Lead Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Leader
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Leader salary in Cambridgeshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 101 78 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.75% 6.31% 6.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.12% 7.41% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 71 46 82
10th Percentile £40,750 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £44,188 £50,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% +14.74% -38.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £84,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -11.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 1,649 1,053 2,540
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 85.19% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 529 962
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £28,700
25th Percentile £35,788 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,641 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £68,901 £70,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £80,950 £85,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cambridgeshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in Cambridgeshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Cambridgeshire

Lead
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cambridge +29 79 £60,000 -33.33% 16
Peterborough -9 10 £32,000 -40.74% 12
Huntingdon - 7 £60,000 - 1
Lead
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 22 (21.78%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.81%) Degree
4 17 (16.83%) Python
5 14 (13.86%) Software Engineering
6 12 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (11.88%) Line Management
7 11 (10.89%) SQL
7 11 (10.89%) Finance
8 10 (9.90%) Service Delivery
8 10 (9.90%) QA
8 10 (9.90%) DevOps
8 10 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (8.91%) Coaching
9 9 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.91%) C#
10 8 (7.92%) .NET
10 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
10 8 (7.92%) PhD
10 8 (7.92%) ERP
10 8 (7.92%) Games
10 8 (7.92%) Life Science
10 8 (7.92%) Biotechnology
10 8 (7.92%) Bioinformatics
10 8 (7.92%) Data Science
10 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
10 8 (7.92%) Decision-Making
10 8 (7.92%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (7.92%) Roadmaps
11 7 (6.93%) People Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (0.99%) Drupal
1 1 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (2.97%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.94%) AWS
1 6 (5.94%) Power Platform
2 3 (2.97%) SaaS
3 2 (1.98%) Azure
4 1 (0.99%) GCP
4 1 (0.99%) GitHub
4 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) Power BI
2 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.98%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.99%) Big Data
5 1 (0.99%) GIS
5 1 (0.99%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (1.98%) GitLab
1 2 (1.98%) Phabricator
General
1 22 (21.78%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Games
5 5 (4.95%) Legal
6 4 (3.96%) Agriculture
6 4 (3.96%) Law
6 4 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Electronics
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) .NET
2 3 (2.97%) CryEngine
2 3 (2.97%) CSS
2 3 (2.97%) DirectX
2 3 (2.97%) HTML
2 3 (2.97%) Node.js
2 3 (2.97%) OpenID
2 3 (2.97%) SAML
2 3 (2.97%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (2.97%) Unreal Engine
2 3 (2.97%) Vulkan
3 2 (1.98%) Django
3 2 (1.98%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.98%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.99%) Flask
4 1 (0.99%) Laravel
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.99%) React
4 1 (0.99%) REST
4 1 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Life Science
2 6 (5.94%) IoT
3 4 (3.96%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.96%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.97%) Ray Tracing
5 1 (0.99%) Blog
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (13.86%) Software Engineering
2 12 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (11.88%) Line Management
3 10 (9.90%) DevOps
3 10 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (9.90%) Service Delivery
4 9 (8.91%) Coaching
4 9 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (7.92%) Bioinformatics
5 8 (7.92%) Biotechnology
5 8 (7.92%) Data Science
5 8 (7.92%) Decision-Making
5 8 (7.92%) ERP
5 8 (7.92%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (7.92%) Roadmaps
6 7 (6.93%) Agile
6 7 (6.93%) Open Source
6 7 (6.93%) People Management
6 7 (6.93%) Project Management
7 6 (5.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.83%) Python
2 11 (10.89%) SQL
3 9 (8.91%) C#
4 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.96%) C
5 4 (3.96%) Embedded C
6 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.98%) PHP
6 2 (1.98%) Ruby
7 1 (0.99%) Java
7 1 (0.99%) Rust
7 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) PhD
3 4 (3.96%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) Ansible
2 2 (1.98%) Grafana
2 2 (1.98%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) Oracle
2 4 (3.96%) Cognos
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.97%) Salesforce