Lead Jobs in Wales

Leader
UK > Wales

The median Leader salary in Wales is £57,291 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 48 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 66 125 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.84% 7.66% 8.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.04% 8.03% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 57 72 116
10th Percentile £34,000 £39,700 £40,485
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,056 £75,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,092 1,556 1,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.55% 95.34% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 627 954 1,139
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,103 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £61,445 £61,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 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
South Wales -30 39 £60,000 - 27
North Wales +24 14 £34,000 -13.38% 1
West Wales +2 11 £70,000 +19.61% 6
Lead
UK

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

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 Wales region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 31 (46.97%) Mentoring
2 30 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 24 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
5 20 (30.30%) Azure
6 19 (28.79%) Agile
6 19 (28.79%) DevOps
7 18 (27.27%) Retail
8 15 (22.73%) Analytics
8 15 (22.73%) Strategic Thinking
9 14 (21.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 14 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (19.70%) Benchmarking
10 13 (19.70%) Customer Engagement
10 13 (19.70%) Marketing
10 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
10 13 (19.70%) Business Strategy
10 13 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (19.70%) Power BI
10 13 (19.70%) Customer Insight
10 13 (19.70%) Data Analytics
11 12 (18.18%) Git
11 12 (18.18%) C#
11 12 (18.18%) .NET
12 11 (16.67%) Project Management
12 11 (16.67%) SQL
12 11 (16.67%) Software Delivery
13 10 (15.15%) Vue
13 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
13 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.30%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.06%) AWS
4 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
4 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (4.55%) GitHub
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.55%) Serverless
5 2 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.52%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.52%) dbt
6 1 (1.52%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.52%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.52%) IaaS
6 1 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
2 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.52%) Big Data
2 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.52%) GIS
2 1 (1.52%) Metadata
2 1 (1.52%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (7.58%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (7.58%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 30 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Retail
3 13 (19.70%) Marketing
4 5 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.06%) Finance
6 2 (3.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.52%) Police
7 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) .NET
2 10 (15.15%) Vue
3 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
3 5 (7.58%) CSS
3 5 (7.58%) HTML
3 5 (7.58%) jQuery
4 2 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.03%) Next.js
4 2 (3.03%) React
5 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Blog
2 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) PMI
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Mentoring
2 24 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (28.79%) Agile
3 19 (28.79%) DevOps
4 15 (22.73%) Analytics
4 15 (22.73%) Strategic Thinking
5 14 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (21.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 13 (19.70%) Benchmarking
6 13 (19.70%) Business Strategy
6 13 (19.70%) Customer Engagement
6 13 (19.70%) Customer Insight
6 13 (19.70%) Data Analytics
7 11 (16.67%) Project Management
7 11 (16.67%) Software Delivery
8 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
9 9 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.12%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) C#
2 11 (16.67%) SQL
3 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.61%) Python
5 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.06%) Bash
6 4 (6.06%) C++
6 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.58%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.03%) CCNA
4 2 (3.03%) CCNP
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (3.03%) Cisco
3 2 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) Concur
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (1.52%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.52%) Veeam
4 1 (1.52%) VMware