Lead Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,501 3,319 3,583
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.34% 9.82% 8.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.11% 10.23% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 844 2,659 2,696
10th Percentile £47,683 £47,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,441 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -3.45% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 16,480 32,444 39,722
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 95.98% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,871 24,899 28,264
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,010 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,318 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -9.89% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead.

Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 756 (50.37%) Mentoring
2 624 (41.57%) Roadmaps
3 572 (38.11%) Social Skills
4 566 (37.71%) Agile
5 473 (31.51%) Product Management
6 464 (30.91%) High Availability
7 453 (30.18%) Broadband
8 423 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
9 408 (27.18%) DevOps
10 399 (26.58%) AWS
11 385 (25.65%) Python
12 367 (24.45%) JavaScript
13 320 (21.32%) Degree
14 313 (20.85%) Kubernetes
15 305 (20.32%) Java
16 299 (19.92%) Terraform
17 294 (19.59%) Docker
17 294 (19.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 292 (19.45%) Finance
19 274 (18.25%) Containerisation
20 270 (17.99%) Computer Science
21 266 (17.72%) Linux
22 259 (17.26%) Infrastructure as Code
23 256 (17.06%) Computer Science Degree
24 252 (16.79%) Google
25 251 (16.72%) Continuous Integration
26 250 (16.66%) Ansible
27 241 (16.06%) NoSQL
28 238 (15.86%) Azure
29 237 (15.79%) Bash

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.33%) CMS
3 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.80%) Umbraco
5 11 (0.73%) Drupal
5 11 (0.73%) OpenEdge
6 10 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.60%) Confluence
7 9 (0.60%) SAS
7 9 (0.60%) WordPress
8 8 (0.53%) Apache
9 7 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.33%) IIS
11 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.13%) Mendix
14 1 (0.067%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.66%) Simulink
3 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.27%) Sketch
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.13%) CATIA
8 2 (0.13%) Moqups
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.067%) InVision
9 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.47%) Shopify
4 6 (0.40%) Magento
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.067%) BASE24
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 399 (26.58%) AWS
2 238 (15.86%) Azure
3 215 (14.32%) Pulumi
4 88 (5.86%) GCP
5 77 (5.13%) SaaS
6 64 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (4.20%) Power Platform
8 39 (2.60%) Serverless
9 33 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.93%) GitHub
12 25 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (1.07%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.00%) PowerApps
15 14 (0.93%) Google Analytics
16 13 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (0.87%) Power Automate
17 12 (0.80%) Amazon S3
17 12 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
18 11 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 453 (30.18%) Broadband
2 34 (2.27%) Firewall
3 27 (1.80%) WAN
4 22 (1.47%) Internet
5 20 (1.33%) LAN
5 20 (1.33%) VPN
6 17 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.87%) DNS
9 10 (0.67%) VLAN
10 9 (0.60%) OSPF
10 9 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.53%) BGP
11 8 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (0.53%) DHCP
12 7 (0.47%) IPsec
12 7 (0.47%) WLAN
13 6 (0.40%) SMTP
13 6 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (16.06%) NoSQL
2 221 (14.72%) Relational Database
3 215 (14.32%) RDBMS
4 61 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.93%) Data Lake
6 39 (2.60%) Power BI
7 27 (1.80%) BigQuery
7 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.13%) Tableau
11 14 (0.93%) Big Data
12 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.73%) MySQL
14 10 (0.67%) Looker
15 9 (0.60%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.53%) Data Hub
16 8 (0.53%) Metadata
17 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 215 (14.32%) Jaeger
2 47 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.86%) Git
4 39 (2.60%) JIRA
5 20 (1.33%) Selenium
6 15 (1.00%) GitLab
7 13 (0.87%) webpack
8 11 (0.73%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.67%) Maven
9 10 (0.67%) Postman
10 8 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.53%) Gradle
11 7 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.40%) JUnit
12 6 (0.40%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.27%) Bazaar
13 4 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 572 (38.11%) Social Skills
2 294 (19.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 292 (19.45%) Finance
4 116 (7.73%) Banking
5 85 (5.66%) Multimedia
6 75 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 64 (4.26%) Law
8 47 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 40 (2.66%) Front Office
10 30 (2.00%) Games
10 30 (2.00%) Legal
10 30 (2.00%) Marketing
11 27 (1.80%) Public Sector
11 27 (1.80%) Retail
12 22 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.00%) Advertising
15 15 (1.00%) Electronics
16 14 (0.93%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (14.39%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (14.32%) OpenTelemetry
3 124 (8.26%) React
4 85 (5.66%) .NET
5 50 (3.33%) Node.js
6 49 (3.26%) CSS
7 44 (2.93%) REST
8 41 (2.73%) RESTful
9 40 (2.66%) HTML
10 39 (2.60%) Kafka
11 28 (1.87%) .NET Core
12 26 (1.73%) React Native
13 24 (1.60%) AngularJS
14 19 (1.27%) Web Services
15 18 (1.20%) Django
15 18 (1.20%) Spring Boot
16 17 (1.13%) Redux
16 17 (1.13%) Vue
17 16 (1.07%) GraphQL
18 15 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.46%) Product Ownership
2 51 (3.40%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.66%) Derivative
4 40 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 36 (2.40%) Equities
5 36 (2.40%) Fixed Income
5 36 (2.40%) Hedge funds
5 36 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 31 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 24 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 22 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.27%) Private Cloud
11 18 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 266 (17.72%) Linux
2 219 (14.59%) Unix
3 64 (4.26%) Windows
4 32 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.80%) Android
6 26 (1.73%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.20%) Debian
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.067%) VMS
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (50.37%) Mentoring
2 624 (41.57%) Roadmaps
3 566 (37.71%) Agile
4 473 (31.51%) Product Management
5 464 (30.91%) High Availability
6 423 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
7 408 (27.18%) DevOps
8 274 (18.25%) Containerisation
9 270 (17.99%) Computer Science
10 259 (17.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 251 (16.72%) Continuous Integration
12 237 (15.79%) Broadcast Engineering
13 224 (14.92%) Performance Optimisation
14 223 (14.86%) Task Automation
15 218 (14.52%) Resource Management
16 216 (14.39%) Cost Optimisation
17 215 (14.32%) Budget Control
17 215 (14.32%) GitOps
18 184 (12.26%) Software Engineering
19 172 (11.46%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 385 (25.65%) Python
2 367 (24.45%) JavaScript
3 305 (20.32%) Java
4 237 (15.79%) Bash
5 236 (15.72%) Go
6 146 (9.73%) SQL
7 99 (6.60%) C#
8 81 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 37 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 30 (2.00%) PHP
11 28 (1.87%) C++
12 16 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.93%) MATLAB
14 13 (0.87%) Ruby
15 11 (0.73%) R
16 8 (0.53%) C
16 8 (0.53%) Swift
17 7 (0.47%) Objective-C
17 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 320 (21.32%) Degree
2 256 (17.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 226 (15.06%) AWS Certification
4 54 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 42 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.40%) SC Cleared
7 22 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 17 (1.13%) PhD
9 15 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (0.93%) CCNP
11 9 (0.60%) CCNA
11 9 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.53%) CISSP
13 7 (0.47%) MCP
13 7 (0.47%) MCSA
13 7 (0.47%) MCSE
14 6 (0.40%) CISM
15 5 (0.33%) DV Cleared
15 5 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.66%) QA
2 36 (2.40%) MiFID
3 31 (2.07%) GDPR
4 28 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.67%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.13%) SLA
8 15 (1.00%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.67%) NIST
11 9 (0.60%) IFRS
11 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.53%) Basel III
12 8 (0.53%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.53%) WCAG
13 7 (0.47%) Basel II
13 7 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
14 6 (0.40%) Def Stans
15 5 (0.33%) PMO
16 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 294 (19.59%) Docker
2 30 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.67%) Firmware
6 4 (0.27%) HDFS
6 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 313 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 299 (19.92%) Terraform
3 250 (16.66%) Ansible
4 216 (14.39%) Argo
4 216 (14.39%) Prometheus
5 215 (14.32%) Kustomize
6 15 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.67%) Puppet
8 8 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.53%) SCCM
9 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.13%) Grafana
10 2 (0.13%) Iperf
10 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.067%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.067%) Nessus
11 1 (0.067%) Nmap
11 1 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 252 (16.79%) Google
2 215 (14.32%) Microsoft
3 41 (2.73%) Cisco
4 40 (2.66%) MathWorks
5 35 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.93%) VMware
7 28 (1.87%) Oracle
8 25 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.47%) Databricks
10 18 (1.20%) SAP
11 11 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.67%) Aruba
12 10 (0.67%) CheckPoint
12 10 (0.67%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.53%) Informatica
13 8 (0.53%) Mellanox
13 8 (0.53%) NetApp
13 8 (0.53%) New Relic
13 8 (0.53%) NVIDIA
13 8 (0.53%) SolarWinds