Lead Jobs in Slough

Leader
Berkshire > Slough

The median Leader salary in Slough is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 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
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 16 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 102 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Slough 36.96% 7.75% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 41.98% 7.87% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £38,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £43,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +74.42% -46.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £44,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Slough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Slough. 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 Slough with a recognized job title 243 127 226
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.04% 98.45% 87.26%
Number of salaries quoted 56 112 129
10th Percentile - £27,750 £25,688
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.07% -22.61% +2.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £77,300
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 Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Slough

Lead
Salary Trend in Slough

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

Salary trend for Lead in Slough

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Slough region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 99 (97.06%) Law
2 62 (60.78%) Analytics
3 43 (42.16%) Business Transformation
4 42 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (39.22%) Social Skills
5 40 (39.22%) Roadmaps
6 38 (37.25%) Degree
7 37 (36.27%) Data Architecture
7 37 (36.27%) SAP
8 36 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (35.29%) Data Management
9 35 (34.31%) Product Management
9 35 (34.31%) Azure
10 34 (33.33%) Data Modelling
11 33 (32.35%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (31.37%) Microsoft
13 30 (29.41%) Data Engineering
14 27 (26.47%) Data Science
15 26 (25.49%) Computer Science
16 25 (24.51%) Project Management
17 24 (23.53%) Agile
17 24 (23.53%) Data Lake
17 24 (23.53%) Data Governance
18 23 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
19 21 (20.59%) Strategic Thinking
20 20 (19.61%) Matrix Organization
20 20 (19.61%) Finance
21 19 (18.63%) Data Analysis
21 19 (18.63%) Data Quality
22 18 (17.65%) Data Strategy

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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 10 (9.80%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) Azure
2 13 (12.75%) GCP
3 10 (9.80%) Power Automate
3 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.80%) PowerApps
4 8 (7.84%) AWS
4 8 (7.84%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (4.90%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.98%) Collibra
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.53%) Data Lake
2 10 (9.80%) Big Data
2 10 (9.80%) Data Mining
2 10 (9.80%) Power BI
2 10 (9.80%) Tableau
3 8 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.84%) Metadata
General
1 99 (97.06%) Law
2 40 (39.22%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (19.61%) Finance
5 13 (12.75%) Retail
6 6 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.88%) Legal
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.98%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 12 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) Analytics
2 43 (42.16%) Business Transformation
3 42 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (39.22%) Roadmaps
5 37 (36.27%) Data Architecture
6 36 (35.29%) Data Management
6 36 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 35 (34.31%) Product Management
8 34 (33.33%) Data Modelling
9 33 (32.35%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (29.41%) Data Engineering
11 27 (26.47%) Data Science
12 26 (25.49%) Computer Science
13 25 (24.51%) Project Management
14 24 (23.53%) Agile
14 24 (23.53%) Data Governance
15 21 (20.59%) Strategic Thinking
16 20 (19.61%) Matrix Organization
17 19 (18.63%) Data Analysis
18 18 (17.65%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.84%) Python
1 8 (7.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (37.25%) Degree
2 9 (8.82%) PMI Certification
2 9 (8.82%) PMP
3 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.84%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.84%) QA
Vendors
1 37 (36.27%) SAP
2 32 (31.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.80%) IBM
3 10 (9.80%) ServiceNow
4 9 (8.82%) Concur
4 9 (8.82%) Workday
5 6 (5.88%) Databricks
5 6 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.90%) Google
6 5 (4.90%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco
7 1 (0.98%) Informatica
7 1 (0.98%) Okta
7 1 (0.98%) Zscaler