Lead Jobs in South Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in South Yorkshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 15 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +2
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead 48 99 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.08% 8.53% 6.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.32% 9.18% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 44 92 42
10th Percentile - £40,000 £47,674
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,964 -
90th Percentile £79,700 £85,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £68,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +3.70%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 577 1,079 659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.10% 93.02% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 411 747 520
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £24,990
25th Percentile £28,750 £39,445 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +2.94%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -1 42 £55,000 -24.14% 25
Rotherham +12 4 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Doncaster - 2 £70,000 - 3
Lead
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 20 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
3 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (27.08%) Process Improvement
4 13 (27.08%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (27.08%) Windows
5 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 11 (22.92%) Customer Service
6 11 (22.92%) Client Onboarding
6 11 (22.92%) Agile
6 11 (22.92%) Azure
7 10 (20.83%) Onboarding
8 9 (18.75%) SaaS
8 9 (18.75%) C#
9 8 (16.67%) ITIL
9 8 (16.67%) AWS
9 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
9 8 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
10 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
10 7 (14.58%) Coaching
10 7 (14.58%) DevOps
10 7 (14.58%) SQL
11 6 (12.50%) VPN
11 6 (12.50%) Firewall
11 6 (12.50%) Electronics
11 6 (12.50%) VMware
11 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (12.50%) Entra ID

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (22.92%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) SaaS
4 8 (16.67%) AWS
5 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.25%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Firewall
1 6 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (4.17%) Broadband
2 2 (4.17%) Internet
2 2 (4.17%) LAN
2 2 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.17%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Looker
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Electronics
3 3 (6.25%) Advertising
3 3 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Legal
4 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) .NET
2 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.08%) LAMP
3 1 (2.08%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.08%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (27.08%) Process Improvement
4 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 11 (22.92%) Agile
5 11 (22.92%) Client Onboarding
5 11 (22.92%) Customer Service
6 8 (16.67%) ITIL
6 8 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 7 (14.58%) Coaching
7 7 (14.58%) DevOps
7 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.50%) KYC
8 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
10 4 (8.33%) Analytics
10 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) C#
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.08%) CCNA
1 1 (2.08%) CCNP
1 1 (2.08%) CCSA
1 1 (2.08%) CCSE
1 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
1 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.08%) Salesforce