Lead Jobs in Birmingham

Leader
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Leader salary in Birmingham is £73,152 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 31 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 300 129 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.00% 7.14% 6.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.57% 7.69% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 272 118 142
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,152 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £84,964 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £82,500 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,837 1,678 3,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 92.91% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,290 1,324 2,269
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,600 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £84,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Birmingham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 82 (27.33%) Agile
2 81 (27.00%) Mentoring
3 68 (22.67%) Coaching
4 50 (16.67%) Finance
5 41 (13.67%) Roadmaps
6 36 (12.00%) Supplier Management
6 36 (12.00%) Social Skills
7 34 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (10.67%) Public Sector
8 32 (10.67%) Microsoft
9 31 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 30 (10.00%) AWS
11 29 (9.67%) Azure
12 28 (9.33%) Software Engineering
13 27 (9.00%) Degree
14 26 (8.67%) QA
14 26 (8.67%) Power Platform
14 26 (8.67%) DevOps
15 25 (8.33%) Project Management
15 25 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (8.00%) Java
16 24 (8.00%) Node.js
16 24 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (8.00%) Power BI
17 23 (7.67%) React
17 23 (7.67%) JavaScript
18 21 (7.00%) SQL Server
19 20 (6.67%) TypeScript
19 20 (6.67%) Decision-Making
20 19 (6.33%) SQL

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (3.00%) Appian
1 9 (3.00%) IIS
2 8 (2.67%) Confluence
3 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.00%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.33%) CANalyzer
3 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.33%) Blender
Business Applications
1 13 (4.33%) Shopify
2 8 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Magento
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.00%) AWS
2 29 (9.67%) Azure
3 26 (8.67%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.67%) Serverless
5 11 (3.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (3.33%) SaaS
7 9 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.67%) GCP
9 7 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.33%) Contentful
9 7 (2.33%) Google Analytics
9 7 (2.33%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (2.33%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.33%) Vercel
10 6 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.00%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.33%) Firewall
2 4 (1.33%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.00%) DNS
3 3 (1.00%) Intranet
3 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.00%) SSL
3 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.00%) WAN
4 2 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.00%) Power BI
2 21 (7.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.00%) MySQL
4 8 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.67%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.67%) Tableau
5 7 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.67%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.00%) DB2
9 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (5.00%) Git
2 8 (2.67%) JIRA
2 8 (2.67%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.33%) CANoe
4 4 (1.33%) Postman
5 2 (0.67%) gulp
5 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 50 (16.67%) Finance
2 36 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.33%) Marketing
5 14 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.67%) Legal
6 9 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.67%) Retail
8 6 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.33%) Automotive
9 4 (1.33%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.33%) Law
9 4 (1.33%) Multimedia
9 4 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Billing
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.00%) Node.js
2 23 (7.67%) React
3 12 (4.00%) Next.js
3 12 (4.00%) REST
4 10 (3.33%) RESTful
5 9 (3.00%) GraphQL
5 9 (3.00%) HTML
6 8 (2.67%) .NET
7 7 (2.33%) CSS
8 6 (2.00%) jQuery
9 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.33%) EDI
9 4 (1.33%) JSON
9 4 (1.33%) Spring
9 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 4 (1.33%) XML
10 3 (1.00%) Laravel
10 3 (1.00%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (1.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.67%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.33%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.33%) Infotainment
6 4 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.33%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.67%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.67%) Windows
2 4 (1.33%) VMS
3 2 (0.67%) Android
3 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.67%) Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.33%) Agile
2 81 (27.00%) Mentoring
3 68 (22.67%) Coaching
4 41 (13.67%) Roadmaps
5 36 (12.00%) Supplier Management
6 34 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (10.33%) CI/CD
8 28 (9.33%) Software Engineering
9 26 (8.67%) DevOps
10 25 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (8.33%) Project Management
11 24 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (6.67%) Decision-Making
13 18 (6.00%) Design Patterns
13 18 (6.00%) Service Delivery
14 16 (5.33%) Kanban
14 16 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (5.00%) Product Roadmap
15 15 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (4.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.00%) Java
2 23 (7.67%) JavaScript
3 20 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 19 (6.33%) SQL
5 17 (5.67%) Python
6 11 (3.67%) C
7 10 (3.33%) COBOL
7 10 (3.33%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 7 (2.33%) PHP
9 5 (1.67%) C#
9 5 (1.67%) R
10 4 (1.33%) C++
10 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.00%) Go
11 3 (1.00%) XAML
12 2 (0.67%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.67%) SOQL
12 2 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (9.00%) Degree
2 13 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.33%) CISM
6 4 (1.33%) CISSP
6 4 (1.33%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.00%) CCSK
7 3 (1.00%) CCSP
7 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.67%) APMP
8 2 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.67%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.67%) QA
2 9 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.33%) ISO 26262
3 4 (1.33%) NIST
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.00%) PMO
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) NCSC
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (4.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.67%) Terraform
3 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.67%) Google
2 11 (3.67%) Oracle
3 10 (3.33%) Micro Focus
4 8 (2.67%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.33%) Databricks
7 3 (1.00%) IBM
7 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (0.67%) Conga
8 2 (0.67%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco
9 1 (0.33%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.33%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.33%) Qualys
9 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.33%) VMware
9 1 (0.33%) Zscaler