Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 26 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3,317 3,736 5,146
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.83% 8.66% 7.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.24% 9.01% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 2,755 3,205
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,962 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £92,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +5.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,387 41,467 65,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,861 29,388 41,856
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,082 (32.62%) Agile
2 873 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 739 (22.28%) Social Skills
4 728 (21.95%) Azure
5 697 (21.01%) AWS
6 691 (20.83%) Finance
7 534 (16.10%) Coaching
8 464 (13.99%) SQL
9 405 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
10 403 (12.15%) Microsoft
11 374 (11.28%) Security Cleared
12 373 (11.25%) Analytics
13 370 (11.15%) DevOps
14 369 (11.12%) Python
15 358 (10.79%) Java
16 355 (10.70%) Roadmaps
17 335 (10.10%) Software Engineering
18 331 (9.98%) JavaScript
19 326 (9.83%) C#
20 321 (9.68%) .NET
21 315 (9.50%) CI/CD
22 307 (9.26%) Degree
23 266 (8.02%) Scrum
24 263 (7.93%) Public Sector
25 262 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
26 261 (7.87%) Marketing
27 254 (7.66%) Project Management
28 248 (7.48%) Process Improvement
29 240 (7.24%) TypeScript
30 230 (6.93%) Analytical Skills

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 88 (2.65%) Confluence
2 84 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (2.32%) Apache
4 46 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.39%) WebLogic
5 37 (1.12%) Tuxedo
6 36 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.81%) IIS
8 22 (0.66%) Apache Spark
9 16 (0.48%) CMS
10 13 (0.39%) WordPress
11 10 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.27%) Appian
12 9 (0.27%) SAS
13 4 (0.12%) Drupal
14 3 (0.090%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.090%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.060%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.060%) Ethereum
15 2 (0.060%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 64 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.42%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.090%) Sketch
8 2 (0.060%) InVision
8 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 1 (0.030%) Abaqus
9 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.030%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.030%) CATIA
9 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.030%) InDesign
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.30%) Shopify
5 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.15%) Primavera
6 5 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.12%) thinkFolio
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.090%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.090%) SAP SCM
8 3 (0.090%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.090%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 728 (21.95%) Azure
2 697 (21.01%) AWS
3 189 (5.70%) GCP
4 169 (5.09%) SaaS
5 157 (4.73%) Power Platform
6 155 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
7 135 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (3.59%) Serverless
9 111 (3.35%) dbt
10 99 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 82 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 80 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
14 61 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (1.51%) GitHub
16 47 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
17 42 (1.27%) Entra ID
18 36 (1.09%) Amazon S3
19 32 (0.96%) PaaS
19 32 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 188 (5.67%) Broadband
2 128 (3.86%) Firewall
3 95 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.65%) DNS
5 71 (2.14%) SSL
6 51 (1.54%) WAN
7 48 (1.45%) BGP
8 36 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (1.06%) SD-WAN
10 28 (0.84%) Network Security
11 24 (0.72%) LAN
11 24 (0.72%) VPN
12 21 (0.63%) Internet
13 20 (0.60%) Wireless
14 14 (0.42%) DHCP
15 13 (0.39%) HTTP
15 13 (0.39%) SAN
16 12 (0.36%) VLAN
16 12 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.27%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 142 (4.28%) Power BI
3 104 (3.14%) Data Lake
4 97 (2.92%) Relational Database
5 87 (2.62%) Tableau
6 80 (2.41%) MySQL
7 69 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
8 67 (2.02%) Apache Arrow
8 67 (2.02%) Dremio
9 65 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 64 (1.93%) Apache Ignite
11 56 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 56 (1.69%) NoSQL
12 52 (1.57%) Oracle Database
13 49 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
14 47 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 41 (1.24%) DynamoDB
15 41 (1.24%) MongoDB
16 33 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 27 (0.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 129 (3.89%) Git
2 120 (3.62%) JIRA
3 92 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 71 (2.14%) GitLab
5 65 (1.96%) Selenium
6 57 (1.72%) Postman
7 44 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.33%) Visual Studio
8 27 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
9 24 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 19 (0.57%) NUnit
10 19 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.42%) JMeter
12 13 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
13 11 (0.33%) SoapUI
14 10 (0.30%) Gradle
15 9 (0.27%) JUnit
15 9 (0.27%) Maven
15 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 739 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 691 (20.83%) Finance
3 263 (7.93%) Public Sector
4 261 (7.87%) Marketing
5 230 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 199 (6.00%) Banking
7 195 (5.88%) Advertising
8 134 (4.04%) Retail
9 119 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 110 (3.32%) Legal
11 77 (2.32%) Front Office
11 77 (2.32%) Law
11 77 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
12 75 (2.26%) Investment Banking
13 60 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 53 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 48 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 44 (1.33%) Automotive
17 38 (1.15%) Games
18 34 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (9.68%) .NET
2 164 (4.94%) React
3 132 (3.98%) HTML
4 119 (3.59%) CSS
5 104 (3.14%) REST
6 97 (2.92%) Node.js
7 94 (2.83%) RESTful
8 83 (2.50%) Spring Boot
9 77 (2.32%) .NET Core
9 77 (2.32%) Pandas
10 70 (2.11%) NumPy
11 67 (2.02%) gRPC
11 67 (2.02%) Protocol Buffers
12 66 (1.99%) AngularJS
12 66 (1.99%) SciPy
13 64 (1.93%) Vue
14 56 (1.69%) .NET Framework
14 56 (1.69%) ASP.NET
14 56 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.55%) Marketing Technology
2 123 (3.71%) Management Information System
3 119 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 96 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 80 (2.41%) Hedge funds
7 76 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 75 (2.26%) Fixed Income
9 72 (2.17%) Derivative
10 70 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
11 68 (2.05%) Equities
12 66 (1.99%) Algorithms
13 65 (1.96%) Virtual Team
14 61 (1.84%) Client/Server
15 54 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (1.48%) Private Cloud
17 46 (1.39%) Data Centre
18 38 (1.15%) Mobile App
19 37 (1.12%) Data Structures
20 33 (0.99%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 198 (5.97%) Windows
2 165 (4.97%) Linux
3 64 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.87%) Android
7 28 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.54%) Unix
9 17 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.36%) zOS
11 11 (0.33%) CentOS
12 8 (0.24%) Solaris
13 7 (0.21%) Debian
14 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) VMS
16 4 (0.12%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,082 (32.62%) Agile
2 873 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 534 (16.10%) Coaching
4 405 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
5 373 (11.25%) Analytics
6 370 (11.15%) DevOps
7 355 (10.70%) Roadmaps
8 335 (10.10%) Software Engineering
9 315 (9.50%) CI/CD
10 266 (8.02%) Scrum
11 262 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 254 (7.66%) Project Management
13 248 (7.48%) Process Improvement
14 224 (6.75%) Line Management
15 217 (6.54%) Business Case
16 216 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
17 212 (6.39%) Data Strategy
18 211 (6.36%) Use Case
19 208 (6.27%) Microservices
20 202 (6.09%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 464 (13.99%) SQL
2 369 (11.12%) Python
3 358 (10.79%) Java
4 331 (9.98%) JavaScript
5 326 (9.83%) C#
6 240 (7.24%) TypeScript
7 67 (2.02%) PHP
8 66 (1.99%) COBOL
8 66 (1.99%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 61 (1.84%) C
9 61 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 59 (1.78%) C++
11 31 (0.93%) Bash
11 31 (0.93%) Go
12 27 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 24 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.57%) XAML
15 17 (0.51%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 374 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 307 (9.26%) Degree
3 214 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 101 (3.04%) Azure Certification
5 96 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.11%) CISSP
7 68 (2.05%) DBS Check
8 67 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 62 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 51 (1.54%) CISM
12 41 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 37 (1.12%) CCSP
14 35 (1.06%) DV Cleared
15 27 (0.81%) CCSK
16 21 (0.63%) SSCP
17 18 (0.54%) Master's Degree
18 17 (0.51%) CISA
18 17 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.82%) QA
2 77 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 60 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (1.39%) NIST
5 41 (1.24%) GDPR
6 39 (1.18%) SLA
7 31 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.57%) PMO
9 15 (0.45%) GRC
10 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.33%) HL7
12 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.27%) NCSC
13 6 (0.18%) IFRS
14 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.15%) RMADS
14 5 (0.15%) WCAG
15 4 (0.12%) GAAP
15 4 (0.12%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 202 (6.09%) Docker
2 82 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.18%) vSphere
8 5 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.060%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.030%) KVM
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 185 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 135 (4.07%) Terraform
3 47 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (1.30%) Ansible
4 43 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.90%) Puppet
6 18 (0.54%) SCCM
7 17 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.42%) Grafana
9 11 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.30%) ZABBIX
11 9 (0.27%) Nmap
12 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.21%) MIIS
13 7 (0.21%) Nagios
13 7 (0.21%) SysTrack
14 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.12%) Autotask
15 4 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 403 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.46%) Oracle
3 85 (2.56%) Databricks
4 82 (2.47%) Google
5 67 (2.02%) VMware
6 66 (1.99%) Micro Focus
7 62 (1.87%) SAP
8 55 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.39%) Sparx
10 44 (1.33%) IBM
11 43 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 29 (0.87%) Cisco
13 22 (0.66%) Splunk
14 16 (0.48%) Salesforce
14 16 (0.48%) Sun
15 14 (0.42%) Commvault
16 12 (0.36%) ForgeRock
16 12 (0.36%) Sitecore
17 11 (0.33%) Qualys
18 10 (0.30%) Veeam