Lead Job Trends in Worthing

Leader
West Sussex > Worthing

The median Leader salary in Worthing is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 3 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Worthing 4.08% 20.00% 10.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% 20.00% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £57,375
25th Percentile £71,250 - £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £63,250
90th Percentile - - £63,750
West Sussex median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +32.23% +0.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Worthing

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Worthing. 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 Worthing with a recognized job title 46 30 55
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 100.00% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 42 9 54
10th Percentile £32,550 £46,000 £45,375
25th Percentile £49,438 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,813 £60,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £81,625 £74,000 £76,750
West Sussex median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Worthing

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

Lead job vacancy trend in Worthing

Lead
Salary Trend in Worthing

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Worthing.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Worthing

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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 Worthing region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) P3M3
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worthing 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) P3M3
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP