Lead Jobs in Yorkshire

Leader
England > Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in Yorkshire is £69,509 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 12 40
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 172 615 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.16% 10.59% 7.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.60% 11.12% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 132 545 384
10th Percentile £32,250 £41,250 £46,619
25th Percentile £52,023 £53,750 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,509 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,759 £84,056
90th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 £97,328
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,607 5,532 7,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.23% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,363 4,282 3,507
10th Percentile £26,050 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,625 £35,000 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £49,136 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -10.47% +9.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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 -18 92 £71,991 +6.65% 87
South Yorkshire -8 30 £62,500 -15.32% 38
North Yorkshire -30 16 £57,397 -4.34% 19
Humberside -9 6 £60,000 +20.00% 1
East Yorkshire +3 5 - - 11
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 58 (33.72%) Mentoring
2 55 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 55 (31.98%) Finance
3 43 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (22.09%) Banking
5 35 (20.35%) Roadmaps
6 33 (19.19%) CI/CD
6 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (17.44%) Agile
7 30 (17.44%) SQL
7 30 (17.44%) DevOps
7 30 (17.44%) Analytics
8 29 (16.86%) Kubernetes
8 29 (16.86%) Azure
9 26 (15.12%) Software Engineering
9 26 (15.12%) Microservices
9 26 (15.12%) Coaching
10 25 (14.53%) Microsoft
11 24 (13.95%) SaaS
11 24 (13.95%) Product Ownership
12 22 (12.79%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
13 21 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (12.21%) Docker
14 20 (11.63%) C#
14 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (10.47%) Project Management
16 18 (10.47%) Python
17 17 (9.88%) AWS

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.07%) SAS
3 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Infor LN
1 4 (2.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.86%) Azure
2 24 (13.95%) SaaS
3 17 (9.88%) AWS
3 17 (9.88%) GCP
4 10 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (4.07%) Azure AKS
7 6 (3.49%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.74%) GitHub
8 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.74%) Serverless
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.16%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.16%) IaaS
10 1 (0.58%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.81%) Internet
2 9 (5.23%) DKIM
2 9 (5.23%) DMARC
2 9 (5.23%) DNSSEC
2 9 (5.23%) SMTP
3 6 (3.49%) Firewall
3 6 (3.49%) LAN
3 6 (3.49%) WAN
4 5 (2.91%) VPN
5 4 (2.33%) DAB
6 2 (1.16%) Network Security
7 1 (0.58%) Broadband
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) DNS
7 1 (0.58%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.81%) Tableau
2 7 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.91%) Power BI
4 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.16%) Metadata
5 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.58%) Looker
6 1 (0.58%) MySQL
6 1 (0.58%) Redis
6 1 (0.58%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.40%) JIRA
2 10 (5.81%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.74%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) Git
5 2 (1.16%) JUnit
5 2 (1.16%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Gradle
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Maven
6 1 (0.58%) Postman
6 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.58%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.58%) TestNG
General
1 55 (31.98%) Finance
1 55 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.09%) Banking
3 14 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.81%) Law
6 7 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.91%) Marketing
9 4 (2.33%) Legal
9 4 (2.33%) Police
10 3 (1.74%) Advertising
10 3 (1.74%) Retail
11 2 (1.16%) Electronics
12 1 (0.58%) Back Office
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.72%) React
2 13 (7.56%) .NET
2 13 (7.56%) Node.js
3 6 (3.49%) Express.js
3 6 (3.49%) Kafka
4 5 (2.91%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.33%) Bootstrap
5 4 (2.33%) Redux
6 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Cordova
7 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.58%) React Native
7 1 (0.58%) REST
7 1 (0.58%) RESTful
7 1 (0.58%) WPF
7 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 21 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.40%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.40%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.65%) Animation
5 8 (4.65%) Credit Risk
5 8 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.65%) Market Risk
5 8 (4.65%) Photography
5 8 (4.65%) Podcast
6 7 (4.07%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.33%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.58%) Tandem
8 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Windows
2 4 (2.33%) Linux
2 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.72%) Mentoring
2 43 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (20.35%) Roadmaps
4 33 (19.19%) CI/CD
4 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (17.44%) Agile
5 30 (17.44%) Analytics
5 30 (17.44%) DevOps
6 26 (15.12%) Coaching
6 26 (15.12%) Microservices
6 26 (15.12%) Software Engineering
7 22 (12.79%) Containerisation
8 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (10.47%) Project Management
11 16 (9.30%) Decision-Making
11 16 (9.30%) Risk Management
11 16 (9.30%) User Experience
12 14 (8.14%) Strategic Planning
13 13 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.44%) SQL
2 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.63%) C#
4 18 (10.47%) Python
5 16 (9.30%) Java
6 15 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.07%) R
8 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.16%) Bash
10 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) ABAP
11 1 (0.58%) C
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.58%) Go
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) Scala
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (4.07%) Degree
3 4 (2.33%) ACCA
3 4 (2.33%) CIMA
4 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.16%) MCITP
5 2 (1.16%) MCSE
5 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.16%) PMP
5 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) CCNA
6 1 (0.58%) CCNP
6 1 (0.58%) CCSA
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.58%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) IFRS
2 11 (6.40%) GDPR
3 8 (4.65%) Basel III
3 8 (4.65%) IFRS 9
4 7 (4.07%) Basel II
4 7 (4.07%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.07%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.33%) GAAP
7 4 (2.33%) NIST
8 2 (1.16%) GRC
8 2 (1.16%) PMO
8 2 (1.16%) QA
9 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (12.21%) Docker
2 5 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (16.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.23%) Terraform
3 6 (3.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.14%) Cisco
3 10 (5.81%) Oracle
4 9 (5.23%) IronPort
4 9 (5.23%) Veritas
5 8 (4.65%) SAP
6 5 (2.91%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.33%) Aruba
7 4 (2.33%) Cognos
7 4 (2.33%) Infor
7 4 (2.33%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.33%) NVIDIA
7 4 (2.33%) VMware
8 3 (1.74%) Google
9 2 (1.16%) Databricks
9 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.16%) Zoho
10 1 (0.58%) CyberSource
10 1 (0.58%) Sage