
5 203 (22.94%) Mentoring
6 190 (21.47%) Degree
7 177 (20.00%) Manufacturing
8 161 (18.19%) Finance
9 152 (17.18%) Systems Engineering
10 142 (16.05%) Project Management
11 136 (15.37%) Aerospace
12 127 (14.35%) Software Engineering
12 127 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 126 (14.24%) Roadmaps
14 121 (13.67%) AWS
15 109 (12.32%) Microsoft
15 109 (12.32%) Business Strategy
16 107 (12.09%) Java
17 105 (11.86%) HND
17 105 (11.86%) Azure
18 104 (11.75%) Six Sigma
19 102 (11.53%) SQL
20 96 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
21 95 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
22 91 (10.28%) CI/CD
23 90 (10.17%) DevOps
24 87 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
25 86 (9.72%) Project Delivery
26 85 (9.60%) Microservices
27 83 (9.38%) Performance Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 59 (6.67%) Confluence
2 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.90%) CMS
4 8 (0.90%) SAS
5 5 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 69 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (5.65%) Simulink
3 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 8 (0.90%) Magento
1 8 (0.90%) Shopify
2 6 (0.68%) Infor LN
2 6 (0.68%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (13.67%) AWS
2 105 (11.86%) Azure
3 44 (4.97%) GCP
4 41 (4.63%) SaaS
5 24 (2.71%) GitHub
6 23 (2.60%) Serverless
7 22 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.58%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.13%) Azure AKS
10 10 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.13%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (0.79%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (0.68%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.36%) Internet
2 10 (1.13%) DKIM
2 10 (1.13%) DMARC
2 10 (1.13%) DNSSEC
2 10 (1.13%) SMTP
3 9 (1.02%) Firewall
4 7 (0.79%) VPN
5 4 (0.45%) DAB
5 4 (0.45%) LAN
5 4 (0.45%) WAN
6 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) Network Security
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.11%) IPsec
8 1 (0.11%) NAS
8 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.50%) NoSQL
2 23 (2.60%) Tableau
3 18 (2.03%) MongoDB
4 15 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 13 (1.47%) Power BI
6 9 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.90%) Metadata
8 7 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.68%) MySQL
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.45%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.34%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.34%) Redis
12 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.23%) Big Data
13 2 (0.23%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (8.59%) JIRA
2 30 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.81%) Git
4 13 (1.47%) GitLab
5 12 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (1.36%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.79%) Selenium
7 6 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.34%) JMeter
8 3 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (0.34%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) JUnit
9 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.23%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.23%) Storybook
9 2 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 224 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 161 (18.19%) Finance
4 136 (15.37%) Aerospace
5 70 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (7.91%) Banking
6 66 (7.46%) Aeronautics
7 27 (3.05%) Law
8 22 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 15 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.36%) Retail
12 11 (1.24%) Marketing
13 10 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.90%) Electronics
14 8 (0.90%) Legal
15 6 (0.68%) Games
15 6 (0.68%) Police
16 4 (0.45%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.44%) .NET
2 49 (5.54%) React
3 41 (4.63%) Node.js
4 32 (3.62%) Kafka
5 24 (2.71%) .NET Core
6 18 (2.03%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.69%) CSS
8 14 (1.58%) HTML
9 10 (1.13%) ADO
10 9 (1.02%) ASP.NET
10 9 (1.02%) Vue
11 8 (0.90%) Redux
11 8 (0.90%) Spring
11 8 (0.90%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.79%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.79%) GraphQL
12 7 (0.79%) Laravel
13 6 (0.68%) Express.js
13 6 (0.68%) Playwright
13 6 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.54%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.42%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.05%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (1.69%) Social Media
5 13 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 10 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.02%) Life Science
8 8 (0.90%) Animation
8 8 (0.90%) Credit Risk
8 8 (0.90%) Market Risk
8 8 (0.90%) Photography
8 8 (0.90%) Podcast
9 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.68%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.97%) Windows
2 18 (2.03%) Linux
3 14 (1.58%) Windows Vista
4 7 (0.79%) Android
4 7 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.23%) CoreOS
5 2 (0.23%) Debian
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.23%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (31.64%) Coaching
2 269 (30.40%) Agile
3 203 (22.94%) Mentoring
4 152 (17.18%) Systems Engineering
5 142 (16.05%) Project Management
6 127 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 127 (14.35%) Software Engineering
7 126 (14.24%) Roadmaps
8 109 (12.32%) Business Strategy
9 104 (11.75%) Six Sigma
10 96 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 95 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (10.28%) CI/CD
13 90 (10.17%) DevOps
14 87 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
15 86 (9.72%) Project Delivery
16 85 (9.60%) Microservices
17 83 (9.38%) Performance Management
18 82 (9.27%) SysML
19 80 (9.04%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 107 (12.09%) Java
2 102 (11.53%) SQL
3 77 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 71 (8.02%) Python
5 54 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 49 (5.54%) C#
7 24 (2.71%) C
8 20 (2.26%) Bash
9 16 (1.81%) Bicep
10 12 (1.36%) PHP
11 11 (1.24%) Go
11 11 (1.24%) Ruby
12 10 (1.13%) MATLAB
13 9 (1.02%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.79%) R
15 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.56%) C++
17 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.34%) Scala
17 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 348 (39.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 190 (21.47%) Degree
3 105 (11.86%) HND
4 51 (5.76%) HNC
5 24 (2.71%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (2.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 17 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.13%) ACCA
8 10 (1.13%) CIMA
9 8 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 7 (0.79%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.56%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.34%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.23%) MCITP
13 2 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.27%) ISO 9001
2 80 (9.04%) AQAP
3 21 (2.37%) GDPR
4 17 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.58%) IFRS
5 14 (1.58%) QA
6 13 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.13%) PMO
9 8 (0.90%) Basel III
9 8 (0.90%) IFRS 9
9 8 (0.90%) NIST
10 7 (0.79%) Basel II
10 7 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
11 6 (0.68%) GAAP
11 6 (0.68%) IEC 62304
11 6 (0.68%) ISO 13485
12 5 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.56%) ITGC
System Software
1 54 (6.10%) Docker
2 22 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.55%) Terraform
3 22 (2.49%) Ansible
4 14 (1.58%) Puppet
5 13 (1.47%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.23%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.11%) Automic
7 1 (0.11%) Consul
7 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.11%) Rancher
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 109 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.80%) SAP
3 66 (7.46%) Siemens
4 50 (5.65%) MathWorks
5 48 (5.42%) Oracle
6 18 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.69%) Cisco
8 13 (1.47%) Google
9 10 (1.13%) Cognos
9 10 (1.13%) IronPort
9 10 (1.13%) Veritas
10 6 (0.68%) Infor
10 6 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.56%) VMware
12 4 (0.45%) Databricks
13 3 (0.34%) Adobe
13 3 (0.34%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.34%) Informatica
13 3 (0.34%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.23%) Hitachi