Lead Jobs in the West Midlands

Leader
England > West Midlands

The median Leader salary in the West Midlands is £60,500 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 24 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 248 972 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.54% 11.87% 7.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.97% 12.64% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 172 426 408
10th Percentile £41,556 £42,500 £39,625
25th Percentile £48,401 £44,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £85,000 £85,300
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,111 7,691 6,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 93.94% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,524 4,453 5,327
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,300 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,950 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +1.90% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 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
Birmingham -2 84 £60,500 -6.92% 35
Warwickshire -8 74 £49,000 +4.26% 87
Staffordshire +18 17 £51,128 +7.64% 17
Coventry +18 16 £52,170 -25.47% 28
Solihull +9 12 £62,500 +11.61% 2
Shropshire +15 6 £65,000 +4.00% 3
Walsall - 4 £77,500 - 2
Worcestershire +1 3 £49,532 +10.07% 3
Herefordshire +1 1 £65,000 +15.56% 3
Lead
England

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

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 West Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 78 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.42%) Degree
3 59 (23.79%) Agile
4 58 (23.39%) Microsoft
5 54 (21.77%) Automotive
6 50 (20.16%) Azure
7 43 (17.34%) SQL
8 40 (16.13%) Finance
9 36 (14.52%) ITIL
9 36 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (12.10%) Project Management
10 30 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
11 27 (10.89%) Line Management
12 25 (10.08%) Change Management
12 25 (10.08%) Roadmaps
13 24 (9.68%) Project Delivery
13 24 (9.68%) .NET
13 24 (9.68%) Mentoring
13 24 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.27%) JavaScript
14 23 (9.27%) Python
15 22 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (8.87%) AWS
16 21 (8.47%) DevOps
17 20 (8.06%) Security Cleared
17 20 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (7.66%) Power Platform
18 19 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (7.66%) User Experience
18 19 (7.66%) C#

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 7 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.02%) MS Exchange
3 3 (1.21%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) IIS
4 2 (0.81%) TPMS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.82%) Simulink
2 7 (2.82%) SPSS
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.81%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.81%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.81%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 50 (20.16%) Azure
2 22 (8.87%) AWS
3 19 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (7.66%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.03%) PowerApps
5 8 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.82%) SaaS
7 5 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.02%) GCP
7 5 (2.02%) Serverless
8 4 (1.61%) PaaS
9 3 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.21%) GitHub
9 3 (1.21%) IaaS
10 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.05%) Network Security
2 13 (5.24%) Firewall
3 7 (2.82%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.61%) DHCP
5 4 (1.61%) DNS
5 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.21%) FTP
6 3 (1.21%) HTTP
6 3 (1.21%) SMTP
6 3 (1.21%) SNMP
6 3 (1.21%) SSH
6 3 (1.21%) SSL
6 3 (1.21%) Telnet
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless
7 2 (0.81%) Intranet
7 2 (0.81%) MPLS
7 2 (0.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.05%) Power BI
2 10 (4.03%) Tableau
3 9 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.02%) Big Data
5 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.02%) GIS
5 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.21%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.81%) Power Query
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.40%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.23%) JIRA
2 7 (2.82%) Git
3 5 (2.02%) Selenium
4 3 (1.21%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.81%) LSMW
6 1 (0.40%) CANoe
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) GCC
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.40%) MLflow
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
6 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 78 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.77%) Automotive
3 40 (16.13%) Finance
4 30 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.65%) Marketing
6 14 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.24%) Law
7 13 (5.24%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.84%) Legal
9 11 (4.44%) Local Government
10 10 (4.03%) Electronics
10 10 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (3.63%) Retail
12 7 (2.82%) Games
12 7 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.82%) Social Science
13 4 (1.61%) Banking
14 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.68%) .NET
2 18 (7.26%) CSS
3 17 (6.85%) HTML
4 14 (5.65%) AngularJS
5 12 (4.84%) REST
6 10 (4.03%) Web Services
7 9 (3.63%) XML
8 7 (2.82%) ASP.NET
8 7 (2.82%) Classic ASP
8 7 (2.82%) Node.js
9 5 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (2.02%) React
10 4 (1.61%) Middleware
11 2 (0.81%) Backbone.js
11 2 (0.81%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.81%) jQuery
11 2 (0.81%) JSON
11 2 (0.81%) KnockoutJS
11 2 (0.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 2 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.24%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.82%) Mobile Games
4 6 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.61%) Cybercrime
6 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.21%) EFT
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.81%) Infotainment
8 2 (0.81%) NHS
8 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.45%) Windows
2 8 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.82%) Android
4 6 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.61%) Linux
6 3 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.81%) Unix
7 2 (0.81%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.81%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.79%) Agile
2 36 (14.52%) ITIL
2 36 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (12.10%) Project Management
4 27 (10.89%) Line Management
5 25 (10.08%) Change Management
5 25 (10.08%) Roadmaps
6 24 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 24 (9.68%) Project Delivery
7 22 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (8.47%) DevOps
9 19 (7.66%) User Experience
10 18 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (7.26%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (7.26%) Validation
11 16 (6.45%) SDLC
12 15 (6.05%) Migration
12 15 (6.05%) Risk Management
12 15 (6.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (17.34%) SQL
2 23 (9.27%) JavaScript
2 23 (9.27%) Python
3 19 (7.66%) C#
4 13 (5.24%) TypeScript
5 8 (3.23%) MATLAB
5 8 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.42%) Go
7 5 (2.02%) Java
8 2 (0.81%) Bash
8 2 (0.81%) Dart
8 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) C
9 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.40%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (27.42%) Degree
2 20 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.45%) CISSP
5 7 (2.82%) CCNP
5 7 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.82%) Postgraduate
5 7 (2.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 6 (2.42%) CISM
6 6 (2.42%) CRISC
7 5 (2.02%) CCNA
7 5 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.02%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.61%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.61%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.61%) JNCIP
8 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.21%) CISA
9 3 (1.21%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.44%) QA
2 7 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.42%) ISO 26262
3 6 (2.42%) NIST
4 4 (1.61%) GRC
5 3 (1.21%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (1.21%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.81%) IFRS
6 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.81%) SLA
6 2 (0.81%) WCAG
7 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.40%) JTAG
7 1 (0.40%) MISRA
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.42%) Docker
3 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (4.84%) SCCM
2 7 (2.82%) Nessus
3 6 (2.42%) AirWatch
3 6 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.02%) Functional Safety
4 5 (2.02%) Terraform
5 3 (1.21%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.81%) Ansible
6 2 (0.81%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 58 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.85%) Cisco
3 16 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.65%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.63%) Databricks
5 9 (3.63%) Juniper
5 9 (3.63%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 7 (2.82%) Apple
7 7 (2.82%) Aruba
7 7 (2.82%) Darktrace
7 7 (2.82%) OneTrust
7 7 (2.82%) Remedy
7 7 (2.82%) SAP
7 7 (2.82%) VMware
8 6 (2.42%) Samsung
9 5 (2.02%) F5
9 5 (2.02%) Meraki
10 4 (1.61%) Citrix
10 4 (1.61%) Fortinet