Lead Jobs in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 41 35
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,747 1,143 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.60% 6.91% 7.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.10% 7.73% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,498 803 873
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £37,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £83,759 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 17,298 14,787 17,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.36% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,332 8,028 10,986
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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 West +24 854 £70,000 - 214
Yorkshire +32 654 £70,000 - 107
North East +38 240 £70,000 +40.00% 45
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 North of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 582 (33.31%) Agile
2 538 (30.80%) Mentoring
3 387 (22.15%) Coaching
4 383 (21.92%) Azure
5 362 (20.72%) Social Skills
6 359 (20.55%) Finance
7 297 (17.00%) AWS
8 217 (12.42%) Public Sector
9 210 (12.02%) SQL
10 200 (11.45%) Roadmaps
11 195 (11.16%) Microsoft
12 194 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
13 182 (10.42%) DevOps
14 173 (9.90%) Software Engineering
15 162 (9.27%) Project Management
16 154 (8.82%) .NET
17 140 (8.01%) C#
18 137 (7.84%) CI/CD
19 130 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
20 124 (7.10%) Java
21 116 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
22 114 (6.53%) Degree
23 113 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
24 107 (6.12%) Windows
25 104 (5.95%) JavaScript
25 104 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
25 104 (5.95%) Product Roadmap
26 102 (5.84%) Python
27 98 (5.61%) Supplier Management
28 97 (5.55%) Scrum

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 64 (3.66%) Confluence
2 36 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.77%) Tuxedo
4 23 (1.32%) Apache
5 14 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.69%) WebLogic
7 10 (0.57%) CMS
8 8 (0.46%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.057%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.34%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
5 4 (0.23%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.11%) Primavera
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.057%) Magento
8 1 (0.057%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.057%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.057%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.057%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.057%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 383 (21.92%) Azure
2 297 (17.00%) AWS
3 104 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (4.46%) GCP
5 75 (4.29%) Power Platform
6 57 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (2.58%) SaaS
8 38 (2.18%) Amazon Kinesis
9 36 (2.06%) Amazon S3
10 33 (1.89%) Serverless
11 32 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (1.66%) GitHub
14 24 (1.37%) Entra ID
15 20 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (1.14%) PowerApps
16 19 (1.09%) dbt
16 19 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.01%) Firewall
2 53 (3.03%) WAN
3 32 (1.83%) LAN
4 29 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.55%) DNS
6 26 (1.49%) SD-WAN
6 26 (1.49%) SSL
7 25 (1.43%) Network Security
8 22 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
9 17 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.74%) BGP
10 13 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
10 13 (0.74%) VPN
10 13 (0.74%) Wireless
11 11 (0.63%) Internet
12 10 (0.57%) NAS
12 10 (0.57%) SAN
13 7 (0.40%) Intranet
14 6 (0.34%) DHCP
14 6 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (3.78%) SQL Server
3 62 (3.55%) Power BI
4 58 (3.32%) MySQL
5 53 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 53 (3.03%) Tableau
6 47 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (1.83%) NoSQL
9 30 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 29 (1.66%) RDBMS
11 28 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 17 (0.97%) DB2
14 15 (0.86%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.57%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.57%) Data Vault
15 10 (0.57%) MongoDB
16 9 (0.52%) Redis
17 8 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 85 (4.87%) JIRA
2 73 (4.18%) Git
3 28 (1.60%) GitLab
4 27 (1.55%) CircleCI
5 22 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.97%) Postman
6 17 (0.97%) Selenium
7 16 (0.92%) JUnit
8 12 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.52%) JMeter
10 6 (0.34%) Appium
10 6 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.29%) Maven
12 3 (0.17%) Gradle
12 3 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.17%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.057%) TestCafe
13 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 362 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 359 (20.55%) Finance
3 217 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 84 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (3.38%) Retail
6 57 (3.26%) Law
7 40 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 39 (2.23%) Legal
9 36 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.72%) Banking
11 30 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (1.60%) Games
13 25 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.37%) Marketing
15 13 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.63%) Back Office
16 11 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.46%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (8.82%) .NET
2 94 (5.38%) React
3 70 (4.01%) RESTful
4 60 (3.43%) HTML
5 57 (3.26%) CSS
6 55 (3.15%) Node.js
7 43 (2.46%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.35%) REST
9 40 (2.29%) Spring
10 39 (2.23%) JSON
11 35 (2.00%) Web Services
12 33 (1.89%) Spring Boot
13 29 (1.66%) AngularJS
14 23 (1.32%) .NET Framework
15 19 (1.09%) XML
16 18 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (0.97%) GraphQL
18 16 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
18 16 (0.92%) Laravel
18 16 (0.92%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.29%) Management Information System
2 49 (2.80%) Public Cloud
3 46 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 33 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 24 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 19 (1.09%) Client/Server
11 19 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.80%) NHS
14 13 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
14 13 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.69%) Online Games
16 11 (0.63%) Blog
17 9 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.12%) Windows
2 70 (4.01%) Linux
3 47 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.74%) Android
9 8 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (33.31%) Agile
2 538 (30.80%) Mentoring
3 387 (22.15%) Coaching
4 200 (11.45%) Roadmaps
5 194 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
6 182 (10.42%) DevOps
7 173 (9.90%) Software Engineering
8 162 (9.27%) Project Management
9 137 (7.84%) CI/CD
10 130 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 116 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
12 113 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (5.95%) Product Roadmap
14 98 (5.61%) Supplier Management
15 97 (5.55%) Scrum
16 94 (5.38%) Kanban
17 93 (5.32%) Analytics
18 87 (4.98%) Decision-Making
18 87 (4.98%) Project Delivery
19 81 (4.64%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 210 (12.02%) SQL
2 140 (8.01%) C#
3 124 (7.10%) Java
4 104 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 102 (5.84%) Python
6 82 (4.69%) PHP
7 65 (3.72%) TypeScript
8 56 (3.21%) COBOL
8 56 (3.21%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 46 (2.63%) C
10 45 (2.58%) C++
11 17 (0.97%) VB.NET
12 15 (0.86%) Scala
13 14 (0.80%) PowerShell
14 13 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.63%) Swift
16 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.34%) Go
18 5 (0.29%) Ada
19 4 (0.23%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 114 (6.53%) Degree
2 96 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 75 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 50 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 39 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 35 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (1.95%) CISM
7 34 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 26 (1.49%) CCSP
8 26 (1.49%) CISSP
9 20 (1.14%) CCSK
10 16 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.80%) CISA
11 14 (0.80%) CRISC
11 14 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.63%) HNC
14 9 (0.52%) CEH
14 9 (0.52%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.03%) SLA
2 50 (2.86%) QA
3 41 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.00%) GDPR
4 35 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.89%) NIST
6 15 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.80%) GRC
7 14 (0.80%) PMO
8 9 (0.52%) NCSC
8 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.46%) PSD2
10 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.17%) COSO
11 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.17%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.057%) IFRS
13 1 (0.057%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (4.18%) Docker
2 41 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.52%) Firmware
5 9 (0.52%) vSphere
6 8 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.66%) Terraform
3 29 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.40%) SysTrack
6 6 (0.34%) Ansible
6 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.34%) Nagios
6 6 (0.34%) Nmap
7 5 (0.29%) Grafana
7 5 (0.29%) SCCM
8 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) Autotask
9 2 (0.11%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.11%) Packer
10 1 (0.057%) Istio
10 1 (0.057%) Kiali
10 1 (0.057%) Kibana
10 1 (0.057%) Podman
10 1 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 195 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 79 (4.52%) Oracle
3 56 (3.21%) Micro Focus
4 47 (2.69%) VMware
5 46 (2.63%) Google
6 35 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 33 (1.89%) IBM
8 28 (1.60%) Citrix
8 28 (1.60%) SAP
9 25 (1.43%) Cisco
10 21 (1.20%) Databricks
11 16 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.69%) Sparx
12 12 (0.69%) Splunk
13 11 (0.63%) Veeam
14 9 (0.52%) Informatica
14 9 (0.52%) Juniper
14 9 (0.52%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.46%) Duck Creek
15 8 (0.46%) Snow