Lead Jobs in Northumberland

Leader
North East > Northumberland

The median Leader salary in Northumberland is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +8
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northumberland 6.67% 1.33% 5.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.68% 1.35% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -47.83% -
75th Percentile - - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £48,000 £59,400 £49,500
% change year-on-year -19.19% +20.00% -8.71%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Northumberland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northumberland. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Northumberland with a recognized job title 31 74 16
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 68.89% 98.67% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 54 16
10th Percentile £29,693 £24,500 -
25th Percentile £30,125 £35,000 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £50,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +51.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31,500 £60,000 £38,438
90th Percentile £37,875 £65,500 £46,567
North East median annual salary £30,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -10.00% +5.26%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Northumberland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Northumberland

Lead
Salary Trend in Northumberland

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Northumberland.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Northumberland

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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 Northumberland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Broadband
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (33.33%) Jaeger

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northumberland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google