Lead Jobs in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 20 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 5,962 4,021 5,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.41% 6.74% 7.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.87% 7.56% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,007 2,681 2,996
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,637
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +28 1,666 £70,000 - 338
South East +16 1,174 £62,500 -7.41% 266
Scotland +17 1,023 £63,500 -9.29% 68
Midlands +4 909 £60,000 - 220
North West +24 827 £70,000 - 189
South West +21 649 £61,000 -6.87% 192
West Midlands +2 618 £65,000 +8.33% 127
Yorkshire +28 617 £70,000 - 103
East of England +30 360 £60,000 +4.35% 128
East Midlands +24 288 £50,000 -13.04% 91
North East +38 222 £70,000 +40.00% 48
Wales +16 135 £65,000 +1.77% 32
Northern Ireland +30 48 £77,500 +29.17% 18
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,016 (33.81%) Agile
2 1,704 (28.58%) Finance
3 1,195 (20.04%) Software Engineering
4 1,165 (19.54%) Mentoring
5 1,163 (19.51%) Social Skills
6 1,042 (17.48%) AWS
7 984 (16.50%) Azure
8 967 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 894 (14.99%) Law
10 877 (14.71%) Java
10 877 (14.71%) CI/CD
11 856 (14.36%) Marketing
12 826 (13.85%) SQL
13 822 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
14 821 (13.77%) SDLC
15 758 (12.71%) Coaching
16 688 (11.54%) Degree
17 678 (11.37%) Operational Stability
18 672 (11.27%) Microsoft
19 563 (9.44%) Artificial Intelligence
20 533 (8.94%) Community of Practice
20 533 (8.94%) DevOps
21 527 (8.84%) Machine Learning
22 522 (8.76%) Python
23 511 (8.57%) JavaScript
23 511 (8.57%) Roadmaps
24 489 (8.20%) Security Cleared
25 483 (8.10%) Project Management
26 450 (7.55%) .NET
27 444 (7.45%) C#

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 196 (3.29%) Apache Spark
2 112 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 107 (1.79%) Confluence
4 66 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 56 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.64%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.54%) FileNet
9 31 (0.52%) IIS
10 29 (0.49%) Apache
10 29 (0.49%) CMS
11 21 (0.35%) GemFire
12 12 (0.20%) WordPress
13 10 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.15%) Appian
14 9 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.29%) Windchill
5 15 (0.25%) Simulink
6 13 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.20%) Sketch
8 10 (0.17%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.067%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.050%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.034%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.034%) Trello
13 1 (0.017%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.017%) Blender
13 1 (0.017%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 20 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 16 (0.27%) Shopify
6 10 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 7 (0.12%) HFM
7 7 (0.12%) Hyperion Planning
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.10%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.084%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.084%) Primavera
10 4 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.067%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.067%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.050%) Sage 200
11 3 (0.050%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (17.48%) AWS
2 984 (16.50%) Azure
3 264 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
4 255 (4.28%) Power Platform
5 178 (2.99%) GCP
6 143 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
6 143 (2.40%) SaaS
7 106 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 105 (1.76%) Serverless
9 94 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 77 (1.29%) Datadog
11 67 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
12 62 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 61 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
15 54 (0.91%) Entra ID
15 54 (0.91%) PowerApps
16 52 (0.87%) Figma
17 50 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 163 (2.73%) Firewall
2 110 (1.85%) DNS
3 95 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 89 (1.49%) WAN
5 82 (1.38%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.36%) Broadband
7 74 (1.24%) SSL
8 61 (1.02%) Network Security
9 53 (0.89%) LAN
10 43 (0.72%) BGP
10 43 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 34 (0.57%) Wireless
12 33 (0.55%) VPN
13 32 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
14 28 (0.47%) DHCP
15 26 (0.44%) Internet
15 26 (0.44%) SAN
16 22 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (4.96%) NoSQL
2 217 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 198 (3.32%) Power BI
4 170 (2.85%) Relational Database
5 162 (2.72%) Big Data
6 117 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 113 (1.90%) MySQL
8 104 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 89 (1.49%) Tableau
10 81 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.33%) Metadata
12 74 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
13 72 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 62 (1.04%) MongoDB
15 52 (0.87%) Data Lake
16 49 (0.82%) Oracle Database
17 48 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
18 41 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
19 39 (0.65%) DynamoDB
20 38 (0.64%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 247 (4.14%) Git
2 173 (2.90%) JIRA
3 149 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 108 (1.81%) Selenium
5 99 (1.66%) GitLab
6 90 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 73 (1.22%) JUnit
8 68 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 67 (1.12%) Artifactory
10 61 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 37 (0.62%) Postman
12 35 (0.59%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.50%) SoapUI
14 29 (0.49%) Jasmine
15 26 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
16 25 (0.42%) CircleCI
17 22 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
17 22 (0.37%) Protractor
17 22 (0.37%) WebDriver
18 21 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 1,704 (28.58%) Finance
2 1,163 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 967 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 894 (14.99%) Law
5 856 (14.36%) Marketing
6 357 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
7 349 (5.85%) Public Sector
8 250 (4.19%) Banking
9 211 (3.54%) Manufacturing
10 188 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
11 166 (2.78%) Retail
12 148 (2.48%) Investment Banking
13 140 (2.35%) Legal
14 125 (2.10%) Automotive
15 110 (1.85%) Aerospace
16 100 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
17 94 (1.58%) Telecoms
18 85 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
19 80 (1.34%) Advertising
20 71 (1.19%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (7.55%) .NET
2 422 (7.08%) React
3 280 (4.70%) Spring
4 269 (4.51%) HTML
5 258 (4.33%) CSS
6 193 (3.24%) JSON
6 193 (3.24%) Spring Boot
7 187 (3.14%) Node.js
8 180 (3.02%) RESTful
9 174 (2.92%) Kafka
10 160 (2.68%) AngularJS
11 140 (2.35%) REST
12 135 (2.26%) Web Services
13 108 (1.81%) XML
14 98 (1.64%) .NET Core
15 96 (1.61%) OpenID
16 92 (1.54%) jQuery
17 91 (1.53%) PySpark
18 82 (1.38%) Vue
19 80 (1.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 418 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 297 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 253 (4.24%) Public Cloud
4 162 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 90 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 89 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 85 (1.43%) Private Cloud
9 77 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
10 74 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 74 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 69 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 68 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 67 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
14 66 (1.11%) Reference Data
15 64 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 58 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
17 55 (0.92%) Virtual Team
18 37 (0.62%) Client/Server
18 37 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 399 (6.69%) Windows
2 284 (4.76%) Linux
3 124 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 71 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.64%) Android
7 30 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 27 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.22%) Unix
12 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.13%) Debian
15 5 (0.084%) VMS
15 5 (0.084%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.067%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.050%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,016 (33.81%) Agile
2 1,195 (20.04%) Software Engineering
3 1,165 (19.54%) Mentoring
4 877 (14.71%) CI/CD
5 822 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 821 (13.77%) SDLC
7 758 (12.71%) Coaching
8 678 (11.37%) Operational Stability
9 563 (9.44%) Artificial Intelligence
10 533 (8.94%) Community of Practice
10 533 (8.94%) DevOps
11 527 (8.84%) Machine Learning
12 511 (8.57%) Roadmaps
13 483 (8.10%) Project Management
14 414 (6.94%) Architectural Design
15 404 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 402 (6.74%) Information Architecture
17 386 (6.47%) Analytics
18 355 (5.95%) Decision-Making
19 346 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 877 (14.71%) Java
2 826 (13.85%) SQL
3 522 (8.76%) Python
4 511 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 444 (7.45%) C#
6 325 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 146 (2.45%) C++
7 146 (2.45%) Scala
8 141 (2.36%) C
9 133 (2.23%) PHP
10 96 (1.61%) Go
11 66 (1.11%) COBOL
11 66 (1.11%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 65 (1.09%) Prolog
12 65 (1.09%) SPARQL
13 58 (0.97%) R
14 57 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 28 (0.47%) VB.NET
16 25 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 23 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 688 (11.54%) Degree
2 489 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 284 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 140 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 82 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 78 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 69 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 68 (1.14%) CISM
12 67 (1.12%) CISSP
13 54 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 51 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 48 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (0.74%) PhD
17 32 (0.54%) CCNP
18 29 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 29 (0.49%) CCSP
19 25 (0.42%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (4.61%) QA
2 110 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 108 (1.81%) SLA
4 85 (1.43%) PMO
5 81 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 80 (1.34%) NIST
7 78 (1.31%) GDPR
8 70 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.50%) GMP
11 23 (0.39%) GRC
12 20 (0.34%) NCSC
13 17 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 9 (0.15%) IFRS
15 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.13%) PSD2
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 262 (4.39%) Docker
2 243 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.91%) Firmware
5 50 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 28 (0.47%) vSphere
7 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.050%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.034%) HDFS
12 2 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.034%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.017%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 363 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 226 (3.79%) Terraform
3 91 (1.53%) Grafana
4 70 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 46 (0.77%) Ansible
7 41 (0.69%) Puppet
8 40 (0.67%) SCCM
9 25 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.37%) Kibana
11 21 (0.35%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.22%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.20%) Consul
13 12 (0.20%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.17%) WSUS
15 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.12%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 672 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 330 (5.54%) Oracle
3 136 (2.28%) Google
4 116 (1.95%) VMware
5 113 (1.90%) SAP
6 108 (1.81%) Splunk
7 86 (1.44%) Cisco
8 84 (1.41%) Dynatrace
9 73 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.16%) Micro Focus
11 67 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 63 (1.06%) Databricks
13 54 (0.91%) Citrix
14 45 (0.75%) IBM
15 44 (0.74%) Salesforce
16 40 (0.67%) Sparx
17 33 (0.55%) Veeam
18 32 (0.54%) Qualtrics
19 23 (0.39%) Meraki
20 21 (0.35%) MuleSoft