Lead Job Trends in Worcestershire

Leader
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The median Leader salary in Worcestershire is £63,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 27 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 4 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Worcestershire 0.91% 3.11% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 3.31% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £59,125 £68,000 £46,806
25th Percentile £59,688 £76,250 £47,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £90,000 £54,766
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +64.34% +21.70%
75th Percentile £69,688 - £60,000
90th Percentile £75,875 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.83% +0.83%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Worcestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Worcestershire. 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 Worcestershire with a recognized job title 371 151 201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.51% 93.79% 90.13%
Number of salaries quoted 194 69 181
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 -
25th Percentile £31,063 £40,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +27.78% +1.12%
75th Percentile £58,438 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £75,000 £61,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -6.67%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Lead job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Lead
Salary Trend in Worcestershire

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Worcestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Worcestershire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Worcestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead in Worcestershire

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Worcestershire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki