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 to 1 December 2023.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 36 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,077 5,389 4,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.54% 8.08% 7.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 8.46% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 3,328 3,176
10th Percentile £42,403 £42,425 £38,164
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,805 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 30,439 63,675 62,248
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 95.43% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 21,166 37,589 43,824
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,531 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -1 607 £65,000 -6.88% 308
South East -6 413 £65,000 -3.70% 335
Midlands -9 352 £63,000 +5.00% 259
South West -3 331 £70,000 +16.67% 171
North West 0 309 £65,000 -3.70% 180
Yorkshire -3 270 £67,500 -3.57% 89
West Midlands -7 248 £60,500 +10.00% 192
Scotland -8 173 £70,000 -6.67% 79
East of England -1 115 £70,000 +18.64% 173
East Midlands -11 101 £65,000 - 66
Wales -16 66 £57,291 -4.52% 35
Northern Ireland +16 32 £57,291 -2.48% 15
North East +7 31 £54,145 -21.24% 42
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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.

1 624 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 620 (29.85%) Agile
3 513 (24.70%) Azure
4 445 (21.43%) Finance
5 406 (19.55%) Mentoring
6 360 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 356 (17.14%) DevOps
8 335 (16.13%) Microsoft
9 324 (15.60%) AWS
10 307 (14.78%) SQL
11 302 (14.54%) Degree
12 285 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 279 (13.43%) JavaScript
14 264 (12.71%) Python
15 252 (12.13%) .NET
16 237 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
17 233 (11.22%) C#
18 230 (11.07%) Coaching
19 226 (10.88%) Security Cleared
20 220 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
21 219 (10.54%) Roadmaps
22 217 (10.45%) CI/CD
23 187 (9.00%) Java
24 185 (8.91%) Line Management
24 185 (8.91%) Kubernetes
25 169 (8.14%) Test Automation
26 164 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 163 (7.85%) Docker
28 161 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
29 160 (7.70%) Analytics

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 37 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.73%) Confluence
3 27 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.48%) CMS
5 8 (0.39%) MS Exchange
6 7 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.29%) IIS
8 5 (0.24%) Apache
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.14%) Mule
10 3 (0.14%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.096%) JBoss
11 2 (0.096%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.096%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (0.096%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.096%) TPMS
11 2 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.78%) Simulink
3 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 25 (1.20%) Stateflow
5 7 (0.34%) SPSS
6 6 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.29%) OrCAD
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.19%) Sketch
8 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.096%) 3ds Max
9 2 (0.096%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.096%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.096%) Maya
9 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.096%) Mudbox
9 2 (0.096%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.096%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 44 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 9 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.39%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.29%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.19%) iTrent
6 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.096%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.096%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.096%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.096%) SAP FSCM
8 2 (0.096%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 513 (24.70%) Azure
2 324 (15.60%) AWS
3 119 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
4 110 (5.30%) GCP
5 109 (5.25%) Power Platform
6 97 (4.67%) SaaS
7 87 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (2.41%) PaaS
9 42 (2.02%) IaaS
10 41 (1.97%) OpenShift
11 39 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
12 38 (1.83%) PowerApps
13 34 (1.64%) Serverless
14 23 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 18 (0.87%) dbt
17 16 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
17 16 (0.77%) Entra ID
17 16 (0.77%) GitHub
18 15 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.38%) Firewall
2 46 (2.21%) Network Security
3 31 (1.49%) DNS
4 27 (1.30%) DHCP
5 25 (1.20%) VPN
5 25 (1.20%) WAN
6 24 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.11%) LAN
7 23 (1.11%) Wireless
8 22 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.91%) IPv4
10 18 (0.87%) VLAN
11 15 (0.72%) HTTP
12 14 (0.67%) SAN
13 13 (0.63%) Internet
13 13 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (0.58%) VoIP
15 9 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (0.43%) OSPF
16 8 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 78 (3.76%) Power BI
3 48 (2.31%) NoSQL
4 45 (2.17%) Big Data
5 42 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 42 (2.02%) Tableau
6 31 (1.49%) MySQL
7 29 (1.40%) BigQuery
8 27 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.58%) Metadata
14 12 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.43%) SAP BW
16 8 (0.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 83 (4.00%) Git
2 75 (3.61%) JIRA
3 67 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.17%) Selenium
5 34 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 24 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 19 (0.91%) GitLab
8 13 (0.63%) Maven
9 11 (0.53%) JUnit
10 10 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.43%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.39%) TestRail
13 7 (0.34%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.34%) JMeter
13 7 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
13 7 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 624 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 445 (21.43%) Finance
3 164 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 161 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (6.79%) Banking
6 132 (6.36%) Retail
7 88 (4.24%) Marketing
8 86 (4.14%) Law
9 82 (3.95%) Manufacturing
10 77 (3.71%) Public Sector
11 75 (3.61%) Automotive
12 70 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (3.08%) Legal
14 42 (2.02%) Aerospace
15 40 (1.93%) Electronics
16 32 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
17 30 (1.44%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.20%) Games
19 22 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
20 18 (0.87%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (12.13%) .NET
2 132 (6.36%) HTML
3 121 (5.83%) React
4 86 (4.14%) CSS
5 68 (3.27%) Node.js
6 67 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 57 (2.74%) .NET Core
8 46 (2.21%) ASP.NET
8 46 (2.21%) REST
9 44 (2.12%) RESTful
10 42 (2.02%) .NET Framework
11 39 (1.88%) JSON
12 31 (1.49%) Vue
12 31 (1.49%) Web Services
13 28 (1.35%) Spring
14 27 (1.30%) Kafka
15 24 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web API
15 24 (1.16%) XML
16 23 (1.11%) Spring Boot
17 20 (0.96%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.55%) Product Ownership
2 81 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 69 (3.32%) Public Cloud
4 60 (2.89%) Algorithms
5 44 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (1.93%) Cyberattack
7 40 (1.93%) Renewable Energy
8 32 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 31 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.30%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
12 22 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.01%) Data Centre
14 17 (0.82%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.72%) Blog
16 15 (0.72%) IoT
17 14 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.70%) Windows
2 123 (5.92%) Linux
3 59 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.91%) Android
5 17 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Unix
6 9 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.24%) Windows Vista
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.096%) CentOS
12 2 (0.096%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.096%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.096%) VMS
12 2 (0.096%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (29.85%) Agile
2 406 (19.55%) Mentoring
3 360 (17.33%) Software Engineering
4 356 (17.14%) DevOps
5 285 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 237 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
7 230 (11.07%) Coaching
8 220 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
9 219 (10.54%) Roadmaps
10 217 (10.45%) CI/CD
11 185 (8.91%) Line Management
12 169 (8.14%) Test Automation
13 160 (7.70%) Analytics
14 158 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 154 (7.41%) ITIL
16 150 (7.22%) Project Management
17 149 (7.17%) Project Delivery
18 148 (7.13%) Microservices
19 130 (6.26%) Scrum
20 128 (6.16%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 307 (14.78%) SQL
2 279 (13.43%) JavaScript
3 264 (12.71%) Python
4 233 (11.22%) C#
5 187 (9.00%) Java
6 103 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 89 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 83 (4.00%) C++
9 61 (2.94%) MATLAB
10 46 (2.21%) Bash
11 45 (2.17%) Go
12 34 (1.64%) PHP
13 32 (1.54%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.91%) C
15 18 (0.87%) Scala
16 16 (0.77%) R
16 16 (0.77%) Ruby
16 16 (0.77%) Rust
17 13 (0.63%) RPG
17 13 (0.63%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 302 (14.54%) Degree
2 226 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 125 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.83%) CISSP
7 28 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.87%) CCNP
13 17 (0.82%) CCNA
13 17 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.82%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.77%) CISM
15 15 (0.72%) CISMP
16 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.58%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.50%) QA
2 52 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (1.97%) SLA
4 34 (1.64%) NIST
5 24 (1.16%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.01%) PMO
7 18 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (0.87%) GDPR
8 12 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.53%) IFRS
10 10 (0.48%) NCSC
11 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) GRC
13 7 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.29%) ISO 26262
15 5 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.19%) GAAP
16 4 (0.19%) GMP
System Software
1 163 (7.85%) Docker
2 72 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.01%) Firmware
5 13 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.58%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.096%) NFS
11 1 (0.048%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 185 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.33%) Terraform
3 47 (2.26%) SCCM
4 34 (1.64%) Ansible
5 29 (1.40%) Puppet
6 21 (1.01%) Istio
7 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.39%) Nessus
10 6 (0.29%) AirWatch
10 6 (0.29%) Grafana
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.096%) Consul
13 2 (0.096%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.048%) Control-M
14 1 (0.048%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.048%) Nagios
Vendors
1 335 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.20%) SAP
3 82 (3.95%) Google
4 53 (2.55%) VMware
5 50 (2.41%) Cisco
6 39 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 36 (1.73%) Oracle
8 35 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.40%) Databricks
10 18 (0.87%) Adobe
11 15 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 15 (0.72%) Meraki
12 14 (0.67%) Juniper
12 14 (0.67%) Sun
13 13 (0.63%) IBM
14 12 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.53%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.48%) Aruba
16 10 (0.48%) Citrix
17 9 (0.43%) Splunk