Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3,342 3,502 5,479
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.87% 8.67% 7.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.28% 9.03% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,678 2,632 3,257
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,385 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,522 38,765 68,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.93% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,888 27,595 41,875
10th Percentile £33,093 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,087 (32.53%) Agile
2 850 (25.43%) Mentoring
3 749 (22.41%) Azure
4 720 (21.54%) AWS
5 707 (21.15%) Social Skills
6 699 (20.92%) Finance
7 536 (16.04%) Coaching
8 466 (13.94%) SQL
9 416 (12.45%) Microsoft
10 414 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
11 392 (11.73%) Python
12 382 (11.43%) Java
13 364 (10.89%) DevOps
14 360 (10.77%) Analytics
15 356 (10.65%) Security Cleared
16 352 (10.53%) JavaScript
16 352 (10.53%) Software Engineering
16 352 (10.53%) Roadmaps
17 336 (10.05%) C#
17 336 (10.05%) .NET
18 311 (9.31%) Degree
19 295 (8.83%) CI/CD
20 270 (8.08%) TypeScript
21 263 (7.87%) Marketing
22 261 (7.81%) Scrum
23 256 (7.66%) Public Sector
24 255 (7.63%) Process Improvement
25 249 (7.45%) Project Management
26 243 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
27 237 (7.09%) Analytical Skills

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 114 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (3.05%) Apache
3 90 (2.69%) Confluence
4 48 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.38%) WebLogic
6 37 (1.11%) Tuxedo
7 36 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
8 27 (0.81%) IIS
9 17 (0.51%) Apache Spark
10 15 (0.45%) CMS
11 13 (0.39%) WordPress
12 11 (0.33%) SAS
13 10 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.27%) Appian
15 5 (0.15%) Drupal
16 3 (0.090%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.090%) Umbraco
17 2 (0.060%) Ethereum
17 2 (0.060%) Hyperledger
17 2 (0.060%) MQSeries
Applications
1 60 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.42%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.060%) Notion
7 2 (0.060%) Sketch
8 1 (0.030%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.030%) CATIA
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) InDesign
8 1 (0.030%) InVision
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 68 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.30%) Shopify
5 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.18%) Primavera
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.12%) thinkFolio
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.090%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.060%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.060%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.060%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.060%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 749 (22.41%) Azure
2 720 (21.54%) AWS
3 191 (5.72%) GCP
4 173 (5.18%) SaaS
5 158 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 153 (4.58%) Power Platform
7 131 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (3.89%) dbt
9 125 (3.74%) Serverless
10 122 (3.65%) Snowflake
11 84 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
12 81 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
14 71 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
15 49 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
16 46 (1.38%) GitHub
17 42 (1.26%) Entra ID
18 38 (1.14%) Amazon S3
19 35 (1.05%) PaaS
20 34 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (5.66%) Broadband
2 132 (3.95%) Firewall
3 96 (2.87%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.63%) DNS
5 71 (2.12%) SSL
6 56 (1.68%) WAN
7 49 (1.47%) BGP
8 36 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (1.05%) SD-WAN
10 29 (0.87%) Network Security
11 27 (0.81%) LAN
12 26 (0.78%) VPN
13 23 (0.69%) Internet
14 22 (0.66%) Wireless
15 15 (0.45%) VLAN
16 13 (0.39%) SAN
17 12 (0.36%) DHCP
17 12 (0.36%) HTTP
18 11 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
19 9 (0.27%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (6.46%) SQL Server
2 137 (4.10%) Power BI
3 131 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 98 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 97 (2.90%) Apache Arrow
5 97 (2.90%) Dremio
6 95 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 94 (2.81%) Apache Ignite
8 83 (2.48%) Tableau
9 74 (2.21%) MySQL
10 64 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
11 57 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
12 54 (1.62%) NoSQL
13 51 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 48 (1.44%) RDBMS
15 44 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (1.23%) MongoDB
17 40 (1.20%) DynamoDB
18 28 (0.84%) DB2
19 27 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 125 (3.74%) Git
2 120 (3.59%) JIRA
3 75 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 72 (2.15%) GitLab
5 56 (1.68%) Selenium
6 50 (1.50%) Postman
7 46 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 36 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.54%) NUnit
13 15 (0.45%) JMeter
14 13 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
15 11 (0.33%) SoapUI
16 10 (0.30%) SpecFlow
17 9 (0.27%) JUnit
18 8 (0.24%) Maven
19 7 (0.21%) Gradle
19 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
General
1 707 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 699 (20.92%) Finance
3 263 (7.87%) Marketing
4 256 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 237 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 211 (6.31%) Banking
7 196 (5.86%) Advertising
8 124 (3.71%) Retail
9 113 (3.38%) Legal
10 107 (3.20%) Front Office
11 105 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 102 (3.05%) Investment Banking
13 76 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.18%) Law
15 59 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 50 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 48 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
18 46 (1.38%) Automotive
19 39 (1.17%) Games
20 34 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (10.05%) .NET
2 166 (4.97%) React
3 130 (3.89%) HTML
4 117 (3.50%) CSS
5 107 (3.20%) Pandas
6 100 (2.99%) NumPy
7 97 (2.90%) gRPC
7 97 (2.90%) Node.js
7 97 (2.90%) Protocol Buffers
7 97 (2.90%) RESTful
8 96 (2.87%) SciPy
9 91 (2.72%) REST
10 85 (2.54%) .NET Core
11 76 (2.27%) Spring Boot
12 65 (1.94%) Vue
13 64 (1.92%) AngularJS
14 59 (1.77%) .NET Framework
14 59 (1.77%) ASP.NET
15 56 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
16 48 (1.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.51%) Marketing Technology
2 127 (3.80%) Management Information System
3 110 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 108 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 105 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 102 (3.05%) Fixed Income
7 100 (2.99%) Derivative
8 98 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 98 (2.93%) Equities
9 88 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 70 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 65 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 64 (1.92%) Virtual Team
13 63 (1.89%) Client/Server
14 51 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
15 49 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 45 (1.35%) Data Centre
17 39 (1.17%) Cloud Native
17 39 (1.17%) Mobile App
18 38 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 198 (5.92%) Windows
2 158 (4.73%) Linux
3 62 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 49 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.87%) Android
7 28 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.54%) Unix
9 17 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.36%) zOS
11 11 (0.33%) CentOS
12 8 (0.24%) Solaris
13 7 (0.21%) Debian
14 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.12%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,087 (32.53%) Agile
2 850 (25.43%) Mentoring
3 536 (16.04%) Coaching
4 414 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
5 364 (10.89%) DevOps
6 360 (10.77%) Analytics
7 352 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 352 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 295 (8.83%) CI/CD
9 261 (7.81%) Scrum
10 255 (7.63%) Process Improvement
11 249 (7.45%) Project Management
12 243 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 233 (6.97%) Line Management
14 220 (6.58%) Business Case
15 215 (6.43%) Microservices
16 213 (6.37%) Data Strategy
17 211 (6.31%) Use Case
18 204 (6.10%) Digital Marketing
19 191 (5.72%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 466 (13.94%) SQL
2 392 (11.73%) Python
3 382 (11.43%) Java
4 352 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 336 (10.05%) C#
6 270 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 66 (1.97%) COBOL
7 66 (1.97%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 64 (1.92%) PHP
9 63 (1.89%) C
10 54 (1.62%) C++
11 52 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 31 (0.93%) Go
13 27 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.66%) Bash
15 21 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.57%) XAML
17 17 (0.51%) MATLAB
18 16 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 356 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 311 (9.31%) Degree
3 201 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 100 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.09%) CISSP
6 70 (2.09%) DBS Check
7 63 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 63 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (1.53%) CISM
10 42 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.11%) CCSP
12 34 (1.02%) DV Cleared
13 27 (0.81%) CCSK
14 21 (0.63%) SSCP
15 17 (0.51%) CISA
15 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.45%) QA
2 98 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 64 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (1.47%) NIST
5 44 (1.32%) GDPR
6 39 (1.17%) SLA
7 30 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.57%) PMO
9 15 (0.45%) GRC
10 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.33%) HL7
11 11 (0.33%) NCSC
12 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.15%) GAAP
13 5 (0.15%) IFRS
13 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.15%) RMADS
13 5 (0.15%) WCAG
14 4 (0.12%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 198 (5.92%) Docker
2 86 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.18%) Firmware
8 6 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.060%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.030%) KVM
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 189 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 122 (3.65%) Terraform
3 50 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
5 41 (1.23%) Ansible
6 27 (0.81%) Puppet
7 18 (0.54%) SCCM
8 17 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.39%) Grafana
10 11 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 10 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.27%) Nmap
12 9 (0.27%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.21%) MIIS
13 7 (0.21%) Nagios
13 7 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.21%) SysTrack
14 6 (0.18%) Consul
14 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.12%) Autotask
Vendors
1 416 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.43%) Oracle
3 84 (2.51%) Databricks
4 72 (2.15%) Google
5 67 (2.00%) VMware
6 66 (1.97%) Micro Focus
7 57 (1.71%) SAP
8 52 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.38%) Sparx
10 43 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 41 (1.23%) IBM
12 27 (0.81%) Cisco
13 21 (0.63%) Splunk
14 18 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.42%) Commvault
15 14 (0.42%) ForgeRock
15 14 (0.42%) Sitecore
16 13 (0.39%) Sun
17 11 (0.33%) Qualys
18 10 (0.30%) Veeam