Lead Jobs in Wales

Leader
UK > Wales

The median Leader salary in Wales is £67,629 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 54 135 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.09% 6.62% 6.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% 7.15% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 47 117 64
10th Percentile £47,196 £48,829 £41,975
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,629 £65,000 £63,871
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +1.77% +16.13%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,250 £70,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £72,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -3.45% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 918 1,889 1,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.52% 92.64% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 541 1,285 804
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,931 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Wales

Lead
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Wales.

Salary trend for Lead in Wales

Lead
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Wales

Lead
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
South Wales -27 23 £65,000 - 55
North Wales +13 9 £60,000 - 5
West Wales +10 1 £67,629 -3.39% 3
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Wales region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 25 (46.30%) Mentoring
2 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
3 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (38.89%) Agile
4 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 21 (38.89%) Azure
5 18 (33.33%) Network Security
5 18 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 18 (33.33%) IoT
6 17 (31.48%) Technical Debt
6 17 (31.48%) Product Strategy
6 17 (31.48%) Unix
6 17 (31.48%) Windows
6 17 (31.48%) Linux
7 16 (29.63%) C#
7 16 (29.63%) .NET
8 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
8 15 (27.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (25.93%) Web Development
9 14 (25.93%) SQL
9 14 (25.93%) C
10 12 (22.22%) C++
10 12 (22.22%) Degree
10 12 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (20.37%) Relational Database
11 11 (20.37%) TCP/IP
11 11 (20.37%) RDBMS
11 11 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (16.67%) Device Driver
12 9 (16.67%) Firmware

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Infor LN
1 2 (3.70%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) AWS
2 3 (5.56%) Google Analytics
3 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) GitHub
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (33.33%) Network Security
2 11 (20.37%) TCP/IP
3 9 (16.67%) Modbus
3 9 (16.67%) MQTT
4 3 (5.56%) GSM
5 2 (3.70%) BGP
5 2 (3.70%) Firewall
5 2 (3.70%) OSPF
5 2 (3.70%) VLAN
6 1 (1.85%) Broadband
6 1 (1.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (20.37%) RDBMS
1 11 (20.37%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.56%) Looker
3 2 (3.70%) Tableau
4 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.85%) Metadata
4 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JMeter
2 3 (5.56%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Appium
3 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.70%) JUnit
3 2 (3.70%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (3.70%) Maven
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (3.70%) REST Assured
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
3 2 (3.70%) TestNG
4 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Electronics
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Finance
5 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.41%) Legal
6 3 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Police
7 2 (3.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.63%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) CSS
2 3 (5.56%) HTML
2 3 (5.56%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) SOAP
3 2 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (1.85%) Java EE
4 1 (1.85%) PySpark
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) IoT
2 9 (16.67%) Device Driver
3 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Linux
1 17 (31.48%) Unix
1 17 (31.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) Mentoring
2 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (38.89%) Agile
3 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 18 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 17 (31.48%) Product Strategy
5 17 (31.48%) Technical Debt
6 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 14 (25.93%) Web Development
8 12 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (16.67%) API Development
9 9 (16.67%) Computer Architecture
10 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.11%) Coaching
12 5 (9.26%) Computer Science
12 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis
12 5 (9.26%) Physics
12 5 (9.26%) Signal Processing
13 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (7.41%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) C#
2 14 (25.93%) C
2 14 (25.93%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) C++
4 9 (16.67%) Python
5 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.26%) MATLAB
7 4 (7.41%) Java
8 2 (3.70%) Ada
8 2 (3.70%) Groovy
8 2 (3.70%) R
9 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 12 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) ACCA
4 2 (3.70%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) CIMA
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) CISA
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) CRISC
5 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) GAAP
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) IFRS
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Firmware
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Iperf
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Ahrefs
1 3 (5.56%) Google
1 3 (5.56%) VMware
2 2 (3.70%) Cognos
2 2 (3.70%) Infor
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) SAP
2 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.85%) Databricks
3 1 (1.85%) Fortinet