Lead Jobs in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 30 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,991 6,684 11,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.16% 7.42% 8.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.63% 8.11% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,414 4,693 5,986
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £43,023
25th Percentile £53,346 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,375 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,982 82,462 128,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,404 52,476 75,206
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in England.

Salary trend for Lead in England

Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +13 2,159 £87,500 -2.78% 675
North of England +27 1,661 £70,000 - 338
South East +16 1,172 £62,500 -7.41% 265
Midlands +3 910 £60,000 - 203
North West +23 823 £70,000 - 186
South West +20 645 £61,000 -6.15% 179
West Midlands +2 621 £65,000 +8.33% 122
Yorkshire +28 616 £70,000 - 105
East of England +35 360 £60,000 +4.35% 123
East Midlands +23 286 £50,000 -13.04% 79
North East +42 222 £70,250 +40.50% 47
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,748 (25.00%) Agile
2 1,509 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 1,411 (20.18%) Finance
4 1,311 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 1,251 (17.89%) Azure
6 1,130 (16.16%) AWS
7 916 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 880 (12.59%) Degree
9 857 (12.26%) Microsoft
10 816 (11.67%) SQL
11 761 (10.89%) Software Engineering
12 752 (10.76%) Coaching
13 712 (10.18%) DevOps
14 707 (10.11%) Java
15 618 (8.84%) Python
16 606 (8.67%) Analytics
17 604 (8.64%) C#
18 602 (8.61%) JavaScript
19 601 (8.60%) .NET
20 592 (8.47%) Project Management
21 573 (8.20%) Roadmaps
22 512 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
23 507 (7.25%) CI/CD
24 501 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
25 500 (7.15%) Windows
26 498 (7.12%) Security Cleared
27 424 (6.06%) Line Management
28 404 (5.78%) React
29 399 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
30 388 (5.55%) Kubernetes

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 136 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 133 (1.90%) Apache
3 122 (1.75%) Confluence
4 117 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 92 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 55 (0.79%) CMS
7 46 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.53%) Tuxedo
9 31 (0.44%) IIS
10 29 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 28 (0.40%) Drupal
12 18 (0.26%) WordPress
13 12 (0.17%) Appian
13 12 (0.17%) SAS
14 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.11%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.072%) Mendix
Applications
1 127 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.23%) Simulink
6 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 6 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.086%) EViews
11 4 (0.057%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.043%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.043%) Sketch
13 2 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.029%) InVision
13 2 (0.029%) MadCap Flare
13 2 (0.029%) Notion
13 2 (0.029%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 78 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 20 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.26%) thinkFolio
7 12 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 10 (0.14%) Primavera
9 8 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.10%) HFM
10 7 (0.10%) Hyperion Planning
10 7 (0.10%) SAP IBP
11 6 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.086%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.086%) SAP SD
12 5 (0.072%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.072%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.057%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (17.89%) Azure
2 1,130 (16.16%) AWS
3 372 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 359 (5.14%) Power Platform
5 262 (3.75%) GCP
6 259 (3.70%) SaaS
7 215 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 168 (2.40%) Serverless
9 131 (1.87%) Snowflake
10 126 (1.80%) dbt
10 126 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
11 102 (1.46%) GitHub
12 98 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
13 94 (1.34%) Power Automate
14 84 (1.20%) PowerApps
15 82 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 77 (1.10%) Entra ID
17 70 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
18 69 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 223 (3.19%) Firewall
2 191 (2.73%) Broadband
3 109 (1.56%) DNS
4 106 (1.52%) WAN
5 100 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.13%) Network Security
7 66 (0.94%) SSL
8 63 (0.90%) LAN
9 53 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 46 (0.66%) VPN
11 44 (0.63%) Internet
12 41 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
12 41 (0.59%) Wireless
13 36 (0.51%) DHCP
14 34 (0.49%) BGP
15 32 (0.46%) SAN
16 24 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
18 22 (0.31%) HTTP
19 18 (0.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (4.91%) SQL Server
2 292 (4.18%) Power BI
3 156 (2.23%) Data Lake
4 155 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 144 (2.06%) MySQL
6 136 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 135 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 124 (1.77%) Tableau
9 96 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
10 94 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
10 94 (1.34%) Apache Arrow
11 91 (1.30%) Dremio
12 88 (1.26%) Apache Ignite
13 68 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 62 (0.89%) MongoDB
16 49 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
17 48 (0.69%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.64%) Big Data
19 44 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 283 (4.05%) Git
2 216 (3.09%) JIRA
3 134 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 118 (1.69%) Selenium
5 103 (1.47%) GitLab
6 70 (1.00%) Postman
7 69 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 62 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 59 (0.84%) Visual Studio
10 43 (0.62%) JUnit
11 30 (0.43%) CircleCI
12 27 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
13 26 (0.37%) SoapUI
14 24 (0.34%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.30%) JMeter
15 21 (0.30%) NUnit
16 19 (0.27%) Maven
17 14 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
17 14 (0.20%) Subversion
18 13 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,509 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 1,411 (20.18%) Finance
3 512 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 383 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 375 (5.36%) Marketing
6 334 (4.78%) Banking
7 277 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 238 (3.40%) Retail
9 219 (3.13%) Law
10 216 (3.09%) Advertising
11 211 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 207 (2.96%) Legal
13 142 (2.03%) Automotive
14 132 (1.89%) Investment Banking
15 127 (1.82%) Front Office
16 118 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
16 118 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 113 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
18 112 (1.60%) Aerospace
19 105 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 601 (8.60%) .NET
2 404 (5.78%) React
3 218 (3.12%) HTML
4 208 (2.98%) CSS
5 185 (2.65%) REST
6 150 (2.15%) .NET Core
7 137 (1.96%) Node.js
8 135 (1.93%) AngularJS
9 132 (1.89%) RESTful
10 131 (1.87%) Spring Boot
11 130 (1.86%) Spring
12 112 (1.60%) Kafka
13 109 (1.56%) Pandas
14 105 (1.50%) JSON
15 103 (1.47%) NumPy
16 94 (1.34%) ASP.NET
17 91 (1.30%) gRPC
17 91 (1.30%) Protocol Buffers
18 90 (1.29%) SciPy
19 85 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 277 (3.96%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.65%) Marketing Technology
3 177 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 123 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 122 (1.75%) Hedge funds
6 121 (1.73%) Fixed Income
6 121 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 120 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 112 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 111 (1.59%) Derivative
10 108 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 102 (1.46%) Equities
12 96 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 91 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 88 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 83 (1.19%) Onboarding
16 78 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 73 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
18 72 (1.03%) Data Structures
19 69 (0.99%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 500 (7.15%) Windows
2 323 (4.62%) Linux
3 154 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 92 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 57 (0.82%) Android
6 48 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 39 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 35 (0.50%) Unix
9 28 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 20 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.21%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.19%) CentOS
14 13 (0.19%) Windows 7
15 12 (0.17%) zOS
16 8 (0.11%) Debian
16 8 (0.11%) Solaris
17 5 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,748 (25.00%) Agile
2 1,311 (18.75%) Mentoring
3 916 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
4 761 (10.89%) Software Engineering
5 752 (10.76%) Coaching
6 712 (10.18%) DevOps
7 606 (8.67%) Analytics
8 592 (8.47%) Project Management
9 573 (8.20%) Roadmaps
10 507 (7.25%) CI/CD
11 501 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 424 (6.06%) Line Management
13 399 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 387 (5.54%) Computer Science
15 379 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
16 374 (5.35%) Cybersecurity
16 374 (5.35%) Scrum
17 350 (5.01%) ITIL
17 350 (5.01%) Project Delivery
18 344 (4.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 816 (11.67%) SQL
2 707 (10.11%) Java
3 618 (8.84%) Python
4 604 (8.64%) C#
5 602 (8.61%) JavaScript
6 386 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 176 (2.52%) C++
8 171 (2.45%) PHP
9 160 (2.29%) C
10 115 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 66 (0.94%) COBOL
11 66 (0.94%) Go
11 66 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 65 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 51 (0.73%) Scala
14 40 (0.57%) R
15 39 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 35 (0.50%) Bicep
17 33 (0.47%) Rust
18 29 (0.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 880 (12.59%) Degree
2 498 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 270 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 220 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 114 (1.63%) DBS Check
7 107 (1.53%) CISSP
8 106 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 104 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 90 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 83 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 76 (1.09%) DV Cleared
13 74 (1.06%) CISM
14 73 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 42 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 39 (0.56%) PMI Certification
18 38 (0.54%) CCSP
19 34 (0.49%) CISA
20 30 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (4.93%) QA
2 153 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 127 (1.82%) SLA
4 116 (1.66%) GDPR
5 115 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (1.32%) NIST
7 68 (0.97%) PMO
8 58 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 43 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.43%) GMP
10 30 (0.43%) GRC
11 29 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.37%) NCSC
13 16 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.20%) IFRS
15 11 (0.16%) Def Stans
16 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.11%) PSD2
18 7 (0.10%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 353 (5.05%) Docker
2 244 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 53 (0.76%) Firmware
6 34 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 26 (0.37%) vSphere
8 22 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.14%) HDFS
10 9 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.043%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.029%) Ceph
13 2 (0.029%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.014%) KVM
14 1 (0.014%) Lustre
14 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 388 (5.55%) Kubernetes
2 225 (3.22%) Terraform
3 94 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (0.83%) Ansible
5 57 (0.82%) SCCM
6 45 (0.64%) Puppet
6 45 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (0.43%) Functional Safety
8 22 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.23%) Consul
9 16 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.20%) Grafana
12 13 (0.19%) Istio
12 13 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
13 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.14%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.14%) WSUS
15 9 (0.13%) Nmap
16 7 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 857 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 237 (3.39%) Oracle
3 163 (2.33%) SAP
4 158 (2.26%) VMware
5 128 (1.83%) Google
6 124 (1.77%) Databricks
7 111 (1.59%) Cisco
7 111 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 74 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 69 (0.99%) Micro Focus
10 66 (0.94%) IBM
11 51 (0.73%) Citrix
12 47 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 28 (0.40%) Sparx
13 28 (0.40%) Splunk
14 26 (0.37%) Meraki
14 26 (0.37%) Workday
15 25 (0.36%) Veeam
16 23 (0.33%) Pega
17 22 (0.31%) Red Hat