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 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,086 6,568 11,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.19% 7.42% 8.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.66% 8.10% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,473 4,609 5,990
10th Percentile £40,850 £47,481 £43,267
25th Percentile £52,539 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,450 £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 81,789 81,044 130,352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.54% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,868 51,693 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 19 May 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 19 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
London +13 2,182 £87,500 -2.78% 847
North of England +28 1,683 £70,000 - 364
South East +18 1,186 £62,000 -8.15% 399
Midlands +4 925 £60,000 - 232
North West +24 832 £70,000 - 199
South West +23 670 £60,202 -10.81% 173
West Midlands +2 626 £65,000 +8.33% 141
Yorkshire +29 624 £70,000 - 118
East of England +34 360 £60,000 +4.35% 134
East Midlands +25 295 £50,000 -13.04% 90
North East +41 227 £70,000 +40.00% 49
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,762 (24.87%) Agile
2 1,522 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 1,428 (20.15%) Finance
4 1,321 (18.64%) Mentoring
5 1,267 (17.88%) Azure
6 1,140 (16.09%) AWS
7 930 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
8 878 (12.39%) Degree
9 877 (12.38%) Microsoft
10 813 (11.47%) SQL
11 791 (11.16%) Software Engineering
12 768 (10.84%) Coaching
13 724 (10.22%) Java
14 709 (10.01%) DevOps
15 627 (8.85%) Python
16 609 (8.59%) JavaScript
17 608 (8.58%) Analytics
18 604 (8.52%) Project Management
19 601 (8.48%) .NET
20 599 (8.45%) C#
21 581 (8.20%) Roadmaps
22 514 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
23 507 (7.15%) Windows
24 506 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
24 506 (7.14%) CI/CD
25 497 (7.01%) Security Cleared
26 420 (5.93%) Line Management
27 402 (5.67%) React
28 400 (5.64%) Stakeholder Management
29 391 (5.52%) TypeScript

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
1 139 (1.96%) Apache
1 139 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 124 (1.75%) Confluence
3 123 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 92 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 55 (0.78%) CMS
6 47 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 37 (0.52%) Tuxedo
8 31 (0.44%) IIS
9 29 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 28 (0.40%) Drupal
11 18 (0.25%) WordPress
12 12 (0.17%) Appian
12 12 (0.17%) SAS
13 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.11%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.071%) Mendix
Applications
1 133 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.23%) Simulink
6 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.099%) Oracle Smart View
10 6 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.085%) EViews
11 4 (0.056%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.042%) Sketch
13 2 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.028%) InVision
13 2 (0.028%) MadCap Flare
13 2 (0.028%) Notion
13 2 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 78 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.28%) Shopify
5 20 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.25%) thinkFolio
7 12 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 10 (0.14%) Primavera
9 8 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.099%) HFM
10 7 (0.099%) Hyperion Planning
10 7 (0.099%) SAP IBP
11 6 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.085%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.085%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.085%) SAP SD
12 5 (0.071%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.071%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.056%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,267 (17.88%) Azure
2 1,140 (16.09%) AWS
3 374 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
4 362 (5.11%) Power Platform
5 269 (3.80%) GCP
6 260 (3.67%) SaaS
7 210 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 169 (2.38%) Serverless
9 134 (1.89%) Snowflake
10 131 (1.85%) dbt
11 127 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 99 (1.40%) GitHub
13 96 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 94 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 86 (1.21%) PowerApps
16 81 (1.14%) Amazon S3
17 76 (1.07%) Entra ID
18 70 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
18 70 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
19 69 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 225 (3.18%) Firewall
2 192 (2.71%) Broadband
3 113 (1.59%) DNS
4 108 (1.52%) WAN
5 102 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.11%) Network Security
7 66 (0.93%) SSL
8 65 (0.92%) LAN
9 53 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.68%) VPN
11 45 (0.64%) Internet
12 42 (0.59%) Wireless
13 41 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
14 37 (0.52%) DHCP
15 34 (0.48%) BGP
16 32 (0.45%) SAN
17 25 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
18 23 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
19 22 (0.31%) HTTP
20 19 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 291 (4.11%) Power BI
3 164 (2.31%) Data Lake
4 156 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 143 (2.02%) MySQL
6 137 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 136 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 119 (1.68%) Tableau
9 101 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
10 100 (1.41%) Apache Arrow
11 97 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 97 (1.37%) Dremio
12 94 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
13 69 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (0.95%) RDBMS
15 62 (0.87%) MongoDB
16 50 (0.71%) DynamoDB
17 49 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
18 45 (0.64%) Big Data
19 44 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 284 (4.01%) Git
2 217 (3.06%) JIRA
3 131 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 115 (1.62%) Selenium
5 102 (1.44%) GitLab
6 69 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 69 (0.97%) Postman
7 60 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 59 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 44 (0.62%) JUnit
10 30 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 29 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
12 25 (0.35%) SoapUI
13 24 (0.34%) TeamCity
14 21 (0.30%) JMeter
14 21 (0.30%) NUnit
15 19 (0.27%) Maven
16 14 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
16 14 (0.20%) SpecFlow
16 14 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,522 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 1,428 (20.15%) Finance
3 514 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (5.42%) Public Sector
5 375 (5.29%) Marketing
6 340 (4.80%) Banking
7 280 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 241 (3.40%) Retail
9 221 (3.12%) Law
10 217 (3.06%) Advertising
11 212 (2.99%) Manufacturing
12 209 (2.95%) Legal
13 142 (2.00%) Automotive
14 138 (1.95%) Investment Banking
15 133 (1.88%) Front Office
16 119 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
17 117 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
18 116 (1.64%) Telecoms
19 111 (1.57%) Aerospace
20 105 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 601 (8.48%) .NET
2 402 (5.67%) React
3 219 (3.09%) HTML
4 209 (2.95%) CSS
5 188 (2.65%) REST
6 149 (2.10%) .NET Core
7 137 (1.93%) Node.js
8 136 (1.92%) AngularJS
9 134 (1.89%) RESTful
10 132 (1.86%) Spring
10 132 (1.86%) Spring Boot
11 115 (1.62%) Pandas
12 113 (1.59%) Kafka
13 109 (1.54%) NumPy
14 106 (1.50%) JSON
15 97 (1.37%) gRPC
15 97 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
16 96 (1.35%) SciPy
17 94 (1.33%) ASP.NET
18 84 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.61%) Marketing Technology
3 183 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 128 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 126 (1.78%) Hedge funds
6 125 (1.76%) Fixed Income
7 124 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 119 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 117 (1.65%) Cloud Native
10 115 (1.62%) Derivative
11 108 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 107 (1.51%) Equities
13 96 (1.35%) Data Centre
14 91 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 90 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 82 (1.16%) Onboarding
17 78 (1.10%) Virtual Team
18 76 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
19 72 (1.02%) Data Structures
20 71 (1.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 507 (7.15%) Windows
2 317 (4.47%) Linux
3 157 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 92 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 59 (0.83%) Android
6 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.45%) Unix
9 31 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 28 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.23%) Mac OS
14 14 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.20%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.18%) CentOS
16 12 (0.17%) zOS
17 8 (0.11%) Debian
17 8 (0.11%) Solaris
18 5 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,762 (24.87%) Agile
2 1,321 (18.64%) Mentoring
3 930 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
4 791 (11.16%) Software Engineering
5 768 (10.84%) Coaching
6 709 (10.01%) DevOps
7 608 (8.58%) Analytics
8 604 (8.52%) Project Management
9 581 (8.20%) Roadmaps
10 506 (7.14%) CI/CD
10 506 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 420 (5.93%) Line Management
12 400 (5.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 386 (5.45%) Computer Science
14 383 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
15 381 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
16 380 (5.36%) Scrum
17 354 (5.00%) ITIL
18 353 (4.98%) Project Delivery
19 352 (4.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 813 (11.47%) SQL
2 724 (10.22%) Java
3 627 (8.85%) Python
4 609 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 599 (8.45%) C#
6 391 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 176 (2.48%) C++
8 175 (2.47%) PHP
9 161 (2.27%) C
10 112 (1.58%) PowerShell
11 69 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 68 (0.96%) Go
13 66 (0.93%) COBOL
13 66 (0.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 58 (0.82%) Scala
15 40 (0.56%) R
16 39 (0.55%) T-SQL
17 35 (0.49%) Rust
18 34 (0.48%) Bicep
19 28 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 878 (12.39%) Degree
2 497 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 269 (3.80%) SC Cleared
4 219 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 115 (1.62%) DBS Check
7 108 (1.52%) CISSP
8 106 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 106 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 89 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 82 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 76 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 75 (1.06%) CISM
14 44 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 42 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 39 (0.55%) PMI Certification
17 38 (0.54%) CCSP
18 34 (0.48%) CISA
19 29 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (4.97%) QA
2 163 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 129 (1.82%) SLA
4 118 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (1.65%) GDPR
6 92 (1.30%) NIST
7 70 (0.99%) PMO
8 60 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 44 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.42%) GMP
10 30 (0.42%) GRC
10 30 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.38%) NCSC
12 16 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.20%) IFRS
14 11 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.13%) Good Clinical Practice
16 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 352 (4.97%) Docker
2 246 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.73%) Firmware
6 38 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (0.38%) vSphere
8 22 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.14%) HDFS
10 9 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.042%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.028%) Ceph
13 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.014%) KVM
14 1 (0.014%) Lustre
14 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 390 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 227 (3.20%) Terraform
3 98 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (0.80%) SCCM
5 56 (0.79%) Ansible
6 45 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (0.61%) Puppet
8 30 (0.42%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.23%) Consul
10 16 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 14 (0.20%) Grafana
13 13 (0.18%) Istio
13 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.14%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.14%) WSUS
16 9 (0.13%) Nmap
17 7 (0.099%) SCOM
Vendors
1 877 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 237 (3.34%) Oracle
3 164 (2.31%) SAP
4 161 (2.27%) VMware
5 134 (1.89%) Google
6 124 (1.75%) Databricks
7 110 (1.55%) Cisco
7 110 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 75 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 69 (0.97%) Micro Focus
10 66 (0.93%) IBM
11 52 (0.73%) Citrix
12 47 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 28 (0.40%) Sparx
13 28 (0.40%) Splunk
14 26 (0.37%) Veeam
14 26 (0.37%) Workday
15 25 (0.35%) Meraki
16 23 (0.32%) Pega
17 22 (0.31%) SolarWinds