Lead Jobs in West Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Leader salary in West Yorkshire is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 32 33
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 352 401 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.50% 8.20% 7.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.94% 8.82% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 305 268 281
10th Percentile £42,600 £47,951 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,114 £81,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,947 4,544 4,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 92.94% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,160 2,262 3,113
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,612 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +0.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,668 £86,250 £82,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,620 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Leeds +12 287 £68,000 -2.86% 52
Bradford +28 35 £56,500 -1.74% 4
Castleford +26 7 £31,500 -
Pontefract - 5 £31,000 -
Hebden Bridge - 5 £24,000 -
Halifax +25 3 £95,000 +13.23%
Wakefield +8 3 £59,500 +7.40% 3
Sowerby Bridge - 2 £95,000 -
Lead
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 112 (31.82%) Agile
2 101 (28.69%) Azure
3 89 (25.28%) Social Skills
4 87 (24.72%) Finance
5 80 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 73 (20.74%) AWS
7 56 (15.91%) Coaching
8 55 (15.63%) DevOps
9 47 (13.35%) Roadmaps
10 43 (12.22%) CI/CD
11 42 (11.93%) Public Sector
12 40 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (10.80%) Microsoft
14 37 (10.51%) Firewall
15 36 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (9.38%) C#
16 33 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
17 32 (9.09%) SQL
17 32 (9.09%) .NET
17 32 (9.09%) Windows
17 32 (9.09%) Software Engineering
18 31 (8.81%) Project Management
19 30 (8.52%) GCP
20 29 (8.24%) RESTful
21 28 (7.95%) Migration
21 28 (7.95%) PHP
21 28 (7.95%) SIEM
21 28 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
22 27 (7.67%) Terraform
22 27 (7.67%) CircleCI

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 17 (4.83%) Confluence
2 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) IIS
4 4 (1.14%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
5 2 (0.57%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.28%) Primavera
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (28.69%) Azure
2 73 (20.74%) AWS
3 30 (8.52%) GCP
4 28 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (6.25%) GitHub
6 19 (5.40%) Cloud Computing
6 19 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (3.69%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.84%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.56%) Slack
12 8 (2.27%) Serverless
13 7 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.99%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.70%) BlazeMeter
14 6 (1.70%) BrowserStack
14 6 (1.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.51%) Firewall
2 18 (5.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 15 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.26%) WAN
4 14 (3.98%) LAN
5 10 (2.84%) DNS
6 7 (1.99%) Network Security
6 7 (1.99%) SSL
7 6 (1.70%) Wireshark
8 5 (1.42%) NAS
8 5 (1.42%) SAN
8 5 (1.42%) VLAN
9 4 (1.14%) BGP
9 4 (1.14%) Wireless
10 3 (0.85%) Intranet
10 3 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.57%) Internet
12 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.28%) Skype
12 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (2.84%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.56%) Power BI
4 8 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.27%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.42%) MySQL
7 4 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.85%) QualityStage
9 2 (0.57%) Metadata
9 2 (0.57%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (7.67%) CircleCI
1 27 (7.67%) Git
2 19 (5.40%) JIRA
3 14 (3.98%) Selenium
4 10 (2.84%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.56%) GitLab
6 8 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.27%) JUnit
7 6 (1.70%) Appium
7 6 (1.70%) JMeter
8 4 (1.14%) Postman
9 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.57%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 89 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.72%) Finance
3 42 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.10%) Law
5 22 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.83%) Banking
8 10 (2.84%) Marketing
9 7 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.70%) Retail
11 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.14%) Back Office
12 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.14%) Local Government
13 3 (0.85%) Police
13 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Automotive
14 2 (0.57%) Aviation
14 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.09%) .NET
2 29 (8.24%) RESTful
3 25 (7.10%) React
4 13 (3.69%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.13%) HTML
6 10 (2.84%) JSON
7 9 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.56%) OAuth
7 9 (2.56%) REST
8 8 (2.27%) jQuery
8 8 (2.27%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.99%) CSS
10 6 (1.70%) Laravel
10 6 (1.70%) Web Services
11 4 (1.14%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.14%) PySpark
11 4 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.14%) Spring
11 4 (1.14%) Vue
12 3 (0.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.82%) Public Cloud
2 19 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.69%) Mobile App
6 11 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.14%) IoT
9 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.85%) Blog
10 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.57%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.57%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.57%) NHS
11 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.28%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.09%) Windows
2 15 (4.26%) Linux
3 12 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.13%) Android
4 11 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.57%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (31.82%) Agile
2 80 (22.73%) Mentoring
3 56 (15.91%) Coaching
4 55 (15.63%) DevOps
5 47 (13.35%) Roadmaps
6 43 (12.22%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 31 (8.81%) Project Management
12 28 (7.95%) Migration
12 28 (7.95%) SIEM
13 27 (7.67%) Containerisation
14 26 (7.39%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (7.39%) Line Management
14 26 (7.39%) Microservices
15 24 (6.82%) Cryptography
16 23 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (5.68%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.38%) C#
2 32 (9.09%) SQL
3 28 (7.95%) PHP
4 22 (6.25%) Python
5 16 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.98%) Java
7 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.42%) COBOL
8 5 (1.42%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 5 (1.42%) Scala
8 5 (1.42%) Swift
9 3 (0.85%) C
9 3 (0.85%) C++
9 3 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.85%) XAML
10 1 (0.28%) Bicep
10 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (4.55%) Degree
1 16 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (4.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (2.56%) CEH
4 9 (2.56%) SSCP
5 7 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (1.99%) CCSP
5 7 (1.99%) CISSP
6 6 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.70%) SANS
7 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.85%) CCNA
9 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.85%) MCSE
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.85%) OSCP
10 2 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.98%) QA
2 12 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.84%) GDPR
4 8 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.27%) PSD2
4 8 (2.27%) SLA
5 7 (1.99%) NIST
6 6 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.57%) Automotive SPICE
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (6.82%) Docker
2 18 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.56%) vSphere
4 8 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (7.67%) Terraform
2 25 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.70%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.70%) Nagios
4 6 (1.70%) Nmap
5 4 (1.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.57%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) Istio
7 1 (0.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 38 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.41%) Splunk
3 11 (3.13%) VMware
4 10 (2.84%) Databricks
5 8 (2.27%) Duck Creek
5 8 (2.27%) Google
5 8 (2.27%) Oracle
6 6 (1.70%) CheckPoint
6 6 (1.70%) IBM
6 6 (1.70%) Qualys
6 6 (1.70%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.70%) Thycotic
6 6 (1.70%) Veeam
7 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.42%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.14%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.14%) Sparx
9 3 (0.85%) CA
9 3 (0.85%) Cisco