Lead Jobs in the North East

Leader
England > North East

The median Leader salary in the North East is £70,000 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 10 47 53
Rank change year-on-year +37 +6 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 249 64 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.25% 5.25% 4.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.77% 6.63% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 232 44 55
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,625 £29,300
25th Percentile £50,001 £41,250 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £84,919 £69,063 £58,000
90th Percentile £84,996 £81,250 £70,250
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
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 1,950 966 1,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.92% 79.25% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 595 1,030
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,650 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,297
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,419 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +19.18% -11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £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 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 1 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 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
Tyne and Wear +35 194 £73,805 +47.61% 36
Durham +23 53 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Northumberland - 1 £30,000 - 4
Lead
England

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

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 North East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 105 (42.17%) Mentoring
2 86 (34.54%) Agile
3 76 (30.52%) Coaching
4 68 (27.31%) Social Skills
5 51 (20.48%) Finance
6 46 (18.47%) SQL
6 46 (18.47%) AWS
7 41 (16.47%) Azure
8 34 (13.65%) Roadmaps
9 33 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (12.85%) Public Sector
11 31 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (11.24%) Microsoft
13 26 (10.44%) .NET
13 26 (10.44%) Data Architecture
14 25 (10.04%) Project Delivery
15 24 (9.64%) Python
15 24 (9.64%) Project Management
16 21 (8.43%) ETL
16 21 (8.43%) C#
17 20 (8.03%) Software Engineering
17 20 (8.03%) Data Engineering
18 19 (7.63%) Product Roadmap
18 19 (7.63%) CI/CD
18 19 (7.63%) Supplier Management
19 18 (7.23%) Kanban
19 18 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
19 18 (7.23%) Client/Server
19 18 (7.23%) Games
19 18 (7.23%) Decision-Making

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 (4.42%) Confluence
2 9 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.81%) Tuxedo
4 4 (1.61%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.80%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.47%) AWS
2 41 (16.47%) Azure
3 15 (6.02%) Amazon S3
4 14 (5.62%) SaaS
5 12 (4.82%) dbt
6 11 (4.42%) GCP
6 11 (4.42%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.61%) Serverless
8 8 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.41%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 6 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.02%) Firewall
2 7 (2.81%) Network Security
3 5 (2.01%) WAN
4 4 (1.61%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.20%) Wireless
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) DMZ
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.82%) MySQL
2 11 (4.42%) Power BI
3 10 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.61%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.61%) Redis
5 8 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.41%) Couchbase
6 6 (2.41%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.41%) Tableau
7 5 (2.01%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.61%) DB2
9 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.40%) Big Data
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.02%) JIRA
2 3 (1.20%) Gradle
2 3 (1.20%) Maven
2 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 68 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.48%) Finance
3 32 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.23%) Games
5 13 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.82%) Retail
7 8 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Law
9 4 (1.61%) Banking
9 4 (1.61%) Legal
9 4 (1.61%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.44%) .NET
2 11 (4.42%) .NET Core
3 10 (4.02%) RESTful
4 6 (2.41%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.01%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.01%) CSS
5 5 (2.01%) Entity Framework
5 5 (2.01%) Node.js
6 4 (1.61%) HTML
7 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.20%) OAuth
7 3 (1.20%) OpenID
7 3 (1.20%) REST
7 3 (1.20%) Vue
7 3 (1.20%) Web Services
7 3 (1.20%) XML
8 2 (0.80%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) Blazor
9 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.23%) Client/Server
2 14 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.82%) Online Games
4 11 (4.42%) NHS
5 8 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.80%) iPhone
10 2 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.02%) Linux
2 6 (2.41%) Windows
3 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (42.17%) Mentoring
2 86 (34.54%) Agile
3 76 (30.52%) Coaching
4 34 (13.65%) Roadmaps
5 33 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (10.44%) Data Architecture
8 25 (10.04%) Project Delivery
9 24 (9.64%) Project Management
10 21 (8.43%) ETL
11 20 (8.03%) Data Engineering
11 20 (8.03%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.63%) CI/CD
12 19 (7.63%) Product Roadmap
12 19 (7.63%) Supplier Management
13 18 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (7.23%) Decision-Making
13 18 (7.23%) Kanban
14 17 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (6.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.47%) SQL
2 24 (9.64%) Python
3 21 (8.43%) C#
4 14 (5.62%) Java
5 13 (5.22%) COBOL
5 13 (5.22%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 8 (3.21%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.21%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.81%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.41%) C
8 6 (2.41%) C++
9 3 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (6.02%) Degree
2 8 (3.21%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.01%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.61%) CCSK
5 4 (1.61%) CCSP
5 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.61%) CISM
5 4 (1.61%) CISSP
6 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) HNC
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.21%) QA
3 7 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (2.81%) NCSC
3 7 (2.81%) SLA
4 6 (2.41%) GDPR
5 5 (2.01%) NIST
6 4 (1.61%) PMO
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (3.61%) Docker
2 7 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.01%) Terraform
3 4 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.43%) Oracle
3 14 (5.62%) Cisco
4 13 (5.22%) Micro Focus
5 11 (4.42%) Google
6 8 (3.21%) IBM
7 7 (2.81%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.81%) Juniper
8 5 (2.01%) SAP
9 4 (1.61%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.20%) Northgate
10 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.80%) Facebook
11 2 (0.80%) Meraki
11 2 (0.80%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.80%) Pinterest
11 2 (0.80%) Snapchat
11 2 (0.80%) TikTok
11 2 (0.80%) VMware
12 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike