Lead Jobs in Merseyside

Leader
North West > Merseyside

The median Leader salary in Merseyside is £64,000 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 55 58
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 94 52 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.02% 4.87% 4.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.40% 6.07% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 77 47 39
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,300 £31,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +86.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £56,875
90th Percentile £104,000 £86,250 £70,750
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 1,270 857 1,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 80.24% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 892 419 703
10th Percentile £25,525 £26,950 £25,435
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -2.11% +9.83%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

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

Salary histogram for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +24 90 £64,000 -8.57% 13
Birkenhead - 2 £73,805 - 1
Wirral - 1 £60,000 - 1
Lead
North West

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

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 Merseyside region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 31 (32.98%) Azure
2 27 (28.72%) Agile
3 25 (26.60%) SQL
4 21 (22.34%) Finance
5 20 (21.28%) .NET
6 18 (19.15%) C#
7 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
7 13 (13.83%) Security Cleared
7 13 (13.83%) Analytics
8 12 (12.77%) Migration
9 11 (11.70%) Scrum
9 11 (11.70%) DevOps
9 11 (11.70%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
9 11 (11.70%) Business Strategy
10 10 (10.64%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (10.64%) DNS
10 10 (10.64%) SLA
10 10 (10.64%) Data Analysis
11 9 (9.57%) Data Management
11 9 (9.57%) SSL
11 9 (9.57%) Data Structures
12 8 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (8.51%) Housing Management
12 8 (8.51%) Social Housing
12 8 (8.51%) Data Modelling
12 8 (8.51%) ETL
12 8 (8.51%) Informatica
12 8 (8.51%) Project Management
12 8 (8.51%) Firewall

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (4.26%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (4.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.19%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.98%) Azure
2 8 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.32%) AWS
3 5 (5.32%) IaaS
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.32%) PaaS
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.13%) SaaS
6 2 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) DNS
2 9 (9.57%) SSL
3 8 (8.51%) Firewall
4 6 (6.38%) LAN
4 6 (6.38%) WAN
4 6 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (5.32%) DHCP
5 5 (5.32%) Internet
5 5 (5.32%) SD-WAN
5 5 (5.32%) VPN
6 4 (4.26%) 5G
6 4 (4.26%) BGP
6 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.19%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.06%) NGFW
9 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) Data Vault
2 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.26%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) Power BI
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) Git
3 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (22.34%) Finance
2 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Social Housing
4 6 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.13%) Legal
7 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.06%) Aviation
8 1 (1.06%) Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.28%) .NET
2 4 (4.26%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.26%) LINQ
2 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.26%) WPF
3 3 (3.19%) REST
3 3 (3.19%) Spring
3 3 (3.19%) Web Services
4 2 (2.13%) CSS
4 2 (2.13%) EJB
4 2 (2.13%) JavaBeans
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth
4 2 (2.13%) OpenID
4 2 (2.13%) Vue
5 1 (1.06%) PySpark
5 1 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.38%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.32%) Housing Association
3 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) e-Health
5 2 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Linux
1 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.72%) Agile
2 13 (13.83%) Analytics
3 12 (12.77%) Migration
4 11 (11.70%) Business Strategy
4 11 (11.70%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (11.70%) DevOps
4 11 (11.70%) Scrum
5 10 (10.64%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (10.64%) Data Analysis
6 9 (9.57%) Data Management
7 8 (8.51%) Data Modelling
7 8 (8.51%) ETL
7 8 (8.51%) Housing Management
7 8 (8.51%) Project Management
8 7 (7.45%) Data Strategy
8 7 (7.45%) Master Data Management
8 7 (7.45%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (7.45%) SDLC
9 6 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.60%) SQL
2 18 (19.15%) C#
3 4 (4.26%) Java
3 4 (4.26%) Python
4 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.19%) R
5 1 (1.06%) C++
5 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
1 13 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.13%) Degree
5 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.06%) HNC
5 1 (1.06%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) SLA
2 7 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.32%) QA
4 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Terraform
2 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Informatica
2 7 (7.45%) Databricks
2 7 (7.45%) Oracle
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.32%) SAP
5 4 (4.26%) Sparx
6 1 (1.06%) Cadence
6 1 (1.06%) Ekahau
6 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) Ruckus Wireless