Lead Jobs in the West Midlands

Leader
England > West Midlands

The median Leader salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 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 34 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 244 618 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.67% 8.39% 10.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 8.90% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 161 445 327
10th Percentile £41,000 £46,550 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £79,050 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,901 6,944 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.23% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 5,206 3,266
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -27 83 £60,000 -18.70% 80
Warwickshire -38 51 £67,500 +1.89% 42
Solihull +19 27 £55,000 -18.52% 5
Shropshire +15 24 £41,000 -36.92% 18
Coventry -11 14 £57,500 +17.35% 14
Staffordshire -5 11 £45,000 -10.00% 34
Wolverhampton 0 10 £85,000 +58.88% 5
Walsall - 6 £49,703 - 1
Herefordshire +10 3 £67,500 +114.18%
Dudley +3 3 £80,000 +8.39%
Wednesbury +4 1 £45,000 -18.18%
Worcestershire +1 1 £60,000 +9.09% 18
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 59 (24.18%) Mentoring
2 56 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 54 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.90%) Azure
5 45 (18.44%) Agile
6 39 (15.98%) SCADA
7 36 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (14.75%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (14.34%) Finance
9 34 (13.93%) Law
9 34 (13.93%) Microsoft
9 34 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
10 31 (12.70%) Systems Engineering
10 31 (12.70%) SQL
10 31 (12.70%) Windows
10 31 (12.70%) Requirements Management
11 29 (11.89%) Degree
11 29 (11.89%) Computer Science
12 27 (11.07%) Electronics
13 26 (10.66%) Rational DOORS
13 26 (10.66%) Roadmaps
14 25 (10.25%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (10.25%) Test Automation
14 25 (10.25%) Mechatronics
14 25 (10.25%) Software Engineering
14 25 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (9.84%) Manufacturing
15 24 (9.84%) Validation
16 23 (9.43%) JIRA
17 22 (9.02%) Python

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Oracle Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 51 (20.90%) Azure
2 16 (6.56%) AWS
2 16 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (6.15%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.28%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.87%) GCP
7 6 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.05%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.64%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.64%) Serverless
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.23%) SaaS
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.51%) Firewall
2 10 (4.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (3.28%) Broadband
5 2 (0.82%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.82%) DHCP
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
6 1 (0.41%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.41%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.41%) LTE
6 1 (0.41%) PSTN
6 1 (0.41%) SAN
6 1 (0.41%) Skype
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.69%) Power BI
2 7 (2.87%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.46%) Metadata
4 5 (2.05%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.05%) Power Query
4 5 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.23%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.23%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (1.23%) MySQL
5 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.66%) Rational DOORS
2 23 (9.43%) JIRA
3 19 (7.79%) Selenium
4 7 (2.87%) Git
5 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.23%) Maven
6 2 (0.82%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.82%) JUnit
6 2 (0.82%) Mockito
6 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.41%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.41%) ERwin
7 1 (0.41%) jMock
General
1 56 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (14.75%) Influencing Skills
3 35 (14.34%) Finance
4 34 (13.93%) Law
5 27 (11.07%) Electronics
6 24 (9.84%) Manufacturing
7 16 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (6.15%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.28%) Games
10 7 (2.87%) Automotive
11 5 (2.05%) Retail
12 3 (1.23%) Banking
12 3 (1.23%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
13 2 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.82%) Police
14 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.28%) React
2 6 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.05%) Middleware
4 4 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.64%) Kafka
4 4 (1.64%) SOAP
4 4 (1.64%) Spring
4 4 (1.64%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.23%) .NET
5 3 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.23%) CSS
5 3 (1.23%) EDI
5 3 (1.23%) HTML
5 3 (1.23%) Laravel
5 3 (1.23%) Node.js
5 3 (1.23%) REST
5 3 (1.23%) RESTful
5 3 (1.23%) Vue
6 2 (0.82%) LAMP
6 2 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.98%) SCADA
2 25 (10.25%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (8.61%) IoT
4 20 (8.20%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 20 (8.20%) Operational Technology
5 12 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.51%) Social Media
7 10 (4.10%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.28%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.46%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.64%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.64%) Housing Association
11 4 (1.64%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.23%) iPad
12 3 (1.23%) iPhone
12 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.70%) Windows
2 11 (4.51%) Windows Vista
3 5 (2.05%) Linux
4 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.82%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.18%) Mentoring
2 54 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (18.44%) Agile
4 34 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (12.70%) Requirements Management
5 31 (12.70%) Systems Engineering
6 29 (11.89%) Computer Science
7 26 (10.66%) Roadmaps
8 25 (10.25%) Mechatronics
8 25 (10.25%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (10.25%) Test Automation
9 24 (9.84%) Validation
10 20 (8.20%) Data Collection
10 20 (8.20%) Penetration Testing
11 19 (7.79%) Analytics
11 19 (7.79%) DevOps
12 18 (7.38%) Model Validation
12 18 (7.38%) Project Management
13 17 (6.97%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.70%) SQL
2 22 (9.02%) Python
3 19 (7.79%) C#
4 13 (5.33%) Bash
5 12 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.51%) Java
7 8 (3.28%) PHP
8 7 (2.87%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.64%) Go
10 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.82%) R
10 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (11.89%) Degree
2 19 (7.79%) ISTQB
3 13 (5.33%) DBS Check
4 11 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.46%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.64%) CISM
8 4 (1.64%) CISSP
9 3 (1.23%) CISA
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.82%) CITP
11 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.41%) CRISC
11 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (5.74%) QA
3 11 (4.51%) COBIT
4 8 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.05%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (2.05%) ISO 26262
6 4 (1.64%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) JTAG
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.28%) Docker
3 3 (1.23%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.23%) Firmware
4 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.69%) SCCM
2 5 (2.05%) Functional Safety
2 5 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.05%) Terraform
3 4 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.23%) Ansible
5 2 (0.82%) Argo
5 2 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.82%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.41%) SCOM
6 1 (0.41%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.41%) SCSM
Vendors
1 34 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.20%) Rockwell
2 20 (8.20%) Siemens
3 11 (4.51%) Databricks
4 10 (4.10%) Oracle
5 9 (3.69%) Google
6 7 (2.87%) Apple
6 7 (2.87%) HP
6 7 (2.87%) SAP
7 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.23%) Informatica
8 3 (1.23%) MobileIron
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.82%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.41%) Facebook
10 1 (0.41%) Sparx
10 1 (0.41%) Twitter