Lead Jobs in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader salary in the Midlands is £60,000 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 19 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,000 748 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.66% 8.74% 8.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.09% 9.77% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 701 406 544
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £48,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 12,357 7,658 10,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.51% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,004 4,510 7,073
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £67,425 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +3 662 £65,000 +8.33% 150
East Midlands +29 334 £51,500 -10.43% 113
Lead
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 184 (18.40%) Agile
2 163 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 157 (15.70%) Degree
4 143 (14.30%) Mentoring
5 136 (13.60%) Finance
6 125 (12.50%) Coaching
7 121 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (11.60%) AWS
9 107 (10.70%) Microsoft
10 100 (10.00%) Azure
11 92 (9.20%) QA
12 90 (9.00%) Project Management
13 88 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
14 84 (8.40%) ITIL
15 81 (8.10%) JavaScript
16 79 (7.90%) SQL
17 77 (7.70%) Manufacturing
18 74 (7.40%) Automotive
19 69 (6.90%) Roadmaps
20 67 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
21 65 (6.50%) React
22 64 (6.40%) DevOps
23 63 (6.30%) C#
23 63 (6.30%) Legal
23 63 (6.30%) Retail
24 60 (6.00%) Windows
24 60 (6.00%) Software Engineering
25 57 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
26 55 (5.50%) .NET
27 54 (5.40%) Cybersecurity

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 21 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.50%) IIS
4 9 (0.90%) Appian
4 9 (0.90%) WordPress
5 8 (0.80%) CMS
5 8 (0.80%) Confluence
6 6 (0.60%) Tuxedo
7 4 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.40%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.30%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.10%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.10%) Blender
6 1 (0.10%) InDesign
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.10%) Simulink
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.50%) Shopify
2 8 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.30%) Sage 300 ERP
4 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.10%) Magento
5 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.10%) Primavera
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.10%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.10%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.10%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 116 (11.60%) AWS
2 100 (10.00%) Azure
3 51 (5.10%) Power Platform
4 50 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (4.00%) Serverless
6 32 (3.20%) SaaS
7 24 (2.40%) GCP
8 20 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (1.60%) PowerApps
10 14 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (1.20%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.00%) Google Analytics
15 8 (0.80%) Cloudflare
16 7 (0.70%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.70%) Firewall
2 21 (2.10%) DNS
3 16 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.30%) SSL
5 10 (1.00%) SAN
6 8 (0.80%) DHCP
6 8 (0.80%) WAN
6 8 (0.80%) Wireless
7 7 (0.70%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.60%) LAN
9 5 (0.50%) HTTP
10 4 (0.40%) BGP
10 4 (0.40%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.40%) Internet
10 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.40%) VPN
11 3 (0.30%) Intranet
11 3 (0.30%) MQTT
11 3 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 48 (4.80%) Power BI
3 28 (2.80%) MySQL
4 18 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.40%) Tableau
6 13 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 13 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 11 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.70%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.60%) Power Query
11 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.30%) DB2
12 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 37 (3.70%) Git
2 16 (1.60%) JIRA
3 9 (0.90%) GitLab
4 8 (0.80%) Selenium
4 8 (0.80%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.70%) Postman
5 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.60%) CANoe
6 6 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.50%) gulp
7 5 (0.50%) NUnit
8 3 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.30%) JMeter
8 3 (0.30%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.30%) Subversion
9 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.10%) Appium
10 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 163 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 136 (13.60%) Finance
3 88 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (7.70%) Manufacturing
5 74 (7.40%) Automotive
6 63 (6.30%) Legal
6 63 (6.30%) Retail
7 45 (4.50%) Marketing
8 36 (3.60%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 23 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.50%) Games
13 14 (1.40%) Electronics
14 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.90%) Environmental Health
15 8 (0.80%) Local Government
16 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.50%) React
2 55 (5.50%) .NET
3 43 (4.30%) Node.js
4 30 (3.00%) HTML
4 30 (3.00%) Laravel
5 28 (2.80%) CSS
5 28 (2.80%) REST
6 25 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.70%) Vue
8 15 (1.50%) jQuery
9 13 (1.30%) .NET Core
9 13 (1.30%) Next.js
10 12 (1.20%) ASP.NET
10 12 (1.20%) RESTful
11 11 (1.10%) XML
12 10 (1.00%) JSON
12 10 (1.00%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (1.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 9 (0.90%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 24 (2.40%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (1.40%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (1.40%) Low-Code
4 14 (1.40%) SCADA
5 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.10%) Industry 4.0
7 10 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.00%) NHS
7 10 (1.00%) PMI
8 9 (0.90%) Infotainment
8 9 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 9 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.80%) IoT
9 8 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.00%) Windows
2 24 (2.40%) Linux
3 17 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.00%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.90%) Windows 7
6 6 (0.60%) Android
6 6 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.40%) VMS
9 3 (0.30%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (18.40%) Agile
2 143 (14.30%) Mentoring
3 125 (12.50%) Coaching
4 121 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (9.00%) Project Management
6 84 (8.40%) ITIL
7 69 (6.90%) Roadmaps
8 67 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (6.40%) DevOps
10 60 (6.00%) Software Engineering
11 57 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
12 54 (5.40%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (5.20%) Business Intelligence
14 51 (5.10%) Customer Service
15 49 (4.90%) Microservices
16 47 (4.70%) SDLC
17 45 (4.50%) CI/CD
17 45 (4.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 45 (4.50%) Supplier Management
18 43 (4.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (8.10%) JavaScript
2 79 (7.90%) SQL
3 63 (6.30%) C#
4 51 (5.10%) TypeScript
5 48 (4.80%) Java
6 45 (4.50%) Python
7 29 (2.90%) PHP
8 19 (1.90%) C
9 16 (1.60%) C++
10 13 (1.30%) Go
11 10 (1.00%) COBOL
11 10 (1.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 9 (0.90%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.90%) XAML
13 8 (0.80%) R
13 8 (0.80%) Rust
14 6 (0.60%) VBA
15 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.30%) Ruby
16 3 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 157 (15.70%) Degree
2 46 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 33 (3.30%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.40%) DBS Check
5 23 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.80%) CISM
9 8 (0.80%) CISSP
9 8 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.70%) ISEB
11 5 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.50%) CCNP
11 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.40%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.20%) QA
2 20 (2.00%) GMP
3 16 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.50%) GDPR
5 10 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.90%) NIST
7 7 (0.70%) ISO 26262
7 7 (0.70%) PMO
8 5 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.50%) SLA
9 3 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
9 3 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
10 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
11 1 (0.10%) COSHH
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 36 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.20%) Docker
3 13 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (1.30%) Firmware
4 8 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) vSphere
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.00%) Terraform
3 11 (1.10%) Functional Safety
4 10 (1.00%) SCCM
5 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.80%) Grafana
6 8 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.50%) Ansible
8 4 (0.40%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 107 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 25 (2.50%) Oracle
4 21 (2.10%) VMware
5 17 (1.70%) Google
6 16 (1.60%) Cisco
7 14 (1.40%) Databricks
8 11 (1.10%) HP
8 11 (1.10%) Pega
9 10 (1.00%) Micro Focus
9 10 (1.00%) Nimble Storage
9 10 (1.00%) Veeam
10 9 (0.90%) SAP
11 8 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.80%) Splunk
12 7 (0.70%) IBM
12 7 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.60%) Meraki
14 5 (0.50%) Informatica
14 5 (0.50%) Unisys