Lead Jobs in the North West

Leader
England > North West

The median Leader salary in the North West is £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 18 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 627 864 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.99% 8.30% 6.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.68% 8.76% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 380 708 386
10th Percentile £47,683 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,793 £55,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,813 £84,919 £82,188
90th Percentile £98,474 £86,625 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -4.11% -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,220 9,862 6,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.79% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,851 7,544 3,993
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,138
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Lancashire -37 217 £54,793 -25.76% 81
Manchester -12 207 £75,000 +6.38% 177
Cumbria -6 179 £70,000 +14.75% 11
Cheshire -35 13 £64,500 +17.27% 34
Merseyside -32 9 £60,394 -7.09% 18
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 323 (51.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 244 (38.92%) Coaching
3 208 (33.17%) Agile
4 183 (29.19%) Degree
5 177 (28.23%) Systems Engineering
6 146 (23.29%) Manufacturing
7 145 (23.13%) Aerospace
8 126 (20.10%) Social Skills
9 104 (16.59%) Six Sigma
10 97 (15.47%) HND
11 95 (15.15%) Mentoring
12 93 (14.83%) Performance Management
13 88 (14.04%) Software Engineering
13 88 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 87 (13.88%) Java
15 85 (13.56%) AWS
16 84 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
17 83 (13.24%) ISO 9001
18 80 (12.76%) CMMI
18 80 (12.76%) Lean Manufacturing
18 80 (12.76%) AQAP
18 80 (12.76%) Zero Defects
19 79 (12.60%) Microsoft
20 77 (12.28%) Mathematics
20 77 (12.28%) Physics
20 77 (12.28%) Business Strategy
21 76 (12.12%) Aeronautics
21 76 (12.12%) Cost Control
22 75 (11.96%) SysML
23 68 (10.85%) Enterprise Architecture

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.41%) Confluence
2 5 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.64%) CMS
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (7.97%) Simulink
3 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Magento
1 4 (0.64%) Shopify
2 2 (0.32%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (13.56%) AWS
2 56 (8.93%) Azure
3 20 (3.19%) GCP
4 15 (2.39%) Serverless
5 13 (2.07%) GitHub
6 12 (1.91%) SaaS
7 10 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.28%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.12%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.48%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.48%) PaaS
12 3 (0.48%) Pulumi
13 2 (0.32%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) Broadband
2 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) ADSL
3 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.16%) IPsec
3 1 (0.16%) Modbus
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) VLAN
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.35%) NoSQL
2 16 (2.55%) MongoDB
3 11 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.44%) BigQuery
4 9 (1.44%) Tableau
5 8 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.28%) Power BI
6 7 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.64%) MySQL
9 3 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.32%) Big Data
10 2 (0.32%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.32%) Metadata
11 1 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (10.53%) JIRA
2 23 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.23%) Git
4 10 (1.59%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.12%) GitLab
6 5 (0.80%) Selenium
7 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.48%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.32%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.32%) JMeter
8 2 (0.32%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.32%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.32%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.32%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.32%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 146 (23.29%) Manufacturing
2 145 (23.13%) Aerospace
3 126 (20.10%) Social Skills
4 76 (12.12%) Aeronautics
5 65 (10.37%) Finance
6 53 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (4.63%) Banking
8 14 (2.23%) Law
9 9 (1.44%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.44%) Retail
10 8 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.96%) Electronics
12 6 (0.96%) Legal
13 5 (0.80%) Marketing
14 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.32%) Police
15 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.63%) .NET
1 29 (4.63%) React
2 24 (3.83%) Kafka
3 22 (3.51%) Node.js
4 15 (2.39%) CSS
5 13 (2.07%) HTML
6 11 (1.75%) .NET Core
6 11 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.44%) Vue
8 8 (1.28%) ADO
9 7 (1.12%) Laravel
9 7 (1.12%) Spring
10 6 (0.96%) Playwright
10 6 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (0.96%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.80%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.80%) Blazor
11 5 (0.80%) HTML5
11 5 (0.80%) React Native
12 4 (0.64%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.99%) Product Ownership
2 23 (3.67%) Management Information System
3 10 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 8 (1.28%) Algorithms
4 8 (1.28%) Life Science
5 7 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (0.80%) Mobile App
6 5 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (0.80%) Social Media
7 4 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.64%) Clustering
7 4 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 4 (0.64%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.44%) Linux
1 9 (1.44%) Windows
2 7 (1.12%) Android
3 4 (0.64%) Windows Vista
4 3 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) CentOS
5 1 (0.16%) Debian
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (38.92%) Coaching
2 208 (33.17%) Agile
3 177 (28.23%) Systems Engineering
4 104 (16.59%) Six Sigma
5 95 (15.15%) Mentoring
6 93 (14.83%) Performance Management
7 88 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (14.04%) Software Engineering
8 84 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
9 80 (12.76%) CMMI
9 80 (12.76%) Lean Manufacturing
9 80 (12.76%) Zero Defects
10 77 (12.28%) Business Strategy
10 77 (12.28%) Mathematics
10 77 (12.28%) Physics
11 76 (12.12%) Cost Control
12 75 (11.96%) SysML
13 68 (10.85%) Enterprise Architecture
13 68 (10.85%) Roadmaps
14 66 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (13.88%) Java
2 62 (9.89%) SQL
3 51 (8.13%) JavaScript
4 50 (7.97%) Python
5 34 (5.42%) TypeScript
6 22 (3.51%) C#
7 16 (2.55%) Bash
8 15 (2.39%) C
9 12 (1.91%) Go
10 11 (1.75%) PHP
11 10 (1.59%) Bicep
11 10 (1.59%) MATLAB
12 9 (1.44%) Ruby
13 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 323 (51.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 183 (29.19%) Degree
3 97 (15.47%) HND
4 26 (4.15%) HNC
5 24 (3.83%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (3.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 15 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.96%) ACCA
7 6 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.96%) CIMA
7 6 (0.96%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.96%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.16%) GSEC
9 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (13.24%) ISO 9001
2 80 (12.76%) AQAP
3 11 (1.75%) QA
4 8 (1.28%) GDPR
5 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.80%) IEC 62304
6 5 (0.80%) ISO 13485
6 5 (0.80%) ITGC
6 5 (0.80%) NIST
7 3 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.32%) GAAP
8 2 (0.32%) IFRS
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) PERC
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (5.10%) Docker
2 15 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (7.02%) Terraform
2 30 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.55%) Ansible
4 10 (1.59%) Puppet
5 9 (1.44%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.48%) Argo
7 3 (0.48%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.32%) Grafana
9 1 (0.16%) Automic
9 1 (0.16%) Consul
9 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.73%) SAP
3 58 (9.25%) Siemens
4 50 (7.97%) MathWorks
5 37 (5.90%) Oracle
6 16 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.07%) Google
8 6 (0.96%) Cognos
9 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.32%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.32%) Infor
10 2 (0.32%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.32%) Splunk
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco
11 1 (0.16%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.16%) Computacenter
11 1 (0.16%) Facebook
11 1 (0.16%) Hootsuite
11 1 (0.16%) IBM