Lead Jobs in the North West

Leader
England > North West

The median Leader salary in the North West is £57,836 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 25 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 713 826 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.91% 8.38% 6.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.75% 8.86% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 419 679 408
10th Percentile £47,683 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,793 £53,750 £55,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,759 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,695 £86,500 £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 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 7,315 9,322 6,975
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 94.61% 89.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 7,164 4,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,619 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 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 11 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 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
Manchester -6 237 £75,000 +6.38% 210
Cumbria -7 237 £72,500 +20.83% 8
Lancashire -35 218 £54,793 -25.76% 110
Merseyside -23 11 £66,447 +5.11% 23
Cheshire -33 8 £57,000 +3.64% 54
Lead
England

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

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 West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 362 (50.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 250 (35.06%) Coaching
3 232 (32.54%) Agile
4 190 (26.65%) Degree
5 173 (24.26%) Systems Engineering
6 171 (23.98%) Manufacturing
7 162 (22.72%) Social Skills
8 146 (20.48%) Aerospace
9 130 (18.23%) Mentoring
10 123 (17.25%) Project Management
11 107 (15.01%) Finance
12 104 (14.59%) Six Sigma
12 104 (14.59%) HND
12 104 (14.59%) Business Strategy
13 100 (14.03%) Software Engineering
14 98 (13.74%) AWS
15 94 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 93 (13.04%) Performance Management
17 90 (12.62%) Java
18 89 (12.48%) Roadmaps
19 82 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
19 82 (11.50%) ISO 9001
20 81 (11.36%) SysML
21 80 (11.22%) Lean Manufacturing
21 80 (11.22%) Microsoft
21 80 (11.22%) CMMI
21 80 (11.22%) AQAP
21 80 (11.22%) Zero Defects
22 79 (11.08%) Project Delivery
23 77 (10.80%) Mathematics

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 58 (8.13%) Confluence
2 7 (0.98%) CMS
3 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 65 (9.12%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (7.01%) Simulink
3 12 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (0.98%) Magento
1 7 (0.98%) Shopify
2 2 (0.28%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.28%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 98 (13.74%) AWS
2 67 (9.40%) Azure
3 24 (3.37%) GCP
4 18 (2.52%) GitHub
5 17 (2.38%) SaaS
5 17 (2.38%) Serverless
6 13 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (1.12%) Power Platform
10 7 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (0.98%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.70%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.56%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.42%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) Internet
2 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.28%) VPN
3 1 (0.14%) ADSL
3 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) IPsec
3 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.37%) NoSQL
2 17 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 13 (1.82%) Tableau
4 10 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.12%) Power BI
7 6 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.84%) Metadata
8 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.56%) MySQL
10 3 (0.42%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.42%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.28%) Big Data
11 2 (0.28%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (9.26%) JIRA
2 24 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.96%) Git
4 11 (1.54%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.26%) GitLab
6 5 (0.70%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.28%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.28%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.28%) Storybook
8 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) ESLint
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 171 (23.98%) Manufacturing
2 162 (22.72%) Social Skills
3 146 (20.48%) Aerospace
4 107 (15.01%) Finance
5 76 (10.66%) Aeronautics
6 52 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (4.63%) Banking
8 17 (2.38%) Law
9 14 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.40%) Retail
11 9 (1.26%) Public Sector
12 7 (0.98%) Electronics
13 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Legal
14 5 (0.70%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Automotive
15 3 (0.42%) Games
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.77%) .NET
1 34 (4.77%) React
2 27 (3.79%) Node.js
3 24 (3.37%) Kafka
4 16 (2.24%) CSS
5 14 (1.96%) .NET Core
5 14 (1.96%) HTML
6 12 (1.68%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.26%) ADO
7 9 (1.26%) Spring
7 9 (1.26%) Vue
8 8 (1.12%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.98%) Laravel
10 6 (0.84%) Playwright
10 6 (0.84%) RESTful
11 5 (0.70%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.70%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.70%) HTML5
11 5 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (0.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 12 (1.68%) Cloud Native
4 9 (1.26%) Algorithms
4 9 (1.26%) Life Science
5 7 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
7 5 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 5 (0.70%) Mobile App
7 5 (0.70%) Social Media
8 4 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.42%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.24%) Windows
2 11 (1.54%) Linux
3 7 (0.98%) Android
4 4 (0.56%) Windows Vista
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.28%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 2 (0.28%) zOS
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (35.06%) Coaching
2 232 (32.54%) Agile
3 173 (24.26%) Systems Engineering
4 130 (18.23%) Mentoring
5 123 (17.25%) Project Management
6 104 (14.59%) Business Strategy
6 104 (14.59%) Six Sigma
7 100 (14.03%) Software Engineering
8 94 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (13.04%) Performance Management
10 89 (12.48%) Roadmaps
11 82 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
12 81 (11.36%) SysML
13 80 (11.22%) CMMI
13 80 (11.22%) Lean Manufacturing
13 80 (11.22%) Zero Defects
14 79 (11.08%) Project Delivery
15 77 (10.80%) Mathematics
15 77 (10.80%) Physics
16 76 (10.66%) Cost Control
Programming Languages
1 90 (12.62%) Java
2 68 (9.54%) SQL
3 54 (7.57%) JavaScript
4 50 (7.01%) Python
5 38 (5.33%) TypeScript
6 26 (3.65%) C#
7 22 (3.09%) C
8 16 (2.24%) Bash
9 14 (1.96%) Bicep
10 11 (1.54%) PHP
11 10 (1.40%) Go
11 10 (1.40%) MATLAB
11 10 (1.40%) Ruby
12 3 (0.42%) C++
12 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.14%) Ada
13 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.14%) ReasonML
13 1 (0.14%) Scala
13 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 362 (50.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 190 (26.65%) Degree
3 104 (14.59%) HND
4 51 (7.15%) HNC
5 24 (3.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (3.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 14 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 6 (0.84%) ACCA
8 6 (0.84%) CIMA
8 6 (0.84%) Security Cleared
9 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.28%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.14%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.50%) ISO 9001
2 80 (11.22%) AQAP
3 11 (1.54%) GDPR
4 10 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.40%) QA
5 8 (1.12%) PMO
6 6 (0.84%) IEC 62304
6 6 (0.84%) ISO 13485
6 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.70%) ITGC
7 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) GAAP
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) SLA
10 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 32 (4.49%) Docker
2 21 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (6.59%) Terraform
2 31 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.24%) Ansible
4 13 (1.82%) Puppet
5 12 (1.68%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.28%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.14%) Automic
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.26%) Siemens
3 61 (8.56%) SAP
4 50 (7.01%) MathWorks
5 38 (5.33%) Oracle
6 17 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.40%) Google
8 6 (0.84%) Cognos
9 5 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.42%) Informatica
11 2 (0.28%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.28%) Infor
11 2 (0.28%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.28%) Splunk
11 2 (0.28%) VMware
12 1 (0.14%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.14%) Computacenter
12 1 (0.14%) Facebook
12 1 (0.14%) Intel
12 1 (0.14%) Planview