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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 24 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,035 730 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.49% 8.59% 8.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.97% 9.60% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 719 394 558
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% -2.67% +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 12,991 7,603 10,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.49% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,265 4,488 7,108
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,571 £37,500 £37,198
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,741 £66,389 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 9 June 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 9 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
West Midlands +1 678 £65,000 +8.33% 145
East Midlands +31 353 £51,500 -12.34% 111
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 186 (17.97%) Agile
2 165 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 160 (15.46%) Degree
4 147 (14.20%) Mentoring
5 137 (13.24%) Finance
6 126 (12.17%) Coaching
7 124 (11.98%) AWS
8 123 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (10.53%) Microsoft
10 104 (10.05%) Azure
11 94 (9.08%) QA
12 90 (8.70%) Project Management
13 88 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
14 86 (8.31%) ITIL
15 84 (8.12%) JavaScript
16 80 (7.73%) Manufacturing
17 77 (7.44%) SQL
18 75 (7.25%) Automotive
19 69 (6.67%) C#
19 69 (6.67%) Roadmaps
20 68 (6.57%) DevOps
20 68 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
21 67 (6.47%) Software Engineering
21 67 (6.47%) React
22 66 (6.38%) Retail
23 65 (6.28%) Legal
24 61 (5.89%) Windows
25 58 (5.60%) .NET
26 57 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
27 55 (5.31%) Cybersecurity

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 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.45%) IIS
4 9 (0.87%) Appian
4 9 (0.87%) WordPress
5 8 (0.77%) CMS
5 8 (0.77%) Confluence
6 6 (0.58%) Tuxedo
7 4 (0.39%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.39%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.097%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.097%) Blender
6 1 (0.097%) InDesign
6 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.097%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.097%) Simulink
6 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.45%) Shopify
2 9 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.29%) Sage 300 ERP
4 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.097%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.097%) Magento
5 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.097%) Primavera
5 1 (0.097%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.097%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.097%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.097%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.097%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.097%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 124 (11.98%) AWS
2 104 (10.05%) Azure
3 51 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (4.93%) Power Platform
4 40 (3.86%) Serverless
5 34 (3.29%) SaaS
6 25 (2.42%) GCP
7 20 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (1.64%) PowerApps
9 13 (1.26%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.16%) Power Automate
11 10 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (0.97%) Amazon S3
11 10 (0.97%) Google Analytics
12 8 (0.77%) Cloudflare
13 7 (0.68%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.61%) Firewall
2 21 (2.03%) DNS
3 16 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.26%) SSL
5 10 (0.97%) SAN
6 8 (0.77%) DHCP
6 8 (0.77%) WAN
6 8 (0.77%) Wireless
7 7 (0.68%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.58%) LAN
9 5 (0.48%) HTTP
10 4 (0.39%) BGP
10 4 (0.39%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.39%) Internet
10 4 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.39%) VPN
11 3 (0.29%) Intranet
11 3 (0.29%) MQTT
11 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.54%) Power BI
3 28 (2.71%) MySQL
4 18 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.26%) DynamoDB
5 13 (1.26%) RDBMS
5 13 (1.26%) Tableau
6 11 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.58%) Power Query
11 4 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.29%) DB2
12 3 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (3.48%) Git
2 15 (1.45%) JIRA
3 10 (0.97%) GitLab
4 8 (0.77%) Selenium
5 7 (0.68%) Postman
5 7 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.58%) CANoe
6 6 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.48%) gulp
7 5 (0.48%) NUnit
8 3 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.29%) JMeter
8 3 (0.29%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.29%) Subversion
9 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.097%) Appium
10 1 (0.097%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.097%) Vite
General
1 165 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 137 (13.24%) Finance
3 88 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (7.73%) Manufacturing
5 75 (7.25%) Automotive
6 66 (6.38%) Retail
7 65 (6.28%) Legal
8 45 (4.35%) Marketing
9 36 (3.48%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 23 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.55%) Games
13 16 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.35%) Electronics
15 11 (1.06%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.87%) Environmental Health
17 8 (0.77%) Local Government
18 6 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.47%) React
2 58 (5.60%) .NET
3 44 (4.25%) Node.js
4 31 (3.00%) Laravel
5 30 (2.90%) HTML
6 29 (2.80%) CSS
7 28 (2.71%) REST
8 25 (2.42%) AngularJS
9 18 (1.74%) Vue
10 15 (1.45%) jQuery
11 13 (1.26%) .NET Core
11 13 (1.26%) Next.js
12 12 (1.16%) ASP.NET
13 11 (1.06%) RESTful
13 11 (1.06%) XML
14 10 (0.97%) JSON
14 10 (0.97%) Tailwind CSS
14 10 (0.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 9 (0.87%) Spring Boot
15 9 (0.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (3.86%) Management Information System
2 24 (2.32%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
5 14 (1.35%) SCADA
6 13 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.06%) Industry 4.0
8 10 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 10 (0.97%) NHS
8 10 (0.97%) PMI
9 9 (0.87%) Infotainment
9 9 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.89%) Windows
2 24 (2.32%) Linux
3 18 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.87%) Windows 7
6 6 (0.58%) Android
6 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.39%) VMS
9 3 (0.29%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.097%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (17.97%) Agile
2 147 (14.20%) Mentoring
3 126 (12.17%) Coaching
4 123 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (8.70%) Project Management
6 86 (8.31%) ITIL
7 69 (6.67%) Roadmaps
8 68 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (6.57%) DevOps
9 67 (6.47%) Software Engineering
10 57 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
11 55 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
12 52 (5.02%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (4.93%) Customer Service
14 50 (4.83%) SDLC
15 49 (4.73%) Microservices
16 47 (4.54%) CI/CD
17 45 (4.35%) Supplier Management
18 43 (4.15%) Stakeholder Management
18 43 (4.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (8.12%) JavaScript
2 77 (7.44%) SQL
3 69 (6.67%) C#
4 53 (5.12%) TypeScript
5 47 (4.54%) Java
6 44 (4.25%) Python
7 30 (2.90%) PHP
8 20 (1.93%) C
9 18 (1.74%) C++
10 13 (1.26%) Go
11 10 (0.97%) COBOL
11 10 (0.97%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 9 (0.87%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.87%) XAML
13 8 (0.77%) R
13 8 (0.77%) Rust
14 6 (0.58%) VBA
15 4 (0.39%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.29%) Ruby
16 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (15.46%) Degree
2 47 (4.54%) Security Cleared
3 32 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.32%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.97%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.87%) CISSP
9 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.77%) CISM
11 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.68%) ISEB
12 5 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.48%) CCNP
12 5 (0.48%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.08%) QA
2 20 (1.93%) GMP
3 16 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.45%) GDPR
5 9 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.87%) NIST
6 7 (0.68%) ISO 26262
6 7 (0.68%) PMO
7 5 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.39%) SLA
9 3 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
9 3 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) NCSC
10 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.097%) Automotive SPICE
11 1 (0.097%) COSHH
11 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 37 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.38%) Docker
3 14 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 14 (1.35%) Firmware
4 9 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.48%) vSphere
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.32%) Terraform
3 11 (1.06%) Functional Safety
4 10 (0.97%) Grafana
4 10 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.97%) SCCM
5 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.48%) Ansible
7 4 (0.39%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.39%) Puppet
8 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.097%) WSUS
Vendors
1 109 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.61%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.32%) Oracle
4 22 (2.13%) VMware
5 18 (1.74%) Google
6 16 (1.55%) Cisco
7 14 (1.35%) Databricks
8 11 (1.06%) HP
8 11 (1.06%) Pega
9 10 (0.97%) Micro Focus
9 10 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
9 10 (0.97%) Splunk
9 10 (0.97%) Veeam
10 9 (0.87%) SAP
11 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.68%) IBM
12 7 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.58%) Meraki
14 5 (0.48%) Informatica
14 5 (0.48%) Unisys