Lead Jobs in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 23 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 909 852 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.65% 9.27% 7.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.11% 10.34% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 652 436 517
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £42,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year - +19.29% -8.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £82,500 £83,950
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,203 8,240 10,398
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 89.64% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,322 4,631 7,055
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,748 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands +2 618 £65,000 +8.33% 121
East Midlands +24 288 £50,000 -13.04% 86
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 180 (19.80%) Agile
2 163 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 135 (14.85%) Finance
3 135 (14.85%) Mentoring
4 131 (14.41%) Degree
5 121 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (11.55%) Microsoft
7 101 (11.11%) AWS
8 99 (10.89%) Azure
9 97 (10.67%) Coaching
10 89 (9.79%) Project Management
11 88 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
12 79 (8.69%) SQL
13 75 (8.25%) Manufacturing
14 72 (7.92%) Automotive
14 72 (7.92%) JavaScript
14 72 (7.92%) QA
15 67 (7.37%) Roadmaps
16 63 (6.93%) DevOps
16 63 (6.93%) React
16 63 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (6.60%) ITIL
17 60 (6.60%) Windows
18 54 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
18 54 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
19 52 (5.72%) Business Intelligence
20 51 (5.61%) SQL Server
20 51 (5.61%) Software Engineering
21 50 (5.50%) Power Platform
22 49 (5.39%) Microservices

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 21 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.65%) IIS
2 15 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.99%) Appian
3 9 (0.99%) Confluence
3 9 (0.99%) WordPress
4 8 (0.88%) CMS
5 6 (0.66%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.44%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.11%) Blender
6 1 (0.11%) InDesign
6 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.65%) Shopify
2 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.33%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.33%) Sage 300 ERP
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.11%) Primavera
5 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 101 (11.11%) AWS
2 99 (10.89%) Azure
3 50 (5.50%) Power Platform
4 48 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (4.29%) Serverless
6 23 (2.53%) GCP
7 21 (2.31%) SaaS
8 19 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 14 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.10%) Google Analytics
15 9 (0.99%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (0.88%) Cloudflare
17 7 (0.77%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.19%) Firewall
2 19 (2.09%) DNS
3 16 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.43%) SSL
5 10 (1.10%) SAN
6 8 (0.88%) WAN
7 7 (0.77%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.77%) Wireless
8 6 (0.66%) DHCP
8 6 (0.66%) LAN
9 5 (0.55%) HTTP
10 4 (0.44%) BGP
10 4 (0.44%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.44%) Internet
10 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.33%) Intranet
11 3 (0.33%) MQTT
11 3 (0.33%) Network Security
11 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.17%) Power BI
3 25 (2.75%) MySQL
4 18 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.54%) Tableau
7 13 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 13 (1.43%) RDBMS
8 11 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.66%) Power Query
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.33%) DB2
14 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (3.96%) Git
2 19 (2.09%) JIRA
3 11 (1.21%) Selenium
4 8 (0.88%) GitLab
4 8 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.77%) Postman
5 7 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.66%) CANoe
6 6 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.55%) gulp
7 5 (0.55%) NUnit
8 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.33%) JMeter
8 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.33%) Subversion
9 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.11%) Maven
10 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 163 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 135 (14.85%) Finance
3 88 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 72 (7.92%) Automotive
6 44 (4.84%) Marketing
7 41 (4.51%) Retail
8 40 (4.40%) Legal
9 36 (3.96%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 24 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.54%) Games
15 13 (1.43%) Electronics
16 9 (0.99%) Environmental Health
16 9 (0.99%) Local Government
17 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.93%) React
2 43 (4.73%) .NET
3 40 (4.40%) Node.js
4 28 (3.08%) REST
5 26 (2.86%) HTML
6 25 (2.75%) CSS
7 24 (2.64%) AngularJS
7 24 (2.64%) Laravel
8 15 (1.65%) jQuery
9 14 (1.54%) Vue
10 13 (1.43%) .NET Core
10 13 (1.43%) Next.js
11 12 (1.32%) ASP.NET
11 12 (1.32%) RESTful
12 10 (1.10%) JSON
12 10 (1.10%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (1.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 10 (1.10%) XML
13 9 (0.99%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.40%) Management Information System
2 24 (2.64%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 14 (1.54%) SCADA
5 13 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.32%) PMI
7 11 (1.21%) Industry 4.0
8 10 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.10%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.10%) NHS
9 9 (0.99%) Infotainment
9 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.88%) IoT
10 8 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.60%) Windows
2 24 (2.64%) Linux
3 16 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.10%) Windows 7
5 5 (0.55%) Android
5 5 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.44%) VMS
6 4 (0.44%) Windows 8
7 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (19.80%) Agile
2 135 (14.85%) Mentoring
3 121 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (10.67%) Coaching
5 89 (9.79%) Project Management
6 67 (7.37%) Roadmaps
7 63 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (6.93%) DevOps
8 60 (6.60%) ITIL
9 54 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
9 54 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
10 52 (5.72%) Business Intelligence
11 51 (5.61%) Software Engineering
12 49 (5.39%) Microservices
13 48 (5.28%) CI/CD
13 48 (5.28%) Customer Service
14 46 (5.06%) Validation
15 45 (4.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (4.95%) Supplier Management
16 41 (4.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 79 (8.69%) SQL
2 72 (7.92%) JavaScript
3 48 (5.28%) C#
3 48 (5.28%) TypeScript
4 47 (5.17%) Java
5 44 (4.84%) Python
6 24 (2.64%) PHP
7 18 (1.98%) C
8 13 (1.43%) C++
8 13 (1.43%) Go
9 10 (1.10%) COBOL
9 10 (1.10%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 9 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.99%) XAML
11 8 (0.88%) R
11 8 (0.88%) Rust
12 6 (0.66%) VBA
13 4 (0.44%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.33%) Ruby
14 3 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 131 (14.41%) Degree
2 44 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 31 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.64%) DBS Check
5 20 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.88%) CISM
8 8 (0.88%) CISSP
8 8 (0.88%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.77%) CCNP
9 7 (0.77%) ISEB
10 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.55%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.92%) QA
2 20 (2.20%) GMP
3 16 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.65%) GDPR
5 10 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.99%) NIST
7 7 (0.77%) ISO 26262
7 7 (0.77%) PMO
7 7 (0.77%) SLA
8 4 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
9 3 (0.33%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.22%) NCSC
10 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) COSHH
11 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 33 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.08%) Docker
3 12 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
3 12 (1.32%) Firmware
4 6 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.98%) Terraform
3 11 (1.21%) Functional Safety
4 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.88%) SCCM
6 6 (0.66%) Ansible
7 4 (0.44%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.44%) Grafana
7 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.44%) Puppet
8 3 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 105 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 25 (2.75%) Oracle
4 19 (2.09%) Cisco
4 19 (2.09%) VMware
5 17 (1.87%) Databricks
6 16 (1.76%) Google
7 11 (1.21%) HP
7 11 (1.21%) Pega
8 10 (1.10%) Micro Focus
8 10 (1.10%) Nimble Storage
8 10 (1.10%) Veeam
9 9 (0.99%) SAP
10 8 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.88%) Meraki
11 7 (0.77%) IBM
12 6 (0.66%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.55%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.55%) Informatica
13 5 (0.55%) Salesforce