Lead Job Trends in Yorkshire

Leader
England > Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in Yorkshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 34 12
Rank change year-on-year +15 -22 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 448 159 610
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.26% 6.39% 10.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.74% 6.84% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 341 127 545
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,239 £50,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,787 2,323 5,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.37% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,291 4,278
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,205
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% -10.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Lead job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +12 271 £80,000 +11.13% 49
South Yorkshire -14 62 £82,500 +32.00% 25
North Yorkshire +25 49 £30,000 -42.74% 7
East Yorkshire -14 18 £55,000 - 3
Humberside - 13 £35,000 - 4
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 78 (17.41%) Agile
2 62 (13.84%) Azure
2 62 (13.84%) Mentoring
3 52 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (11.38%) DevOps
5 49 (10.94%) CI/CD
6 43 (9.60%) Coaching
7 42 (9.38%) AI
8 39 (8.71%) Decision-Making
8 39 (8.71%) Microsoft
9 38 (8.48%) Roadmaps
10 35 (7.81%) Java
11 34 (7.59%) AWS
12 33 (7.37%) SQL
12 33 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (7.14%) GDPR
14 30 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (6.70%) Data Engineering
15 29 (6.47%) Incident Response
16 28 (6.25%) TypeScript
17 27 (6.03%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (6.03%) Security Architecture
18 26 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 26 (5.80%) Risk Management
19 25 (5.58%) Data Protection
19 25 (5.58%) Microsoft Purview
19 25 (5.58%) Observability
19 25 (5.58%) Python
19 25 (5.58%) Test Automation

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) CMS
3 1 (0.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) IIS
3 1 (0.22%) JBoss
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.84%) Azure
2 34 (7.59%) AWS
3 25 (5.58%) Microsoft Purview
4 24 (5.36%) Serverless
5 23 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 18 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (3.57%) GCP
8 14 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.90%) Apigee
9 13 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 12 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.01%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.01%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.69%) Firewall
2 20 (4.46%) Broadband
3 13 (2.90%) Internet
4 5 (1.12%) DNS
4 5 (1.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.35%) Spark SQL
2 13 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (2.90%) DynamoDB
3 9 (2.01%) Metadata
4 6 (1.34%) Power BI
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.22%) Big Data
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.22%) Tableau
7 1 (0.22%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 23 (5.13%) GitLab
2 15 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 13 (2.90%) Cypress.io
4 13 (2.90%) Maven
5 5 (1.12%) Git
5 5 (1.12%) JIRA
6 3 (0.67%) Selenium
7 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 64 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 41 (9.15%) Finance
3 36 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.03%) Marketing
5 13 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.46%) Retail
7 10 (2.23%) Games
8 7 (1.56%) Legal
8 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.12%) Electronics
10 4 (0.89%) Aviation
10 4 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.45%) Advertising
11 2 (0.45%) Banking
11 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Law
11 2 (0.45%) Local Government
11 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.22%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.46%) React
2 18 (4.02%) PySpark
3 17 (3.79%) AngularJS
4 16 (3.57%) Spring
5 13 (2.90%) Gherkin
5 13 (2.90%) Jest
5 13 (2.90%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.01%) REST
7 8 (1.79%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.34%) XML
9 5 (1.12%) Node.js
9 5 (1.12%) XBRL
10 4 (0.89%) Flutter
10 4 (0.89%) Vue
11 3 (0.67%) JSON
11 3 (0.67%) Middleware
12 2 (0.45%) .NET
12 2 (0.45%) Hibernate
12 2 (0.45%) Redux
12 2 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.01%) Social Media
7 8 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.89%) Media Streaming
9 4 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (0.89%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.45%) Analogue Electronics
11 2 (0.45%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.45%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.46%) Windows
2 10 (2.23%) Android
2 10 (2.23%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.79%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (17.41%) Agile
2 62 (13.84%) Mentoring
3 52 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (11.38%) DevOps
5 49 (10.94%) CI/CD
6 43 (9.60%) Coaching
7 42 (9.38%) AI
8 39 (8.71%) Decision-Making
9 38 (8.48%) Roadmaps
10 33 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (6.70%) Data Engineering
12 29 (6.47%) Incident Response
13 27 (6.03%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (6.03%) Security Architecture
14 26 (5.80%) Risk Management
15 25 (5.58%) Data Protection
15 25 (5.58%) Observability
15 25 (5.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.81%) Java
2 33 (7.37%) SQL
3 28 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 25 (5.58%) Python
5 16 (3.57%) C#
5 16 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.90%) Bash
7 12 (2.68%) Groovy
8 5 (1.12%) Go
9 3 (0.67%) PHP
10 2 (0.45%) C
10 2 (0.45%) C++
10 2 (0.45%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.45%) Scala
11 1 (0.22%) ABAP
11 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (5.36%) Degree
2 11 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.01%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.01%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.34%) CISSP
5 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.67%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.67%) CREST Certified
7 3 (0.67%) HNC
7 3 (0.67%) HND
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.45%) CBAP
8 2 (0.45%) CCSP
8 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.45%) IIBA
8 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.14%) GDPR
2 26 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (5.13%) NIST
5 12 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.46%) QA
7 9 (2.01%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.67%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (4.46%) Docker
2 9 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (4.91%) Terraform
2 14 (3.13%) HP Fortify
3 8 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.12%) Ansible
4 5 (1.12%) Grafana
4 5 (1.12%) MOM
4 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.69%) Databricks
3 20 (4.46%) Oracle
4 7 (1.56%) SAP
5 5 (1.12%) Google
6 3 (0.67%) Citrix
7 2 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.45%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.22%) IBM
8 1 (0.22%) IFS
8 1 (0.22%) Informatica
8 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.22%) TIBCO