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 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 16 40 36
Rank change year-on-year +24 -4 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,650 3,614 5,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.42% 6.49% 7.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.88% 7.31% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,486 2,482 3,071
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.56% +4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 9 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 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
North of England +32 1,920 £70,000 - 378
South East +20 1,331 £62,500 -5.30% 260
Midlands +2 1,035 £60,000 - 257
Scotland +16 1,002 £63,500 -9.29% 119
North West +25 959 £70,000 - 216
South West +24 763 £61,500 -8.89% 206
Yorkshire +30 703 £70,000 - 124
West Midlands +1 678 £65,000 +8.33% 145
East of England +37 400 £60,000 +4.35% 144
East Midlands +31 353 £51,500 -12.34% 111
North East +34 261 £70,250 +40.50% 41
Wales +23 154 £65,000 - 38
Northern Ireland +24 51 £77,500 +29.17% 16
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,049 (30.81%) Agile
2 1,680 (25.26%) Finance
3 1,320 (19.85%) Software Engineering
4 1,288 (19.37%) Mentoring
5 1,164 (17.50%) Social Skills
6 1,054 (15.85%) AWS
7 1,011 (15.20%) Azure
8 978 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 906 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
10 840 (12.63%) CI/CD
11 839 (12.62%) Java
12 834 (12.54%) Law
13 808 (12.15%) SQL
14 805 (12.11%) Coaching
15 801 (12.05%) Marketing
16 785 (11.80%) SDLC
17 707 (10.63%) Microsoft
18 703 (10.57%) Degree
19 611 (9.19%) Operational Stability
20 562 (8.45%) DevOps
21 554 (8.33%) Machine Learning
22 527 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
23 524 (7.88%) JavaScript
24 523 (7.86%) Python
25 513 (7.71%) Security Cleared
26 508 (7.64%) Roadmaps
27 499 (7.50%) Project Management
28 498 (7.49%) .NET
29 492 (7.40%) Community of Practice
30 474 (7.13%) 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
1 178 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 115 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 101 (1.52%) Confluence
4 65 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 63 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.57%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.48%) FileNet
9 30 (0.45%) IIS
10 28 (0.42%) Apache
11 27 (0.41%) CMS
12 21 (0.32%) GemFire
13 12 (0.18%) WordPress
14 10 (0.15%) 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 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.26%) Windchill
5 15 (0.23%) Simulink
6 14 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.18%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.060%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.045%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.030%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.015%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.015%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.015%) InDesign
13 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 81 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 16 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.24%) Shopify
5 10 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 6 (0.090%) HFM
6 6 (0.090%) Hyperion Planning
6 6 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.090%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.075%) Primavera
7 5 (0.075%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.060%) Dynamics GP
8 4 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.060%) MIS ActiveH
8 4 (0.060%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.060%) Q-Pulse
8 4 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (15.85%) AWS
2 1,011 (15.20%) Azure
3 272 (4.09%) Power Platform
4 268 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
5 173 (2.60%) GCP
6 164 (2.47%) SaaS
7 148 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (1.67%) Serverless
9 110 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
10 96 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 73 (1.10%) Datadog
12 70 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (0.93%) Power Automate
14 61 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
14 61 (0.92%) PowerApps
15 60 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
16 58 (0.87%) Entra ID
17 56 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
18 54 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
19 51 (0.77%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 177 (2.66%) Firewall
2 115 (1.73%) DNS
3 97 (1.46%) WAN
4 96 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 82 (1.23%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.22%) Broadband
7 74 (1.11%) SSL
8 65 (0.98%) Network Security
9 61 (0.92%) LAN
10 43 (0.65%) BGP
10 43 (0.65%) SD-WAN
11 41 (0.62%) Wireless
12 35 (0.53%) VPN
13 32 (0.48%) DHCP
13 32 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
14 30 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (0.41%) SAN
16 26 (0.39%) Internet
17 25 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (4.21%) NoSQL
2 220 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 206 (3.10%) Power BI
4 163 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 149 (2.24%) Big Data
6 118 (1.77%) MySQL
7 116 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
8 112 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 75 (1.13%) Metadata
10 74 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 72 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 72 (1.08%) RDBMS
12 67 (1.01%) Tableau
13 58 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
14 55 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 53 (0.80%) Data Lake
16 50 (0.75%) DynamoDB
17 49 (0.74%) Oracle Database
18 40 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
19 38 (0.57%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 252 (3.79%) Git
2 167 (2.51%) JIRA
3 131 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 100 (1.50%) Selenium
5 96 (1.44%) GitLab
6 86 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 78 (1.17%) JUnit
8 67 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 67 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 62 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 39 (0.59%) Postman
11 32 (0.48%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.47%) SoapUI
13 29 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.44%) Jasmine
14 26 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.33%) Protractor
15 22 (0.33%) WebDriver
16 21 (0.32%) Jaeger
General
1 1,680 (25.26%) Finance
2 1,164 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 978 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 834 (12.54%) Law
5 801 (12.05%) Marketing
6 365 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
7 354 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 232 (3.49%) Manufacturing
9 231 (3.47%) Banking
10 198 (2.98%) Retail
11 167 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 164 (2.47%) Legal
13 138 (2.08%) Automotive
13 138 (2.08%) Investment Banking
14 113 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 108 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 92 (1.38%) Telecoms
17 90 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
18 80 (1.20%) Advertising
19 73 (1.10%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (7.49%) .NET
2 421 (6.33%) React
3 278 (4.18%) Spring
4 277 (4.17%) HTML
5 270 (4.06%) CSS
6 202 (3.04%) Node.js
7 191 (2.87%) JSON
8 189 (2.84%) Spring Boot
9 179 (2.69%) RESTful
10 170 (2.56%) Kafka
11 159 (2.39%) AngularJS
12 156 (2.35%) REST
13 144 (2.17%) Web Services
14 112 (1.68%) XML
15 109 (1.64%) .NET Core
16 96 (1.44%) OpenID
17 92 (1.38%) jQuery
18 88 (1.32%) Vue
19 85 (1.28%) PySpark
20 81 (1.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 394 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 299 (4.50%) Management Information System
3 236 (3.55%) Public Cloud
4 149 (2.24%) Product Ownership
5 102 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
6 93 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 89 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.26%) Cyberattack
10 82 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 79 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 78 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
13 77 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
14 71 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
15 70 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
16 69 (1.04%) Onboarding
17 66 (0.99%) Mobile App
17 66 (0.99%) Reference Data
18 55 (0.83%) Virtual Team
19 38 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 411 (6.18%) Windows
2 279 (4.20%) Linux
3 135 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 74 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.57%) Android
7 36 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 33 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 27 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 15 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
13 13 (0.20%) Unix
14 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.12%) Debian
16 6 (0.090%) VMS
17 4 (0.060%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.060%) Windows 8
18 3 (0.045%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,049 (30.81%) Agile
2 1,320 (19.85%) Software Engineering
3 1,288 (19.37%) Mentoring
4 906 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
5 840 (12.63%) CI/CD
6 805 (12.11%) Coaching
7 785 (11.80%) SDLC
8 611 (9.19%) Operational Stability
9 562 (8.45%) DevOps
10 554 (8.33%) Machine Learning
11 527 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
12 508 (7.64%) Roadmaps
13 499 (7.50%) Project Management
14 492 (7.40%) Community of Practice
15 411 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 381 (5.73%) Architectural Design
17 380 (5.71%) Analytics
18 368 (5.53%) Information Architecture
19 367 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
20 355 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 839 (12.62%) Java
2 808 (12.15%) SQL
3 524 (7.88%) JavaScript
4 523 (7.86%) Python
5 474 (7.13%) C#
6 338 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 152 (2.29%) Scala
8 149 (2.24%) C
9 146 (2.20%) C++
10 140 (2.11%) PHP
11 96 (1.44%) Go
12 66 (0.99%) COBOL
12 66 (0.99%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (0.98%) Prolog
13 65 (0.98%) SPARQL
14 63 (0.95%) R
15 54 (0.81%) PowerShell
16 28 (0.42%) VB.NET
17 24 (0.36%) Bash
17 24 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 703 (10.57%) Degree
2 513 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 300 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 144 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.46%) Azure Certification
7 84 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 79 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.10%) CISM
10 72 (1.08%) CISSP
11 70 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 69 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 58 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 48 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 45 (0.68%) PhD
16 31 (0.47%) CCNP
17 28 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.42%) CCSP
18 27 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (4.51%) QA
2 117 (1.76%) SLA
3 109 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.29%) NIST
5 83 (1.25%) PMO
6 77 (1.16%) GDPR
7 76 (1.14%) Accessibility
8 71 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.45%) GMP
11 23 (0.35%) GRC
12 20 (0.30%) NCSC
13 16 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
15 12 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.17%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.14%) IFRS
17 9 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 268 (4.03%) Docker
2 258 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (0.86%) Firmware
4 57 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 34 (0.51%) vSphere
6 24 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 16 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.045%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.045%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.030%) HDFS
11 2 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.030%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.015%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 370 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 229 (3.44%) Terraform
3 99 (1.49%) Grafana
4 78 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 61 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.66%) Ansible
7 42 (0.63%) SCCM
8 37 (0.56%) Puppet
9 25 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.33%) Kibana
11 21 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.32%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.20%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.18%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.17%) WSUS
15 9 (0.14%) Consul
15 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 707 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 320 (4.81%) Oracle
3 130 (1.95%) VMware
4 128 (1.92%) Google
5 112 (1.68%) Splunk
6 109 (1.64%) SAP
7 103 (1.55%) Cisco
8 84 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 77 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.04%) Micro Focus
11 65 (0.98%) Databricks
12 62 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 57 (0.86%) Citrix
14 48 (0.72%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.68%) IBM
16 40 (0.60%) Sparx
17 33 (0.50%) Veeam
18 32 (0.48%) Qualtrics
19 22 (0.33%) MuleSoft
20 21 (0.32%) Meraki