Lead Jobs in Suffolk

Leader
East of England > Suffolk

The median Leader salary in Suffolk is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 22 36
Rank change year-on-year -34 +14 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 9 26 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 1.72% 5.19% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 5.39% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 3
10th Percentile - £28,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -38.46% -0.76%
75th Percentile £54,375 £57,001 £87,500
90th Percentile £56,625 £72,500 £98,000
East of England median annual salary £60,394 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.66% +4.35% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 486 482 214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 96.21% 82.63%
Number of salaries quoted 268 312 109
10th Percentile £26,850 £24,525 £24,700
25th Percentile £36,063 £27,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £66,230 £53,750 £60,899
90th Percentile £66,296 £61,250 £74,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Suffolk

Lead
Salary Trend in Suffolk

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

Salary trend for Lead in Suffolk

Lead
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 18 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
Ipswich +1 6 £47,500 -24.11% 9
Leiston - 1 £52,500 -
Lead
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Suffolk region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 4 (44.44%) IT Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 2 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (22.22%) Jaeger
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Argo
4 2 (22.22%) GitOps
4 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
4 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) Broadband
4 2 (22.22%) Bash

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (44.44%) IT Governance
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
1 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Budget Control
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) GitOps
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
3 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Go
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PhD
2 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Google