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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 36 36
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 5,845 4,252 5,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.34% 6.88% 7.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.80% 7.70% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 2,777 2,997
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +5.07%

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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 27 April 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 27 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
North of England +26 1,634 £70,000 - 290
South East +16 1,125 £62,500 -3.85% 236
Scotland +17 1,039 £65,000 -8.77% 70
Midlands +3 876 £60,000 - 188
North West +24 822 £70,000 - 158
South West +19 617 £62,500 -2.34% 154
West Midlands +1 601 £65,000 +8.33% 130
Yorkshire +25 599 £70,000 - 95
East of England +32 364 £60,000 +4.35% 120
East Midlands +13 274 £50,000 -16.67% 57
North East +41 215 £70,500 +37.56% 39
Wales +13 138 £65,000 +3.60% 29
Northern Ireland +23 53 £77,500 +34.78% 15
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,012 (34.42%) Agile
2 1,697 (29.03%) Finance
3 1,179 (20.17%) Software Engineering
4 1,154 (19.74%) Social Skills
5 1,142 (19.54%) Mentoring
6 1,032 (17.66%) AWS
7 968 (16.56%) Azure
8 947 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 881 (15.07%) Law
10 868 (14.85%) CI/CD
11 855 (14.63%) Java
12 847 (14.49%) Marketing
13 822 (14.06%) SQL
14 812 (13.89%) SDLC
15 783 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
16 738 (12.63%) Coaching
17 672 (11.50%) Operational Stability
18 659 (11.27%) Degree
19 657 (11.24%) Microsoft
20 548 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
21 532 (9.10%) DevOps
22 530 (9.07%) Community of Practice
23 516 (8.83%) Machine Learning
24 512 (8.76%) Roadmaps
25 511 (8.74%) Python
26 508 (8.69%) JavaScript
27 492 (8.42%) Security Cleared
28 471 (8.06%) Project Management
29 434 (7.43%) .NET
30 432 (7.39%) C#

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
1 198 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 106 (1.81%) Confluence
3 103 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 67 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 51 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.65%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.55%) FileNet
8 32 (0.55%) IIS
9 31 (0.53%) Apache
9 31 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (0.53%) CMS
10 21 (0.36%) GemFire
11 12 (0.21%) WordPress
12 10 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.15%) Appian
14 8 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 97 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 93 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.75%) Simulink
4 32 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.39%) Stateflow
6 17 (0.29%) Windchill
7 16 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 12 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.21%) Sketch
9 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 9 (0.15%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.068%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.051%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.034%) MadCap Flare
14 2 (0.034%) Trello
15 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
15 1 (0.017%) InDesign
15 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 66 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 23 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 16 (0.27%) Shopify
6 10 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 7 (0.12%) HFM
7 7 (0.12%) Hyperion Planning
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.10%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.086%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.086%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.068%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.068%) Primavera
10 4 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.068%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.068%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.051%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (17.66%) AWS
2 968 (16.56%) Azure
3 254 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 254 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 176 (3.01%) GCP
5 142 (2.43%) SaaS
6 141 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (1.80%) Serverless
8 96 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 76 (1.30%) Datadog
11 67 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (1.09%) Power Automate
13 61 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (0.89%) Figma
16 52 (0.89%) PowerApps
17 50 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
18 49 (0.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 163 (2.79%) Firewall
2 109 (1.86%) DNS
3 96 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 82 (1.40%) Kerberos
5 81 (1.39%) Broadband
5 81 (1.39%) WAN
6 73 (1.25%) SSL
7 57 (0.98%) Network Security
8 49 (0.84%) LAN
9 43 (0.74%) BGP
10 42 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 33 (0.56%) Wireless
12 32 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
12 32 (0.55%) VPN
13 29 (0.50%) DHCP
14 28 (0.48%) SAN
15 25 (0.43%) Internet
16 21 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
17 20 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
18 17 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (5.05%) NoSQL
2 224 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 198 (3.39%) Power BI
4 174 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 163 (2.79%) Big Data
6 119 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
7 114 (1.95%) MySQL
8 99 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 91 (1.56%) Tableau
10 80 (1.37%) Metadata
11 77 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
12 74 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 71 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 61 (1.04%) MongoDB
15 55 (0.94%) Data Lake
16 50 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
17 49 (0.84%) Oracle Database
18 41 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 39 (0.67%) DynamoDB
20 38 (0.65%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 249 (4.26%) Git
2 170 (2.91%) JIRA
3 152 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 108 (1.85%) Selenium
5 97 (1.66%) GitLab
6 89 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 70 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 70 (1.20%) JUnit
8 67 (1.15%) Artifactory
9 62 (1.06%) Visual Studio
10 37 (0.63%) Postman
11 33 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.50%) Jasmine
12 29 (0.50%) SoapUI
13 26 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 22 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
14 22 (0.38%) Protractor
14 22 (0.38%) WebDriver
15 21 (0.36%) CircleCI
15 21 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 1,697 (29.03%) Finance
2 1,154 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 947 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 881 (15.07%) Law
5 847 (14.49%) Marketing
6 351 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
7 343 (5.87%) Public Sector
8 256 (4.38%) Banking
9 208 (3.56%) Manufacturing
10 188 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
11 169 (2.89%) Retail
12 144 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 138 (2.36%) Legal
14 122 (2.09%) Automotive
15 110 (1.88%) Aerospace
16 94 (1.61%) Telecoms
17 92 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
18 80 (1.37%) Advertising
18 80 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
19 75 (1.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (7.43%) .NET
2 413 (7.07%) React
3 278 (4.76%) Spring
4 263 (4.50%) HTML
5 248 (4.24%) CSS
6 193 (3.30%) JSON
6 193 (3.30%) Spring Boot
7 190 (3.25%) Node.js
8 179 (3.06%) RESTful
9 176 (3.01%) Kafka
10 160 (2.74%) AngularJS
11 141 (2.41%) REST
12 135 (2.31%) Web Services
13 109 (1.86%) XML
14 98 (1.68%) OpenID
15 92 (1.57%) jQuery
15 92 (1.57%) PySpark
16 91 (1.56%) .NET Core
17 83 (1.42%) Vue
18 81 (1.39%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 415 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 295 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 248 (4.24%) Public Cloud
4 163 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 108 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 90 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 88 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 84 (1.44%) Private Cloud
9 77 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
10 73 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 71 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 71 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 66 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 66 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 65 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
14 63 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 56 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 54 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
17 47 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
18 37 (0.63%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 397 (6.79%) Windows
2 285 (4.88%) Linux
3 123 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 69 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.65%) Android
7 30 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.22%) Unix
11 13 (0.22%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.086%) VMS
15 5 (0.086%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.068%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.051%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,012 (34.42%) Agile
2 1,179 (20.17%) Software Engineering
3 1,142 (19.54%) Mentoring
4 868 (14.85%) CI/CD
5 812 (13.89%) SDLC
6 783 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 738 (12.63%) Coaching
8 672 (11.50%) Operational Stability
9 548 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 532 (9.10%) DevOps
11 530 (9.07%) Community of Practice
12 516 (8.83%) Machine Learning
13 512 (8.76%) Roadmaps
14 471 (8.06%) Project Management
15 420 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 410 (7.01%) Architectural Design
17 399 (6.83%) Information Architecture
18 378 (6.47%) Analytics
19 371 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
20 347 (5.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 855 (14.63%) Java
2 822 (14.06%) SQL
3 511 (8.74%) Python
4 508 (8.69%) JavaScript
5 432 (7.39%) C#
6 324 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 147 (2.51%) C++
8 142 (2.43%) Scala
9 137 (2.34%) C
10 128 (2.19%) PHP
11 97 (1.66%) Go
12 66 (1.13%) COBOL
12 66 (1.13%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (1.11%) Prolog
13 65 (1.11%) SPARQL
14 57 (0.98%) PowerShell
15 55 (0.94%) MATLAB
15 55 (0.94%) R
16 28 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 23 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 659 (11.27%) Degree
2 492 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 286 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 139 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 113 (1.93%) AWS Certification
6 94 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 87 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 78 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 68 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 65 (1.11%) CISM
12 64 (1.09%) CISSP
13 53 (0.91%) DV Cleared
14 52 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 50 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (0.75%) PhD
17 29 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 29 (0.50%) CCNP
17 29 (0.50%) CCSP
18 26 (0.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (4.76%) QA
2 109 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 107 (1.83%) SLA
4 82 (1.40%) PMO
5 79 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 76 (1.30%) GDPR
7 74 (1.27%) NIST
8 69 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.51%) GMP
11 21 (0.36%) GRC
11 21 (0.36%) NCSC
12 17 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.19%) Def Stans
13 11 (0.19%) IFRS
14 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.14%) PSD2
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 260 (4.45%) Docker
2 233 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.86%) Firmware
5 47 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.46%) vSphere
7 21 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 17 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.051%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.034%) HDFS
12 2 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.034%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.017%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 353 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 227 (3.88%) Terraform
3 90 (1.54%) Grafana
4 68 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 58 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.75%) Ansible
7 43 (0.74%) Puppet
8 39 (0.67%) SCCM
9 25 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.38%) Kibana
11 21 (0.36%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.36%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.22%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.21%) Consul
13 12 (0.21%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.17%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.17%) WSUS
15 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 657 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 326 (5.58%) Oracle
3 145 (2.48%) Google
4 117 (2.00%) SAP
5 113 (1.93%) VMware
6 109 (1.86%) Splunk
7 89 (1.52%) Cisco
8 83 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 72 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.18%) Micro Focus
11 67 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 62 (1.06%) Databricks
13 50 (0.86%) Citrix
14 47 (0.80%) IBM
15 40 (0.68%) Sparx
16 39 (0.67%) Salesforce
17 32 (0.55%) Qualtrics
18 31 (0.53%) Veeam
19 22 (0.38%) Meraki
20 20 (0.34%) MuleSoft