Lead Jobs in West Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in West Yorkshire is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 10 35
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 92 361 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.69% 11.70% 8.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.49% 12.14% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 76 311 258
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £47,951
25th Percentile £66,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £87,500 £100,114
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,229 2,973 4,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 96.37% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 629 2,171 2,249
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,500 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,274 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -6.14% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Leeds -8 77 £76,250 +12.13% 134
Halifax -1 8 £127,680 +34.40% 4
Bradford -16 4 £50,750 -10.18% 114
Lead
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 35 (38.04%) Finance
1 35 (38.04%) Mentoring
2 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
3 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
4 30 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (32.61%) Banking
5 29 (31.52%) Roadmaps
6 25 (27.17%) SQL
6 25 (27.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (25.00%) DevOps
8 22 (23.91%) Kubernetes
9 21 (22.83%) Docker
10 20 (21.74%) Azure
10 20 (21.74%) AWS
10 20 (21.74%) Python
11 19 (20.65%) Software Engineering
12 18 (19.57%) Java
12 18 (19.57%) Coaching
12 18 (19.57%) Microservices
13 17 (18.48%) GCP
13 17 (18.48%) Containerisation
14 16 (17.39%) Product Ownership
14 16 (17.39%) Analytics
14 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
15 15 (16.30%) Agile
15 15 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (13.04%) Decision-Making
16 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
16 12 (13.04%) C#
16 12 (13.04%) SaaS

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.35%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.74%) AWS
1 20 (21.74%) Azure
2 17 (18.48%) GCP
3 12 (13.04%) SaaS
4 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.35%) GitHub
5 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.35%) Serverless
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.26%) OCI
6 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.17%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.17%) IaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.09%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) LAN
1 6 (6.52%) WAN
2 5 (5.43%) DKIM
2 5 (5.43%) DMARC
2 5 (5.43%) DNSSEC
2 5 (5.43%) Internet
2 5 (5.43%) SMTP
3 4 (4.35%) Network Security
4 3 (3.26%) BGP
4 3 (3.26%) Firewall
4 3 (3.26%) OSPF
4 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.26%) VLAN
4 3 (3.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.17%) Power BI
2 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.09%) Metadata
3 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.09%) MySQL
3 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.09%) Redis
3 1 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) JIRA
2 6 (6.52%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (4.35%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.35%) GitLab
4 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.09%) Git
5 1 (1.09%) JMeter
5 1 (1.09%) JUnit
5 1 (1.09%) Postman
5 1 (1.09%) Selenium
5 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (38.04%) Finance
2 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
3 30 (32.61%) Banking
4 11 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
7 8 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Marketing
9 3 (3.26%) Law
10 2 (2.17%) Legal
11 1 (1.09%) Electronics
11 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) .NET
2 9 (9.78%) React
3 8 (8.70%) Node.js
4 6 (6.52%) Express.js
4 6 (6.52%) Kafka
5 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.26%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.26%) RESTful
7 1 (1.09%) ADO
7 1 (1.09%) Apache Cordova
7 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.09%) Flask
7 1 (1.09%) Ionic Framework
7 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.09%) React Native
7 1 (1.09%) REST
7 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 15 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
4 11 (11.96%) Private Cloud
5 9 (9.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (8.70%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.35%) Credit Risk
7 4 (4.35%) Hackathon
7 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.35%) Market Risk
8 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.09%) NHS
9 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.04%) Mentoring
2 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 30 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (31.52%) Roadmaps
5 25 (27.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (25.00%) DevOps
7 19 (20.65%) Software Engineering
8 18 (19.57%) Coaching
8 18 (19.57%) Microservices
9 17 (18.48%) Containerisation
10 16 (17.39%) Analytics
11 15 (16.30%) Agile
12 12 (13.04%) Decision-Making
13 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (9.78%) API Development
15 8 (8.70%) Continuous Delivery
15 8 (8.70%) Line Management
15 8 (8.70%) Performance Engineering
15 8 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.17%) SQL
2 20 (21.74%) Python
3 18 (19.57%) Java
4 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.04%) C#
6 11 (11.96%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.52%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.35%) R
9 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.17%) Bash
10 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.09%) ABAP
11 1 (1.09%) Go
11 1 (1.09%) PHP
11 1 (1.09%) Scala
11 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.52%) Degree
2 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.17%) MCITP
4 2 (2.17%) MCSE
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.09%) MCSD
5 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) NIST
2 4 (4.35%) Basel II
2 4 (4.35%) Basel III
2 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (4.35%) GDPR
2 4 (4.35%) IFRS
2 4 (4.35%) IFRS 9
2 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.26%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) GRC
4 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (22.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.04%) Ansible
2 12 (13.04%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Grafana
4 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) Cisco
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) Aruba
3 6 (6.52%) Fortinet
3 6 (6.52%) Mellanox
3 6 (6.52%) NVIDIA
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle
3 6 (6.52%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.43%) IronPort
4 5 (5.43%) Veritas
5 4 (4.35%) Databricks
5 4 (4.35%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) Google
6 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.17%) Zoho
7 1 (1.09%) CyberSource
7 1 (1.09%) Sage
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce