Lead Jobs in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,723 6,067 12,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.32% 7.27% 8.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.78% 7.97% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,852 4,329 6,088
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 87,960 76,100 137,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.25% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 64,459 49,772 75,750
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,255 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,688 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
London +12 2,270 £90,000 - 611
North of England +29 1,896 £70,000 - 337
South East +21 1,317 £62,334 -7.65% 260
Midlands +4 1,027 £60,000 - 248
North West +24 948 £70,000 - 188
South West +23 746 £60,202 -10.81% 179
Yorkshire +31 693 £70,000 - 114
West Midlands +1 676 £65,000 +8.33% 144
East of England +30 391 £60,000 +4.35% 129
East Midlands +29 347 £51,500 -12.34% 103
North East +36 258 £70,000 +40.00% 38
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,892 (24.50%) Agile
2 1,514 (19.60%) Social Skills
3 1,491 (19.31%) Finance
4 1,447 (18.74%) Mentoring
5 1,301 (16.85%) Azure
6 1,231 (15.94%) AWS
7 1,027 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
8 1,002 (12.97%) Software Engineering
9 899 (11.64%) Microsoft
10 897 (11.61%) Degree
11 836 (10.82%) SQL
12 805 (10.42%) Coaching
13 768 (9.94%) Java
14 740 (9.58%) DevOps
15 697 (9.02%) Python
16 652 (8.44%) JavaScript
17 634 (8.21%) .NET
18 620 (8.03%) C#
19 617 (7.99%) Project Management
20 596 (7.72%) Analytics
21 580 (7.51%) Roadmaps
22 521 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
23 518 (6.71%) Security Cleared
24 515 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
24 515 (6.67%) CI/CD
25 510 (6.60%) Windows
26 449 (5.81%) TypeScript
27 426 (5.52%) Line Management
28 414 (5.36%) React
29 409 (5.30%) Kubernetes

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 175 (2.27%) Apache
2 159 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 141 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 116 (1.50%) Confluence
5 95 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 52 (0.67%) CMS
7 48 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.48%) Tuxedo
9 30 (0.39%) IIS
10 29 (0.38%) Drupal
10 29 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 15 (0.19%) WordPress
12 12 (0.16%) Appian
13 11 (0.14%) SAS
14 10 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.10%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.065%) Apache Pulsar
16 5 (0.065%) Mendix
Applications
1 141 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.21%) Simulink
6 15 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.078%) EViews
9 6 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.052%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.039%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.026%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.026%) Sketch
12 2 (0.026%) Trello
13 1 (0.013%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 86 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.26%) Shopify
5 19 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 18 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 16 (0.21%) thinkFolio
8 12 (0.16%) SAP GRC
9 10 (0.13%) Primavera
10 7 (0.091%) SAP IBP
11 6 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (0.078%) HFM
11 6 (0.078%) Hyperion Planning
11 6 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.078%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.078%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.065%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.065%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.065%) SAP PP
12 5 (0.065%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,301 (16.85%) Azure
2 1,231 (15.94%) AWS
3 370 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
4 363 (4.70%) Power Platform
5 301 (3.90%) GCP
6 272 (3.52%) SaaS
7 206 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 175 (2.27%) dbt
9 171 (2.21%) Snowflake
10 169 (2.19%) Serverless
11 129 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 95 (1.23%) GitHub
14 92 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 89 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 87 (1.13%) Amazon S3
17 79 (1.02%) Entra ID
18 76 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
19 71 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
20 69 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 233 (3.02%) Firewall
2 196 (2.54%) Broadband
3 119 (1.54%) DNS
4 112 (1.45%) WAN
5 99 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 78 (1.01%) Network Security
7 68 (0.88%) LAN
8 64 (0.83%) SSL
9 53 (0.69%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.62%) VPN
11 46 (0.60%) Wireless
12 43 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 42 (0.54%) Internet
14 41 (0.53%) DHCP
15 36 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
16 35 (0.45%) BGP
17 33 (0.43%) SAN
18 24 (0.31%) 5G
19 23 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
20 22 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 289 (3.74%) Power BI
3 202 (2.62%) Data Lake
4 155 (2.01%) NoSQL
5 143 (1.85%) MySQL
6 139 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
7 137 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 136 (1.76%) Apache Arrow
9 133 (1.72%) Dremio
10 130 (1.68%) Apache Ignite
11 112 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 104 (1.35%) Tableau
13 77 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (0.87%) RDBMS
15 59 (0.76%) MongoDB
16 55 (0.71%) DynamoDB
17 48 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
18 47 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
19 45 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 289 (3.74%) Git
2 207 (2.68%) JIRA
3 111 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 105 (1.36%) Selenium
5 102 (1.32%) GitLab
6 64 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 63 (0.82%) Postman
8 60 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 46 (0.60%) JUnit
11 34 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 31 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
13 27 (0.35%) SoapUI
14 25 (0.32%) JMeter
15 23 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.27%) NUnit
17 18 (0.23%) Maven
18 17 (0.22%) SpecFlow
18 17 (0.22%) Subversion
19 15 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,514 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 1,491 (19.31%) Finance
3 521 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 377 (4.88%) Marketing
6 375 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 370 (4.79%) Banking
8 264 (3.42%) Retail
9 239 (3.09%) Law
10 237 (3.07%) Legal
11 234 (3.03%) Manufacturing
12 218 (2.82%) Advertising
13 175 (2.27%) Investment Banking
14 165 (2.14%) Front Office
15 153 (1.98%) Automotive
16 126 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
17 121 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
17 121 (1.57%) Telecoms
18 112 (1.45%) Aerospace
19 104 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (8.21%) .NET
2 414 (5.36%) React
3 224 (2.90%) HTML
4 219 (2.84%) CSS
5 189 (2.45%) REST
6 153 (1.98%) .NET Core
7 151 (1.96%) Node.js
8 149 (1.93%) Pandas
9 142 (1.84%) NumPy
10 140 (1.81%) RESTful
11 133 (1.72%) gRPC
11 133 (1.72%) Protocol Buffers
12 132 (1.71%) AngularJS
12 132 (1.71%) SciPy
13 126 (1.63%) Spring
13 126 (1.63%) Spring Boot
14 117 (1.51%) Kafka
15 104 (1.35%) JSON
16 93 (1.20%) ASP.NET
17 90 (1.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (3.63%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.40%) Marketing Technology
3 175 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 161 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 156 (2.02%) Hedge funds
6 155 (2.01%) Fixed Income
7 149 (1.93%) Derivative
8 141 (1.83%) Equities
9 130 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 128 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 125 (1.62%) Cloud Native
12 111 (1.44%) Data Centre
13 108 (1.40%) Algorithms
14 106 (1.37%) Cyberattack
15 95 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
16 94 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
17 82 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
18 80 (1.04%) Onboarding
19 78 (1.01%) Data Structures
19 78 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 510 (6.60%) Windows
2 321 (4.16%) Linux
3 168 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 59 (0.76%) Android
6 52 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 34 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 29 (0.38%) Unix
11 27 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 16 (0.21%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
16 12 (0.16%) CentOS
16 12 (0.16%) zOS
17 8 (0.10%) Debian
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 6 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,892 (24.50%) Agile
2 1,447 (18.74%) Mentoring
3 1,027 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
4 1,002 (12.97%) Software Engineering
5 805 (10.42%) Coaching
6 740 (9.58%) DevOps
7 617 (7.99%) Project Management
8 596 (7.72%) Analytics
9 580 (7.51%) Roadmaps
10 515 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 515 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 426 (5.52%) Line Management
12 406 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
13 400 (5.18%) Technical Leadership
14 397 (5.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 389 (5.04%) Scrum
16 388 (5.02%) Computer Science
17 384 (4.97%) ITIL
18 376 (4.87%) Process Improvement
19 351 (4.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 836 (10.82%) SQL
2 768 (9.94%) Java
3 697 (9.02%) Python
4 652 (8.44%) JavaScript
5 620 (8.03%) C#
6 449 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 175 (2.27%) C++
8 170 (2.20%) PHP
9 166 (2.15%) C
10 102 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 74 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 71 (0.92%) Scala
13 67 (0.87%) Go
14 66 (0.85%) COBOL
14 66 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 43 (0.56%) R
16 41 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 37 (0.48%) Rust
18 32 (0.41%) Bicep
19 28 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 897 (11.61%) Degree
2 518 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 283 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 222 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 112 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 110 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 110 (1.42%) CISSP
8 104 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 89 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 81 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 79 (1.02%) CISM
12 78 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 76 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 45 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 37 (0.48%) PMI Certification
17 35 (0.45%) CCSP
17 35 (0.45%) CISA
18 29 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (4.80%) QA
2 192 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 134 (1.74%) SLA
4 119 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (1.48%) GDPR
6 96 (1.24%) NIST
7 70 (0.91%) PMO
8 59 (0.76%) Accessibility
9 46 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.39%) GMP
10 30 (0.39%) GRC
11 28 (0.36%) NCSC
12 27 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
14 17 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.18%) IFRS
16 11 (0.14%) Def Stans
17 10 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.12%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.091%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 362 (4.69%) Docker
2 254 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 56 (0.73%) Firmware
6 46 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.39%) vSphere
8 27 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 24 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.091%) HDFS
12 5 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.039%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.039%) Ceph
14 2 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.026%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.013%) KVM
15 1 (0.013%) Lustre
15 1 (0.013%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 409 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 240 (3.11%) Terraform
3 98 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (0.71%) SCCM
5 54 (0.70%) Ansible
6 44 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 40 (0.52%) Puppet
8 30 (0.39%) Functional Safety
9 23 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 22 (0.28%) Grafana
10 22 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.18%) Istio
13 13 (0.17%) Consul
13 13 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (0.16%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.14%) WSUS
16 10 (0.13%) Progress Chef
17 7 (0.091%) Nagios
17 7 (0.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 899 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 232 (3.00%) Oracle
3 172 (2.23%) VMware
4 159 (2.06%) SAP
5 133 (1.72%) Google
6 131 (1.70%) Databricks
7 128 (1.66%) Cisco
8 115 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 79 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 69 (0.89%) Micro Focus
11 66 (0.85%) IBM
12 57 (0.74%) Citrix
13 46 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 30 (0.39%) Splunk
15 28 (0.36%) Sparx
16 27 (0.35%) Veeam
17 24 (0.31%) Bloomberg
17 24 (0.31%) Workday
18 23 (0.30%) Meraki
18 23 (0.30%) Pega