Lead Jobs in South Wales

Leader
Wales > South Wales

The median Leader salary in South Wales is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 16 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 29 137 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.03% 8.69% 4.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 9.51% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27 118 46
10th Percentile £51,600 £48,829 £39,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £46,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 -
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,458 £87,500
Wales median annual salary £72,192 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.06% -3.70% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 788 1,440 1,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.43% 91.37% 89.33%
Number of salaries quoted 464 970 556
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,154 £45,569 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -4.07% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,438
90th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.59%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South Wales

Lead
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Lead in South Wales

Lead
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in South Wales

Lead
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cardiff -7 15 £60,000 -7.69% 20
Newport -28 12 £75,000 +15.38%
Glamorgan 0 1 £62,500 - 15
Torfaen - 1 £67,500 - 3
Lead
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Wales region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 12 (41.38%) Degree
2 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
2 11 (37.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (24.14%) Python
4 7 (24.14%) MATLAB
4 7 (24.14%) Electronics
4 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
4 7 (24.14%) Signal Processing
4 7 (24.14%) Physics
5 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.69%) Coaching
5 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Finance
6 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Java
6 5 (17.24%) Azure
6 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
6 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
7 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (13.79%) AWS
7 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.79%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) HTML
7 4 (13.79%) SQL
7 4 (13.79%) CSS
7 4 (13.79%) Legal

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Google Analytics
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) BGP
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) OSPF
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Looker
2 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.34%) JMeter
2 2 (6.90%) Appium
2 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.90%) JUnit
2 2 (6.90%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (6.90%) Maven
2 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
2 2 (6.90%) Selenium
2 2 (6.90%) TestNG
3 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (24.14%) Electronics
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Legal
4 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) Retail
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Games
7 1 (3.45%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) CSS
1 4 (13.79%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) Node.js
3 2 (6.90%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.90%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) HTML5
4 1 (3.45%) Java EE
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.90%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
2 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
2 7 (24.14%) Physics
2 7 (24.14%) Signal Processing
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Coaching
3 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (10.34%) BDD
6 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Paid Search
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
2 7 (24.14%) MATLAB
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Ada
5 2 (6.90%) C
5 2 (6.90%) Groovy
5 2 (6.90%) R
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Degree
2 11 (37.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) CISA
5 1 (3.45%) CISM
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) CRISC
5 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Iperf
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Ahrefs
1 3 (10.34%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds