Lead Jobs in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 17 42 38
Rank change year-on-year +25 -4 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,537 3,677 5,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.52% 6.56% 7.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.96% 7.39% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,384 2,516 3,053
10th Percentile £39,825 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% +2.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,928 49,766 71,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 88.84% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 51,148 29,359 42,952
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +29 1,872 £70,000 - 352
South East +18 1,301 £61,584 -8.76% 275
Scotland +14 1,028 £63,500 -9.29% 100
Midlands +4 1,019 £60,000 - 247
North West +25 940 £70,000 - 201
South West +23 737 £60,202 -10.81% 187
Yorkshire +30 680 £70,000 - 114
West Midlands +2 670 £65,000 +8.33% 138
East of England +28 383 £60,000 +4.35% 125
East Midlands +29 345 £52,500 -8.70% 108
North East +37 254 £70,250 +40.50% 40
Wales +21 151 £65,000 - 28
Northern Ireland +30 51 £76,325 +27.21% 14
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,081 (31.83%) Agile
2 1,711 (26.17%) Finance
3 1,333 (20.39%) Software Engineering
4 1,279 (19.57%) Mentoring
5 1,163 (17.79%) Social Skills
6 1,076 (16.46%) AWS
7 1,019 (15.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1,008 (15.42%) Azure
9 904 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
10 873 (13.35%) Java
10 873 (13.35%) Law
11 870 (13.31%) CI/CD
12 834 (12.76%) Marketing
13 829 (12.68%) SQL
14 821 (12.56%) SDLC
15 805 (12.31%) Coaching
16 704 (10.77%) Degree
17 700 (10.71%) Microsoft
18 652 (9.97%) Operational Stability
19 580 (8.87%) Machine Learning
20 555 (8.49%) DevOps
21 553 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
22 533 (8.15%) Python
23 519 (7.94%) JavaScript
24 518 (7.92%) Community of Practice
25 513 (7.85%) Roadmaps
26 509 (7.79%) Security Cleared
27 496 (7.59%) Project Management
28 492 (7.53%) .NET
29 468 (7.16%) C#

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 190 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 114 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 103 (1.58%) Confluence
4 66 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.58%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.49%) FileNet
9 30 (0.46%) IIS
10 28 (0.43%) Apache
11 27 (0.41%) CMS
12 21 (0.32%) GemFire
13 12 (0.18%) WordPress
14 10 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.14%) Appian
15 9 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 113 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.26%) Windchill
5 15 (0.23%) Simulink
6 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.18%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.061%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.031%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.015%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.015%) Blender
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 79 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 16 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.24%) Shopify
5 10 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 6 (0.092%) HFM
6 6 (0.092%) Hyperion Planning
6 6 (0.092%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.092%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.076%) Primavera
7 5 (0.076%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
8 4 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.061%) MIS ActiveH
8 4 (0.061%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.061%) Q-Pulse
8 4 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,076 (16.46%) AWS
2 1,008 (15.42%) Azure
3 266 (4.07%) Power Platform
4 265 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 181 (2.77%) GCP
6 163 (2.49%) SaaS
7 144 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
9 107 (1.64%) Serverless
10 95 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 73 (1.12%) Datadog
12 68 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (0.93%) Power Automate
14 60 (0.92%) PowerApps
15 59 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (0.87%) Entra ID
17 56 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
18 52 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
18 52 (0.80%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 173 (2.65%) Firewall
2 116 (1.77%) DNS
3 95 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 93 (1.42%) WAN
5 82 (1.25%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.24%) Broadband
7 74 (1.13%) SSL
8 64 (0.98%) Network Security
9 57 (0.87%) LAN
10 43 (0.66%) BGP
10 43 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 40 (0.61%) Wireless
12 35 (0.54%) VPN
13 33 (0.50%) DHCP
14 32 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
15 27 (0.41%) SAN
15 27 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (0.40%) Internet
17 24 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (4.42%) NoSQL
2 220 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 203 (3.11%) Power BI
4 168 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 157 (2.40%) Big Data
6 117 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 117 (1.79%) MySQL
7 110 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
8 76 (1.16%) Metadata
9 75 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 74 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 72 (1.10%) RDBMS
12 71 (1.09%) Tableau
13 57 (0.87%) MongoDB
14 54 (0.83%) Data Lake
14 54 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
15 49 (0.75%) Oracle Database
16 47 (0.72%) DynamoDB
17 40 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.58%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 253 (3.87%) Git
2 168 (2.57%) JIRA
3 138 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 102 (1.56%) Selenium
5 96 (1.47%) GitLab
6 86 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 78 (1.19%) JUnit
8 67 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 67 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 61 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 39 (0.60%) Postman
11 33 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.47%) SoapUI
13 29 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.44%) Jasmine
14 26 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.34%) Protractor
15 22 (0.34%) WebDriver
16 21 (0.32%) Jaeger
General
1 1,711 (26.17%) Finance
2 1,163 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 1,019 (15.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 873 (13.35%) Law
5 834 (12.76%) Marketing
6 359 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
7 353 (5.40%) Public Sector
8 241 (3.69%) Banking
9 227 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 193 (2.95%) Retail
11 179 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 163 (2.49%) Legal
13 145 (2.22%) Investment Banking
14 134 (2.05%) Automotive
15 110 (1.68%) Aerospace
16 108 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
17 93 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
17 93 (1.42%) Telecoms
18 80 (1.22%) Advertising
19 71 (1.09%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 492 (7.53%) .NET
2 425 (6.50%) React
3 281 (4.30%) Spring
4 274 (4.19%) HTML
5 266 (4.07%) CSS
6 196 (3.00%) Node.js
7 192 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 190 (2.91%) JSON
9 180 (2.75%) RESTful
10 172 (2.63%) Kafka
11 160 (2.45%) AngularJS
12 152 (2.33%) REST
13 142 (2.17%) Web Services
14 111 (1.70%) XML
15 108 (1.65%) .NET Core
16 96 (1.47%) OpenID
17 92 (1.41%) jQuery
18 90 (1.38%) PySpark
19 84 (1.28%) Vue
20 81 (1.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 407 (6.23%) Cloud Native
2 298 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 250 (3.82%) Public Cloud
4 153 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 99 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 88 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 83 (1.27%) Cyberattack
8 83 (1.27%) Private Cloud
9 80 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 77 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
11 75 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 69 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 69 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
13 68 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 66 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.01%) Reference Data
15 55 (0.84%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.58%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 408 (6.24%) Windows
2 282 (4.31%) Linux
3 131 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 73 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.60%) Android
7 34 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 31 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 14 (0.21%) Windows 7
13 13 (0.20%) Unix
14 11 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 10 (0.15%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.12%) Debian
17 6 (0.092%) VMS
18 4 (0.061%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.061%) Windows 8
19 3 (0.046%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,081 (31.83%) Agile
2 1,333 (20.39%) Software Engineering
3 1,279 (19.57%) Mentoring
4 904 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
5 870 (13.31%) CI/CD
6 821 (12.56%) SDLC
7 805 (12.31%) Coaching
8 652 (9.97%) Operational Stability
9 580 (8.87%) Machine Learning
10 555 (8.49%) DevOps
11 553 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
12 518 (7.92%) Community of Practice
13 513 (7.85%) Roadmaps
14 496 (7.59%) Project Management
15 410 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 401 (6.13%) Architectural Design
17 388 (5.94%) Information Architecture
18 381 (5.83%) Analytics
19 359 (5.49%) Decision-Making
20 354 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 873 (13.35%) Java
2 829 (12.68%) SQL
3 533 (8.15%) Python
4 519 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 468 (7.16%) C#
6 336 (5.14%) TypeScript
7 157 (2.40%) Scala
8 146 (2.23%) C
9 144 (2.20%) C++
10 139 (2.13%) PHP
11 95 (1.45%) Go
12 66 (1.01%) COBOL
12 66 (1.01%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (0.99%) Prolog
13 65 (0.99%) SPARQL
14 61 (0.93%) R
15 53 (0.81%) PowerShell
16 28 (0.43%) VB.NET
17 24 (0.37%) MATLAB
18 23 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 704 (10.77%) Degree
2 509 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 300 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 144 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 83 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 78 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.12%) CISM
10 71 (1.09%) CISSP
11 70 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 69 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 55 (0.84%) DV Cleared
15 48 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (0.67%) PhD
17 31 (0.47%) CCNP
18 28 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 28 (0.43%) CCSP
19 27 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (4.51%) QA
2 115 (1.76%) SLA
3 113 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.32%) PMO
5 85 (1.30%) NIST
6 80 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 79 (1.21%) GDPR
8 71 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.46%) GMP
11 23 (0.35%) GRC
12 20 (0.31%) NCSC
13 16 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
15 12 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.17%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.14%) IFRS
17 9 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.12%) PSD2
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 266 (4.07%) Docker
2 257 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.84%) Firmware
4 55 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.49%) vSphere
6 24 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 16 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.046%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.046%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.031%) HDFS
11 2 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.031%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.015%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 368 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 228 (3.49%) Terraform
3 97 (1.48%) Grafana
4 76 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 62 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.67%) Ansible
7 42 (0.64%) SCCM
8 37 (0.57%) Puppet
9 25 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.34%) Kibana
11 21 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.32%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.20%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.18%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.17%) WSUS
15 9 (0.14%) Consul
15 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 700 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 328 (5.02%) Oracle
3 131 (2.00%) Google
4 126 (1.93%) VMware
5 111 (1.70%) Splunk
6 109 (1.67%) SAP
7 98 (1.50%) Cisco
8 84 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 76 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.06%) Micro Focus
11 65 (0.99%) Atlassian
11 65 (0.99%) Databricks
12 56 (0.86%) Citrix
13 47 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 45 (0.69%) IBM
15 40 (0.61%) Sparx
16 33 (0.50%) Veeam
17 32 (0.49%) Qualtrics
18 22 (0.34%) MuleSoft
19 21 (0.32%) Meraki