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 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 20 23 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 946 811 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.66% 8.99% 7.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.11% 10.02% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 675 423 522
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £48,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,250 £80,900
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 11,666 8,093 10,490
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 89.68% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,592 4,557 7,019
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £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 £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 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 23 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 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
West Midlands +5 638 £65,000 +8.33% 149
East Midlands +28 304 £51,500 -14.17% 109
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 180 (19.03%) Agile
2 164 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 140 (14.80%) Degree
4 139 (14.69%) Finance
5 138 (14.59%) Mentoring
6 121 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (11.52%) Coaching
8 107 (11.31%) AWS
9 106 (11.21%) Microsoft
10 97 (10.25%) Azure
11 89 (9.41%) Project Management
12 88 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
13 79 (8.35%) SQL
14 77 (8.14%) QA
15 76 (8.03%) JavaScript
15 76 (8.03%) Manufacturing
16 72 (7.61%) Automotive
17 69 (7.29%) ITIL
18 67 (7.08%) Roadmaps
19 65 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
20 63 (6.66%) DevOps
20 63 (6.66%) React
21 59 (6.24%) Windows
22 55 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
23 54 (5.71%) Software Engineering
24 53 (5.60%) C#
24 53 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
25 51 (5.39%) SQL Server
25 51 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
26 50 (5.29%) Power Platform

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 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.59%) IIS
2 15 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.95%) Appian
3 9 (0.95%) WordPress
4 8 (0.85%) CMS
4 8 (0.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.63%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.42%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.42%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.21%) 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 (1.59%) Shopify
2 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.32%) Sage 300 ERP
4 3 (0.32%) 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
1 107 (11.31%) AWS
2 97 (10.25%) Azure
3 50 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 48 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (4.23%) Serverless
6 25 (2.64%) SaaS
7 24 (2.54%) GCP
8 20 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (1.27%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.06%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.06%) Google Analytics
14 9 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (0.85%) Cloudflare
16 7 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.07%) Firewall
2 20 (2.11%) DNS
3 16 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.37%) SSL
5 10 (1.06%) SAN
6 8 (0.85%) WAN
6 8 (0.85%) Wireless
7 7 (0.74%) DHCP
7 7 (0.74%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.63%) LAN
9 5 (0.53%) HTTP
10 4 (0.42%) BGP
10 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.42%) Internet
10 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.32%) Intranet
11 3 (0.32%) MQTT
11 3 (0.32%) Network Security
11 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.97%) Power BI
3 27 (2.85%) MySQL
4 18 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.48%) Tableau
7 13 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 13 (1.37%) RDBMS
8 11 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.63%) Power Query
13 4 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.32%) DB2
14 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (3.81%) Git
2 18 (1.90%) JIRA
3 9 (0.95%) Selenium
4 8 (0.85%) GitLab
4 8 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.74%) Postman
5 7 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.63%) CANoe
6 6 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.53%) gulp
7 5 (0.53%) NUnit
8 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.32%) JMeter
8 3 (0.32%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.32%) Subversion
9 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.11%) Appium
10 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 164 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 139 (14.69%) Finance
3 88 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.03%) Manufacturing
5 72 (7.61%) Automotive
6 48 (5.07%) Legal
6 48 (5.07%) Retail
7 44 (4.65%) Marketing
8 36 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 23 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.48%) Games
13 13 (1.37%) Electronics
14 9 (0.95%) Environmental Health
15 8 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.85%) Local Government
16 6 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.66%) React
2 48 (5.07%) .NET
3 40 (4.23%) Node.js
4 28 (2.96%) HTML
4 28 (2.96%) REST
5 27 (2.85%) CSS
5 27 (2.85%) Laravel
6 25 (2.64%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.59%) jQuery
7 15 (1.59%) Vue
8 13 (1.37%) .NET Core
8 13 (1.37%) Next.js
9 12 (1.27%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.27%) RESTful
10 10 (1.06%) JSON
10 10 (1.06%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (1.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 10 (1.06%) XML
11 9 (0.95%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.23%) Management Information System
2 23 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (1.48%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.48%) Low-Code
4 14 (1.48%) SCADA
5 13 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.16%) Industry 4.0
7 10 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.06%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.06%) NHS
7 10 (1.06%) PMI
8 9 (0.95%) Infotainment
8 9 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 9 (0.95%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.85%) IoT
9 8 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.24%) Windows
2 23 (2.43%) Linux
3 16 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.95%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.95%) Windows 7
5 6 (0.63%) Android
5 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.42%) VMS
7 3 (0.32%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (19.03%) Agile
2 138 (14.59%) Mentoring
3 121 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (11.52%) Coaching
5 89 (9.41%) Project Management
6 69 (7.29%) ITIL
7 67 (7.08%) Roadmaps
8 65 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (6.66%) DevOps
10 55 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (5.71%) Software Engineering
12 53 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
13 51 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (5.18%) Microservices
15 48 (5.07%) Customer Service
16 45 (4.76%) CI/CD
16 45 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (4.76%) Supplier Management
16 45 (4.76%) Validation
17 41 (4.33%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 79 (8.35%) SQL
2 76 (8.03%) JavaScript
3 53 (5.60%) C#
4 49 (5.18%) TypeScript
5 47 (4.97%) Java
6 43 (4.55%) Python
7 27 (2.85%) PHP
8 18 (1.90%) C
9 13 (1.37%) C++
9 13 (1.37%) Go
10 10 (1.06%) COBOL
10 10 (1.06%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 9 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.95%) XAML
12 8 (0.85%) R
12 8 (0.85%) Rust
13 6 (0.63%) VBA
14 4 (0.42%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.32%) Ruby
15 3 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 140 (14.80%) Degree
2 43 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 31 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.54%) DBS Check
5 22 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.85%) CISM
10 8 (0.85%) CISSP
10 8 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.74%) ISEB
12 6 (0.63%) CCNP
13 5 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.42%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.14%) QA
2 20 (2.11%) GMP
3 15 (1.59%) GDPR
3 15 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.95%) NIST
6 7 (0.74%) ISO 26262
6 7 (0.74%) PMO
6 7 (0.74%) SLA
7 4 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
8 3 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
10 1 (0.11%) COSHH
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 34 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.96%) Docker
3 12 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 12 (1.27%) Firmware
4 6 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.80%) Terraform
3 11 (1.16%) Functional Safety
4 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.95%) SCCM
5 5 (0.53%) Ansible
6 4 (0.42%) Data Guard
6 4 (0.42%) Grafana
6 4 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.42%) Puppet
7 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 106 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.85%) ServiceNow
3 25 (2.64%) Oracle
4 19 (2.01%) VMware
5 18 (1.90%) Cisco
6 17 (1.80%) Google
7 15 (1.59%) Databricks
8 11 (1.16%) HP
8 11 (1.16%) Pega
9 10 (1.06%) Micro Focus
9 10 (1.06%) Nimble Storage
9 10 (1.06%) Veeam
10 9 (0.95%) SAP
11 8 (0.85%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.74%) IBM
12 7 (0.74%) Meraki
13 5 (0.53%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.53%) Informatica
13 5 (0.53%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.53%) Unisys