Lead Jobs in Wolverhampton

Leader
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The median Leader salary in Wolverhampton is £85,000 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 8 8 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 10 29 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 17.24% 19.59% 10.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% 19.59% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 7
10th Percentile - - £57,100
25th Percentile £78,350 £50,000 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £53,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.88% -20.74% +92.86%
75th Percentile £97,500 £55,250 £69,375
90th Percentile - £68,750 £72,000
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 50 148 214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.21% 100.00% 87.35%
Number of salaries quoted 30 114 85
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,000 £30,050
25th Percentile £40,313 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £53,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -1.85% +23.43%
75th Percentile £79,050 £62,500 £60,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £70,000 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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
Salary Histogram in Wolverhampton

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Wolverhampton

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

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 Wolverhampton region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Siemens
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
1 5 (50.00%) Mechatronics
1 5 (50.00%) Law
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) IoT
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Digital Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Retail Banking

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 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
1 5 (50.00%) Law
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Police
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) IoT
1 5 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 5 (50.00%) Mechatronics
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Digital Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 5 (50.00%) Siemens
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks