Lead Jobs in Southampton

Leader
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Leader salary in Southampton is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 13 77 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 4.25% 8.35% 7.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.28% 8.57% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13 69 49
10th Percentile £52,500 £30,000 £62,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +14.75%
75th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £76,000 £93,000
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +7.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 304 899 704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.35% 97.51% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 222 754 554
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,125 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.10% +1.43%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Southampton

Lead
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Lead in Southampton

Lead
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Southampton over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Southampton

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Southampton region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) EMC
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (23.08%) NAS
4 3 (23.08%) Rust
4 3 (23.08%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Line Management
4 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Terraform
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 1 (7.69%) VMware
6 1 (7.69%) Programme Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Line Management
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Kanban
6 1 (7.69%) Logistics
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.69%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) Rust
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
1 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) Progress
3 1 (7.69%) VMware