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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 18 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,599 6,287 3,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.60% 8.43% 6.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.31% 8.88% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 4,253 2,559
10th Percentile £44,472 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,793 £50,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £72,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -3.45% -

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
North of England -23 822 £57,836 -17.38% 1,823
South East -1 747 £70,000 +12.75% 2,435
North West -13 626 £57,560 -17.77% 875
Midlands -27 341 £60,000 - 1,499
South West -5 233 £72,500 +20.43% 968
West Midlands -19 229 £60,000 -7.69% 820
Scotland -25 204 £67,500 +6.30% 369
East of England -22 188 £60,000 - 1,170
Yorkshire -27 168 £70,000 - 737
East Midlands -39 112 £60,000 +16.50% 582
Wales -6 59 £72,192 +11.06% 218
North East -29 28 £48,000 -31.43% 217
Northern Ireland +5 9 £69,384 -10.47% 112
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 664 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 653 (25.13%) Agile
3 643 (24.74%) Degree
4 618 (23.78%) Mentoring
5 554 (21.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 523 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
7 488 (18.78%) Finance
8 458 (17.62%) Roadmaps
9 457 (17.58%) Coaching
10 452 (17.39%) Azure
11 383 (14.74%) Microsoft
12 375 (14.43%) AWS
13 359 (13.81%) Software Engineering
13 359 (13.81%) Systems Engineering
14 358 (13.77%) Law
15 337 (12.97%) DevOps
16 322 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 308 (11.85%) Analytics
18 305 (11.74%) Java
19 302 (11.62%) Python
20 273 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
21 267 (10.27%) Computer Science
22 260 (10.00%) JavaScript
23 259 (9.97%) Project Management
24 257 (9.89%) SQL
25 243 (9.35%) Product Management
26 237 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
27 236 (9.08%) CI/CD
27 236 (9.08%) Stakeholder Management
28 219 (8.43%) Business Intelligence

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 67 (2.58%) Confluence
2 51 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.58%) Apache
4 15 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.46%) CMS
6 12 (0.46%) Kinematics
7 6 (0.23%) IIS
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) nginx
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.19%) SAS
9 4 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.038%) Appian
11 1 (0.038%) Kentico
11 1 (0.038%) Mendix
11 1 (0.038%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 88 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (2.12%) Simulink
3 29 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.23%) Windchill
6 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.077%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.038%) Moqups
10 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (1.46%) Infor LN
1 38 (1.46%) SAP BPC
2 12 (0.46%) Magento
2 12 (0.46%) Shopify
3 10 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
5 6 (0.23%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 452 (17.39%) Azure
2 375 (14.43%) AWS
3 137 (5.27%) GCP
4 119 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 102 (3.92%) SaaS
6 89 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (2.54%) Pulumi
8 52 (2.00%) Serverless
9 50 (1.92%) Snowflake
10 48 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (1.50%) Power Automate
12 34 (1.31%) PowerApps
13 33 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (1.15%) GitHub
14 30 (1.15%) PaaS
15 25 (0.96%) Entra ID
16 23 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 135 (5.19%) Broadband
2 75 (2.89%) Firewall
3 61 (2.35%) Network Security
4 50 (1.92%) VPN
4 50 (1.92%) WAN
5 49 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.46%) LAN
7 33 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (1.04%) Internet
9 23 (0.88%) 5G
10 20 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
12 17 (0.65%) VLAN
13 16 (0.62%) SMTP
14 15 (0.58%) DNS
15 14 (0.54%) Bluetooth
16 12 (0.46%) Modbus
16 12 (0.46%) OSPF
17 11 (0.42%) LTE
17 11 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.50%) NoSQL
2 102 (3.92%) Power BI
3 100 (3.85%) Tableau
4 96 (3.69%) Relational Database
5 77 (2.96%) RDBMS
6 66 (2.54%) Data Lake
7 57 (2.19%) Big Data
7 57 (2.19%) SQL Server
8 55 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 47 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.65%) Metadata
11 33 (1.27%) BigQuery
11 33 (1.27%) MongoDB
12 28 (1.08%) Data Mining
13 19 (0.73%) MySQL
14 15 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (0.46%) Looker
15 12 (0.46%) Power Query
16 11 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 130 (5.00%) JIRA
2 65 (2.50%) Jaeger
3 62 (2.39%) Git
4 59 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 46 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
6 43 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
7 38 (1.46%) Selenium
8 21 (0.81%) GitLab
9 20 (0.77%) Maven
10 14 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.54%) JUnit
11 12 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.46%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.31%) JMeter
13 8 (0.31%) Mockito
14 7 (0.27%) DbUnit
14 7 (0.27%) jMock
14 7 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 664 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 488 (18.78%) Finance
3 358 (13.77%) Law
4 273 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 200 (7.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 198 (7.62%) Manufacturing
7 174 (6.69%) Aerospace
8 149 (5.73%) Banking
9 120 (4.62%) Electronics
10 93 (3.58%) Retail
11 88 (3.39%) Aeronautics
12 81 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
13 75 (2.89%) Public Sector
14 70 (2.69%) Marketing
15 45 (1.73%) Legal
16 44 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
17 41 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
18 39 (1.50%) Police
19 28 (1.08%) Games
20 26 (1.00%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (4.77%) React
2 114 (4.39%) .NET
3 78 (3.00%) Kafka
4 69 (2.65%) RESTful
5 68 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
6 67 (2.58%) CSS
7 65 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 59 (2.27%) HTML
9 57 (2.19%) Node.js
10 56 (2.15%) AngularJS
11 41 (1.58%) REST
11 41 (1.58%) Spring Boot
12 38 (1.46%) Spring
13 32 (1.23%) OAuth
14 31 (1.19%) .NET Core
15 26 (1.00%) Web Services
16 22 (0.85%) Middleware
16 22 (0.85%) YAML
17 20 (0.77%) XML
18 18 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 118 (4.54%) Management Information System
3 72 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 71 (2.73%) Algorithms
5 51 (1.96%) IoT
6 40 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (1.46%) Social Media
8 36 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.35%) SCADA
10 34 (1.31%) Operational Technology
11 33 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 29 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 27 (1.04%) Data Centre
16 24 (0.92%) Driving Licence
17 23 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
18 21 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
18 21 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 148 (5.69%) Linux
1 148 (5.69%) Windows
2 91 (3.50%) Unix
3 36 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.08%) Windows Vista
5 25 (0.96%) Android
6 18 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) CentOS
8 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.038%) AIX
10 1 (0.038%) Debian
10 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.038%) SUSE
10 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (25.13%) Agile
2 618 (23.78%) Mentoring
3 523 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
4 458 (17.62%) Roadmaps
5 457 (17.58%) Coaching
6 359 (13.81%) Software Engineering
6 359 (13.81%) Systems Engineering
7 337 (12.97%) DevOps
8 322 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 308 (11.85%) Analytics
10 267 (10.27%) Computer Science
11 259 (9.97%) Project Management
12 243 (9.35%) Product Management
13 237 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
14 236 (9.08%) CI/CD
14 236 (9.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 219 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
16 191 (7.35%) Line Management
17 184 (7.08%) Decision-Making
18 177 (6.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 305 (11.74%) Java
2 302 (11.62%) Python
3 260 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 257 (9.89%) SQL
5 202 (7.77%) C#
6 116 (4.46%) Bash
7 96 (3.69%) TypeScript
8 85 (3.27%) Go
9 73 (2.81%) C
10 70 (2.69%) MATLAB
11 60 (2.31%) PowerShell
12 59 (2.27%) C++
13 37 (1.42%) PHP
14 22 (0.85%) Rust
15 20 (0.77%) Ada
16 14 (0.54%) Ruby
17 12 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.46%) R
18 11 (0.42%) Bicep
19 10 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 643 (24.74%) Degree
2 554 (21.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 146 (5.62%) Security Cleared
4 140 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (4.04%) HND
6 83 (3.19%) SC Cleared
7 79 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 44 (1.69%) ACCA
8 44 (1.69%) CIMA
9 41 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
11 36 (1.39%) DBS Check
11 36 (1.39%) HNC
12 32 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 25 (0.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 24 (0.92%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 23 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.85%) PMP
17 21 (0.81%) CISSP
17 21 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (3.69%) QA
2 91 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 90 (3.46%) ISO 9001
4 80 (3.08%) AQAP
5 78 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.39%) NIST
7 58 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.85%) GDPR
9 43 (1.65%) IFRS
10 38 (1.46%) GAAP
11 33 (1.27%) NCSC
12 32 (1.23%) SLA
13 22 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.69%) PMO
15 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
16 13 (0.50%) COBIT
17 12 (0.46%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
20 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 183 (7.04%) Docker
2 37 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 37 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (0.92%) Firmware
4 18 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.54%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.19%) HDFS
9 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.077%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.038%) Postfix
11 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 186 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 180 (6.93%) Terraform
3 118 (4.54%) Ansible
4 79 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 66 (2.54%) Argo
6 65 (2.50%) Kustomize
7 25 (0.96%) Puppet
8 18 (0.69%) Grafana
9 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.54%) QRadar
10 13 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.31%) Functional Safety
12 8 (0.31%) SCCM
13 6 (0.23%) ArcSight ESM
14 3 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
15 2 (0.077%) Iperf
15 2 (0.077%) Netcool
15 2 (0.077%) Netcool/OMNIbus
15 2 (0.077%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 383 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 205 (7.89%) SAP
3 129 (4.96%) Oracle
4 120 (4.62%) Google
5 79 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 78 (3.00%) Siemens
7 58 (2.23%) VMware
8 50 (1.92%) MathWorks
9 47 (1.81%) Databricks
10 46 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 43 (1.65%) Cognos
12 39 (1.50%) Cisco
13 38 (1.46%) Infor
14 31 (1.19%) IBM
15 28 (1.08%) Splunk
16 26 (1.00%) Informatica
17 24 (0.92%) Concur
18 21 (0.81%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.73%) Workday
20 15 (0.58%) MuleSoft