Lead Jobs in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,091 6,558 11,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.20% 7.41% 8.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.67% 8.10% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,474 4,606 6,037
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,269
25th Percentile £52,539 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,425 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +13 2,180 £87,500 -2.78% 847
North of England +29 1,682 £70,000 - 373
South East +17 1,189 £62,000 -8.15% 426
Midlands +5 930 £60,000 - 246
North West +25 829 £70,000 - 204
South West +22 670 £60,202 -10.81% 181
West Midlands +3 627 £65,000 +8.33% 150
Yorkshire +25 625 £69,000 -1.43% 119
East of England +35 360 £60,000 +4.35% 144
East Midlands +27 299 £51,500 -10.43% 95
North East +39 228 £70,250 +40.50% 53
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,769 (24.95%) Agile
2 1,526 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 1,432 (20.19%) Finance
4 1,321 (18.63%) Mentoring
5 1,262 (17.80%) Azure
6 1,148 (16.19%) AWS
7 929 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 880 (12.41%) Degree
9 872 (12.30%) Microsoft
10 810 (11.42%) SQL
11 801 (11.30%) Software Engineering
12 772 (10.89%) Coaching
13 729 (10.28%) Java
14 711 (10.03%) DevOps
15 631 (8.90%) Python
16 608 (8.57%) JavaScript
17 606 (8.55%) Project Management
17 606 (8.55%) Analytics
18 602 (8.49%) .NET
19 599 (8.45%) C#
20 584 (8.24%) Roadmaps
21 516 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
22 509 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
23 506 (7.14%) CI/CD
24 504 (7.11%) Windows
25 498 (7.02%) Security Cleared
26 426 (6.01%) Line Management
27 404 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
28 402 (5.67%) React
29 396 (5.58%) TypeScript

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 143 (2.02%) Apache
2 139 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 127 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 124 (1.75%) Confluence
5 91 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (0.76%) CMS
7 48 (0.68%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.52%) Tuxedo
9 31 (0.44%) IIS
10 29 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 28 (0.39%) Drupal
12 17 (0.24%) WordPress
13 12 (0.17%) Appian
13 12 (0.17%) SAS
14 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.099%) Apache Pig
17 5 (0.071%) Mendix
Applications
1 132 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.23%) Simulink
6 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.099%) Oracle Smart View
10 6 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.085%) EViews
11 4 (0.056%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.042%) Sketch
13 2 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.028%) InVision
13 2 (0.028%) MadCap Flare
13 2 (0.028%) Notion
13 2 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 78 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.28%) Shopify
4 20 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.24%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 10 (0.14%) Primavera
8 7 (0.099%) Dynamics AX
8 7 (0.099%) HFM
8 7 (0.099%) Hyperion Planning
8 7 (0.099%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.085%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.085%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.085%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.071%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 5 (0.071%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.056%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,262 (17.80%) Azure
2 1,148 (16.19%) AWS
3 370 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
4 362 (5.11%) Power Platform
5 273 (3.85%) GCP
6 257 (3.62%) SaaS
7 208 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 166 (2.34%) Serverless
9 138 (1.95%) Snowflake
10 135 (1.90%) dbt
11 126 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
12 99 (1.40%) GitHub
13 96 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 94 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 86 (1.21%) PowerApps
16 83 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 75 (1.06%) Entra ID
18 70 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
19 69 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
20 68 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.16%) Firewall
2 193 (2.72%) Broadband
3 113 (1.59%) DNS
4 107 (1.51%) WAN
5 102 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.11%) Network Security
7 66 (0.93%) SSL
8 64 (0.90%) LAN
9 52 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.68%) VPN
11 45 (0.63%) Internet
12 41 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 41 (0.58%) Wireless
13 37 (0.52%) DHCP
14 34 (0.48%) BGP
15 32 (0.45%) SAN
16 25 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
18 22 (0.31%) HTTP
19 20 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 291 (4.10%) Power BI
3 168 (2.37%) Data Lake
4 157 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 141 (1.99%) MySQL
6 138 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 135 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 119 (1.68%) Tableau
9 105 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
10 104 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
11 101 (1.42%) Dremio
12 99 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
13 98 (1.38%) Apache Ignite
14 71 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (0.94%) RDBMS
16 62 (0.87%) MongoDB
17 51 (0.72%) DynamoDB
18 49 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
19 44 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
19 44 (0.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 284 (4.01%) Git
2 217 (3.06%) JIRA
3 130 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 116 (1.64%) Selenium
5 103 (1.45%) GitLab
6 69 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 69 (0.97%) Postman
7 60 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 59 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 43 (0.61%) JUnit
10 32 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 29 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
12 26 (0.37%) SoapUI
13 23 (0.32%) TeamCity
14 21 (0.30%) JMeter
14 21 (0.30%) NUnit
15 19 (0.27%) Maven
16 15 (0.21%) Subversion
17 14 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
17 14 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,526 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 1,432 (20.19%) Finance
3 516 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (5.46%) Public Sector
5 375 (5.29%) Marketing
6 347 (4.89%) Banking
7 281 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 241 (3.40%) Retail
9 222 (3.13%) Law
10 216 (3.05%) Advertising
11 213 (3.00%) Manufacturing
12 210 (2.96%) Legal
13 144 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 142 (2.00%) Automotive
15 137 (1.93%) Front Office
16 121 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 117 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
18 116 (1.64%) Telecoms
19 111 (1.57%) Aerospace
20 105 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (8.49%) .NET
2 402 (5.67%) React
3 217 (3.06%) HTML
4 207 (2.92%) CSS
5 188 (2.65%) REST
6 148 (2.09%) .NET Core
7 136 (1.92%) Node.js
8 135 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 134 (1.89%) RESTful
10 131 (1.85%) Spring
10 131 (1.85%) Spring Boot
11 119 (1.68%) Pandas
12 114 (1.61%) Kafka
13 113 (1.59%) NumPy
14 104 (1.47%) JSON
15 101 (1.42%) gRPC
15 101 (1.42%) Protocol Buffers
16 100 (1.41%) SciPy
17 94 (1.33%) ASP.NET
18 84 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.61%) Marketing Technology
3 182 (2.57%) Product Ownership
4 132 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 128 (1.81%) Fixed Income
5 128 (1.81%) Hedge funds
6 124 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 122 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 119 (1.68%) Derivative
9 118 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 111 (1.57%) Equities
11 108 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 96 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 92 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 89 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 81 (1.14%) Onboarding
16 79 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
17 78 (1.10%) Virtual Team
18 73 (1.03%) Data Structures
19 70 (0.99%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 504 (7.11%) Windows
2 316 (4.46%) Linux
3 157 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 91 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 59 (0.83%) Android
6 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.44%) Unix
8 31 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (0.28%) Ubuntu
12 16 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
13 14 (0.20%) Windows 7
14 13 (0.18%) CentOS
15 12 (0.17%) zOS
16 8 (0.11%) Debian
16 8 (0.11%) Solaris
17 5 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,769 (24.95%) Agile
2 1,321 (18.63%) Mentoring
3 929 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
4 801 (11.30%) Software Engineering
5 772 (10.89%) Coaching
6 711 (10.03%) DevOps
7 606 (8.55%) Analytics
7 606 (8.55%) Project Management
8 584 (8.24%) Roadmaps
9 509 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 506 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 426 (6.01%) Line Management
12 404 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 386 (5.44%) Computer Science
14 384 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
15 382 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
15 382 (5.39%) Scrum
16 354 (4.99%) ITIL
17 352 (4.96%) Microservices
17 352 (4.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 810 (11.42%) SQL
2 729 (10.28%) Java
3 631 (8.90%) Python
4 608 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 599 (8.45%) C#
6 396 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 177 (2.50%) C++
8 171 (2.41%) PHP
9 162 (2.28%) C
10 110 (1.55%) PowerShell
11 69 (0.97%) Go
11 69 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 66 (0.93%) COBOL
12 66 (0.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 59 (0.83%) Scala
14 41 (0.58%) R
15 39 (0.55%) T-SQL
16 36 (0.51%) Rust
17 34 (0.48%) Bicep
18 28 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 880 (12.41%) Degree
2 498 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 270 (3.81%) SC Cleared
4 220 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 114 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 108 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 108 (1.52%) CISSP
8 105 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 89 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 82 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 76 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 75 (1.06%) CISM
14 44 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 42 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 40 (0.56%) PMI Certification
17 38 (0.54%) CCSP
18 34 (0.48%) CISA
19 29 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (4.98%) QA
2 163 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 129 (1.82%) SLA
4 118 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (1.65%) GDPR
6 92 (1.30%) NIST
7 70 (0.99%) PMO
8 60 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 44 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.42%) GMP
10 30 (0.42%) GRC
10 30 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.38%) NCSC
12 16 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.20%) IFRS
14 11 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 10 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
15 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 354 (4.99%) Docker
2 244 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.73%) Firmware
6 39 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (0.38%) vSphere
8 22 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.13%) HDFS
11 5 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.042%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.042%) Ceph
12 3 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.014%) KVM
14 1 (0.014%) Lustre
14 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 394 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 228 (3.22%) Terraform
3 97 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (0.80%) Ansible
5 56 (0.79%) SCCM
6 45 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (0.61%) Puppet
8 30 (0.42%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.23%) Consul
10 16 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 14 (0.20%) Grafana
13 13 (0.18%) Istio
13 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.14%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.14%) WSUS
16 9 (0.13%) Nmap
17 7 (0.099%) Nagios
Vendors
1 872 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 237 (3.34%) Oracle
3 165 (2.33%) SAP
4 159 (2.24%) VMware
5 134 (1.89%) Google
6 124 (1.75%) Databricks
7 110 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 109 (1.54%) Cisco
9 74 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 69 (0.97%) Micro Focus
11 66 (0.93%) IBM
12 52 (0.73%) Citrix
13 47 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 28 (0.39%) Sparx
14 28 (0.39%) Splunk
15 26 (0.37%) Veeam
15 26 (0.37%) Workday
16 24 (0.34%) Meraki
17 23 (0.32%) Pega
18 22 (0.31%) SolarWinds