Lead Jobs in Wolverhampton

Leader
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The median Leader salary in Wolverhampton is £95,000 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 6 6 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6 29 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 11.11% 19.46% 10.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.95% 19.46% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 6
10th Percentile £84,500 - £63,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £50,000 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £53,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% -20.74% +92.86%
75th Percentile £97,500 £55,250 £69,688
90th Percentile - £68,750 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wolverhampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wolverhampton. 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 Wolverhampton with a recognized job title 43 149 209
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.63% 100.00% 87.08%
Number of salaries quoted 27 115 86
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +23.43%
75th Percentile £83,000 £62,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £70,000 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Wolverhampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Wolverhampton

Lead
Salary Trend in Wolverhampton

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

Salary trend for Lead in Wolverhampton

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

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 Wolverhampton region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
1 3 (50.00%) Mechatronics
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) IoT
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wolverhampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) IoT
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Mechatronics
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens