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 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 37 38
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 5,951 4,051 5,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.40% 6.74% 7.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.86% 7.55% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,999 2,699 2,995
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,637
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% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,600 £87,300
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 67,146 53,642 68,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.24% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,498 30,589 42,749
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +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 13 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 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
North of England +27 1,661 £70,000 - 340
South East +16 1,172 £62,500 -7.41% 264
Scotland +18 1,022 £63,500 -9.29% 71
Midlands +3 910 £60,000 - 204
North West +23 823 £70,000 - 186
South West +20 645 £61,000 -6.15% 185
West Midlands +2 621 £65,000 +8.33% 122
Yorkshire +28 616 £70,000 - 106
East of England +35 360 £60,000 +4.35% 123
East Midlands +23 286 £50,000 -13.04% 80
North East +42 222 £70,250 +40.50% 48
Wales +15 135 £65,000 +1.77% 26
Northern Ireland +25 48 £77,500 +29.17% 20
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2,016 (33.88%) Agile
2 1,701 (28.58%) Finance
3 1,192 (20.03%) Software Engineering
4 1,164 (19.56%) Mentoring
5 1,158 (19.46%) Social Skills
6 1,044 (17.54%) AWS
7 982 (16.50%) Azure
8 968 (16.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 894 (15.02%) Law
10 877 (14.74%) CI/CD
11 875 (14.70%) Java
12 856 (14.38%) Marketing
13 826 (13.88%) SQL
14 821 (13.80%) SDLC
15 819 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
16 758 (12.74%) Coaching
17 690 (11.59%) Degree
18 678 (11.39%) Operational Stability
19 670 (11.26%) Microsoft
20 563 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence
21 534 (8.97%) Community of Practice
22 533 (8.96%) DevOps
23 526 (8.84%) Machine Learning
24 520 (8.74%) Python
25 511 (8.59%) JavaScript
25 511 (8.59%) Roadmaps
26 490 (8.23%) Security Cleared
27 481 (8.08%) Project Management
28 450 (7.56%) .NET
29 444 (7.46%) 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 (3.29%) Apache Spark
2 110 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 107 (1.80%) Confluence
4 66 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 55 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 38 (0.64%) Tuxedo
8 32 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
8 32 (0.54%) FileNet
9 31 (0.52%) IIS
10 29 (0.49%) Apache
10 29 (0.49%) CMS
11 21 (0.35%) GemFire
12 12 (0.20%) WordPress
13 10 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.15%) Appian
14 9 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.29%) Windchill
5 15 (0.25%) Simulink
6 13 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.20%) Sketch
8 10 (0.17%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.067%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.050%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.034%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.034%) Trello
13 1 (0.017%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.017%) InDesign
13 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 20 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 16 (0.27%) Shopify
6 10 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 7 (0.12%) HFM
7 7 (0.12%) Hyperion Planning
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.10%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.084%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.084%) Primavera
10 4 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.067%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.067%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,044 (17.54%) AWS
2 982 (16.50%) Azure
3 263 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
4 256 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 178 (2.99%) GCP
6 143 (2.40%) SaaS
7 142 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 105 (1.76%) Serverless
10 94 (1.58%) Amazon S3
11 77 (1.29%) Datadog
12 67 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
13 62 (1.04%) Power Automate
14 61 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (0.91%) Entra ID
16 54 (0.91%) PowerApps
17 52 (0.87%) Figma
18 50 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 165 (2.77%) Firewall
2 108 (1.81%) DNS
3 94 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 87 (1.46%) WAN
5 82 (1.38%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.36%) Broadband
7 74 (1.24%) SSL
8 62 (1.04%) Network Security
9 51 (0.86%) LAN
10 43 (0.72%) BGP
10 43 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 33 (0.55%) Wireless
12 32 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
12 32 (0.54%) VPN
13 27 (0.45%) DHCP
14 26 (0.44%) Internet
14 26 (0.44%) SAN
15 21 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
15 21 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (4.97%) NoSQL
2 217 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 199 (3.34%) Power BI
4 169 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 162 (2.72%) Big Data
6 117 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 113 (1.90%) MySQL
8 103 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 89 (1.50%) Tableau
10 81 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.33%) Metadata
12 74 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
13 72 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 62 (1.04%) MongoDB
15 52 (0.87%) Data Lake
16 49 (0.82%) Oracle Database
17 48 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
18 41 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
19 39 (0.66%) DynamoDB
20 38 (0.64%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 247 (4.15%) Git
2 172 (2.89%) JIRA
3 149 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 108 (1.81%) Selenium
5 99 (1.66%) GitLab
6 90 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 72 (1.21%) JUnit
8 68 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 67 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 61 (1.03%) Visual Studio
11 37 (0.62%) Postman
12 35 (0.59%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.50%) SoapUI
14 29 (0.49%) Jasmine
15 26 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
16 25 (0.42%) CircleCI
17 22 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
17 22 (0.37%) Protractor
17 22 (0.37%) WebDriver
18 21 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 1,701 (28.58%) Finance
2 1,158 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 968 (16.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 894 (15.02%) Law
5 856 (14.38%) Marketing
6 354 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
7 350 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 250 (4.20%) Banking
9 210 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 188 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
11 165 (2.77%) Retail
12 148 (2.49%) Investment Banking
13 140 (2.35%) Legal
14 125 (2.10%) Automotive
15 110 (1.85%) Aerospace
16 100 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
17 94 (1.58%) Telecoms
18 85 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
19 80 (1.34%) Advertising
20 71 (1.19%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (7.56%) .NET
2 422 (7.09%) React
3 279 (4.69%) Spring
4 269 (4.52%) HTML
5 258 (4.34%) CSS
6 193 (3.24%) JSON
6 193 (3.24%) Spring Boot
7 186 (3.13%) Node.js
8 179 (3.01%) RESTful
9 174 (2.92%) Kafka
10 160 (2.69%) AngularJS
11 139 (2.34%) REST
12 135 (2.27%) Web Services
13 108 (1.81%) XML
14 98 (1.65%) .NET Core
15 96 (1.61%) OpenID
16 92 (1.55%) jQuery
17 91 (1.53%) PySpark
18 81 (1.36%) Vue
19 80 (1.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 418 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 297 (4.99%) Management Information System
3 253 (4.25%) Public Cloud
4 162 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 90 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 89 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 86 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 85 (1.43%) Private Cloud
9 77 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
10 74 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 73 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 69 (1.16%) Onboarding
13 68 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
15 66 (1.11%) Reference Data
16 64 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 58 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
18 55 (0.92%) Virtual Team
19 37 (0.62%) Client/Server
20 36 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 396 (6.65%) Windows
2 284 (4.77%) Linux
3 121 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 71 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.64%) Android
7 30 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 24 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
12 13 (0.22%) Unix
12 13 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.13%) Debian
16 5 (0.084%) VMS
16 5 (0.084%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.067%) Mac OS X
18 3 (0.050%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,016 (33.88%) Agile
2 1,192 (20.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,164 (19.56%) Mentoring
4 877 (14.74%) CI/CD
5 821 (13.80%) SDLC
6 819 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
7 758 (12.74%) Coaching
8 678 (11.39%) Operational Stability
9 563 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence
10 534 (8.97%) Community of Practice
11 533 (8.96%) DevOps
12 526 (8.84%) Machine Learning
13 511 (8.59%) Roadmaps
14 481 (8.08%) Project Management
15 414 (6.96%) Architectural Design
16 405 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 402 (6.76%) Information Architecture
18 384 (6.45%) Analytics
19 355 (5.97%) Decision-Making
20 345 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 875 (14.70%) Java
2 826 (13.88%) SQL
3 520 (8.74%) Python
4 511 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 444 (7.46%) C#
6 324 (5.44%) TypeScript
7 146 (2.45%) C++
7 146 (2.45%) Scala
8 141 (2.37%) C
9 132 (2.22%) PHP
10 96 (1.61%) Go
11 66 (1.11%) COBOL
11 66 (1.11%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 65 (1.09%) Prolog
12 65 (1.09%) SPARQL
13 57 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 57 (0.96%) R
14 28 (0.47%) VB.NET
15 25 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 23 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 690 (11.59%) Degree
2 490 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 285 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 140 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 82 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 78 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 69 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 68 (1.14%) CISM
12 67 (1.13%) CISSP
13 53 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 51 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 48 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (0.74%) PhD
17 32 (0.54%) CCNP
18 29 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 29 (0.49%) CCSP
19 25 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (4.60%) QA
2 109 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 107 (1.80%) SLA
4 84 (1.41%) PMO
5 81 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.36%) NIST
6 78 (1.31%) GDPR
7 71 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (0.50%) GMP
10 23 (0.39%) GRC
11 21 (0.35%) NCSC
12 17 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 9 (0.15%) IFRS
14 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.13%) PSD2
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 262 (4.40%) Docker
2 241 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.91%) Firmware
5 49 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 28 (0.47%) vSphere
7 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.050%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.034%) HDFS
13 2 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.034%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.017%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 363 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 226 (3.80%) Terraform
3 91 (1.53%) Grafana
4 70 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 60 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 46 (0.77%) Ansible
7 41 (0.69%) Puppet
8 40 (0.67%) SCCM
9 25 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.37%) Kibana
11 21 (0.35%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
12 13 (0.22%) Functional Safety
13 12 (0.20%) Consul
13 12 (0.20%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.17%) WSUS
15 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 670 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 330 (5.55%) Oracle
3 136 (2.29%) Google
4 114 (1.92%) VMware
5 112 (1.88%) SAP
6 108 (1.81%) Splunk
7 87 (1.46%) Cisco
8 84 (1.41%) Dynatrace
9 73 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.16%) Micro Focus
11 67 (1.13%) Atlassian
12 62 (1.04%) Databricks
13 53 (0.89%) Citrix
14 45 (0.76%) IBM
14 45 (0.76%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.67%) Sparx
16 32 (0.54%) Qualtrics
16 32 (0.54%) Veeam
17 23 (0.39%) Meraki
18 21 (0.35%) MuleSoft