Lead Jobs in the South East

Leader
England > South East

The median Leader salary in the South East is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 44 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,125 915 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.78% 6.07% 6.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.22% 6.70% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 836 682 741
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,650 £42,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +7.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.74% +4.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South East

Lead
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the South East.

Salary trend for Lead in the South East

Lead
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the South East

Lead
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +15 439 £61,000 -6.15% 77
Hampshire +21 340 £60,000 -17.24% 54
Berkshire +16 208 £77,500 +14.81% 38
Surrey -7 140 £60,000 -14.29% 28
Buckinghamshire +31 136 £60,000 +4.35% 23
Oxfordshire +1 95 £52,500 -8.70% 17
Kent +35 69 £55,000 -8.33% 20
East Sussex +6 44 £80,000 +50.94% 10
West Sussex +15 38 £64,000 +8.94% 7
Middlesex -3 24 £44,658 -44.18%
Sussex -12 13 £40,000 -52.94% 2
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 South East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 272 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 258 (22.93%) Agile
3 177 (15.73%) Finance
3 177 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
4 175 (15.56%) Microsoft
5 152 (13.51%) .NET
6 151 (13.42%) Azure
7 150 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 143 (12.71%) C#
9 140 (12.44%) Windows
10 137 (12.18%) Software Engineering
11 136 (12.09%) Analytics
12 130 (11.56%) Degree
13 125 (11.11%) AWS
14 116 (10.31%) Process Improvement
15 109 (9.69%) DevOps
16 107 (9.51%) JavaScript
17 106 (9.42%) Marketing
17 106 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
18 102 (9.07%) Java
18 102 (9.07%) Project Management
19 101 (8.98%) Docker
20 100 (8.89%) Kubernetes
21 96 (8.53%) SQL
22 95 (8.44%) Security Cleared
23 91 (8.09%) Data Strategy
24 90 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
25 88 (7.82%) Matrix Organization
26 87 (7.73%) Digital Marketing
27 86 (7.64%) Use Case

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 23 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (0.89%) OpenStack
3 6 (0.53%) Apache
3 6 (0.53%) CMS
3 6 (0.53%) Confluence
4 4 (0.36%) IIS
4 4 (0.36%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.089%) Drupal
Applications
1 40 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
6 2 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 22 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.89%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.27%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.18%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.089%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.089%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.089%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.089%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.089%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.089%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.089%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 151 (13.42%) Azure
2 125 (11.11%) AWS
3 56 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (4.98%) Power Platform
4 40 (3.56%) SaaS
5 23 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (1.60%) Serverless
8 15 (1.33%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (1.24%) GCP
10 13 (1.16%) Amazon S3
11 12 (1.07%) Datadog
11 12 (1.07%) PaaS
12 11 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (0.89%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.84%) Broadband
2 47 (4.18%) Firewall
3 26 (2.31%) DNS
4 18 (1.60%) Network Security
5 17 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.98%) LAN
6 11 (0.98%) SSL
6 11 (0.98%) Wireless
7 10 (0.89%) DHCP
7 10 (0.89%) WAN
8 9 (0.80%) CTI
8 9 (0.80%) OSPF
8 9 (0.80%) VoIP
9 7 (0.62%) VPN
10 6 (0.53%) BGP
10 6 (0.53%) RS-485
10 6 (0.53%) VLAN
11 5 (0.44%) SMTP
12 4 (0.36%) HTTP
12 4 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.62%) NoSQL
2 51 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 45 (4.00%) Power BI
4 15 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (1.16%) MySQL
6 10 (0.89%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.71%) SAP BW
9 6 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.53%) CouchDB
9 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.44%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.44%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.36%) Metadata
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 52 (4.62%) Git
2 45 (4.00%) Visual Studio
3 39 (3.47%) Selenium
4 25 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 23 (2.04%) GitLab
6 22 (1.96%) SoapUI
7 18 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (1.42%) Jenkins
9 11 (0.98%) NUnit
10 8 (0.71%) Gradle
10 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.62%) Jasmine
11 7 (0.62%) Postman
11 7 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.44%) JIRA
13 4 (0.36%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.36%) Xcode
14 2 (0.18%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.18%) Hudson
14 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 272 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 177 (15.73%) Finance
3 106 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (9.42%) Marketing
4 77 (6.84%) Advertising
5 37 (3.29%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.02%) Aerospace
6 34 (3.02%) Legal
7 32 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 31 (2.76%) Aviation
8 31 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.22%) Military
11 22 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.69%) Retail
13 18 (1.60%) Banking
13 18 (1.60%) Electronics
14 16 (1.42%) Police
15 15 (1.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (13.51%) .NET
2 85 (7.56%) React
3 30 (2.67%) HTML
4 29 (2.58%) CSS
5 26 (2.31%) ASP.NET
6 24 (2.13%) .NET Framework
7 22 (1.96%) .NET Core
8 20 (1.78%) EDI
8 20 (1.78%) Jest
9 19 (1.69%) JSON
10 17 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.42%) Kafka
12 15 (1.33%) RESTful
13 14 (1.24%) Spring
14 11 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (0.98%) Spring Boot
14 11 (0.98%) XML
15 10 (0.89%) Vue
16 9 (0.80%) HTML5
17 8 (0.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.84%) Marketing Technology
2 52 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 22 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.42%) Data Centre
5 16 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (1.42%) Private Cloud
6 14 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.24%) Digital Media
6 14 (1.24%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (1.16%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 11 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (0.71%) Credit Risk
10 8 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (0.71%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.62%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 140 (12.44%) Windows
2 65 (5.78%) Linux
3 39 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.71%) Android
6 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.18%) CentOS
8 2 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.18%) Rocky
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.089%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (22.93%) Agile
2 177 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 137 (12.18%) Software Engineering
5 136 (12.09%) Analytics
6 116 (10.31%) Process Improvement
7 109 (9.69%) DevOps
8 102 (9.07%) Project Management
9 91 (8.09%) Data Strategy
10 90 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (7.82%) Matrix Organization
12 87 (7.73%) Digital Marketing
13 86 (7.64%) Business Case
13 86 (7.64%) Use Case
14 82 (7.29%) ITIL
15 77 (6.84%) Data Collection
15 77 (6.84%) Regulatory Change
16 69 (6.13%) Artificial Intelligence
17 68 (6.04%) Computer Science
18 66 (5.87%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 143 (12.71%) C#
2 107 (9.51%) JavaScript
3 102 (9.07%) Java
4 96 (8.53%) SQL
5 70 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 57 (5.07%) Python
7 42 (3.73%) C++
8 27 (2.40%) C
9 8 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.62%) Bicep
11 6 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.44%) Go
12 5 (0.44%) Haskell
12 5 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.44%) PHP
12 5 (0.44%) Scala
13 4 (0.36%) JSX
13 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 130 (11.56%) Degree
2 95 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 56 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (4.53%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 22 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (1.78%) CIPD
8 19 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 17 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.07%) CCNP
11 12 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (1.07%) MCSE
12 11 (0.98%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.80%) ISEB
14 9 (0.80%) PMP
15 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.62%) QA
2 31 (2.76%) SLA
3 24 (2.13%) GDPR
4 17 (1.51%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.71%) IFRS
7 8 (0.71%) PMO
7 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.62%) NIST
9 6 (0.53%) GRC
10 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.36%) GMP
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.27%) ITGC
12 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.18%) NEBOSH
14 1 (0.089%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 101 (8.98%) Docker
2 66 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.49%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.33%) Firmware
5 7 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.089%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 100 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.38%) Terraform
3 26 (2.31%) Puppet
4 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.24%) Ansible
6 13 (1.16%) SCCM
7 12 (1.07%) Consul
7 12 (1.07%) ZABBIX
8 7 (0.62%) MIIS
8 7 (0.62%) NetBackup
8 7 (0.62%) SCOM
9 5 (0.44%) WSUS
10 3 (0.27%) Nessus
11 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) Autotask
11 2 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.089%) Netcool
12 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.089%) Salt
Vendors
1 175 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.24%) SAP
3 34 (3.02%) Cisco
4 28 (2.49%) Oracle
5 23 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.60%) VMware
7 17 (1.51%) Google
8 11 (0.98%) Apple
8 11 (0.98%) OpenText
8 11 (0.98%) Palo Alto
9 9 (0.80%) Databricks
9 9 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.71%) Apttus
10 8 (0.71%) McAfee
11 7 (0.62%) Citrix
12 6 (0.53%) Ubiquiti
13 5 (0.44%) Acronis
13 5 (0.44%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.44%) Sophos
13 5 (0.44%) Splunk