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 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 18 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7,178 6,431 11,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.21% 7.34% 8.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.68% 8.02% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,537 4,510 6,028
10th Percentile £40,750 £46,750 £43,269
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,350 £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 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 23 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 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
London +13 2,196 £87,500 -2.78% 893
North of England +30 1,708 £70,000 - 325
South East +19 1,200 £62,000 -8.15% 524
Midlands +3 946 £60,000 - 252
North West +25 837 £70,000 - 196
South West +22 688 £60,202 -10.81% 165
West Midlands +5 638 £65,000 +8.33% 139
Yorkshire +30 635 £70,000 - 91
East of England +36 364 £60,000 +4.35% 157
East Midlands +28 304 £51,500 -14.17% 110
North East +42 237 £70,000 +40.00% 42
Lead
UK

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

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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,773 (24.70%) Agile
2 1,518 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 1,439 (20.05%) Finance
4 1,333 (18.57%) Mentoring
5 1,255 (17.48%) Azure
6 1,158 (16.13%) AWS
7 930 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 880 (12.26%) Degree
9 878 (12.23%) Microsoft
10 826 (11.51%) Software Engineering
11 812 (11.31%) SQL
12 779 (10.85%) Coaching
13 733 (10.21%) Java
14 709 (9.88%) DevOps
15 636 (8.86%) Python
16 616 (8.58%) JavaScript
17 605 (8.43%) .NET
17 605 (8.43%) Project Management
17 605 (8.43%) Analytics
18 597 (8.32%) C#
19 586 (8.16%) Roadmaps
20 519 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
21 513 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
22 503 (7.01%) CI/CD
23 501 (6.98%) Security Cleared
24 499 (6.95%) Windows
25 417 (5.81%) Line Management
26 402 (5.60%) TypeScript
27 399 (5.56%) React
28 396 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management

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
1 149 (2.08%) Apache
2 138 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 133 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 123 (1.71%) Confluence
5 89 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (0.75%) CMS
7 47 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 37 (0.52%) Tuxedo
9 30 (0.42%) IIS
10 29 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 28 (0.39%) Drupal
12 17 (0.24%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.098%) Apache Pig
17 5 (0.070%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 134 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.22%) Simulink
6 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
9 6 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.084%) EViews
10 4 (0.056%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.042%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.042%) Sketch
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.028%) InVision
12 2 (0.028%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.028%) Notion
12 2 (0.028%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 80 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.28%) Shopify
4 20 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.24%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 10 (0.14%) Primavera
8 7 (0.098%) Dynamics AX
8 7 (0.098%) HFM
8 7 (0.098%) Hyperion Planning
8 7 (0.098%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.084%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.084%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.070%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.056%) MIS ActiveH
11 4 (0.056%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1,255 (17.48%) Azure
2 1,158 (16.13%) AWS
3 367 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 360 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 272 (3.79%) GCP
6 256 (3.57%) SaaS
7 203 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 170 (2.37%) Serverless
9 145 (2.02%) dbt
10 144 (2.01%) Snowflake
11 126 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 97 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
13 96 (1.34%) GitHub
14 94 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.21%) PowerApps
16 84 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 74 (1.03%) Entra ID
18 70 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
19 69 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
20 67 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 228 (3.18%) Firewall
2 194 (2.70%) Broadband
3 114 (1.59%) DNS
4 108 (1.50%) WAN
5 102 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.10%) Network Security
7 66 (0.92%) SSL
8 65 (0.91%) LAN
9 52 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.67%) VPN
11 46 (0.64%) Internet
12 42 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 41 (0.57%) Wireless
14 38 (0.53%) DHCP
15 34 (0.47%) BGP
16 32 (0.45%) SAN
17 28 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
18 23 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
19 22 (0.31%) HTTP
20 21 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 290 (4.04%) Power BI
3 173 (2.41%) Data Lake
4 157 (2.19%) NoSQL
5 143 (1.99%) MySQL
6 140 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 136 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 117 (1.63%) Tableau
9 111 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 110 (1.53%) Apache Arrow
11 107 (1.49%) Dremio
12 104 (1.45%) Apache Ignite
13 103 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
14 71 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (0.93%) RDBMS
16 62 (0.86%) MongoDB
17 51 (0.71%) DynamoDB
18 49 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
19 45 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
20 44 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 284 (3.96%) Git
2 215 (3.00%) JIRA
3 126 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 111 (1.55%) Selenium
5 102 (1.42%) GitLab
6 67 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 67 (0.93%) Postman
7 59 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 58 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 44 (0.61%) JUnit
10 32 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 31 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
12 25 (0.35%) SoapUI
13 23 (0.32%) TeamCity
14 22 (0.31%) JMeter
14 22 (0.31%) NUnit
15 19 (0.26%) Maven
16 16 (0.22%) Subversion
17 15 (0.21%) SpecFlow
18 14 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,518 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 1,439 (20.05%) Finance
3 519 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (5.39%) Public Sector
5 375 (5.22%) Marketing
6 351 (4.89%) Banking
7 286 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 250 (3.48%) Retail
9 221 (3.08%) Law
10 217 (3.02%) Advertising
11 214 (2.98%) Legal
11 214 (2.98%) Manufacturing
12 150 (2.09%) Investment Banking
13 143 (1.99%) Automotive
14 141 (1.96%) Front Office
15 123 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
16 118 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
17 115 (1.60%) Telecoms
18 110 (1.53%) Aerospace
19 104 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (8.43%) .NET
2 399 (5.56%) React
3 217 (3.02%) HTML
4 210 (2.93%) CSS
5 189 (2.63%) REST
6 148 (2.06%) .NET Core
7 138 (1.92%) RESTful
8 136 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 136 (1.89%) Node.js
9 130 (1.81%) Spring
9 130 (1.81%) Spring Boot
10 125 (1.74%) Pandas
11 119 (1.66%) NumPy
12 114 (1.59%) Kafka
13 107 (1.49%) gRPC
13 107 (1.49%) Protocol Buffers
14 106 (1.48%) SciPy
15 105 (1.46%) JSON
16 92 (1.28%) ASP.NET
17 85 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 278 (3.87%) Management Information System
2 185 (2.58%) Marketing Technology
3 182 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 137 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 133 (1.85%) Fixed Income
5 133 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 125 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 124 (1.73%) Derivative
8 122 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 118 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 116 (1.62%) Equities
11 107 (1.49%) Algorithms
12 99 (1.38%) Data Centre
13 92 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 89 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 80 (1.11%) Onboarding
16 78 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
16 78 (1.09%) Virtual Team
17 73 (1.02%) Data Structures
18 70 (0.98%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 499 (6.95%) Windows
2 314 (4.37%) Linux
3 159 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 59 (0.82%) Android
6 50 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (0.43%) Unix
10 28 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 14 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
15 13 (0.18%) CentOS
15 13 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.17%) zOS
17 8 (0.11%) Debian
17 8 (0.11%) Solaris
18 5 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,773 (24.70%) Agile
2 1,333 (18.57%) Mentoring
3 930 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
4 826 (11.51%) Software Engineering
5 779 (10.85%) Coaching
6 709 (9.88%) DevOps
7 605 (8.43%) Analytics
7 605 (8.43%) Project Management
8 586 (8.16%) Roadmaps
9 513 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 503 (7.01%) CI/CD
11 417 (5.81%) Line Management
12 396 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 384 (5.35%) Scrum
14 382 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
15 381 (5.31%) Computer Science
15 381 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
16 363 (5.06%) ITIL
17 356 (4.96%) Process Improvement
18 352 (4.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 812 (11.31%) SQL
2 733 (10.21%) Java
3 636 (8.86%) Python
4 616 (8.58%) JavaScript
5 597 (8.32%) C#
6 402 (5.60%) TypeScript
7 176 (2.45%) C++
8 170 (2.37%) PHP
9 163 (2.27%) C
10 106 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 71 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 70 (0.98%) Go
13 66 (0.92%) COBOL
13 66 (0.92%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 59 (0.82%) Scala
15 42 (0.59%) R
16 40 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 37 (0.52%) Rust
18 32 (0.45%) Bicep
19 28 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 880 (12.26%) Degree
2 501 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 275 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 217 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 114 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 109 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 108 (1.50%) CISSP
9 102 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 89 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 81 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 77 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 77 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 75 (1.04%) CISM
14 44 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 41 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 38 (0.53%) PMI Certification
17 37 (0.52%) CCSP
18 34 (0.47%) CISA
19 30 (0.42%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (4.89%) QA
2 169 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 128 (1.78%) SLA
4 117 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.62%) GDPR
6 93 (1.30%) NIST
7 68 (0.95%) PMO
8 60 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 44 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.42%) GMP
10 30 (0.42%) GRC
10 30 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.38%) NCSC
12 16 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
13 14 (0.20%) IFRS
14 11 (0.15%) Def Stans
15 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 358 (4.99%) Docker
2 242 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.72%) Firmware
6 39 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.38%) vSphere
8 26 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 22 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.13%) HDFS
12 5 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.042%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.042%) Ceph
13 3 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.014%) KVM
15 1 (0.014%) Lustre
15 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 393 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 229 (3.19%) Terraform
3 96 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (0.77%) Ansible
5 54 (0.75%) SCCM
6 45 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (0.59%) Puppet
8 30 (0.42%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 15 (0.21%) Consul
11 15 (0.21%) Grafana
12 13 (0.18%) Istio
12 13 (0.18%) 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 (0.098%) SCOM
Vendors
1 878 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 236 (3.29%) Oracle
3 160 (2.23%) SAP
4 156 (2.17%) VMware
5 132 (1.84%) Google
6 127 (1.77%) Databricks
7 114 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 108 (1.50%) Cisco
9 76 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 69 (0.96%) Micro Focus
11 66 (0.92%) IBM
12 50 (0.70%) Citrix
13 46 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 28 (0.39%) Sparx
14 28 (0.39%) Splunk
15 27 (0.38%) Veeam
15 27 (0.38%) Workday
16 24 (0.33%) Meraki
17 23 (0.32%) Pega
18 22 (0.31%) SolarWinds