Lead Jobs in the North East

Leader
England > North East

The median Leader salary in the North East is £70,250 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 12 46 44
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 261 63 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.31% 5.24% 5.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.92% 6.60% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 240 43 56
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £35,855
25th Percentile £50,001 £41,250 £44,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £84,964 £67,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,600 £74,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% -2.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 2,020 954 1,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 79.37% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,601 590 1,046
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,975 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,382 £49,654 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +18.22% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the North East.

Salary trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the North East

Lead
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +33 203 £73,805 +47.61% 32
Durham +23 56 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Northumberland -7 1 £30,000 -47.83% 3
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

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 North East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 108 (41.38%) Mentoring
2 89 (34.10%) Agile
3 77 (29.50%) Coaching
4 70 (26.82%) Social Skills
5 53 (20.31%) Finance
6 46 (17.62%) SQL
6 46 (17.62%) AWS
7 42 (16.09%) Azure
8 36 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (13.03%) Roadmaps
10 32 (12.26%) Public Sector
11 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.73%) Microsoft
13 27 (10.34%) .NET
14 26 (9.96%) Data Architecture
15 25 (9.58%) Project Delivery
16 24 (9.20%) Python
16 24 (9.20%) Project Management
17 22 (8.43%) C#
17 22 (8.43%) Software Engineering
17 22 (8.43%) Data Engineering
18 21 (8.05%) ETL
19 20 (7.66%) CI/CD
20 19 (7.28%) Product Roadmap
20 19 (7.28%) Supplier Management
21 18 (6.90%) Kanban
21 18 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
21 18 (6.90%) Client/Server
21 18 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
21 18 (6.90%) Games

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 11 (4.21%) Confluence
2 9 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.68%) Tuxedo
4 4 (1.53%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.53%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.62%) AWS
2 42 (16.09%) Azure
3 15 (5.75%) Amazon S3
4 14 (5.36%) SaaS
5 12 (4.60%) dbt
6 11 (4.21%) GCP
6 11 (4.21%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.45%) Serverless
8 8 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.30%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 6 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.83%) Firewall
2 7 (2.68%) Network Security
3 5 (1.92%) WAN
4 4 (1.53%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) DMZ
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.60%) MySQL
2 11 (4.21%) Power BI
3 10 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.45%) Redis
5 8 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.30%) Couchbase
6 6 (2.30%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.30%) Tableau
7 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.53%) DB2
8 4 (1.53%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.38%) Big Data
9 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.75%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Gradle
2 3 (1.15%) Maven
2 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 70 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.31%) Finance
3 32 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.90%) Games
5 14 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.60%) Retail
8 8 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.30%) Law
10 4 (1.53%) Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Legal
10 4 (1.53%) Marketing
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.34%) .NET
2 12 (4.60%) .NET Core
3 10 (3.83%) RESTful
4 6 (2.30%) ASP.NET
5 5 (1.92%) .NET Framework
5 5 (1.92%) CSS
5 5 (1.92%) Entity Framework
5 5 (1.92%) Node.js
6 4 (1.53%) HTML
6 4 (1.53%) Vue
7 3 (1.15%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.15%) OAuth
7 3 (1.15%) OpenID
7 3 (1.15%) REST
7 3 (1.15%) Web Services
7 3 (1.15%) XML
8 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.77%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.77%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.90%) Client/Server
2 14 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.60%) Online Games
4 11 (4.21%) NHS
5 9 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.53%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.53%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.15%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) iPhone
10 2 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.83%) Linux
2 6 (2.30%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (41.38%) Mentoring
2 89 (34.10%) Agile
3 77 (29.50%) Coaching
4 36 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (13.03%) Roadmaps
6 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (9.96%) Data Architecture
8 25 (9.58%) Project Delivery
9 24 (9.20%) Project Management
10 22 (8.43%) Data Engineering
10 22 (8.43%) Software Engineering
11 21 (8.05%) ETL
12 20 (7.66%) CI/CD
13 19 (7.28%) Product Roadmap
13 19 (7.28%) Supplier Management
14 18 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (6.90%) Decision-Making
14 18 (6.90%) DevOps
14 18 (6.90%) Kanban
14 18 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.62%) SQL
2 24 (9.20%) Python
3 22 (8.43%) C#
4 14 (5.36%) Java
5 13 (4.98%) COBOL
5 13 (4.98%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 8 (3.07%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.07%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.30%) C
8 6 (2.30%) C++
9 3 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (5.75%) Degree
2 8 (3.07%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.68%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.53%) CCSK
5 4 (1.53%) CCSP
5 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.53%) CISM
5 4 (1.53%) CISSP
6 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.38%) HNC
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.07%) QA
2 8 (3.07%) SLA
3 7 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (2.68%) NCSC
4 6 (2.30%) GDPR
5 5 (1.92%) NIST
6 4 (1.53%) PMO
7 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (3.45%) Docker
2 7 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.92%) Terraform
3 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.77%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.13%) Oracle
3 14 (5.36%) Cisco
4 13 (4.98%) Micro Focus
5 11 (4.21%) Google
6 8 (3.07%) IBM
7 7 (2.68%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.68%) Juniper
8 5 (1.92%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.15%) Northgate
10 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.77%) Facebook
11 2 (0.77%) Meraki
11 2 (0.77%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.77%) Pinterest
11 2 (0.77%) Snapchat
11 2 (0.77%) TikTok
11 2 (0.77%) VMware
12 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike