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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 6,175 3,860 5,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 6.61% 7.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.89% 7.42% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,164 2,583 3,010
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 £78,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,600 £87,500
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 69,492 52,026 69,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 49,104 29,723 42,553
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +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 25 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 25 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 +31 1,721 £70,000 - 361
South East +17 1,216 £61,000 -9.63% 534
Scotland +17 1,040 £63,500 -9.29% 91
Midlands +4 954 £60,000 - 271
North West +25 844 £70,000 - 221
South West +22 698 £60,202 -10.81% 175
West Midlands +5 644 £65,000 +8.33% 153
Yorkshire +30 640 £70,000 - 99
East of England +40 365 £60,000 +4.35% 175
East Midlands +27 306 £51,500 -10.43% 114
North East +35 238 £70,000 +40.00% 46
Wales +16 137 £65,000 - 35
Northern Ireland +23 48 £77,500 +29.17% 15
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 25 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 2,017 (32.66%) Agile
2 1,720 (27.85%) Finance
3 1,237 (20.03%) Software Engineering
4 1,180 (19.11%) Mentoring
5 1,168 (18.91%) Social Skills
6 1,058 (17.13%) AWS
7 990 (16.03%) Azure
8 968 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 897 (14.53%) Law
10 882 (14.28%) Java
11 877 (14.20%) CI/CD
12 857 (13.88%) Marketing
13 829 (13.43%) SQL
14 827 (13.39%) SDLC
15 826 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
16 781 (12.65%) Coaching
17 693 (11.22%) Microsoft
18 690 (11.17%) Degree
19 678 (10.98%) Operational Stability
20 565 (9.15%) Artificial Intelligence
21 534 (8.65%) DevOps
22 533 (8.63%) Community of Practice
23 527 (8.53%) Machine Learning
24 522 (8.45%) Python
25 511 (8.28%) JavaScript
26 508 (8.23%) Roadmaps
27 495 (8.02%) Security Cleared
28 490 (7.94%) Project Management
29 467 (7.56%) .NET
30 450 (7.29%) 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 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 113 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 106 (1.72%) Confluence
4 66 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 58 (0.94%) 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 (0.45%) CMS
12 21 (0.34%) GemFire
13 12 (0.19%) 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
1 108 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (1.59%) 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 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.19%) Sketch
7 11 (0.18%) Chatbot
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 (0.032%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.016%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.016%) InDesign
13 1 (0.016%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 77 (1.25%) 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 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.097%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.081%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.081%) Primavera
8 5 (0.081%) SAP PP
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
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (17.13%) AWS
2 990 (16.03%) Azure
3 264 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
4 263 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 179 (2.90%) GCP
6 150 (2.43%) SaaS
7 144 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (1.72%) Serverless
9 105 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
10 95 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 76 (1.23%) Datadog
12 68 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (1.02%) Power Automate
14 61 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (0.94%) PowerApps
16 56 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
17 54 (0.87%) Entra ID
18 52 (0.84%) Figma
19 51 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 171 (2.77%) Firewall
2 111 (1.80%) DNS
3 96 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 91 (1.47%) WAN
5 82 (1.33%) Kerberos
6 81 (1.31%) Broadband
7 74 (1.20%) SSL
8 63 (1.02%) Network Security
9 55 (0.89%) LAN
10 43 (0.70%) BGP
10 43 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 36 (0.58%) Wireless
12 34 (0.55%) 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
1 298 (4.83%) NoSQL
2 217 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 202 (3.27%) Power BI
4 171 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 162 (2.62%) Big Data
6 119 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 117 (1.89%) MySQL
8 106 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 82 (1.33%) Tableau
10 78 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
10 78 (1.26%) Metadata
11 74 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
12 72 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 59 (0.96%) MongoDB
14 53 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 53 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
15 49 (0.79%) Oracle Database
16 45 (0.73%) DynamoDB
17 41 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.62%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 246 (3.98%) Git
2 173 (2.80%) JIRA
3 144 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 101 (1.64%) Selenium
5 98 (1.59%) GitLab
6 85 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 76 (1.23%) JUnit
8 67 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 66 (1.07%) Bitbucket
10 61 (0.99%) Visual Studio
11 38 (0.62%) Postman
12 32 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 29 (0.47%) Jasmine
13 29 (0.47%) SoapUI
14 27 (0.44%) CircleCI
15 26 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
16 22 (0.36%) Protractor
16 22 (0.36%) WebDriver
17 21 (0.34%) Jaeger
General
1 1,720 (27.85%) Finance
2 1,168 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 968 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 897 (14.53%) Law
5 857 (13.88%) Marketing
6 356 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 355 (5.75%) Public Sector
8 247 (4.00%) Banking
9 217 (3.51%) Manufacturing
10 185 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
11 177 (2.87%) Retail
12 149 (2.41%) Investment Banking
13 146 (2.36%) Legal
14 128 (2.07%) Automotive
15 109 (1.77%) Aerospace
16 105 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
17 93 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
18 92 (1.49%) Telecoms
19 80 (1.30%) Advertising
20 71 (1.15%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (7.56%) .NET
2 420 (6.80%) React
3 281 (4.55%) Spring
4 272 (4.40%) HTML
5 263 (4.26%) CSS
6 194 (3.14%) Spring Boot
7 192 (3.11%) JSON
8 186 (3.01%) Node.js
9 181 (2.93%) RESTful
10 174 (2.82%) Kafka
11 161 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 148 (2.40%) REST
13 142 (2.30%) Web Services
14 109 (1.77%) XML
15 102 (1.65%) .NET Core
16 96 (1.55%) OpenID
17 92 (1.49%) jQuery
17 92 (1.49%) PySpark
18 83 (1.34%) Vue
19 80 (1.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 417 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 298 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 252 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 159 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 95 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 85 (1.38%) Private Cloud
9 77 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 77 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 77 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
10 70 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 68 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 67 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
13 66 (1.07%) Reference Data
14 65 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
15 63 (1.02%) Mobile App
16 55 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.62%) Client/Server
17 38 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 402 (6.51%) Windows
2 279 (4.52%) Linux
3 127 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 72 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.63%) Android
7 32 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 31 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 28 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.37%) 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 (0.081%) VMS
16 4 (0.065%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.065%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.049%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,017 (32.66%) Agile
2 1,237 (20.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,180 (19.11%) Mentoring
4 877 (14.20%) CI/CD
5 827 (13.39%) SDLC
6 826 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
7 781 (12.65%) Coaching
8 678 (10.98%) Operational Stability
9 565 (9.15%) Artificial Intelligence
10 534 (8.65%) DevOps
11 533 (8.63%) Community of Practice
12 527 (8.53%) Machine Learning
13 508 (8.23%) Roadmaps
14 490 (7.94%) Project Management
15 415 (6.72%) Architectural Design
16 410 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 402 (6.51%) Information Architecture
18 389 (6.30%) Analytics
19 357 (5.78%) Decision-Making
20 344 (5.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 882 (14.28%) Java
2 829 (13.43%) SQL
3 522 (8.45%) Python
4 511 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 450 (7.29%) C#
6 328 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 156 (2.53%) Scala
8 141 (2.28%) C
8 141 (2.28%) C++
9 138 (2.23%) PHP
10 96 (1.55%) Go
11 66 (1.07%) COBOL
11 66 (1.07%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 65 (1.05%) Prolog
12 65 (1.05%) SPARQL
13 60 (0.97%) R
14 55 (0.89%) PowerShell
15 28 (0.45%) VB.NET
16 25 (0.40%) MATLAB
17 24 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 690 (11.17%) Degree
2 495 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 293 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 141 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 97 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 82 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 71 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 70 (1.13%) CISM
10 70 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 69 (1.12%) CISSP
12 55 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 52 (0.84%) DV Cleared
14 48 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 44 (0.71%) PhD
16 32 (0.52%) CCNP
17 29 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 29 (0.47%) CCSP
18 25 (0.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (4.50%) QA
2 113 (1.83%) SLA
3 112 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.41%) PMO
5 83 (1.34%) NIST
6 82 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 79 (1.28%) GDPR
8 69 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.49%) GMP
11 23 (0.37%) GRC
12 20 (0.32%) NCSC
13 17 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 9 (0.15%) IFRS
16 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.13%) PSD2
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 259 (4.19%) Docker
2 248 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.86%) Firmware
5 51 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 30 (0.49%) vSphere
7 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.049%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.032%) HDFS
13 2 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.032%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.016%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 360 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 223 (3.61%) Terraform
3 92 (1.49%) Grafana
4 71 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 61 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.71%) Ansible
7 41 (0.66%) SCCM
8 39 (0.63%) Puppet
9 25 (0.40%) 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 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.18%) Consul
15 10 (0.16%) WSUS
16 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 693 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 332 (5.38%) Oracle
3 133 (2.15%) Google
4 116 (1.88%) VMware
5 111 (1.80%) SAP
6 108 (1.75%) Splunk
7 87 (1.41%) Cisco
8 84 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 77 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.12%) Micro Focus
11 67 (1.09%) Atlassian
12 64 (1.04%) Databricks
13 53 (0.86%) Citrix
14 46 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.73%) IBM
16 40 (0.65%) Sparx
17 33 (0.53%) Veeam
18 32 (0.52%) Qualtrics
19 22 (0.36%) Meraki
20 21 (0.34%) MuleSoft