Lead Jobs in Northern Ireland

Leader
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Leader salary in Northern Ireland is £57,291 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 39 55 84
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 32 64 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.95% 6.18% 2.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.07% 6.46% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 14
10th Percentile - £28,500 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,125 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £58,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +67.86% -30.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,000 £57,688
90th Percentile £69,800 £85,000 £79,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 527 991 693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.96% 95.75% 87.17%
Number of salaries quoted 217 449 444
10th Percentile £29,993 £28,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
County Antrim +10 24 £58,645 -2.26% 13
County Armagh - 7 - -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
3 11 (34.38%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (31.25%) Legal
5 9 (28.13%) Retail
5 9 (28.13%) QA
5 9 (28.13%) AWS
5 9 (28.13%) Software Delivery
5 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (28.13%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (28.13%) Actionable Insight
5 9 (28.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 9 (28.13%) Presales
6 7 (21.88%) Internal Audit
6 7 (21.88%) Inventory Management
6 7 (21.88%) Commercialisation
6 7 (21.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (21.88%) Lean Manufacturing
6 7 (21.88%) Google
6 7 (21.88%) Degree
6 7 (21.88%) Programme Management
6 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (21.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (21.88%) Quality Management
6 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (21.88%) SAP
7 6 (18.75%) Windows
8 5 (15.63%) Linux

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (3.13%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DHCP
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
1 5 (15.63%) HTTP
1 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.13%) MySQL
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) IntelliJ
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Legal
4 9 (28.13%) Retail
5 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
5 7 (21.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (9.38%) Law
8 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.13%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (15.63%) Cyberattack
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Blog
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
2 11 (34.38%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (28.13%) Actionable Insight
3 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (28.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 9 (28.13%) Presales
3 9 (28.13%) Software Delivery
3 9 (28.13%) Thought Leadership
4 7 (21.88%) Commercialisation
4 7 (21.88%) Internal Audit
4 7 (21.88%) Inventory Management
4 7 (21.88%) Lean Manufacturing
4 7 (21.88%) Programme Management
4 7 (21.88%) Quality Management
4 7 (21.88%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.63%) DRM
5 5 (15.63%) SIEM
5 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Google
1 7 (21.88%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Solace
2 1 (3.13%) TIBCO