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 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 46 37
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 746 376 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.31% 5.74% 7.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.60% 6.46% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 556 291 399
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £41,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,202 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +12.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 9,814 5,817 8,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.18% 88.84% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 7,122 3,666 5,150
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
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 £65,304
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,255 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +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 6 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 6 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 +30 317 £65,000 -7.14% 52
Wiltshire +16 107 £58,000 +6.42% 21
Gloucestershire +1 102 £70,000 -2.78% 29
Dorset +33 93 £60,000 -25.00% 14
Somerset +21 56 £62,500 +47.06% 34
Devon +5 48 £50,000 +14.29% 25
Cornwall -9 7 - - 6
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 157 (21.05%) Agile
2 145 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 132 (17.69%) Social Skills
4 115 (15.42%) Azure
5 114 (15.28%) Finance
6 111 (14.88%) Degree
7 92 (12.33%) Mentoring
8 91 (12.20%) Software Engineering
9 79 (10.59%) Microsoft
9 79 (10.59%) AWS
10 71 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
12 66 (8.85%) Java
13 62 (8.31%) Windows
14 57 (7.64%) SQL
15 55 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
15 55 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 54 (7.24%) SC Cleared
17 53 (7.10%) JavaScript
17 53 (7.10%) Python
18 52 (6.97%) Validation
19 51 (6.84%) User Experience
20 49 (6.57%) Coaching
21 48 (6.43%) Analytics
22 47 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
23 46 (6.17%) Project Management
23 46 (6.17%) Project Delivery
24 45 (6.03%) DV Cleared
25 44 (5.90%) Linux
26 42 (5.63%) Law

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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.80%) Confluence
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.54%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.40%) IIS
5 2 (0.27%) CMS
5 2 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.27%) WordPress
6 1 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.80%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Simulink
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) HFM
1 6 (0.80%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.54%) Q-Pulse
2 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (15.42%) Azure
2 79 (10.59%) AWS
3 36 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 26 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (2.68%) Power Automate
6 11 (1.47%) SaaS
7 9 (1.21%) GCP
7 9 (1.21%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.07%) OCI
8 8 (1.07%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (0.80%) Slack
11 5 (0.67%) Azure Stack
11 5 (0.67%) Azure Storage
11 5 (0.67%) Serverless
12 4 (0.54%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.82%) WAN
2 18 (2.41%) Network Security
3 15 (2.01%) Firewall
3 15 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 11 (1.47%) 5G
5 11 (1.47%) DNS
6 7 (0.94%) LAN
6 7 (0.94%) SSL
6 7 (0.94%) VPN
7 6 (0.80%) Telepresence
8 5 (0.67%) BGP
8 5 (0.67%) SAN
9 4 (0.54%) DHCP
9 4 (0.54%) VLAN
10 3 (0.40%) Broadband
10 3 (0.40%) IPv4
10 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Radio
10 3 (0.40%) Wireless
11 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.55%) Power BI
3 18 (2.41%) Data Lake
3 18 (2.41%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.07%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.94%) Big Data
7 6 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.80%) Essbase
7 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.80%) Tableau
8 5 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.67%) SQLite
9 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.54%) Flink
9 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.54%) MySQL
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.41%) JIRA
2 17 (2.28%) GitLab
3 12 (1.61%) Git
4 10 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.34%) Subversion
5 8 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.80%) RStudio
7 6 (0.80%) Selenium
8 5 (0.67%) 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 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.13%) JMeter
11 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 132 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 114 (15.28%) Finance
3 55 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (5.63%) Law
5 32 (4.29%) Banking
5 32 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 29 (3.89%) Retail
7 25 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 24 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (3.08%) Marketing
10 21 (2.82%) Aerospace
11 20 (2.68%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.55%) Electronics
13 15 (2.01%) Legal
13 15 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.88%) Local Government
15 12 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.56%) HTML
2 30 (4.02%) .NET
3 27 (3.62%) CSS
4 25 (3.35%) React
5 23 (3.08%) REST
6 14 (1.88%) Spring
6 14 (1.88%) Spring Boot
6 14 (1.88%) Vue
7 13 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (1.61%) RESTful
8 12 (1.61%) Tailwind CSS
9 11 (1.47%) Laravel
10 10 (1.34%) Node.js
10 10 (1.34%) Web Services
11 9 (1.21%) Alpine.js
12 8 (1.07%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.07%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.94%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
14 6 (0.80%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.29%) Algorithms
2 31 (4.16%) Product Ownership
3 19 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.28%) Private Cloud
5 14 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 13 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.07%) NHS
9 8 (1.07%) Replication
9 8 (1.07%) Robotics
10 7 (0.94%) Cyberattack
10 7 (0.94%) Digital Signage
10 7 (0.94%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.80%) Fat Client
11 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.31%) Windows
2 44 (5.90%) Linux
3 13 (1.74%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.07%) Android
5 8 (1.07%) Unix
5 8 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.80%) 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 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (21.05%) Agile
2 92 (12.33%) Mentoring
3 91 (12.20%) Software Engineering
4 71 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
6 55 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
7 52 (6.97%) Validation
8 51 (6.84%) User Experience
9 49 (6.57%) Coaching
10 48 (6.43%) Analytics
11 47 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (6.17%) Project Delivery
12 46 (6.17%) Project Management
13 42 (5.63%) Requirements Analysis
14 41 (5.50%) ITIL
14 41 (5.50%) Machine Learning
15 40 (5.36%) Customer Service
15 40 (5.36%) DevOps
16 36 (4.83%) Full Stack Development
16 36 (4.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.85%) Java
2 57 (7.64%) SQL
3 53 (7.10%) JavaScript
3 53 (7.10%) Python
4 37 (4.96%) TypeScript
5 35 (4.69%) C#
6 28 (3.75%) C++
7 19 (2.55%) C
8 15 (2.01%) R
9 11 (1.47%) Bash
10 10 (1.34%) PHP
10 10 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.34%) Scala
11 7 (0.94%) MATLAB
11 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.67%) Go
13 3 (0.40%) Ada
13 3 (0.40%) Julia
13 3 (0.40%) XAML
14 2 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 145 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.88%) Degree
3 54 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.82%) CISSP
7 17 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.01%) CISM
9 10 (1.34%) CISA
9 10 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.94%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (0.80%) SANS
14 5 (0.67%) CEH
14 5 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (0.67%) CRISC
15 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.54%) GSEC
15 4 (0.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.75%) NIST
1 28 (3.75%) QA
2 15 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.74%) PMO
3 13 (1.74%) SLA
4 9 (1.21%) Def Stans
4 9 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.07%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.80%) GMP
7 6 (0.80%) IEC 61508
7 6 (0.80%) JSP 440
7 6 (0.80%) NCSC
7 6 (0.80%) 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 (0.40%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.01%) vSphere
4 13 (1.74%) Docker
5 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.47%) SCCM
3 7 (0.94%) Terraform
4 6 (0.80%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (0.54%) Icinga
5 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.40%) Ansible
6 3 (0.40%) Puppet
6 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.40%) WSUS
7 2 (0.27%) CASB
7 2 (0.27%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 79 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.49%) VMware
3 22 (2.95%) Oracle
4 17 (2.28%) SolarWinds
5 13 (1.74%) Tanium
5 13 (1.74%) Tripwire
6 12 (1.61%) Cisco
7 9 (1.21%) Google
8 8 (1.07%) Citrix
9 7 (0.94%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.94%) Databricks
10 6 (0.80%) HP
10 6 (0.80%) Hyperion
10 6 (0.80%) Pega
11 5 (0.67%) IBM
11 5 (0.67%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.67%) SAP
12 4 (0.54%) EMC
12 4 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.54%) Teradata