Lead Jobs in the South West

Leader
England > South West

The median Leader salary in the South West is £60,202 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 46 38
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 737 376 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.32% 5.75% 7.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.62% 6.48% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 551 291 398
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £41,425
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,202 £67,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +10.20% +5.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,475 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.73% -2.03% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,678 5,806 8,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.80% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,051 3,656 5,139
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,407
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,640 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.42% +1.07% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the South West over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Bristol +25 316 £65,000 -7.14% 49
Wiltshire +16 104 £58,500 +8.33% 21
Gloucestershire +5 101 £70,000 -2.78% 37
Dorset +38 92 £60,000 -25.00% 14
Somerset +20 54 £62,500 +47.06% 30
Devon +4 48 £50,000 +14.29% 24
Cornwall -9 7 - - 7
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 South West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 158 (21.44%) Agile
2 144 (19.54%) Security Cleared
3 132 (17.91%) Social Skills
4 115 (15.60%) Azure
5 113 (15.33%) Finance
6 111 (15.06%) Degree
7 92 (12.48%) Mentoring
8 90 (12.21%) Software Engineering
9 79 (10.72%) Microsoft
9 79 (10.72%) AWS
10 71 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
12 66 (8.96%) Java
13 62 (8.41%) Windows
14 57 (7.73%) SQL
15 55 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 54 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
16 54 (7.33%) SC Cleared
17 53 (7.19%) JavaScript
18 52 (7.06%) Validation
19 51 (6.92%) Python
19 51 (6.92%) User Experience
20 50 (6.78%) Coaching
21 48 (6.51%) Analytics
21 48 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
22 46 (6.24%) Project Management
22 46 (6.24%) Project Delivery
23 44 (5.97%) Linux
23 44 (5.97%) DV Cleared
24 42 (5.70%) Requirements Analysis

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 16 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.81%) Confluence
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.54%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.27%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Simulink
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) HFM
1 6 (0.81%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.54%) Q-Pulse
2 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (15.60%) Azure
2 79 (10.72%) AWS
3 36 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 26 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (2.71%) Power Automate
6 10 (1.36%) GCP
6 10 (1.36%) SaaS
7 9 (1.22%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.09%) OCI
8 8 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (0.81%) Slack
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Stack
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Storage
11 5 (0.68%) Serverless
12 4 (0.54%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.71%) WAN
2 18 (2.44%) Network Security
3 15 (2.04%) Firewall
3 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.76%) SD-WAN
5 11 (1.49%) 5G
5 11 (1.49%) DNS
6 7 (0.95%) SSL
6 7 (0.95%) VPN
7 6 (0.81%) LAN
7 6 (0.81%) Telepresence
8 5 (0.68%) BGP
8 5 (0.68%) SAN
9 4 (0.54%) DHCP
9 4 (0.54%) VLAN
10 3 (0.41%) Broadband
10 3 (0.41%) IPv4
10 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Radio
10 3 (0.41%) Wireless
11 2 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.58%) Power BI
3 18 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 17 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.09%) RDBMS
7 7 (0.95%) Big Data
8 6 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.81%) Essbase
8 6 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.81%) Tableau
9 5 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.68%) SQLite
10 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.54%) Flink
10 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.54%) MySQL
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.44%) JIRA
2 17 (2.31%) GitLab
3 12 (1.63%) Git
4 10 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.36%) Subversion
5 8 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.95%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.81%) RStudio
7 6 (0.81%) Selenium
8 5 (0.68%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.54%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.27%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.27%) JUnit
10 2 (0.27%) MSI
11 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 132 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 113 (15.33%) Finance
3 55 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (5.70%) Law
5 32 (4.34%) Banking
6 31 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.80%) Retail
8 25 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 24 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (3.12%) Marketing
11 21 (2.85%) Aerospace
12 20 (2.71%) Investment Banking
13 19 (2.58%) Electronics
14 15 (2.04%) Legal
14 15 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.90%) Local Government
16 12 (1.63%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.61%) HTML
2 30 (4.07%) .NET
3 27 (3.66%) CSS
4 25 (3.39%) React
5 22 (2.99%) REST
6 14 (1.90%) Spring
6 14 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 13 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (1.76%) Vue
8 12 (1.63%) Tailwind CSS
9 11 (1.49%) Laravel
9 11 (1.49%) RESTful
10 10 (1.36%) Web Services
11 9 (1.22%) Alpine.js
11 9 (1.22%) Node.js
12 8 (1.09%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.09%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.95%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 6 (0.81%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.34%) Algorithms
2 31 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 19 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.31%) Private Cloud
5 14 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 13 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.09%) NHS
9 8 (1.09%) Replication
9 8 (1.09%) Robotics
10 7 (0.95%) Cyberattack
10 7 (0.95%) Digital Signage
10 7 (0.95%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.81%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.81%) Fat Client
11 6 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.41%) Windows
2 44 (5.97%) Linux
3 13 (1.76%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.09%) Android
5 8 (1.09%) Unix
5 8 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (21.44%) Agile
2 92 (12.48%) Mentoring
3 90 (12.21%) Software Engineering
4 71 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 54 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
7 52 (7.06%) Validation
8 51 (6.92%) User Experience
9 50 (6.78%) Coaching
10 48 (6.51%) Analytics
10 48 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (6.24%) Project Delivery
11 46 (6.24%) Project Management
12 42 (5.70%) Requirements Analysis
13 41 (5.56%) DevOps
13 41 (5.56%) Machine Learning
14 40 (5.43%) Customer Service
14 40 (5.43%) ITIL
15 37 (5.02%) Roadmaps
16 35 (4.75%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.96%) Java
2 57 (7.73%) SQL
3 53 (7.19%) JavaScript
4 51 (6.92%) Python
5 36 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 35 (4.75%) C#
7 28 (3.80%) C++
8 19 (2.58%) C
9 15 (2.04%) R
10 11 (1.49%) Bash
11 10 (1.36%) PHP
11 10 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.36%) Scala
12 7 (0.95%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.54%) Go
14 3 (0.41%) Ada
14 3 (0.41%) Julia
14 3 (0.41%) XAML
15 2 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 144 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.06%) Degree
3 54 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 44 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.85%) CISSP
7 17 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.04%) CISM
9 10 (1.36%) CISA
9 10 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.95%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (0.81%) SANS
14 5 (0.68%) CEH
14 5 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (0.68%) CRISC
15 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.54%) GSEC
15 4 (0.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.80%) NIST
1 28 (3.80%) QA
2 15 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.76%) PMO
3 13 (1.76%) SLA
4 9 (1.22%) Def Stans
4 9 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.09%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.81%) GMP
7 6 (0.81%) IEC 61508
7 6 (0.81%) JSP 440
7 6 (0.81%) NCSC
7 6 (0.81%) RMADS
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.54%) GDPR
8 4 (0.54%) MISRA
8 4 (0.54%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.41%) JTAG
9 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.04%) vSphere
4 13 (1.76%) Docker
5 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.41%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.49%) SCCM
3 8 (1.09%) Terraform
4 6 (0.81%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (0.54%) Icinga
5 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.41%) Ansible
6 3 (0.41%) Puppet
6 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.41%) WSUS
7 2 (0.27%) CASB
7 2 (0.27%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (10.72%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.39%) VMware
3 22 (2.99%) Oracle
4 17 (2.31%) SolarWinds
5 13 (1.76%) Tanium
5 13 (1.76%) Tripwire
6 10 (1.36%) Cisco
6 10 (1.36%) Google
7 8 (1.09%) Citrix
8 7 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 7 (0.95%) Databricks
9 6 (0.81%) HP
9 6 (0.81%) Hyperion
9 6 (0.81%) Pega
10 5 (0.68%) IBM
10 5 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.68%) SAP
11 4 (0.54%) EMC
11 4 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.54%) Teradata