Lead Jobs in West Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in West Yorkshire is £67,500 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 10 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +26 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 371 359 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.80% 7.61% 7.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.23% 8.20% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 318 249 282
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £41,503
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +10.67% +15.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 £81,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,033 4,379 4,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.44% 92.80% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,206 2,219 3,111
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,523 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +0.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £86,000 £82,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +16 303 £68,000 -2.86% 55
Bradford +26 37 £56,500 -1.74% 4
Castleford +26 7 £31,500 -
Hebden Bridge - 5 £24,000 -
Pontefract - 5 £31,000 -
Halifax +30 3 £95,000 +14.71%
Wakefield +11 3 £59,500 +7.40% 3
Sowerby Bridge - 2 £95,000 -
Huddersfield +15 1 - - 2
Lead
Yorkshire

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

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 West Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 114 (30.73%) Agile
2 103 (27.76%) Azure
3 89 (23.99%) Social Skills
4 87 (23.45%) Finance
5 82 (22.10%) Mentoring
6 73 (19.68%) AWS
7 57 (15.36%) DevOps
8 56 (15.09%) Coaching
9 47 (12.67%) Roadmaps
10 43 (11.59%) CI/CD
11 42 (11.32%) Public Sector
11 42 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (10.78%) Microsoft
13 38 (10.24%) Firewall
14 36 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (9.16%) .NET
15 34 (9.16%) Software Engineering
15 34 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (8.89%) C#
16 33 (8.89%) SQL
16 33 (8.89%) Windows
17 32 (8.63%) GCP
18 31 (8.36%) Project Management
19 29 (7.82%) RESTful
19 29 (7.82%) Migration
19 29 (7.82%) Terraform
20 28 (7.55%) SIEM
20 28 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
20 28 (7.55%) PHP
21 27 (7.28%) Git

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 17 (4.58%) Confluence
2 9 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.35%) IIS
4 4 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.27%) Primavera
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (27.76%) Azure
2 73 (19.68%) AWS
3 32 (8.63%) GCP
4 28 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (5.93%) GitHub
6 19 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
6 19 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (3.50%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.96%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (2.70%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.43%) Slack
12 8 (2.16%) Serverless
13 7 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.89%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.62%) BlazeMeter
14 6 (1.62%) BrowserStack
14 6 (1.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.24%) Firewall
2 19 (5.12%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (4.31%) WAN
4 15 (4.04%) LAN
4 15 (4.04%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.96%) DNS
6 7 (1.89%) Network Security
6 7 (1.89%) SSL
7 6 (1.62%) NAS
7 6 (1.62%) SAN
7 6 (1.62%) Wireshark
8 5 (1.35%) VLAN
8 5 (1.35%) Wireless
9 4 (1.08%) BGP
10 3 (0.81%) Intranet
10 3 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
10 3 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.54%) Internet
12 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.43%) Power BI
4 8 (2.16%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.16%) RDBMS
5 7 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.35%) MySQL
7 4 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.81%) QualityStage
9 2 (0.54%) Metadata
9 2 (0.54%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (7.28%) CircleCI
1 27 (7.28%) Git
2 19 (5.12%) JIRA
3 14 (3.77%) Selenium
4 10 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.43%) GitLab
6 8 (2.16%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.16%) JUnit
7 6 (1.62%) Appium
7 6 (1.62%) JMeter
8 4 (1.08%) Postman
9 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 89 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 87 (23.45%) Finance
3 42 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.01%) Law
5 22 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.58%) Banking
8 10 (2.70%) Marketing
9 7 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.89%) Retail
10 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.08%) Back Office
11 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.08%) Local Government
12 3 (0.81%) Police
12 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Aviation
13 2 (0.54%) Games
13 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.16%) .NET
2 29 (7.82%) RESTful
3 25 (6.74%) React
4 13 (3.50%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.96%) HTML
6 10 (2.70%) JSON
7 9 (2.43%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.43%) OAuth
7 9 (2.43%) REST
8 8 (2.16%) jQuery
8 8 (2.16%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.89%) CSS
10 6 (1.62%) Laravel
10 6 (1.62%) Web Services
11 4 (1.08%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.08%) PySpark
11 4 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.08%) Spring
11 4 (1.08%) Vue
12 3 (0.81%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.47%) Public Cloud
2 19 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.50%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.96%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.08%) IoT
9 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.81%) Blog
10 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.54%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.54%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.54%) NHS
11 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.89%) Windows
2 15 (4.04%) Linux
3 13 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.96%) Android
4 11 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.81%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.54%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (30.73%) Agile
2 82 (22.10%) Mentoring
3 57 (15.36%) DevOps
4 56 (15.09%) Coaching
5 47 (12.67%) Roadmaps
6 43 (11.59%) CI/CD
7 42 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (9.16%) Software Engineering
10 31 (8.36%) Project Management
11 29 (7.82%) Migration
12 28 (7.55%) SIEM
13 27 (7.28%) Containerisation
13 27 (7.28%) Line Management
14 26 (7.01%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (7.01%) Microservices
15 25 (6.74%) Cryptography
16 23 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (6.20%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.89%) C#
1 33 (8.89%) SQL
2 28 (7.55%) PHP
3 21 (5.66%) Python
4 16 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.77%) Java
6 8 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.89%) Scala
8 5 (1.35%) COBOL
8 5 (1.35%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.35%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 5 (1.35%) Swift
9 4 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.81%) C
10 3 (0.81%) C++
10 3 (0.81%) XAML
11 1 (0.27%) Bicep
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (4.58%) Degree
2 16 (4.31%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.43%) CEH
5 9 (2.43%) SSCP
6 7 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (1.89%) CCSP
6 7 (1.89%) CISSP
7 6 (1.62%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.62%) SANS
8 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.08%) MCSE
9 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.81%) CCNA
10 3 (0.81%) CHECK Team Leader
10 3 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.81%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.77%) QA
2 12 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.70%) GDPR
4 8 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.16%) PSD2
4 8 (2.16%) SLA
5 7 (1.89%) NIST
6 6 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) Automotive SPICE
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (6.74%) Docker
2 19 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.43%) vSphere
4 6 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (7.82%) Terraform
2 26 (7.01%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.62%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.62%) Nagios
4 6 (1.62%) Nmap
5 5 (1.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.54%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.27%) Istio
8 1 (0.27%) Puppet
8 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 40 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.23%) VMware
3 11 (2.96%) Splunk
4 10 (2.70%) Databricks
5 8 (2.16%) Duck Creek
5 8 (2.16%) Google
5 8 (2.16%) Oracle
6 6 (1.62%) CheckPoint
6 6 (1.62%) IBM
6 6 (1.62%) Qualys
6 6 (1.62%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.62%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.62%) Thycotic
6 6 (1.62%) Veeam
7 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.35%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.08%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.08%) SAP
8 4 (1.08%) Sparx
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco