Lead Jobs in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 38 38
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,030 3,964 5,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.42% 6.72% 7.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.88% 7.54% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,056 2,638 2,985
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,637
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +29 1,683 £70,000 - 356
South East +18 1,185 £62,000 -8.15% 388
Scotland +18 1,028 £63,500 -9.29% 69
Midlands +6 926 £60,000 - 222
North West +25 832 £70,000 - 194
South West +23 669 £60,202 -10.81% 172
West Midlands +3 627 £65,000 +8.33% 138
Yorkshire +29 624 £70,000 - 114
East of England +35 360 £60,000 +4.35% 136
East Midlands +29 295 £50,000 -13.04% 83
North East +38 227 £70,000 +40.00% 51
Wales +15 134 £65,000 -3.70% 33
Northern Ireland +19 47 £77,500 +29.17% 16
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,015 (33.42%) Agile
2 1,706 (28.29%) Finance
3 1,209 (20.05%) Software Engineering
4 1,170 (19.40%) Mentoring
5 1,166 (19.34%) Social Skills
6 1,045 (17.33%) AWS
7 989 (16.40%) Azure
8 967 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 895 (14.84%) Law
10 877 (14.54%) Java
11 875 (14.51%) CI/CD
12 857 (14.21%) Marketing
13 826 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
14 824 (13.67%) SQL
15 823 (13.65%) SDLC
16 767 (12.72%) Coaching
17 688 (11.41%) Degree
18 682 (11.31%) Microsoft
19 678 (11.24%) Operational Stability
20 564 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
21 533 (8.84%) Community of Practice
22 531 (8.81%) DevOps
23 526 (8.72%) Machine Learning
24 520 (8.62%) Python
25 514 (8.52%) JavaScript
26 510 (8.46%) Roadmaps
27 491 (8.14%) Security Cleared
28 489 (8.11%) Project Management
29 454 (7.53%) .NET
30 443 (7.35%) C#

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 196 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 113 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 107 (1.77%) Confluence
4 66 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 56 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.63%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.53%) FileNet
9 31 (0.51%) IIS
10 29 (0.48%) Apache
10 29 (0.48%) CMS
11 21 (0.35%) GemFire
12 12 (0.20%) WordPress
13 10 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.15%) Appian
14 9 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 105 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.28%) Windchill
5 15 (0.25%) Simulink
6 13 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.20%) Sketch
8 10 (0.17%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.066%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.050%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.033%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.033%) Trello
13 1 (0.017%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.017%) Blender
13 1 (0.017%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.28%) Teamcenter
5 16 (0.27%) Shopify
6 10 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 7 (0.12%) HFM
7 7 (0.12%) Hyperion Planning
8 6 (0.100%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.100%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.083%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.083%) Primavera
10 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.066%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.066%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (17.33%) AWS
2 989 (16.40%) Azure
3 266 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
4 259 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 178 (2.95%) GCP
6 147 (2.44%) SaaS
7 142 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
9 104 (1.72%) Serverless
10 94 (1.56%) Amazon S3
11 77 (1.28%) Datadog
12 67 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
13 62 (1.03%) Power Automate
14 61 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
15 56 (0.93%) PowerApps
16 54 (0.90%) Entra ID
17 52 (0.86%) Figma
18 50 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 165 (2.74%) Firewall
2 110 (1.82%) DNS
3 96 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 90 (1.49%) WAN
5 82 (1.36%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.34%) Broadband
7 74 (1.23%) SSL
8 62 (1.03%) Network Security
9 54 (0.90%) LAN
10 43 (0.71%) BGP
10 43 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 35 (0.58%) Wireless
12 34 (0.56%) VPN
13 32 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
14 29 (0.48%) DHCP
15 26 (0.43%) Internet
15 26 (0.43%) SAN
16 22 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 218 (3.62%) SQL Server
3 198 (3.28%) Power BI
4 170 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 162 (2.69%) Big Data
6 117 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 114 (1.89%) MySQL
8 104 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 85 (1.41%) Tableau
10 81 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.31%) Metadata
12 74 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 72 (1.19%) RDBMS
14 62 (1.03%) MongoDB
15 52 (0.86%) Data Lake
16 49 (0.81%) Oracle Database
16 49 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
17 41 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
17 41 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 38 (0.63%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 246 (4.08%) Git
2 173 (2.87%) JIRA
3 148 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 107 (1.77%) Selenium
5 99 (1.64%) GitLab
6 90 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 74 (1.23%) JUnit
8 67 (1.11%) Artifactory
8 67 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 61 (1.01%) Visual Studio
10 38 (0.63%) Postman
11 35 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.48%) Jasmine
12 29 (0.48%) SoapUI
13 26 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
14 25 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 22 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.36%) Protractor
15 22 (0.36%) WebDriver
16 21 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 1,706 (28.29%) Finance
2 1,166 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 967 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 895 (14.84%) Law
5 857 (14.21%) Marketing
6 355 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
7 351 (5.82%) Public Sector
8 247 (4.10%) Banking
9 210 (3.48%) Manufacturing
10 185 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
11 168 (2.79%) Retail
12 148 (2.45%) Investment Banking
13 141 (2.34%) Legal
14 125 (2.07%) Automotive
15 110 (1.82%) Aerospace
16 101 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
17 93 (1.54%) Telecoms
18 89 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
19 80 (1.33%) Advertising
20 71 (1.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (7.53%) .NET
2 422 (7.00%) React
3 280 (4.64%) Spring
4 271 (4.49%) HTML
5 260 (4.31%) CSS
6 193 (3.20%) JSON
6 193 (3.20%) Spring Boot
7 187 (3.10%) Node.js
8 180 (2.99%) RESTful
9 173 (2.87%) Kafka
10 161 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 142 (2.35%) REST
12 137 (2.27%) Web Services
13 108 (1.79%) XML
14 99 (1.64%) .NET Core
15 96 (1.59%) OpenID
16 92 (1.53%) jQuery
17 91 (1.51%) PySpark
18 83 (1.38%) Vue
19 80 (1.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 418 (6.93%) Cloud Native
2 298 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 251 (4.16%) Public Cloud
4 162 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 91 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 89 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 85 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 77 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
10 75 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 74 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 69 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 69 (1.14%) Onboarding
13 67 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
14 66 (1.09%) Reference Data
15 63 (1.04%) Mobile App
16 60 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
17 55 (0.91%) Virtual Team
18 38 (0.63%) Client/Server
19 37 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 402 (6.67%) Windows
2 282 (4.68%) Linux
3 125 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 72 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.65%) Android
7 31 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.22%) Unix
12 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.13%) Debian
14 5 (0.083%) VMS
14 5 (0.083%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.066%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.050%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,015 (33.42%) Agile
2 1,209 (20.05%) Software Engineering
3 1,170 (19.40%) Mentoring
4 875 (14.51%) CI/CD
5 826 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
6 823 (13.65%) SDLC
7 767 (12.72%) Coaching
8 678 (11.24%) Operational Stability
9 564 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 533 (8.84%) Community of Practice
11 531 (8.81%) DevOps
12 526 (8.72%) Machine Learning
13 510 (8.46%) Roadmaps
14 489 (8.11%) Project Management
15 415 (6.88%) Architectural Design
16 407 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 402 (6.67%) Information Architecture
18 386 (6.40%) Analytics
19 355 (5.89%) Decision-Making
20 345 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 877 (14.54%) Java
2 824 (13.67%) SQL
3 520 (8.62%) Python
4 514 (8.52%) JavaScript
5 443 (7.35%) C#
6 325 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 149 (2.47%) Scala
8 145 (2.40%) C++
9 141 (2.34%) C
10 137 (2.27%) PHP
11 96 (1.59%) Go
12 66 (1.09%) COBOL
12 66 (1.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (1.08%) Prolog
13 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
14 58 (0.96%) R
15 55 (0.91%) PowerShell
16 28 (0.46%) VB.NET
17 25 (0.41%) MATLAB
18 23 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 688 (11.41%) Degree
2 491 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 286 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 141 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 82 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 70 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 69 (1.14%) CISM
12 68 (1.13%) CISSP
13 55 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 52 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 48 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (0.73%) PhD
17 32 (0.53%) CCNP
18 29 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 29 (0.48%) CCSP
19 25 (0.41%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (4.58%) QA
2 110 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 109 (1.81%) SLA
4 86 (1.43%) PMO
5 82 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 81 (1.34%) NIST
7 79 (1.31%) GDPR
8 70 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.50%) GMP
11 23 (0.38%) GRC
12 20 (0.33%) NCSC
13 17 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 9 (0.15%) IFRS
15 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.13%) Good Clinical Practice
16 8 (0.13%) PSD2
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 259 (4.30%) Docker
2 245 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.88%) Firmware
5 50 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 29 (0.48%) vSphere
7 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.050%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.033%) HDFS
12 2 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.033%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.017%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 359 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 223 (3.70%) Terraform
3 91 (1.51%) Grafana
4 70 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 46 (0.76%) Ansible
7 41 (0.68%) SCCM
8 40 (0.66%) Puppet
9 25 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.36%) Kibana
11 21 (0.35%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.22%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.20%) Consul
13 12 (0.20%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.17%) WSUS
15 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.12%) SCOM
16 7 (0.12%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 682 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 332 (5.51%) Oracle
3 136 (2.26%) Google
4 118 (1.96%) VMware
5 111 (1.84%) SAP
6 108 (1.79%) Splunk
7 87 (1.44%) Cisco
8 84 (1.39%) Dynatrace
9 71 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.14%) Micro Focus
11 67 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 61 (1.01%) Databricks
13 54 (0.90%) Citrix
14 45 (0.75%) IBM
14 45 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.66%) Sparx
16 33 (0.55%) Veeam
17 32 (0.53%) Qualtrics
18 23 (0.38%) Meraki
19 21 (0.35%) MuleSoft