Lead Jobs in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 44 36
Rank change year-on-year +28 -8 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 5,521 3,059 5,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.46% 6.35% 7.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.91% 7.09% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 2,260 3,365
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,867 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
North of England +29 1,585 £70,000 - 161
South East +24 1,092 £62,334 -4.10% 163
Midlands +4 897 £60,000 -0.41% 104
North West +32 815 £70,000 - 93
Scotland +23 795 £60,000 -7.69% 24
South West +25 668 £62,500 -10.71% 114
West Midlands 0 595 £65,000 +8.33% 64
Yorkshire +25 583 £68,000 -2.86% 41
East Midlands +24 298 £55,000 -10.20% 38
East of England +28 293 £55,000 -8.33% 83
North East +26 191 £62,500 +26.26% 27
Wales +38 146 £65,000 +1.56% 17
Northern Ireland +33 56 £72,575 +23.53% 33
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,473 (26.68%) Agile
2 1,219 (22.08%) Finance
3 1,116 (20.21%) Software Engineering
4 972 (17.61%) Mentoring
5 940 (17.03%) Social Skills
6 839 (15.20%) Azure
6 839 (15.20%) AWS
7 763 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 762 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
9 642 (11.63%) Java
10 640 (11.59%) Coaching
11 638 (11.56%) Microsoft
12 630 (11.41%) Law
13 614 (11.12%) CI/CD
14 613 (11.10%) SQL
15 599 (10.85%) SDLC
16 573 (10.38%) Marketing
17 524 (9.49%) Degree
18 448 (8.11%) DevOps
19 434 (7.86%) Operational Stability
20 424 (7.68%) Machine Learning
21 415 (7.52%) JavaScript
22 397 (7.19%) Project Management
23 396 (7.17%) Python
24 395 (7.15%) Artificial Intelligence
25 391 (7.08%) Security Cleared
26 384 (6.96%) .NET
27 382 (6.92%) C#
28 372 (6.74%) Community of Practice
29 365 (6.61%) Roadmaps

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 115 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 110 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 51 (0.92%) Confluence
3 51 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.72%) WebLogic
5 39 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 35 (0.63%) CMS
7 32 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
7 32 (0.58%) FileNet
8 31 (0.56%) Tuxedo
9 28 (0.51%) IIS
10 23 (0.42%) Apache
11 21 (0.38%) GemFire
12 11 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.20%) WordPress
13 10 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 10 (0.18%) SAS
14 9 (0.16%) Appian
15 8 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 100 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.24%) Sketch
6 12 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 6 (0.11%) Windchill
9 4 (0.072%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.054%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.054%) SPSS
11 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.036%) Blender
11 2 (0.036%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.036%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.036%) Trello
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 69 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.22%) SAP GRC
5 8 (0.14%) Shopify
6 6 (0.11%) Magento
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.091%) Primavera
8 4 (0.072%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.072%) Q-Pulse
8 4 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.072%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.054%) HFM
9 3 (0.054%) Hyperion Planning
9 3 (0.054%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 3 (0.054%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 839 (15.20%) AWS
1 839 (15.20%) Azure
2 249 (4.51%) Power Platform
3 221 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (2.59%) GCP
5 117 (2.12%) SaaS
6 112 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 88 (1.59%) Amazon S3
9 82 (1.49%) Serverless
10 65 (1.18%) Datadog
11 63 (1.14%) Entra ID
12 59 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
12 59 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 57 (1.03%) GitHub
14 55 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
15 54 (0.98%) PowerApps
16 49 (0.89%) Power Automate
17 48 (0.87%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.59%) Firewall
2 103 (1.87%) DNS
3 91 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 89 (1.61%) WAN
5 81 (1.47%) Broadband
6 73 (1.32%) SSL
7 61 (1.10%) Kerberos
8 59 (1.07%) Network Security
9 54 (0.98%) LAN
10 42 (0.76%) BGP
11 39 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 39 (0.71%) Wireless
12 31 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
13 30 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (0.47%) VPN
15 24 (0.43%) DHCP
16 23 (0.42%) Internet
17 20 (0.36%) SAN
18 19 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
19 16 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (3.66%) NoSQL
2 189 (3.42%) Power BI
3 160 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 127 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 107 (1.94%) Big Data
6 106 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 98 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
8 83 (1.50%) MySQL
9 70 (1.27%) Tableau
10 68 (1.23%) RDBMS
11 65 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
12 59 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 54 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
14 52 (0.94%) Oracle Database
15 49 (0.89%) DynamoDB
15 49 (0.89%) Metadata
16 41 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
17 40 (0.72%) Data Lake
18 38 (0.69%) CockroachDB
18 38 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 184 (3.33%) Git
2 121 (2.19%) JIRA
3 84 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 70 (1.27%) Selenium
5 69 (1.25%) GitLab
6 68 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 68 (1.23%) JUnit
7 47 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 46 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 45 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 32 (0.58%) Postman
11 30 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 30 (0.54%) Jasmine
12 26 (0.47%) SoapUI
13 23 (0.42%) Karma Test Runner
14 22 (0.40%) Protractor
14 22 (0.40%) Subversion
14 22 (0.40%) WebDriver
15 21 (0.38%) Jaeger
16 20 (0.36%) Cucumber
General
1 1,219 (22.08%) Finance
2 940 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 763 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 630 (11.41%) Law
5 573 (10.38%) Marketing
6 318 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 264 (4.78%) Public Sector
8 235 (4.26%) Retail
9 179 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 153 (2.77%) Banking
11 144 (2.61%) Legal
12 122 (2.21%) Investment Banking
13 112 (2.03%) Automotive
14 105 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
15 97 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
16 80 (1.45%) Advertising
17 79 (1.43%) Aerospace
18 71 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
19 64 (1.16%) Telecoms
20 56 (1.01%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (6.96%) .NET
2 324 (5.87%) React
3 250 (4.53%) Spring
4 244 (4.42%) HTML
5 235 (4.26%) CSS
6 178 (3.22%) Spring Boot
7 171 (3.10%) Node.js
8 164 (2.97%) JSON
9 144 (2.61%) AngularJS
10 142 (2.57%) Kafka
11 135 (2.45%) RESTful
12 117 (2.12%) REST
13 96 (1.74%) Web Services
14 90 (1.63%) .NET Core
14 90 (1.63%) XML
15 86 (1.56%) jQuery
16 81 (1.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 76 (1.38%) GraphQL
17 76 (1.38%) Hibernate
18 71 (1.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 332 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 211 (3.82%) Management Information System
3 182 (3.30%) Public Cloud
4 114 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 106 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 103 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 89 (1.61%) Cyberattack
8 80 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 77 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
10 75 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 58 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 58 (1.05%) Mobile App
12 55 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 53 (0.96%) Private Cloud
14 50 (0.91%) Reference Data
15 49 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 47 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 43 (0.78%) Operational Technology
17 43 (0.78%) Replication
18 37 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 313 (5.67%) Windows
2 209 (3.79%) Linux
3 108 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 64 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (0.51%) Android
9 25 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 22 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Unix
12 12 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
13 11 (0.20%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.11%) VMS
15 5 (0.091%) CentOS
16 3 (0.054%) Rocky
17 2 (0.036%) Debian
17 2 (0.036%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.036%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,473 (26.68%) Agile
2 1,116 (20.21%) Software Engineering
3 972 (17.61%) Mentoring
4 762 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
5 640 (11.59%) Coaching
6 614 (11.12%) CI/CD
7 599 (10.85%) SDLC
8 448 (8.11%) DevOps
9 434 (7.86%) Operational Stability
10 424 (7.68%) Machine Learning
11 397 (7.19%) Project Management
12 395 (7.15%) Artificial Intelligence
13 372 (6.74%) Community of Practice
14 365 (6.61%) Roadmaps
15 340 (6.16%) Analytics
16 334 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 310 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
18 303 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 299 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
20 285 (5.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 642 (11.63%) Java
2 613 (11.10%) SQL
3 415 (7.52%) JavaScript
4 396 (7.17%) Python
5 382 (6.92%) C#
6 257 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 144 (2.61%) C++
8 138 (2.50%) Scala
9 116 (2.10%) C
10 97 (1.76%) PHP
11 69 (1.25%) R
12 61 (1.10%) Go
13 59 (1.07%) COBOL
13 59 (1.07%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 44 (0.80%) Prolog
14 44 (0.80%) SPARQL
15 41 (0.74%) PowerShell
16 27 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 22 (0.40%) Groovy
18 21 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 524 (9.49%) Degree
2 391 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 244 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 110 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 71 (1.29%) CISM
7 69 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 62 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 60 (1.09%) CISSP
10 55 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 52 (0.94%) DV Cleared
11 52 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 42 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 35 (0.63%) PhD
16 27 (0.49%) CCNP
16 27 (0.49%) CHECK Team Leader
16 27 (0.49%) CISA
17 26 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (3.89%) QA
2 98 (1.78%) SLA
3 88 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 71 (1.29%) NIST
5 61 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 59 (1.07%) GDPR
7 57 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 51 (0.92%) PMO
9 24 (0.43%) GRC
10 19 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
12 14 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.24%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.24%) NCSC
14 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.18%) GMP
16 8 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.11%) JSP 440
17 6 (0.11%) RMADS
18 5 (0.091%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 225 (4.08%) Docker
2 205 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 40 (0.72%) Firmware
6 29 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (0.51%) vSphere
8 21 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.072%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.036%) HDFS
13 2 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.036%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.018%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 323 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 203 (3.68%) Terraform
3 94 (1.70%) Grafana
4 78 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 41 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (0.56%) SCCM
7 27 (0.49%) Ansible
8 22 (0.40%) Kibana
8 22 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.38%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (0.38%) Zipkin
10 19 (0.34%) Puppet
11 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.13%) MIIS
12 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
12 7 (0.13%) WSUS
13 6 (0.11%) ServiceCenter
14 5 (0.091%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 638 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 264 (4.78%) Oracle
3 109 (1.97%) Google
3 109 (1.97%) VMware
4 102 (1.85%) Splunk
5 99 (1.79%) Cisco
6 87 (1.58%) SAP
7 82 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 74 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.07%) Micro Focus
10 58 (1.05%) Databricks
11 51 (0.92%) Salesforce
12 49 (0.89%) Citrix
13 40 (0.72%) Sparx
14 33 (0.60%) IBM
15 30 (0.54%) Qualtrics
16 23 (0.42%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.40%) Informatica
18 20 (0.36%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.36%) Veeam