Lead Jobs in the South East

Leader
England > South East

The median Leader salary in the South East is £70,000 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 24 23 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 747 1,258 843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.75% 7.17% 6.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.92% 7.62% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 324 912 637
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,084 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -8.02% +2.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -5.41% -1.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 8,376 16,502 12,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.09% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,469 11,730 7,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,613 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +9 375 £75,000 +20.00% 850
Berkshire +17 314 £78,750 +5.00% 548
Surrey +10 100 £75,000 +25.00% 231
Hampshire -22 94 £60,000 - 284
Isle of Wight - 79 £75,000 - 13
Middlesex +2 40 £60,000 +34.36% 1
Buckinghamshire -30 39 £60,000 - 203
Kent -13 30 £67,500 +35.00% 181
Oxfordshire -23 22 £75,000 +42.86% 104
East Sussex +11 21 £77,500 -3.13% 94
West Sussex +2 7 £61,250 -5.77% 120
Sussex +6 2 £52,500 +31.25% 8
Lead
England

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

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 South East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 284 (38.02%) Degree
2 249 (33.33%) Law
3 234 (31.33%) Social Skills
4 218 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
5 185 (24.77%) Roadmaps
6 172 (23.03%) Analytics
7 169 (22.62%) Azure
8 162 (21.69%) Agile
9 157 (21.02%) Microsoft
9 157 (21.02%) Product Management
10 153 (20.48%) Computer Science
11 136 (18.21%) Mentoring
12 117 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 112 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (14.46%) Data Management
15 107 (14.32%) DevOps
16 105 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
17 103 (13.79%) Finance
18 100 (13.39%) Business Transformation
19 96 (12.85%) Python
19 96 (12.85%) Data Modelling
19 96 (12.85%) BPSS Clearance
20 95 (12.72%) SAP
20 95 (12.72%) Data Architecture
21 94 (12.58%) Data Engineering
22 93 (12.45%) Data Analysis
23 90 (12.05%) Project Management
24 87 (11.65%) Data Governance
25 86 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
26 83 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree

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 28 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.34%) Apache
3 5 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.67%) IIS
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.54%) CMS
4 4 (0.54%) Confluence
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.54%) Simulink
4 2 (0.27%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Infor LN
1 8 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 7 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.40%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.27%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 169 (22.62%) Azure
2 82 (10.98%) AWS
3 42 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 37 (4.95%) GCP
5 29 (3.88%) Snowflake
6 27 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.61%) Power Automate
6 27 (3.61%) PowerApps
7 25 (3.35%) Pulumi
8 22 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.68%) SaaS
10 16 (2.14%) PaaS
11 15 (2.01%) Vertex AI
12 12 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.67%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.17%) Broadband
2 18 (2.41%) Firewall
3 15 (2.01%) LAN
3 15 (2.01%) WAN
4 14 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.47%) Network Security
7 9 (1.20%) 5G
7 9 (1.20%) Bluetooth
7 9 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (1.20%) LTE
8 8 (1.07%) MPLS
8 8 (1.07%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.07%) VPN
9 5 (0.67%) BGP
9 5 (0.67%) DNS
9 5 (0.67%) OSPF
9 5 (0.67%) SSL
9 5 (0.67%) VLAN
10 3 (0.40%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.03%) Data Lake
2 41 (5.49%) Power BI
3 36 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.55%) Tableau
5 33 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (3.48%) Big Data
7 25 (3.35%) Metadata
7 25 (3.35%) RDBMS
7 25 (3.35%) Relational Database
8 24 (3.21%) Data Mining
9 13 (1.74%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.07%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.67%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.54%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (3.35%) Jaeger
2 15 (2.01%) JIRA
3 14 (1.87%) Git
4 10 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.80%) Selenium
6 5 (0.67%) JUnit
6 5 (0.67%) Maven
6 5 (0.67%) Mockito
6 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.54%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.54%) jMock
7 4 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.40%) Subversion
9 2 (0.27%) MLflow
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 249 (33.33%) Law
2 234 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 103 (13.79%) Finance
4 86 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (7.10%) Electronics
7 40 (5.35%) Retail
8 21 (2.81%) Legal
9 18 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.01%) Marketing
12 14 (1.87%) Multimedia
13 11 (1.47%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.20%) Tech for Good
15 8 (1.07%) Aviation
15 8 (1.07%) Police
15 8 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.80%) Banking
16 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.55%) React
2 25 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 24 (3.21%) .NET
4 18 (2.41%) Kafka
5 17 (2.28%) YAML
6 16 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 13 (1.74%) HTML
7 13 (1.74%) REST
8 12 (1.61%) XML
9 11 (1.47%) CSS
10 8 (1.07%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.94%) RESTful
12 6 (0.80%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.80%) ASP.NET
12 6 (0.80%) React Native
12 6 (0.80%) Redux
12 6 (0.80%) SOAP
12 6 (0.80%) Spring
12 6 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 27 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.14%) IoT
6 15 (2.01%) Security Posture
7 12 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (1.34%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.20%) NB-IoT
10 8 (1.07%) Robotics
11 7 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.94%) Social Media
12 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.67%) Acoustics
13 5 (0.67%) NHS
13 5 (0.67%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.69%) Linux
2 29 (3.88%) Unix
3 24 (3.21%) Windows
4 12 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.80%) Android
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (24.77%) Roadmaps
3 172 (23.03%) Analytics
4 162 (21.69%) Agile
5 157 (21.02%) Product Management
6 153 (20.48%) Computer Science
7 136 (18.21%) Mentoring
8 117 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 112 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 108 (14.46%) Data Management
11 107 (14.32%) DevOps
12 105 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
13 100 (13.39%) Business Transformation
14 96 (12.85%) Data Modelling
15 95 (12.72%) Data Architecture
16 94 (12.58%) Data Engineering
17 93 (12.45%) Data Analysis
18 90 (12.05%) Project Management
19 87 (11.65%) Data Governance
20 75 (10.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 96 (12.85%) Python
2 73 (9.77%) Java
3 56 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 56 (7.50%) SQL
4 48 (6.43%) MATLAB
5 47 (6.29%) C#
6 35 (4.69%) Bash
7 27 (3.61%) Go
8 26 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.21%) C
10 22 (2.95%) Rust
11 17 (2.28%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.01%) C++
13 12 (1.61%) Ada
14 6 (0.80%) PHP
15 4 (0.54%) Scala
16 3 (0.40%) Ruby
17 2 (0.27%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.27%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 284 (38.02%) Degree
2 96 (12.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 83 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (5.76%) Security Cleared
5 26 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.35%) SC Cleared
7 24 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 20 (2.68%) PMI Certification
9 19 (2.54%) PMP
10 13 (1.74%) Chartered Engineer
11 11 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (1.07%) ACCA
13 8 (1.07%) CIMA
14 7 (0.94%) PhD
15 5 (0.67%) MBA
16 4 (0.54%) CISSP
16 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.55%) QA
3 29 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.81%) NIST
5 15 (2.01%) NCSC
5 15 (2.01%) SLA
6 10 (1.34%) GDPR
7 9 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.07%) GAAP
8 8 (1.07%) IFRS
9 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.94%) Def Stans
10 6 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.67%) HL7
11 5 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.40%) GRC
12 3 (0.40%) PMO
12 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (5.76%) Docker
2 18 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.34%) vSphere
4 6 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.67%) HDFS
6 4 (0.54%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Postfix
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (6.16%) Terraform
2 45 (6.02%) Ansible
3 43 (5.76%) Kubernetes
4 30 (4.02%) Prometheus
5 25 (3.35%) Argo
5 25 (3.35%) Kustomize
6 10 (1.34%) Puppet
7 6 (0.80%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.80%) QRadar
8 5 (0.67%) Grafana
9 3 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.27%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.13%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 157 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 95 (12.72%) SAP
3 43 (5.76%) Google
4 31 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.15%) VMware
5 24 (3.21%) IBM
6 21 (2.81%) Oracle
7 20 (2.68%) Concur
8 19 (2.54%) Workday
9 17 (2.28%) Databricks
10 16 (2.14%) Cisco
10 16 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 15 (2.01%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.20%) Cognos
12 9 (1.20%) Dell
13 8 (1.07%) Infor
13 8 (1.07%) Informatica
14 7 (0.94%) Aruba
14 7 (0.94%) Siemens
15 6 (0.80%) Splunk