Lead Jobs in Reading

Leader
Berkshire > Reading

The median Leader salary in Reading is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 32 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 39 115 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 7.66% 6.30% 6.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.22% 6.65% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30 58 74
10th Percentile £50,250 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £63,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £110,800 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 423 1,729 1,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.10% 94.79% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 228 1,075 750
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,750 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £56,673 £52,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -10.26% +1.74%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Reading

Lead
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Lead in Reading

Lead
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Reading over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Reading region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 11 (28.21%) Azure
1 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
2 10 (25.64%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Finance
3 9 (23.08%) Java
3 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
5 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.95%) Oracle
5 7 (17.95%) AWS
5 7 (17.95%) Docker
6 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
6 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (15.38%) Scrum
6 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.38%) Git
6 6 (15.38%) Degree
7 5 (12.82%) JPA
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.82%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (12.82%) Spring
7 5 (12.82%) Maven
7 5 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (12.82%) TDD
7 5 (12.82%) VMware
7 5 (12.82%) JUnit
7 5 (12.82%) SOAP
7 5 (12.82%) ITIL
7 5 (12.82%) Linux

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.26%) AWS KMS
4 4 (10.26%) Route 53
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) OCI
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle CX
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) LAN
1 4 (10.26%) WAN
2 2 (5.13%) DMZ
2 2 (5.13%) DWDM
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) Internet
2 2 (5.13%) MPLS
2 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.13%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
2 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.69%) Power BI
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
5 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.13%) Weaviate
6 1 (2.56%) DB2
6 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) JUnit
2 5 (12.82%) Maven
2 5 (12.82%) Mockito
2 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
3 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (10.26%) DbUnit
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 4 (10.26%) jMock
4 2 (5.13%) MLflow
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Retail
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Games
4 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
1 5 (12.82%) Bootstrap
1 5 (12.82%) JPA
1 5 (12.82%) SOAP
1 5 (12.82%) Spring
1 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
2 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
2 4 (10.26%) PowerMock
2 4 (10.26%) RESTful
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Batch
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Integration
2 4 (10.26%) Web Services
3 3 (7.69%) Kafka
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) AIX
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
2 10 (25.64%) Agile
3 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 6 (15.38%) Scrum
5 5 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) ITIL
5 5 (12.82%) Microservices
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) TDD
6 4 (10.26%) BDD
6 4 (10.26%) Data Governance
6 4 (10.26%) Kanban
6 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Java
2 4 (10.26%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) C++
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.13%) R
4 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CISSP
4 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) ISEB
5 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
2 3 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 2 (5.13%) Def Stans
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.56%) ISO 14001
4 1 (2.56%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.56%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.56%) NEBOSH
4 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) HDFS
2 1 (2.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Kubeflow
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
3 4 (10.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) Aruba
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.13%) Mellanox
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) NVIDIA
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) BT
5 1 (2.56%) Cognos
5 1 (2.56%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.56%) Concur
5 1 (2.56%) Genesys
5 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) SAP