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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 40 38
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,444 3,713 5,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.46% 6.57% 7.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.90% 7.39% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,343 2,534 3,041
10th Percentile £39,350 £42,500 £38,947
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% +2.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £86,250
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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +30 1,826 £70,000 - 387
South East +22 1,283 £62,000 -8.15% 312
Scotland +13 1,026 £63,500 -9.29% 99
Midlands +4 1,006 £60,000 - 265
North West +25 902 £70,000 - 223
South West +23 728 £60,202 -10.81% 203
Yorkshire +31 675 £70,000 - 118
West Midlands +3 665 £65,000 +8.33% 147
East of England +27 379 £60,000 +4.35% 146
East Midlands +28 337 £51,500 -10.43% 116
North East +37 251 £70,250 +40.50% 49
Wales +19 150 £65,000 -1.89% 30
Northern Ireland +26 51 £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 2 June 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 2,039 (31.64%) Agile
2 1,704 (26.44%) Finance
3 1,284 (19.93%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (19.18%) Mentoring
5 1,159 (17.99%) Social Skills
6 1,071 (16.62%) AWS
7 1,003 (15.56%) Azure
8 983 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 872 (13.53%) Law
10 870 (13.50%) Java
10 870 (13.50%) CI/CD
11 865 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
12 834 (12.94%) Marketing
13 827 (12.83%) SQL
14 819 (12.71%) SDLC
15 802 (12.45%) Coaching
16 705 (10.94%) Degree
17 701 (10.88%) Microsoft
18 652 (10.12%) Operational Stability
19 551 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
20 549 (8.52%) DevOps
21 544 (8.44%) Machine Learning
22 530 (8.22%) Python
23 518 (8.04%) JavaScript
23 518 (8.04%) Community of Practice
24 516 (8.01%) Roadmaps
25 508 (7.88%) Security Cleared
26 496 (7.70%) Project Management
27 487 (7.56%) .NET
28 463 (7.18%) 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
1 190 (2.95%) Apache Spark
2 114 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 103 (1.60%) Confluence
4 66 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.59%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.50%) FileNet
9 30 (0.47%) IIS
10 29 (0.45%) Apache
11 27 (0.42%) CMS
12 21 (0.33%) GemFire
13 12 (0.19%) WordPress
14 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.14%) Appian
15 9 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 113 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.26%) Windchill
5 15 (0.23%) Simulink
6 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.19%) Sketch
8 11 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
11 4 (0.062%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.047%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.031%) MadCap Flare
14 1 (0.016%) Abaqus
14 1 (0.016%) Blender
14 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.016%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 78 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 16 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.25%) Shopify
5 10 (0.16%) SAP GRC
6 6 (0.093%) HFM
6 6 (0.093%) Hyperion Planning
6 6 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.093%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.078%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.078%) Primavera
7 5 (0.078%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
8 4 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.062%) MIS ActiveH
8 4 (0.062%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.062%) Q-Pulse
8 4 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (16.62%) AWS
2 1,003 (15.56%) Azure
3 267 (4.14%) Power Platform
4 266 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
5 181 (2.81%) GCP
6 161 (2.50%) SaaS
7 145 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
8 107 (1.66%) Serverless
9 95 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 74 (1.15%) Datadog
11 68 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (0.96%) Power Automate
13 61 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
14 60 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (0.93%) PowerApps
15 57 (0.88%) Entra ID
16 56 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
17 52 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
17 52 (0.81%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 173 (2.68%) Firewall
2 113 (1.75%) DNS
3 96 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 94 (1.46%) WAN
5 82 (1.27%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.26%) Broadband
7 74 (1.15%) SSL
8 64 (0.99%) Network Security
9 58 (0.90%) LAN
10 43 (0.67%) BGP
10 43 (0.67%) SD-WAN
11 39 (0.61%) Wireless
12 35 (0.54%) VPN
13 32 (0.50%) DHCP
13 32 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
14 27 (0.42%) SAN
14 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
15 26 (0.40%) Internet
16 23 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
17 18 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 221 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 204 (3.17%) Power BI
4 170 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 157 (2.44%) Big Data
6 119 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 117 (1.82%) MySQL
8 109 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 76 (1.18%) Metadata
10 75 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
11 74 (1.15%) Tableau
12 72 (1.12%) RDBMS
13 57 (0.88%) MongoDB
14 54 (0.84%) Data Lake
14 54 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
15 49 (0.76%) Oracle Database
16 47 (0.73%) DynamoDB
17 40 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.59%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 252 (3.91%) Git
2 169 (2.62%) JIRA
3 139 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 101 (1.57%) Selenium
5 97 (1.51%) GitLab
6 85 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 77 (1.19%) JUnit
8 67 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 67 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 61 (0.95%) Visual Studio
10 39 (0.61%) Postman
11 33 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.48%) SoapUI
13 29 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.45%) Jasmine
14 26 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.34%) Protractor
15 22 (0.34%) WebDriver
16 21 (0.33%) Jaeger
General
1 1,704 (26.44%) Finance
2 1,159 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 983 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 872 (13.53%) Law
5 834 (12.94%) Marketing
6 357 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
7 354 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 241 (3.74%) Banking
9 225 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 193 (3.00%) Retail
11 179 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 163 (2.53%) Legal
13 145 (2.25%) Investment Banking
14 133 (2.06%) Automotive
15 110 (1.71%) Aerospace
16 108 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
17 93 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 93 (1.44%) Telecoms
18 80 (1.24%) Advertising
19 71 (1.10%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (7.56%) .NET
2 424 (6.58%) React
3 280 (4.35%) Spring
4 273 (4.24%) HTML
5 264 (4.10%) CSS
6 197 (3.06%) Node.js
7 192 (2.98%) Spring Boot
8 190 (2.95%) JSON
9 181 (2.81%) RESTful
10 172 (2.67%) Kafka
11 160 (2.48%) AngularJS
12 152 (2.36%) REST
13 142 (2.20%) Web Services
14 111 (1.72%) XML
15 107 (1.66%) .NET Core
16 96 (1.49%) OpenID
17 92 (1.43%) jQuery
18 90 (1.40%) PySpark
19 84 (1.30%) Vue
20 81 (1.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 407 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 298 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 246 (3.82%) Public Cloud
4 154 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 99 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 83 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 82 (1.27%) Data Centre
10 80 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 77 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
12 74 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 69 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 69 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
14 68 (1.06%) Onboarding
15 66 (1.02%) Mobile App
15 66 (1.02%) Reference Data
16 55 (0.85%) Virtual Team
17 47 (0.73%) Cyberattack
18 38 (0.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 404 (6.27%) Windows
2 279 (4.33%) Linux
3 130 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 73 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.61%) Android
7 33 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 33 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 30 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 7
12 13 (0.20%) Unix
13 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.12%) Debian
15 6 (0.093%) VMS
16 4 (0.062%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.062%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.047%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,039 (31.64%) Agile
2 1,284 (19.93%) Software Engineering
3 1,236 (19.18%) Mentoring
4 870 (13.50%) CI/CD
5 865 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
6 819 (12.71%) SDLC
7 802 (12.45%) Coaching
8 652 (10.12%) Operational Stability
9 551 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
10 549 (8.52%) DevOps
11 544 (8.44%) Machine Learning
12 518 (8.04%) Community of Practice
13 516 (8.01%) Roadmaps
14 496 (7.70%) Project Management
15 410 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 401 (6.22%) Architectural Design
17 388 (6.02%) Information Architecture
18 385 (5.97%) Analytics
19 356 (5.52%) Decision-Making
20 353 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 870 (13.50%) Java
2 827 (12.83%) SQL
3 530 (8.22%) Python
4 518 (8.04%) JavaScript
5 463 (7.18%) C#
6 334 (5.18%) TypeScript
7 157 (2.44%) Scala
8 144 (2.23%) C
9 143 (2.22%) C++
10 139 (2.16%) PHP
11 96 (1.49%) Go
12 66 (1.02%) COBOL
12 66 (1.02%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (1.01%) Prolog
13 65 (1.01%) SPARQL
14 61 (0.95%) R
15 55 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 28 (0.43%) VB.NET
17 24 (0.37%) MATLAB
17 24 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 705 (10.94%) Degree
2 508 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 300 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 144 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 108 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 83 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 78 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.13%) CISM
10 72 (1.12%) CISSP
11 70 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 70 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 56 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 55 (0.85%) DV Cleared
14 48 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 44 (0.68%) PhD
16 31 (0.48%) CCNP
17 29 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 29 (0.45%) CCSP
18 27 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (4.61%) QA
2 113 (1.75%) SLA
3 111 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.33%) NIST
4 86 (1.33%) PMO
5 80 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 79 (1.23%) GDPR
7 72 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (0.47%) GMP
10 23 (0.36%) GRC
11 20 (0.31%) NCSC
12 17 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
14 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.17%) Def Stans
16 9 (0.14%) IFRS
16 9 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.12%) PSD2
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 266 (4.13%) Docker
2 254 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 64 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.84%) Firmware
4 54 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.50%) vSphere
6 23 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.047%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.031%) HDFS
12 2 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.031%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.016%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 367 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 228 (3.54%) Terraform
3 97 (1.51%) Grafana
4 76 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 62 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.68%) Ansible
7 42 (0.65%) SCCM
8 38 (0.59%) Puppet
9 25 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.34%) Kibana
11 21 (0.33%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.33%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.20%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.17%) WSUS
15 10 (0.16%) Consul
16 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.11%) SCOM
17 7 (0.11%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 701 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 327 (5.07%) Oracle
3 131 (2.03%) Google
4 122 (1.89%) VMware
5 112 (1.74%) Splunk
6 109 (1.69%) SAP
7 93 (1.44%) Cisco
8 84 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 76 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.07%) Micro Focus
11 65 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 65 (1.01%) Databricks
12 55 (0.85%) Citrix
13 47 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 45 (0.70%) IBM
15 40 (0.62%) Sparx
16 33 (0.51%) Veeam
17 32 (0.50%) Qualtrics
18 22 (0.34%) MuleSoft
19 21 (0.33%) Meraki