Lead Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Leader
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Leader salary in Tyne and Wear is £73,805 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +35 +6 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 167 50 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 12.63% 5.44% 4.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.10% 6.70% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 157 31 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,997 £28,500
25th Percentile £55,188 £41,250 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £50,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +47.61% -6.10% +3.97%
75th Percentile £84,964 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £70,625
North East median annual salary £70,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +41.00% - -2.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 1,275 746 1,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.44% 81.18% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 461 700
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,634 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £76,000 £80,000
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,641 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.30% +19.10% -8.57%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +28 135 £73,805 +47.61% 19
Sunderland - 27 £71,500 - 5
Gateshead +7 5 £33,000 - 2
Lead
North East

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 89 (53.29%) Mentoring
2 71 (42.51%) Agile
3 69 (41.32%) Coaching
4 55 (32.93%) Social Skills
5 40 (23.95%) SQL
6 39 (23.35%) Finance
6 39 (23.35%) AWS
7 37 (22.16%) Azure
8 30 (17.96%) Public Sector
9 27 (16.17%) Roadmaps
10 26 (15.57%) Microsoft
10 26 (15.57%) Data Architecture
11 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.17%) Project Delivery
13 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (12.57%) Project Management
13 21 (12.57%) Python
13 21 (12.57%) ETL
14 20 (11.98%) .NET
15 19 (11.38%) Supplier Management
15 19 (11.38%) Product Roadmap
16 18 (10.78%) Decision-Making
16 18 (10.78%) Games
16 18 (10.78%) Client/Server
16 18 (10.78%) Data Engineering
17 17 (10.18%) C#
18 16 (9.58%) Data Quality
19 15 (8.98%) Amazon S3
19 15 (8.98%) Data Modelling
20 14 (8.38%) Cisco

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 9 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.19%) Confluence
2 7 (4.19%) Tuxedo
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.60%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.60%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.35%) AWS
2 37 (22.16%) Azure
3 15 (8.98%) Amazon S3
4 14 (8.38%) SaaS
5 10 (5.99%) GCP
5 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.39%) Amazon Kinesis
6 9 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.39%) dbt
6 9 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (5.39%) Serverless
7 8 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.80%) GitHub
12 2 (1.20%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.39%) Firewall
2 6 (3.59%) Network Security
3 4 (2.40%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.40%) WAN
4 2 (1.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.60%) DHCP
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.99%) Power BI
2 9 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (5.39%) Data Lake
2 9 (5.39%) MySQL
2 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.39%) Redis
3 8 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.59%) Couchbase
4 6 (3.59%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.59%) Tableau
5 5 (2.99%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.40%) DB2
7 1 (0.60%) Big Data
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.99%) JIRA
2 3 (1.80%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 55 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.35%) Finance
3 30 (17.96%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.78%) Games
5 13 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.40%) Legal
8 4 (2.40%) Retail
9 3 (1.80%) Law
9 3 (1.80%) Marketing
9 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.98%) .NET
2 10 (5.99%) RESTful
3 7 (4.19%) .NET Core
4 5 (2.99%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.80%) Node.js
5 3 (1.80%) OAuth
5 3 (1.80%) OpenID
5 3 (1.80%) REST
5 3 (1.80%) Vue
5 3 (1.80%) Web Services
6 2 (1.20%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.60%) CSS
7 1 (0.60%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.60%) Kafka
7 1 (0.60%) SignalR
7 1 (0.60%) Spring
7 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Client/Server
2 14 (8.38%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.19%) Online Games
4 8 (4.79%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.79%) NHS
5 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.20%) iPhone
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Windows
2 4 (2.40%) Linux
3 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (53.29%) Mentoring
2 71 (42.51%) Agile
3 69 (41.32%) Coaching
4 27 (16.17%) Roadmaps
5 26 (15.57%) Data Architecture
6 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (13.17%) Project Delivery
8 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (12.57%) ETL
8 21 (12.57%) Project Management
9 19 (11.38%) Product Roadmap
9 19 (11.38%) Supplier Management
10 18 (10.78%) Data Engineering
10 18 (10.78%) Decision-Making
11 15 (8.98%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.38%) Kanban
13 13 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (7.78%) Data Integration
13 13 (7.78%) Design Patterns
13 13 (7.78%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.95%) SQL
2 21 (12.57%) Python
3 17 (10.18%) C#
4 13 (7.78%) COBOL
4 13 (7.78%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 9 (5.39%) Java
6 7 (4.19%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.59%) C
7 6 (3.59%) C++
8 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (4.19%) Degree
2 5 (2.99%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.40%) CCSK
3 4 (2.40%) CCSP
3 4 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.40%) CISM
3 4 (2.40%) CISSP
4 2 (1.20%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.19%) SLA
3 6 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.59%) GDPR
3 6 (3.59%) NCSC
4 5 (2.99%) PMO
5 4 (2.40%) NIST
6 3 (1.80%) QA
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (5.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.38%) Cisco
3 13 (7.78%) Micro Focus
4 12 (7.19%) Oracle
5 11 (6.59%) Google
6 7 (4.19%) Atlassian
6 7 (4.19%) Juniper
7 4 (2.40%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) Facebook
8 2 (1.20%) Meraki
8 2 (1.20%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.20%) Pinterest
8 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.20%) Snapchat
8 2 (1.20%) TikTok
8 2 (1.20%) VMware
9 1 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.60%) SAP