Lead Jobs in Wales

Leader
UK > Wales

The median Leader salary in Wales is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 59 37
Rank change year-on-year +50 -22 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 145 71 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.57% 5.33% 6.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.23% 5.68% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 110 68 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,165
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,719 £47,665
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,520 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.66% +7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

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 1,571 1,249 1,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.70% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 965 735 1,080
10th Percentile £28,125 £26,366 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,035 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% -9.93% +12.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £72,473 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 16 September 2024.

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 16 September 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
South Wales +45 118 £65,000 -5.11% 21
North Wales -2 14 £75,000 +120.59% 4
West Wales +9 13 £65,153 +3.84% 4
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 Wales region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 37 (25.52%) Agile
2 34 (23.45%) Mentoring
3 29 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 28 (19.31%) Azure
5 25 (17.24%) Social Skills
6 23 (15.86%) SC Cleared
6 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
7 20 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 18 (12.41%) AWS
9 17 (11.72%) Roadmaps
10 15 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 15 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (10.34%) DevOps
11 14 (9.66%) Line Management
11 14 (9.66%) Cisco
12 13 (8.97%) Degree
13 12 (8.28%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (8.28%) Python
13 12 (8.28%) Scrum
13 12 (8.28%) Technology Roadmap
14 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
14 11 (7.59%) Fintech
14 11 (7.59%) CCIE
14 11 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (6.90%) SQL
15 10 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
16 9 (6.21%) ITIL
16 9 (6.21%) Project Management

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 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
1 4 (2.76%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.38%) Apache
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.31%) Azure
2 18 (12.41%) AWS
3 7 (4.83%) SaaS
4 6 (4.14%) dbt
5 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (2.76%) Azure API Management
6 4 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.76%) IaaS
6 4 (2.76%) Slack
7 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.07%) GCP
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.38%) GitHub
8 2 (1.38%) Serverless
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) Wireless
2 5 (3.45%) Internet
3 4 (2.76%) BGP
3 4 (2.76%) DNS
3 4 (2.76%) SSL
3 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.07%) H.323
4 3 (2.07%) LAN
4 3 (2.07%) VSAN
4 3 (2.07%) WAN
4 3 (2.07%) WebEx
5 2 (1.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) Firewall
6 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.14%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.14%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.38%) Big Data
4 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.38%) GIS
5 1 (0.69%) Adabas
5 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) Git
2 2 (1.38%) GitLab
2 2 (1.38%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.69%) GitKraken
3 1 (0.69%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.69%) ReSharper
3 1 (0.69%) Selenium
3 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.21%) Retail
5 8 (5.52%) Finance
6 5 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Games
8 2 (1.38%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.38%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Electronics
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.21%) Spring Boot
2 6 (4.14%) Node.js
3 5 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.45%) Spring
4 3 (2.07%) Django
4 3 (2.07%) HTML
4 3 (2.07%) JSON
4 3 (2.07%) React
4 3 (2.07%) REST
4 3 (2.07%) RESTful
4 3 (2.07%) XMPP
5 2 (1.38%) .NET
5 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.38%) CSS
5 2 (1.38%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.38%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.38%) J2EE
6 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.69%) Java EE
6 1 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.28%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.45%) IoT
2 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.38%) Life Science
4 2 (1.38%) PMI
4 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.69%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.52%) Agile
2 34 (23.45%) Mentoring
3 20 (13.79%) Software Engineering
4 17 (11.72%) Roadmaps
5 15 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 15 (10.34%) DevOps
5 15 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (9.66%) Line Management
7 12 (8.28%) Scrum
7 12 (8.28%) Technology Roadmap
8 11 (7.59%) Fintech
9 10 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (6.21%) Coaching
10 9 (6.21%) ITIL
10 9 (6.21%) People Management
10 9 (6.21%) Project Management
11 8 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.52%) Project Roadmap
11 8 (5.52%) Service Management
11 8 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.28%) Python
2 10 (6.90%) SQL
3 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.14%) C#
4 6 (4.14%) Java
5 5 (3.45%) VBA
6 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.69%) Ada
8 1 (0.69%) C
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) Go
8 1 (0.69%) JCL
8 1 (0.69%) Natural
8 1 (0.69%) REXX
8 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.86%) SC Cleared
1 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.97%) Degree
3 11 (7.59%) CCIE
3 11 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.45%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.76%) Terraform
2 3 (2.07%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (1.38%) Ansible
3 2 (1.38%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.66%) Cisco
3 7 (4.83%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.83%) Sitecore
4 6 (4.14%) Oracle
5 4 (2.76%) Sparx
6 3 (2.07%) VMware
7 2 (1.38%) Databricks
7 2 (1.38%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.69%) IBM