Lead Jobs in the East Midlands

Leader
England > East Midlands

The median Leader salary in the East Midlands is £51,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +28 +6 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 304 157 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.61% 5.59% 4.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.98% 6.31% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 213 101 124
10th Percentile £30,650 £42,500 £35,225
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £81,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,356 2,490 3,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 88.71% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,127 1,309 2,117
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £56,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the East Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead in the East Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the East Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Leicestershire +48 99 £55,000 -15.38% 32
Nottinghamshire -7 78 £60,000 +2.13% 23
Northamptonshire +1 54 £46,250 -22.92% 23
Derbyshire +29 37 £60,000 +26.68% 21
Lincolnshire +9 36 £33,500 -44.17% 8
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 65 (21.38%) Degree
1 65 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (15.79%) AWS
3 48 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 45 (14.80%) Agile
5 44 (14.47%) Azure
6 41 (13.49%) SQL
7 40 (13.16%) Windows
8 37 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
9 36 (11.84%) Retail
10 34 (11.18%) Manufacturing
11 33 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
12 32 (10.53%) ITIL
13 31 (10.20%) Finance
14 27 (8.88%) QA
15 26 (8.55%) Security Cleared
15 26 (8.55%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.22%) Active Directory
17 24 (7.89%) Project Management
17 24 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (7.89%) DevOps
18 23 (7.57%) Coaching
18 23 (7.57%) SDLC
19 22 (7.24%) Validation
20 21 (6.91%) C#
21 20 (6.58%) Chemistry
21 20 (6.58%) GMP
22 19 (6.25%) Firewall

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.97%) IIS
3 5 (1.64%) CMS
4 4 (1.32%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.99%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.99%) WordPress
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.33%) InDesign
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.66%) Shopify
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Primavera
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.79%) AWS
2 44 (14.47%) Azure
3 33 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.29%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (2.96%) Serverless
6 8 (2.63%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.97%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (1.97%) SaaS
8 4 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.99%) BrowserStack
9 3 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.99%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.99%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.25%) Firewall
2 14 (4.61%) DNS
3 10 (3.29%) SAN
3 10 (3.29%) SSL
3 10 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.64%) Wireless
5 4 (1.32%) BGP
5 4 (1.32%) DHCP
6 2 (0.66%) Internet
7 1 (0.33%) FTP
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.33%) MPLS
7 1 (0.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.96%) Power BI
3 7 (2.30%) MySQL
4 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.97%) Power Query
4 6 (1.97%) Tableau
5 4 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.32%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.33%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 18 (5.92%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (1.97%) GitLab
4 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.99%) gulp
4 3 (0.99%) JMeter
4 3 (0.99%) Postman
4 3 (0.99%) Selenium
4 3 (0.99%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.66%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 65 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (11.84%) Retail
4 34 (11.18%) Manufacturing
5 31 (10.20%) Finance
6 24 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 18 (5.92%) Marketing
8 17 (5.59%) Legal
9 9 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.63%) Games
11 6 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.64%) Automotive
12 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.32%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.99%) iGaming
14 3 (0.99%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.25%) .NET
2 15 (4.93%) REST
3 13 (4.28%) React
4 12 (3.95%) Laravel
5 11 (3.62%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.96%) CSS
6 9 (2.96%) HTML
6 9 (2.96%) jQuery
7 7 (2.30%) ASP.NET
7 7 (2.30%) Tailwind CSS
7 7 (2.30%) Vue
8 6 (1.97%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (1.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 6 (1.97%) WPF
9 4 (1.32%) Django
9 4 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.32%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.99%) HTML5
10 3 (0.99%) Swagger
10 3 (0.99%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
4 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.97%) Driving Licence
4 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.97%) Private Cloud
4 6 (1.97%) Social Media
5 4 (1.32%) FMCG
5 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (0.99%) CSOC
6 3 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (0.99%) Cyberattack
6 3 (0.99%) Digital Media
6 3 (0.99%) Graphic Design
6 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.16%) Windows
2 12 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.96%) Linux
4 6 (1.97%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.97%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.32%) Android
5 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.32%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.66%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (14.80%) Agile
3 37 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (10.53%) ITIL
5 26 (8.55%) Mentoring
6 24 (7.89%) DevOps
6 24 (7.89%) Project Management
7 23 (7.57%) Coaching
7 23 (7.57%) SDLC
8 22 (7.24%) Validation
9 20 (6.58%) Chemistry
10 19 (6.25%) Customer Service
11 17 (5.59%) Web Development
12 16 (5.26%) Service Delivery
12 16 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (4.93%) Actionable Insight
13 15 (4.93%) Fintech
13 15 (4.93%) Line Management
13 15 (4.93%) Requirements Analysis
13 15 (4.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.49%) SQL
2 21 (6.91%) C#
3 19 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.61%) PHP
5 10 (3.29%) Java
5 10 (3.29%) Python
6 8 (2.63%) Rust
7 7 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.97%) VBA
8 6 (1.97%) XAML
9 5 (1.64%) C++
10 2 (0.66%) C
11 1 (0.33%) ABAP
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (21.38%) Degree
2 26 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 16 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.30%) ISEB
6 7 (2.30%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.99%) CCNA
9 3 (0.99%) CCNP
9 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.99%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.88%) QA
2 20 (6.58%) GMP
3 4 (1.32%) PMO
4 3 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.97%) Docker
3 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.63%) SCCM
2 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.97%) Terraform
4 4 (1.32%) Ansible
4 4 (1.32%) Grafana
4 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.32%) Puppet
5 3 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 48 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.95%) VMware
3 11 (3.62%) HP
4 10 (3.29%) Nimble Storage
4 10 (3.29%) Veeam
5 9 (2.96%) Cisco
6 6 (1.97%) Databricks
6 6 (1.97%) Google
7 5 (1.64%) Oracle
8 4 (1.32%) Meraki
8 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.32%) Sparx
8 4 (1.32%) Splunk
9 3 (0.99%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.99%) Hotjar
9 3 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) SAP
10 2 (0.66%) Adobe
10 2 (0.66%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.66%) Zoho