Lead Jobs in the West Midlands

Leader
England > West Midlands

The median Leader salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 622 684 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.43% 10.67% 9.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.95% 11.82% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 449 329 381
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £42,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,947 5,785 6,902
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.21% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,217 3,296 4,732
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +23 280 £73,805 +18.09% 45
Warwickshire -3 114 £66,250 +20.45% 23
Staffordshire -20 36 £50,000 +13.31% 15
Wolverhampton +22 29 £53,500 -20.74% 4
Worcestershire -7 26 £55,000 +18.92% 6
Shropshire +6 23 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Coventry +39 22 £49,000 -24.62% 10
Solihull -14 18 £67,500 -6.90% 2
West Bromwich - 6 £80,000 -
Wednesbury - 4 £55,000 -
Dudley +8 2 £73,805 - 3
Walsall +14 1 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Herefordshire +1 1 £31,516 -68.48% 1
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 134 (21.54%) Agile
2 110 (17.68%) Mentoring
3 105 (16.88%) Finance
4 97 (15.59%) Social Skills
5 82 (13.18%) Coaching
6 74 (11.90%) Degree
7 67 (10.77%) Automotive
8 63 (10.13%) Roadmaps
9 62 (9.97%) Project Management
10 60 (9.65%) AWS
10 60 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (9.16%) Microsoft
12 55 (8.84%) JavaScript
13 54 (8.68%) Azure
14 51 (8.20%) QA
15 50 (8.04%) React
15 50 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (7.07%) Supplier Management
17 42 (6.75%) TypeScript
17 42 (6.75%) CI/CD
18 40 (6.43%) DevOps
18 40 (6.43%) Node.js
18 40 (6.43%) Manufacturing
18 40 (6.43%) SQL
19 39 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
19 39 (6.27%) Software Engineering
19 39 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
19 39 (6.27%) Microservices
19 39 (6.27%) Power Platform
20 38 (6.11%) Technical Leadership

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.45%) Appian
3 9 (1.45%) IIS
4 8 (1.29%) Confluence
5 6 (0.96%) Tuxedo
5 6 (0.96%) WordPress
6 3 (0.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.48%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.16%) Blender
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Simulink
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Shopify
2 8 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.48%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (9.65%) AWS
2 54 (8.68%) Azure
3 39 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 31 (4.98%) Serverless
5 23 (3.70%) GCP
6 19 (3.05%) SaaS
7 14 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.09%) PowerApps
9 12 (1.93%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.13%) Contentful
12 7 (1.13%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.13%) Google Tag Manager
12 7 (1.13%) Vercel
13 6 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.77%) Firewall
2 7 (1.13%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.96%) DNS
3 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.80%) HTTP
4 5 (0.80%) WAN
5 4 (0.64%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.64%) LAN
6 3 (0.48%) DHCP
6 3 (0.48%) Intranet
6 3 (0.48%) MQTT
6 3 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.48%) SSL
6 3 (0.48%) VPN
6 3 (0.48%) Wireless
7 2 (0.32%) Internet
7 2 (0.32%) Network Security
7 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.16%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.95%) Power BI
2 33 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.89%) MySQL
4 14 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 8 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (1.29%) Tableau
9 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.48%) DB2
11 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (2.89%) Git
2 17 (2.73%) JIRA
3 8 (1.29%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.13%) Selenium
5 6 (0.96%) CANoe
5 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.80%) NUnit
7 4 (0.64%) Postman
8 3 (0.48%) Subversion
9 2 (0.32%) GitLab
9 2 (0.32%) gulp
9 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.16%) Appium
10 1 (0.16%) JUnit
10 1 (0.16%) Maven
10 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.16%) TestNG
10 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 105 (16.88%) Finance
2 97 (15.59%) Social Skills
3 67 (10.77%) Automotive
4 40 (6.43%) Manufacturing
5 39 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.82%) Legal
8 26 (4.18%) Marketing
9 19 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.93%) Electronics
12 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.77%) Retail
13 9 (1.45%) Environmental Health
13 9 (1.45%) Local Government
14 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.96%) Games
15 6 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.64%) Law
16 4 (0.64%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (8.04%) React
2 40 (6.43%) Node.js
3 29 (4.66%) .NET
4 18 (2.89%) HTML
5 17 (2.73%) CSS
6 14 (2.25%) AngularJS
7 13 (2.09%) .NET Core
7 13 (2.09%) Laravel
7 13 (2.09%) REST
8 12 (1.93%) Next.js
9 11 (1.77%) RESTful
10 10 (1.61%) JSON
10 10 (1.61%) XML
11 9 (1.45%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.29%) Vue
13 6 (0.96%) jQuery
14 5 (0.80%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (0.80%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.80%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 19 (3.05%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.25%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.25%) SCADA
4 13 (2.09%) Low-Code
5 12 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.77%) Industry 4.0
7 9 (1.45%) Infotainment
7 9 (1.45%) NHS
8 8 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.13%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.13%) PMI
9 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.13%) Virtual Reality
10 6 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 6 (0.96%) IoT
10 6 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.22%) Windows
2 14 (2.25%) Linux
3 4 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (0.64%) VMS
3 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.64%) Windows 7
3 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.32%) Android
4 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.32%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (21.54%) Agile
2 110 (17.68%) Mentoring
3 82 (13.18%) Coaching
4 63 (10.13%) Roadmaps
5 62 (9.97%) Project Management
6 60 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (7.07%) Supplier Management
9 42 (6.75%) CI/CD
10 40 (6.43%) DevOps
11 39 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (6.27%) Microservices
11 39 (6.27%) Software Engineering
12 38 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (5.79%) ITIL
14 31 (4.98%) Decision-Making
14 31 (4.98%) Full Stack Development
15 30 (4.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (4.66%) Customer Service
17 28 (4.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (8.84%) JavaScript
2 42 (6.75%) TypeScript
3 40 (6.43%) SQL
4 36 (5.79%) Java
5 34 (5.47%) Python
6 32 (5.14%) C#
7 16 (2.57%) C
8 13 (2.09%) Go
9 11 (1.77%) PHP
10 10 (1.61%) COBOL
10 10 (1.61%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 8 (1.29%) C++
11 8 (1.29%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.29%) R
12 4 (0.64%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.48%) Ruby
13 3 (0.48%) VB
13 3 (0.48%) XAML
14 2 (0.32%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.32%) VB6
Qualifications
1 74 (11.90%) Degree
2 18 (2.89%) Security Cleared
3 15 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.13%) CISM
6 7 (1.13%) CISSP
6 7 (1.13%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.80%) CREST Certified
7 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.64%) CCNP
8 4 (0.64%) HND
8 4 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.48%) CCSK
9 3 (0.48%) CCSP
10 2 (0.32%) CRISC
10 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.20%) QA
2 14 (2.25%) GDPR
2 14 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.13%) ISO 26262
5 6 (0.96%) NIST
6 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.64%) SLA
7 3 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
7 3 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.32%) NCSC
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) PMO
9 1 (0.16%) Automotive SPICE
9 1 (0.16%) COSHH
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 22 (3.54%) Docker
2 9 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (1.45%) Firmware
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.48%) vSphere
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.77%) Functional Safety
2 11 (1.77%) Terraform
3 4 (0.64%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 57 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.18%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.22%) Oracle
4 11 (1.77%) Cisco
4 11 (1.77%) Databricks
4 11 (1.77%) Google
4 11 (1.77%) Pega
5 10 (1.61%) Micro Focus
6 8 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.13%) IBM
7 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.13%) VMware
8 6 (0.96%) CheckPoint
9 5 (0.80%) Informatica
9 5 (0.80%) Sage
9 5 (0.80%) SAP
9 5 (0.80%) Unisys
10 4 (0.64%) Citrix
10 4 (0.64%) Meraki
11 3 (0.48%) Dell