Lead Job Trends in St Albans

Leader
Hertfordshire > St Albans

The median Leader salary in St Albans is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 9 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in St Albans 11.25% - 9.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.16% - 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £64,250 - -
25th Percentile £82,813 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
St Albans

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in St Albans. 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 St Albans with a recognized job title 74 32 42
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 76.19% 97.67%
Number of salaries quoted 57 11 41
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,734 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £70,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.38%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in St Albans

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in St Albans.

Lead job vacancy trend in St Albans

Lead
Salary Trend in St Albans

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in St Albans.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in St Albans

Lead
Salary Histogram in St Albans

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in St Albans over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in St Albans

Lead Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the St Albans region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) FinOps
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) FinOps
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) PHP