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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 14 41
Rank change year-on-year -13 +27 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 917 1,664 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.94% 9.51% 6.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.64% 10.02% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 578 1,434 831
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,000
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 £80,000 £83,759 £82,500
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 10,614 16,605 15,383
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 94.92% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,883 12,852 8,160
10th Percentile £25,885 £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 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 11 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 11 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 -6 713 £57,836 -17.38% 343
Yorkshire -22 173 £70,000 - 164
North East -27 31 £48,000 -31.67% 54
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 378 (41.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 291 (31.73%) Coaching
3 272 (29.66%) Agile
4 228 (24.86%) Social Skills
5 207 (22.57%) Mentoring
6 200 (21.81%) Degree
7 181 (19.74%) Systems Engineering
8 178 (19.41%) Manufacturing
9 167 (18.21%) Finance
10 146 (15.92%) Aerospace
11 142 (15.49%) Project Management
12 132 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (14.07%) Software Engineering
14 127 (13.85%) Roadmaps
15 121 (13.20%) AWS
16 110 (12.00%) Business Strategy
17 108 (11.78%) Java
18 107 (11.67%) Microsoft
19 104 (11.34%) Six Sigma
19 104 (11.34%) HND
20 102 (11.12%) SQL
21 100 (10.91%) Azure
22 98 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
22 98 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
23 93 (10.14%) Performance Management
24 89 (9.71%) DevOps
24 89 (9.71%) CI/CD
25 88 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
26 86 (9.38%) Microservices
26 86 (9.38%) Project Delivery

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 (6.43%) Confluence
2 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.87%) SAS
3 8 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.76%) CMS
5 5 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.22%) 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 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (5.45%) Simulink
3 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Magento
1 7 (0.76%) Shopify
2 6 (0.65%) Infor LN
2 6 (0.65%) 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 (13.20%) AWS
2 100 (10.91%) Azure
3 43 (4.69%) GCP
4 42 (4.58%) SaaS
5 22 (2.40%) GitHub
5 22 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.40%) Serverless
6 14 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (1.53%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.09%) Azure AKS
8 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (0.76%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (0.65%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.42%) Internet
2 10 (1.09%) DKIM
2 10 (1.09%) DMARC
2 10 (1.09%) DNSSEC
2 10 (1.09%) SMTP
3 9 (0.98%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) VPN
5 6 (0.65%) LAN
5 6 (0.65%) WAN
6 4 (0.44%) DAB
7 2 (0.22%) Broadband
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) Network Security
7 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.11%) DHCP
8 1 (0.11%) NAS
8 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.38%) NoSQL
2 23 (2.51%) Tableau
3 17 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 13 (1.42%) BigQuery
4 13 (1.42%) Power BI
5 12 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.87%) Metadata
8 7 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.76%) MySQL
9 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.44%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.33%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.33%) Redis
11 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.22%) Big Data
12 2 (0.22%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (8.40%) JIRA
2 29 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.74%) Git
4 13 (1.42%) GitLab
5 12 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.76%) Selenium
8 5 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.33%) JMeter
9 3 (0.33%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.22%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.22%) JUnit
10 2 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.22%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.22%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 228 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 178 (19.41%) Manufacturing
3 167 (18.21%) Finance
4 146 (15.92%) Aerospace
5 76 (8.29%) Aeronautics
6 72 (7.85%) Banking
7 70 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (2.94%) Law
9 20 (2.18%) Public Sector
10 16 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.42%) Retail
13 11 (1.20%) Marketing
14 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.98%) Electronics
15 9 (0.98%) Legal
16 6 (0.65%) Games
16 6 (0.65%) Police
17 4 (0.44%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.56%) .NET
2 49 (5.34%) React
3 41 (4.47%) Node.js
4 32 (3.49%) Kafka
5 20 (2.18%) .NET Core
6 17 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.74%) CSS
8 14 (1.53%) HTML
9 10 (1.09%) ADO
10 9 (0.98%) Spring
10 9 (0.98%) Vue
11 8 (0.87%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.76%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.76%) ASP.NET
12 7 (0.76%) Laravel
12 7 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (0.76%) Redux
12 7 (0.76%) RESTful
13 6 (0.65%) Express.js
13 6 (0.65%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.05%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (1.64%) Social Media
5 13 (1.42%) Private Cloud
6 12 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 9 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 9 (0.98%) Life Science
9 8 (0.87%) Animation
9 8 (0.87%) Credit Risk
9 8 (0.87%) Market Risk
9 8 (0.87%) Photography
9 8 (0.87%) Podcast
10 7 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.65%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.69%) Windows
2 17 (1.85%) Linux
3 14 (1.53%) Windows Vista
4 7 (0.76%) Android
4 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.22%) CoreOS
5 2 (0.22%) Debian
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.22%) VMS
5 2 (0.22%) 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 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (31.73%) Coaching
2 272 (29.66%) Agile
3 207 (22.57%) Mentoring
4 181 (19.74%) Systems Engineering
5 142 (15.49%) Project Management
6 132 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 129 (14.07%) Software Engineering
8 127 (13.85%) Roadmaps
9 110 (12.00%) Business Strategy
10 104 (11.34%) Six Sigma
11 98 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 93 (10.14%) Performance Management
13 89 (9.71%) CI/CD
13 89 (9.71%) DevOps
14 88 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
15 86 (9.38%) Microservices
15 86 (9.38%) Project Delivery
16 81 (8.83%) SysML
17 80 (8.72%) Lean Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 108 (11.78%) Java
2 102 (11.12%) SQL
3 78 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 72 (7.85%) Python
5 55 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 50 (5.45%) C#
7 23 (2.51%) C
8 19 (2.07%) Bash
9 15 (1.64%) Bicep
10 12 (1.31%) PHP
11 11 (1.20%) Go
12 10 (1.09%) MATLAB
12 10 (1.09%) Ruby
13 8 (0.87%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.76%) R
15 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.44%) C++
17 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.33%) Scala
17 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 378 (41.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 200 (21.81%) Degree
3 104 (11.34%) HND
4 51 (5.56%) HNC
5 24 (2.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (2.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 18 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.09%) ACCA
8 10 (1.09%) CIMA
9 8 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (0.87%) Security Cleared
10 5 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.44%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.94%) ISO 9001
2 80 (8.72%) AQAP
3 22 (2.40%) GDPR
4 17 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.64%) QA
6 14 (1.53%) IFRS
7 13 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.09%) PMO
10 8 (0.87%) Basel III
10 8 (0.87%) IFRS 9
10 8 (0.87%) NIST
11 7 (0.76%) Basel II
11 7 (0.76%) Dodd-Frank
12 6 (0.65%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.65%) GAAP
12 6 (0.65%) IEC 62304
12 6 (0.65%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.55%) ITGC
System Software
1 55 (6.00%) Docker
2 21 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.55%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.32%) Terraform
3 23 (2.51%) Ansible
4 13 (1.42%) Puppet
5 12 (1.31%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.33%) Grafana
7 2 (0.22%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Automic
8 1 (0.11%) Consul
8 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 107 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.74%) SAP
3 66 (7.20%) Siemens
4 50 (5.45%) MathWorks
4 50 (5.45%) Oracle
5 19 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.85%) Cisco
7 14 (1.53%) Google
8 10 (1.09%) Cognos
8 10 (1.09%) IronPort
8 10 (1.09%) Veritas
9 6 (0.65%) Infor
9 6 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.65%) VMware
10 5 (0.55%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.55%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.44%) Aruba
11 4 (0.44%) Databricks
11 4 (0.44%) Mellanox
11 4 (0.44%) NVIDIA