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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 53 60
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 222 64 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 11.94% 5.04% 4.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.49% 6.30% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 210 41 54
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £28,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £84,629 £70,000 £58,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £69,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +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 1,777 1,016 1,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 80.06% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 600 1,013
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,733 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £37,438 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -8.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 11 May 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 11 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
Tyne and Wear +38 173 £73,805 +47.61% 38
Durham +25 47 £55,000 +12.82% 6
Northumberland - 1 £30,000 - 1
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 North East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 101 (45.50%) Mentoring
2 82 (36.94%) Agile
3 75 (33.78%) Coaching
4 68 (30.63%) Social Skills
5 48 (21.62%) Finance
6 44 (19.82%) SQL
6 44 (19.82%) AWS
7 39 (17.57%) Azure
8 32 (14.41%) Public Sector
8 32 (14.41%) Roadmaps
9 31 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (12.16%) Microsoft
11 26 (11.71%) Data Architecture
12 25 (11.26%) .NET
12 25 (11.26%) Project Delivery
13 24 (10.81%) Project Management
14 23 (10.36%) Python
15 21 (9.46%) C#
15 21 (9.46%) ETL
16 19 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (8.56%) Supplier Management
16 19 (8.56%) Product Roadmap
17 18 (8.11%) Decision-Making
17 18 (8.11%) Data Engineering
17 18 (8.11%) Games
17 18 (8.11%) Client/Server
17 18 (8.11%) Kanban
18 17 (7.66%) CI/CD
19 16 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management

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 (4.95%) Confluence
2 9 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.15%) Tuxedo
4 4 (1.80%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.80%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.90%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.45%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.45%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.82%) AWS
2 39 (17.57%) Azure
3 15 (6.76%) Amazon S3
4 14 (6.31%) SaaS
5 11 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.50%) dbt
6 10 (4.50%) GCP
7 9 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (4.05%) Serverless
8 8 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.70%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 6 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (1.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.95%) Firewall
2 8 (3.60%) Network Security
3 4 (1.80%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.80%) WAN
4 2 (0.90%) DMZ
4 2 (0.90%) Wireless
5 1 (0.45%) DHCP
5 1 (0.45%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.41%) MySQL
2 11 (4.95%) Power BI
3 9 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.05%) Data Lake
3 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.05%) Redis
3 9 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.70%) Couchbase
5 6 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.70%) Tableau
6 5 (2.25%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.80%) DB2
8 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.76%) JIRA
2 3 (1.35%) Gradle
2 3 (1.35%) Maven
2 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 68 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.62%) Finance
3 32 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.11%) Games
5 13 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.41%) Retail
7 8 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.70%) Law
9 4 (1.80%) Banking
9 4 (1.80%) Legal
10 3 (1.35%) Marketing
10 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.26%) .NET
2 11 (4.95%) .NET Core
3 10 (4.50%) RESTful
4 6 (2.70%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.25%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.25%) CSS
5 5 (2.25%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.80%) HTML
6 4 (1.80%) Node.js
7 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.35%) OAuth
7 3 (1.35%) OpenID
7 3 (1.35%) REST
7 3 (1.35%) Vue
7 3 (1.35%) Web Services
7 3 (1.35%) XML
8 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.90%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.45%) jQuery
9 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.11%) Client/Server
2 14 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.41%) Online Games
4 11 (4.95%) NHS
5 8 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.25%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) iPhone
10 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Linux
2 6 (2.70%) Windows
3 3 (1.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (45.50%) Mentoring
2 82 (36.94%) Agile
3 75 (33.78%) Coaching
4 32 (14.41%) Roadmaps
5 31 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (11.71%) Data Architecture
7 25 (11.26%) Project Delivery
8 24 (10.81%) Project Management
9 21 (9.46%) ETL
10 19 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (8.56%) Product Roadmap
10 19 (8.56%) Supplier Management
11 18 (8.11%) Data Engineering
11 18 (8.11%) Decision-Making
11 18 (8.11%) Kanban
12 17 (7.66%) CI/CD
13 16 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (6.76%) Scrum
14 15 (6.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (19.82%) SQL
2 23 (10.36%) Python
3 21 (9.46%) C#
4 14 (6.31%) Java
5 13 (5.86%) COBOL
5 13 (5.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 8 (3.60%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.60%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.70%) C
8 6 (2.70%) C++
9 3 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (7.21%) Degree
2 7 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.25%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.80%) CCSK
5 4 (1.80%) CCSP
5 4 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.80%) CISM
5 4 (1.80%) CISSP
6 2 (0.90%) HNC
6 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.60%) NCSC
2 8 (3.60%) QA
3 7 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.15%) SLA
4 6 (2.70%) GDPR
4 6 (2.70%) NIST
5 4 (1.80%) PMO
6 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (4.05%) Docker
2 7 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.25%) Terraform
3 4 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.21%) Oracle
3 14 (6.31%) Cisco
4 13 (5.86%) Micro Focus
5 11 (4.95%) Google
6 8 (3.60%) IBM
7 7 (3.15%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.15%) Juniper
8 4 (1.80%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.35%) Northgate
10 2 (0.90%) Facebook
10 2 (0.90%) Meraki
10 2 (0.90%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.90%) Pinterest
10 2 (0.90%) SAP
10 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.90%) Snapchat
10 2 (0.90%) TikTok
10 2 (0.90%) VMware
11 1 (0.45%) CrowdStrike