Lead Jobs in Nottingham

Leader
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Leader salary in Nottingham is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 24 69 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 6.98% 8.19% 10.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.82% 8.48% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 22 50 38
10th Percentile £54,487 £36,200 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £40,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,625 £85,375 £72,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 307 814 499
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 96.67% 89.91%
Number of salaries quoted 167 616 379
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £76,000 £80,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Nottingham

Lead
Salary Trend in Nottingham

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

Salary trend for Lead in Nottingham

Lead
Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Nottingham over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Nottingham

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Nottingham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 16 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 13 (54.17%) C#
2 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) SaaS
3 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
4 9 (37.50%) AWS
4 9 (37.50%) QA
5 8 (33.33%) Selenium
5 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 8 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
7 6 (25.00%) SQL
7 6 (25.00%) .NET
7 6 (25.00%) Finance
7 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
8 5 (20.83%) Postman
8 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (20.83%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (20.83%) Microservices
8 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
8 5 (20.83%) Manual Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (16.67%) Law
9 4 (16.67%) CRM
9 4 (16.67%) Scrum
9 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
9 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
9 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation

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

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Maximo
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) SaaS
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Selenium
2 5 (20.83%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Storybook
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (12.50%) Billing
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Electronics
6 1 (4.17%) Local Government
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.33%) React
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) Redux
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
3 4 (16.67%) Legacy Code
4 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
4 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (4.17%) EPoS
5 1 (4.17%) IoT
5 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.83%) Manual Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (20.83%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (16.67%) CRM
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (12.50%) API Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Fintech
7 3 (12.50%) QA Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Test Strategy
8 2 (8.33%) Front End Development
8 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) C#
2 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) Delphi
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CCNP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) HubSpot
1 1 (4.17%) IBM
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
1 1 (4.17%) SAP