Lead Job Trends in Wantage

Leader
Oxfordshire > Wantage

The median Leader salary in Wantage is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wantage 6.90% - 12.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.90% - 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.03%
75th Percentile - - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.21% +37.50% +2.13%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wantage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wantage. 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 Wantage with a recognized job title 29 9 16
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 7
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile - - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -16.67% -10.11%
75th Percentile £47,000 - -
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,750 -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Wantage

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wantage.

Lead job vacancy trend in Wantage

Lead
Salary Trend in Wantage

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Wantage.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Wantage

Lead Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wantage

For the 6 months to 2 October 2026, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wantage region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wantage by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware