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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 39 39
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,124 3,891 5,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.44% 6.62% 7.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.89% 7.43% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,128 2,602 3,006
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 23 May 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 23 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
North of England +30 1,708 £70,000 - 324
South East +19 1,200 £62,000 -8.15% 286
Scotland +19 1,038 £63,500 -9.29% 79
Midlands +3 946 £60,000 - 251
North West +25 837 £70,000 - 196
South West +22 688 £60,202 -10.81% 168
West Midlands +5 638 £65,000 +8.33% 143
Yorkshire +30 635 £70,000 - 89
East of England +36 364 £60,000 +4.35% 128
East Midlands +28 304 £51,500 -14.17% 108
North East +42 237 £70,000 +40.00% 42
Wales +18 136 £65,000 -1.89% 37
Northern Ireland +28 48 £77,500 +29.17% 18
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 23 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,018 (32.95%) Agile
2 1,716 (28.02%) Finance
3 1,232 (20.12%) Software Engineering
4 1,178 (19.24%) Mentoring
5 1,165 (19.02%) Social Skills
6 1,056 (17.24%) AWS
7 991 (16.18%) Azure
8 970 (15.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 893 (14.58%) Law
10 881 (14.39%) Java
11 876 (14.30%) CI/CD
12 857 (13.99%) Marketing
13 828 (13.52%) SQL
14 827 (13.50%) SDLC
15 824 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
16 779 (12.72%) Coaching
17 690 (11.27%) Degree
18 688 (11.23%) Microsoft
19 678 (11.07%) Operational Stability
20 565 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence
21 535 (8.74%) DevOps
22 533 (8.70%) Community of Practice
23 526 (8.59%) Machine Learning
24 524 (8.56%) Python
25 513 (8.38%) JavaScript
26 510 (8.33%) Roadmaps
27 495 (8.08%) Security Cleared
28 489 (7.98%) Project Management
29 465 (7.59%) .NET
30 449 (7.33%) 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
1 196 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 113 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 106 (1.73%) Confluence
4 66 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 57 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.62%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.52%) FileNet
9 30 (0.49%) IIS
10 29 (0.47%) Apache
11 28 (0.46%) CMS
12 21 (0.34%) GemFire
13 12 (0.20%) WordPress
14 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.15%) Appian
15 9 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.13%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 106 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.28%) Windchill
5 15 (0.24%) Simulink
6 12 (0.20%) Sketch
7 11 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.065%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.049%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.033%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.033%) Trello
13 1 (0.016%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.016%) Blender
13 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.016%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 77 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.28%) Teamcenter
4 16 (0.26%) Shopify
5 10 (0.16%) SAP GRC
6 7 (0.11%) HFM
6 7 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
7 6 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.098%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.082%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.082%) Primavera
9 4 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.065%) MIS ActiveH
9 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.065%) Q-Pulse
9 4 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.065%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,056 (17.24%) AWS
2 991 (16.18%) Azure
3 264 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
4 263 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 179 (2.92%) GCP
6 149 (2.43%) SaaS
7 144 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (1.73%) Serverless
9 95 (1.55%) Amazon S3
10 76 (1.24%) Datadog
11 68 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
12 63 (1.03%) Power Automate
13 61 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
13 61 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
14 58 (0.95%) PowerApps
15 56 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (0.88%) Entra ID
17 52 (0.85%) Figma
18 50 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 169 (2.76%) Firewall
2 111 (1.81%) DNS
3 96 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 91 (1.49%) WAN
5 82 (1.34%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.32%) Broadband
7 74 (1.21%) SSL
8 62 (1.01%) Network Security
9 55 (0.90%) LAN
10 43 (0.70%) BGP
10 43 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 36 (0.59%) Wireless
12 34 (0.56%) VPN
13 32 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
14 30 (0.49%) DHCP
15 26 (0.42%) Internet
15 26 (0.42%) SAN
16 24 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
17 22 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (4.85%) NoSQL
2 216 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 202 (3.30%) Power BI
4 171 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 161 (2.63%) Big Data
6 119 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 115 (1.88%) MySQL
8 106 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 83 (1.36%) Tableau
10 81 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 78 (1.27%) Metadata
12 74 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
13 72 (1.18%) RDBMS
14 62 (1.01%) MongoDB
15 53 (0.87%) Data Lake
16 51 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
17 49 (0.80%) Oracle Database
18 43 (0.70%) DynamoDB
19 41 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 38 (0.62%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 247 (4.03%) Git
2 173 (2.82%) JIRA
3 147 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 104 (1.70%) Selenium
5 98 (1.60%) GitLab
6 88 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 75 (1.22%) JUnit
8 67 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 67 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 61 (1.00%) Visual Studio
10 38 (0.62%) Postman
11 35 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.47%) Jasmine
12 29 (0.47%) SoapUI
13 27 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 26 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.36%) Protractor
15 22 (0.36%) WebDriver
16 21 (0.34%) Jaeger
General
1 1,716 (28.02%) Finance
2 1,165 (19.02%) Social Skills
3 970 (15.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 893 (14.58%) Law
5 857 (13.99%) Marketing
6 356 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 355 (5.80%) Public Sector
8 247 (4.03%) Banking
9 212 (3.46%) Manufacturing
10 185 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
11 177 (2.89%) Retail
12 149 (2.43%) Investment Banking
13 146 (2.38%) Legal
14 126 (2.06%) Automotive
15 109 (1.78%) Aerospace
16 105 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 92 (1.50%) Telecoms
18 91 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
19 80 (1.31%) Advertising
20 71 (1.16%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (7.59%) .NET
2 420 (6.86%) React
3 280 (4.57%) Spring
4 271 (4.43%) HTML
5 262 (4.28%) CSS
6 194 (3.17%) Spring Boot
7 192 (3.14%) JSON
8 185 (3.02%) Node.js
9 181 (2.96%) RESTful
10 174 (2.84%) Kafka
11 161 (2.63%) AngularJS
12 146 (2.38%) REST
13 140 (2.29%) Web Services
14 109 (1.78%) XML
15 102 (1.67%) .NET Core
16 96 (1.57%) OpenID
17 92 (1.50%) jQuery
17 92 (1.50%) PySpark
18 83 (1.36%) Vue
19 80 (1.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 417 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 298 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 252 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 159 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 93 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 85 (1.39%) Private Cloud
9 77 (1.26%) Data Centre
9 77 (1.26%) Data Structures
9 77 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
10 70 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 68 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 67 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
13 66 (1.08%) Reference Data
14 63 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
14 63 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 55 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.62%) Client/Server
16 38 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 400 (6.53%) Windows
2 279 (4.56%) Linux
3 127 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 71 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) Android
7 32 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 31 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 28 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 13 (0.21%) Unix
12 13 (0.21%) Windows 7
13 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.13%) Debian
15 5 (0.082%) VMS
16 4 (0.065%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.065%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.049%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,018 (32.95%) Agile
2 1,232 (20.12%) Software Engineering
3 1,178 (19.24%) Mentoring
4 876 (14.30%) CI/CD
5 827 (13.50%) SDLC
6 824 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 779 (12.72%) Coaching
8 678 (11.07%) Operational Stability
9 565 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence
10 535 (8.74%) DevOps
11 533 (8.70%) Community of Practice
12 526 (8.59%) Machine Learning
13 510 (8.33%) Roadmaps
14 489 (7.98%) Project Management
15 415 (6.78%) Architectural Design
16 408 (6.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 402 (6.56%) Information Architecture
18 387 (6.32%) Analytics
19 357 (5.83%) Decision-Making
20 344 (5.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 881 (14.39%) Java
2 828 (13.52%) SQL
3 524 (8.56%) Python
4 513 (8.38%) JavaScript
5 449 (7.33%) C#
6 326 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 152 (2.48%) Scala
8 144 (2.35%) C++
9 141 (2.30%) C
10 137 (2.24%) PHP
11 96 (1.57%) Go
12 66 (1.08%) COBOL
12 66 (1.08%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 65 (1.06%) Prolog
13 65 (1.06%) SPARQL
14 60 (0.98%) R
15 55 (0.90%) PowerShell
16 28 (0.46%) VB.NET
17 25 (0.41%) MATLAB
18 24 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 690 (11.27%) Degree
2 495 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 292 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 142 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 82 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 71 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 70 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 69 (1.13%) CISM
12 68 (1.11%) CISSP
13 55 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 52 (0.85%) DV Cleared
15 48 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (0.72%) PhD
17 32 (0.52%) CCNP
18 29 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 29 (0.47%) CCSP
19 25 (0.41%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (4.52%) QA
2 111 (1.81%) Data Quality
2 111 (1.81%) SLA
3 86 (1.40%) PMO
4 82 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.32%) NIST
6 79 (1.29%) GDPR
7 69 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (0.49%) GMP
10 23 (0.38%) GRC
11 20 (0.33%) NCSC
12 17 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
15 9 (0.15%) IFRS
15 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.13%) PSD2
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 263 (4.29%) Docker
2 247 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.87%) Firmware
5 51 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 29 (0.47%) vSphere
7 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.049%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.033%) HDFS
13 2 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.033%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.016%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 362 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 224 (3.66%) Terraform
3 92 (1.50%) Grafana
4 71 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (0.73%) Ansible
7 41 (0.67%) SCCM
8 39 (0.64%) Puppet
9 25 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.36%) Kibana
11 21 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.34%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.21%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.20%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.18%) Consul
15 10 (0.16%) WSUS
16 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.11%) SCOM
17 7 (0.11%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 688 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 332 (5.42%) Oracle
3 133 (2.17%) Google
4 116 (1.89%) VMware
5 109 (1.78%) SAP
6 108 (1.76%) Splunk
7 85 (1.39%) Cisco
8 84 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 77 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.13%) Micro Focus
11 67 (1.09%) Atlassian
12 64 (1.05%) Databricks
13 53 (0.87%) Citrix
14 46 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.73%) IBM
16 40 (0.65%) Sparx
17 33 (0.54%) Veeam
18 32 (0.52%) Qualtrics
19 22 (0.36%) Meraki
20 21 (0.34%) MuleSoft