Lead Jobs in Plymouth

Leader
Devon > Plymouth

The median Leader salary in Plymouth is £57,194 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 25 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 5 9 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 5.62% 3.88% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 4.04% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 1
10th Percentile - £48,377 -
25th Percentile £48,894 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,194 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,985 £48,750
90th Percentile - £62,078 -
Devon median annual salary £63,597 £50,000 £40,250
% change year-on-year +27.19% +24.22% +0.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Plymouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Plymouth. 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 Plymouth with a recognized job title 80 223 103
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 96.12% 79.23%
Number of salaries quoted 49 175 80
10th Percentile - £28,000 £26,950
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,500 £61,250 £57,625
Devon median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -27.78% +12.50% -11.11%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Plymouth

Lead
Salary Trend in Plymouth

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

Salary trend for Lead in Plymouth

Lead
Salary Histogram in Plymouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Plymouth over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Plymouth

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Plymouth region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Laravel
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) LAMP
1 2 (40.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA