Lead Jobs in Northern Ireland

Leader
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Leader salary in Northern Ireland is £77,500 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 30 55 71
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 48 49 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.91% 5.74% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.23% 6.05% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 21 33 2
10th Percentile £50,000 £26,250 £59,750
25th Percentile £55,400 £42,500 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -35.14% +105.56%
75th Percentile £97,500 £65,000 £115,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,000 £127,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 664 810 639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 94.96% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 323 448 345
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,563 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Northern Ireland

Lead
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +14 34 £77,500 +29.17% 19
County Armagh +4 10 - -
Newry - 1 £50,000 -
County Down - 1 £50,000 -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) QA
3 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 14 (29.17%) Degree
5 12 (25.00%) Manufacturing
6 11 (22.92%) Finance
6 11 (22.92%) Retail
7 10 (20.83%) Legal
7 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
7 10 (20.83%) SAP
7 10 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (20.83%) Google
7 10 (20.83%) Azure
7 10 (20.83%) AWS
7 10 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (20.83%) Internal Audit
7 10 (20.83%) Commercialisation
8 9 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (16.67%) Agile
10 7 (14.58%) Scrum
10 7 (14.58%) Programme Management
10 7 (14.58%) Quality Management
10 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
11 6 (12.50%) Inventory Management
11 6 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
11 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
11 6 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (12.50%) Lean Manufacturing

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (8.33%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.17%) MQSeries
Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) AWS
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
2 6 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.33%) Serverless
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) dbt
6 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) BGP
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
1 4 (8.33%) SSL
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.25%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.33%) MySQL
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 4 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Retail
3 10 (20.83%) Legal
3 10 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
5 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.08%) Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (6.25%) React
3 3 (6.25%) Vue
4 2 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.17%) JSON
4 2 (4.17%) Laravel
4 2 (4.17%) Node.js
4 2 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Virtual Team
2 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.33%) FMCG
2 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Commercialisation
1 10 (20.83%) Internal Audit
1 10 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
3 8 (16.67%) Agile
4 7 (14.58%) Programme Management
4 7 (14.58%) Quality Management
4 7 (14.58%) Scrum
5 6 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 6 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 6 (12.50%) Lean Manufacturing
5 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (10.42%) Business Development
6 5 (10.42%) Business Strategy
6 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.42%) SDLC
6 5 (10.42%) Virtual Team Management
7 4 (8.33%) ArchiMate
7 4 (8.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) C#
2 3 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (4.17%) PHP
3 2 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (29.17%) Degree
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Google
1 10 (20.83%) SAP
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) Sparx
4 2 (4.17%) Solace
4 2 (4.17%) Thales
4 2 (4.17%) TIBCO