Lead Jobs in Solihull

Leader
West Midlands > Solihull

The median Leader salary in Solihull is £55,000 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 6 27 10
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 25 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 17.99% 5.93% 13.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.52% 6.12% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 30
10th Percentile - £55,600 £54,275
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +31.82%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Solihull

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Solihull. 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 Solihull with a recognized job title 135 245 209
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.12% 96.84% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 86 184 143
10th Percentile £39,375 £26,250 £25,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,750 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,822 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,875 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,625 £73,750
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Solihull

Lead
Salary Trend in Solihull

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

Salary trend for Lead in Solihull

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

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 Solihull region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Finance
3 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (44.00%) C#
5 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (40.00%) ITIL
5 10 (40.00%) Windows
5 10 (40.00%) Python
5 10 (40.00%) Firewall
5 10 (40.00%) Management Information System
5 10 (40.00%) Information Security
5 10 (40.00%) Bash
5 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
5 10 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 10 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (40.00%) IT Governance
5 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (40.00%) COBIT
5 10 (40.00%) Security Operations
5 10 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
5 10 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 10 (40.00%) SIEM
5 10 (40.00%) Change Control
5 10 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
5 10 (40.00%) Private Cloud
6 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (32.00%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
7 7 (28.00%) Public Sector

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
1 10 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JUnit
1 1 (4.00%) Maven
1 1 (4.00%) Mockito
1 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (64.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Law
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (4.00%) JPA
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
1 1 (4.00%) Spring
1 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 10 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 8 (32.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (20.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (12.00%) IoT
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 3 (12.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) Change Control
3 10 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 10 (40.00%) Information Security
3 10 (40.00%) IT Governance
3 10 (40.00%) ITIL
3 10 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
3 10 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 10 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 10 (40.00%) SIEM
3 10 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (28.00%) Analytics
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (24.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Co-Creation
6 5 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) C#
2 10 (40.00%) Bash
2 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) COBIT
1 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 3 (12.00%) Rockwell
3 3 (12.00%) Siemens
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow