Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary in Work from Home is £75,000 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 18 28 40
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3,560 3,176 5,906
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.09% 8.42% 7.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.48% 8.77% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 2,492 3,332
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,865 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,120 (31.46%) Agile
2 869 (24.41%) Mentoring
3 791 (22.22%) AWS
4 770 (21.63%) Azure
5 748 (21.01%) Finance
6 705 (19.80%) Social Skills
7 568 (15.96%) Coaching
8 475 (13.34%) SQL
9 453 (12.72%) Python
10 425 (11.94%) Microsoft
11 416 (11.69%) Software Engineering
12 411 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 408 (11.46%) Java
14 387 (10.87%) JavaScript
15 380 (10.67%) DevOps
16 373 (10.48%) Security Cleared
17 364 (10.22%) Roadmaps
18 363 (10.20%) Analytics
19 354 (9.94%) C#
19 354 (9.94%) .NET
20 336 (9.44%) Degree
21 308 (8.65%) TypeScript
22 290 (8.15%) CI/CD
23 278 (7.81%) Process Improvement
24 265 (7.44%) Marketing
25 259 (7.28%) Scrum
26 258 (7.25%) Public Sector
27 250 (7.02%) Project Management
28 244 (6.85%) Line Management
29 241 (6.77%) Banking

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 150 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (3.85%) Apache
3 82 (2.30%) Confluence
4 50 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.29%) WebLogic
6 37 (1.04%) Tuxedo
7 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.73%) IIS
9 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
10 12 (0.34%) CMS
11 10 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.28%) SAS
11 10 (0.28%) WordPress
12 9 (0.25%) Appian
13 5 (0.14%) Drupal
14 3 (0.084%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.084%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.056%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.056%) Ethereum
15 2 (0.056%) MQSeries
Applications
1 62 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.39%) Simulink
5 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.084%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.056%) Sketch
8 1 (0.028%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.028%) CATIA
8 1 (0.028%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.028%) InDesign
8 1 (0.028%) Notion
8 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 73 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.17%) Primavera
6 5 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.11%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.084%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 3 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.084%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.084%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.084%) thinkFolio
9 2 (0.056%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.056%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 791 (22.22%) AWS
2 770 (21.63%) Azure
3 212 (5.96%) GCP
4 179 (5.03%) dbt
5 174 (4.89%) SaaS
6 157 (4.41%) Snowflake
7 153 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
8 152 (4.27%) Power Platform
9 130 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 127 (3.57%) Serverless
11 81 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
11 81 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
11 81 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
11 81 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
13 44 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
13 44 (1.24%) Amazon S3
14 43 (1.21%) Entra ID
15 39 (1.10%) PaaS
16 38 (1.07%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 193 (5.42%) Broadband
2 135 (3.79%) Firewall
3 93 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 91 (2.56%) DNS
5 71 (1.99%) SSL
6 60 (1.69%) WAN
7 49 (1.38%) BGP
8 36 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 31 (0.87%) LAN
11 27 (0.76%) Network Security
11 27 (0.76%) Wireless
12 26 (0.73%) VPN
13 21 (0.59%) Internet
14 19 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (0.45%) VLAN
16 13 (0.37%) DHCP
16 13 (0.37%) SAN
17 12 (0.34%) HTTP
18 9 (0.25%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 169 (4.75%) Data Lake
3 134 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
4 133 (3.74%) Apache Arrow
4 133 (3.74%) Dremio
4 133 (3.74%) Power BI
5 130 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
6 97 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 86 (2.42%) Tableau
8 74 (2.08%) MySQL
9 66 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 65 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (1.43%) Oracle Database
12 50 (1.40%) NoSQL
13 48 (1.35%) RDBMS
14 46 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
15 42 (1.18%) MongoDB
16 40 (1.12%) DynamoDB
17 30 (0.84%) DB2
18 27 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 129 (3.62%) Git
2 109 (3.06%) JIRA
3 74 (2.08%) GitLab
4 61 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 47 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 46 (1.29%) Selenium
7 43 (1.21%) Postman
8 28 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 22 (0.62%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.53%) TeamCity
12 16 (0.45%) JMeter
12 16 (0.45%) NUnit
13 13 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
14 12 (0.34%) SoapUI
15 11 (0.31%) SpecFlow
16 9 (0.25%) JUnit
16 9 (0.25%) Subversion
17 7 (0.20%) Jasmine
17 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 748 (21.01%) Finance
2 705 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.44%) Marketing
4 258 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 241 (6.77%) Banking
6 240 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
7 197 (5.53%) Advertising
8 149 (4.19%) Retail
9 143 (4.02%) Front Office
10 138 (3.88%) Investment Banking
11 135 (3.79%) Legal
12 124 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 76 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.02%) Law
15 60 (1.69%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 50 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
18 48 (1.35%) Automotive
19 42 (1.18%) Games
20 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (9.94%) .NET
2 176 (4.94%) React
3 141 (3.96%) Pandas
4 134 (3.76%) NumPy
5 133 (3.74%) gRPC
5 133 (3.74%) Protocol Buffers
6 132 (3.71%) SciPy
7 130 (3.65%) HTML
8 117 (3.29%) CSS
9 111 (3.12%) Node.js
10 100 (2.81%) RESTful
11 87 (2.44%) .NET Core
12 83 (2.33%) REST
13 74 (2.08%) Spring Boot
14 69 (1.94%) Vue
15 61 (1.71%) .NET Framework
16 59 (1.66%) AngularJS
16 59 (1.66%) ASP.NET
17 56 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
18 46 (1.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.17%) Marketing Technology
2 142 (3.99%) Hedge funds
3 140 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 137 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 136 (3.82%) Derivative
6 134 (3.76%) Equities
7 121 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 103 (2.89%) Product Ownership
9 100 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
10 95 (2.67%) Public Cloud
11 70 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
12 66 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 65 (1.83%) Client/Server
14 64 (1.80%) Virtual Team
15 51 (1.43%) Data Centre
15 51 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (1.38%) Private Cloud
17 43 (1.21%) Cloud Native
18 41 (1.15%) Mobile App
19 40 (1.12%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 195 (5.48%) Windows
2 157 (4.41%) Linux
3 67 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 49 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.81%) Android
7 28 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.45%) Unix
9 12 (0.34%) zOS
10 10 (0.28%) CentOS
11 8 (0.22%) Solaris
11 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.20%) Debian
12 7 (0.20%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.14%) VMS
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (31.46%) Agile
2 869 (24.41%) Mentoring
3 568 (15.96%) Coaching
4 416 (11.69%) Software Engineering
5 411 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (10.67%) DevOps
7 364 (10.22%) Roadmaps
8 363 (10.20%) Analytics
9 290 (8.15%) CI/CD
10 278 (7.81%) Process Improvement
11 259 (7.28%) Scrum
12 250 (7.02%) Project Management
13 244 (6.85%) Line Management
14 239 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 225 (6.32%) Business Case
16 212 (5.96%) Data Strategy
17 210 (5.90%) Use Case
18 208 (5.84%) Microservices
19 204 (5.73%) Digital Marketing
20 202 (5.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 475 (13.34%) SQL
2 453 (12.72%) Python
3 408 (11.46%) Java
4 387 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 354 (9.94%) C#
6 308 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 66 (1.85%) COBOL
7 66 (1.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 64 (1.80%) C
9 59 (1.66%) PHP
10 55 (1.54%) C++
11 51 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 29 (0.81%) Go
13 26 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.62%) Bash
15 21 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.53%) XAML
17 18 (0.51%) Scala
18 17 (0.48%) MATLAB
19 16 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 373 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 336 (9.44%) Degree
3 213 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 105 (2.95%) AWS Certification
4 105 (2.95%) Azure Certification
5 70 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (1.88%) CISSP
7 66 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 62 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 54 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 51 (1.43%) CISM
11 40 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 34 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 34 (0.96%) CCSP
14 27 (0.76%) CCSK
15 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.51%) CISA
16 18 (0.51%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.51%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.65%) QA
2 115 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 64 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (1.32%) NIST
5 43 (1.21%) GDPR
6 38 (1.07%) SLA
7 30 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.48%) PMO
9 15 (0.42%) GRC
10 13 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.37%) NCSC
11 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.25%) HL7
13 5 (0.14%) GAAP
13 5 (0.14%) IFRS
13 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.14%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.14%) RMADS
14 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.11%) Def Stans
System Software
1 201 (5.65%) Docker
2 84 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.20%) Firmware
9 6 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.056%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 197 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 129 (3.62%) Terraform
3 47 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (1.12%) Ansible
6 27 (0.76%) Puppet
7 19 (0.53%) Grafana
8 17 (0.48%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.42%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.37%) SCCM
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 10 (0.28%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.20%) MIIS
13 7 (0.20%) Nagios
13 7 (0.20%) Nmap
13 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.20%) SysTrack
14 6 (0.17%) Consul
14 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 425 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.07%) Oracle
3 86 (2.42%) Databricks
4 66 (1.85%) Google
4 66 (1.85%) Micro Focus
5 63 (1.77%) VMware
6 59 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 56 (1.57%) SAP
8 46 (1.29%) Sparx
9 43 (1.21%) Atlassian
10 41 (1.15%) IBM
11 27 (0.76%) Cisco
12 25 (0.70%) Splunk
13 18 (0.51%) Salesforce
14 14 (0.39%) Commvault
14 14 (0.39%) ForgeRock
14 14 (0.39%) Sitecore
15 13 (0.37%) Sun
16 10 (0.28%) Veeam
17 9 (0.25%) Qualys