Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader salary in Work from Home is £74,137 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 19 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 3,401 3,416 5,720
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.95% 8.54% 7.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.35% 8.90% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,722 2,586 3,320
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,137 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,125 £112,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,868 38,380 71,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,148 27,302 42,471
10th Percentile £33,093 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,536 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1,089 (32.02%) Agile
2 849 (24.96%) Mentoring
3 749 (22.02%) Azure
4 746 (21.93%) AWS
5 712 (20.94%) Finance
6 702 (20.64%) Social Skills
7 544 (16.00%) Coaching
8 468 (13.76%) SQL
9 417 (12.26%) Microsoft
10 410 (12.06%) Python
11 409 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
12 392 (11.53%) Java
13 376 (11.06%) Software Engineering
14 366 (10.76%) DevOps
15 363 (10.67%) Analytics
15 363 (10.67%) Security Cleared
16 359 (10.56%) JavaScript
17 357 (10.50%) Roadmaps
18 345 (10.14%) .NET
19 341 (10.03%) C#
20 316 (9.29%) Degree
21 290 (8.53%) CI/CD
22 282 (8.29%) TypeScript
23 261 (7.67%) Process Improvement
23 261 (7.67%) Marketing
24 257 (7.56%) Scrum
24 257 (7.56%) Public Sector
25 251 (7.38%) Project Management
26 246 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
27 237 (6.97%) Line Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 128 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (3.41%) Apache
3 86 (2.53%) Confluence
4 49 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.35%) WebLogic
6 37 (1.09%) Tuxedo
7 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.76%) IIS
9 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.41%) CMS
11 11 (0.32%) SAS
11 11 (0.32%) WordPress
12 10 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.26%) Appian
14 5 (0.15%) Drupal
15 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
15 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
16 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.059%) Ethereum
16 2 (0.059%) MQSeries
Applications
1 58 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.41%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.059%) Notion
8 1 (0.029%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.029%) CATIA
8 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.029%) InDesign
8 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.029%) Sketch
8 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.29%) Shopify
5 6 (0.18%) Primavera
6 5 (0.15%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.088%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.088%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.088%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.088%) thinkFolio
9 2 (0.059%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.059%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.059%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.029%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 749 (22.02%) Azure
2 746 (21.93%) AWS
3 199 (5.85%) GCP
4 173 (5.09%) SaaS
5 155 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 152 (4.47%) Power Platform
7 150 (4.41%) dbt
8 135 (3.97%) Snowflake
9 131 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (3.68%) Serverless
11 82 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
12 81 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
14 74 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
16 43 (1.26%) Entra ID
17 42 (1.23%) Amazon S3
18 41 (1.21%) GitHub
19 37 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
20 35 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (5.65%) Broadband
2 133 (3.91%) Firewall
3 96 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 89 (2.62%) DNS
5 71 (2.09%) SSL
6 57 (1.68%) WAN
7 49 (1.44%) BGP
8 36 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (1.03%) SD-WAN
10 29 (0.85%) Network Security
11 28 (0.82%) LAN
12 26 (0.76%) VPN
13 23 (0.68%) Internet
14 22 (0.65%) Wireless
15 16 (0.47%) VLAN
16 13 (0.38%) DHCP
16 13 (0.38%) SAN
16 13 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
17 12 (0.35%) HTTP
18 9 (0.26%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 144 (4.23%) Data Lake
3 136 (4.00%) Power BI
4 112 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
5 111 (3.26%) Apache Arrow
5 111 (3.26%) Dremio
6 108 (3.18%) Apache Ignite
7 95 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.50%) Tableau
9 74 (2.18%) MySQL
10 66 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
11 63 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 52 (1.53%) NoSQL
13 51 (1.50%) Oracle Database
14 48 (1.41%) RDBMS
15 46 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (1.21%) MongoDB
17 40 (1.18%) DynamoDB
18 29 (0.85%) DB2
19 27 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (3.73%) Git
2 115 (3.38%) JIRA
3 74 (2.18%) GitLab
4 70 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 51 (1.50%) Selenium
6 48 (1.41%) Postman
7 46 (1.35%) Visual Studio
8 34 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.56%) TeamCity
12 16 (0.47%) NUnit
13 15 (0.44%) JMeter
14 13 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
15 11 (0.32%) SoapUI
16 10 (0.29%) SpecFlow
17 9 (0.26%) JUnit
18 8 (0.24%) Maven
18 8 (0.24%) Subversion
19 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
General
1 712 (20.94%) Finance
2 702 (20.64%) Social Skills
3 261 (7.67%) Marketing
4 257 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 234 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 222 (6.53%) Banking
7 196 (5.76%) Advertising
8 132 (3.88%) Retail
9 121 (3.56%) Front Office
10 119 (3.50%) Legal
11 117 (3.44%) Investment Banking
12 112 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 75 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.09%) Law
15 58 (1.71%) Telecoms
16 51 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 48 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
18 46 (1.35%) Automotive
19 40 (1.18%) Games
20 36 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (10.14%) .NET
2 161 (4.73%) React
3 128 (3.76%) HTML
4 121 (3.56%) Pandas
5 116 (3.41%) CSS
6 114 (3.35%) NumPy
7 111 (3.26%) gRPC
7 111 (3.26%) Protocol Buffers
8 110 (3.23%) SciPy
9 99 (2.91%) Node.js
9 99 (2.91%) RESTful
10 87 (2.56%) REST
11 85 (2.50%) .NET Core
12 75 (2.21%) Spring Boot
13 65 (1.91%) Vue
14 60 (1.76%) .NET Framework
15 59 (1.73%) AngularJS
15 59 (1.73%) ASP.NET
16 56 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
17 45 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.41%) Marketing Technology
2 124 (3.65%) Management Information System
3 121 (3.56%) Hedge funds
4 119 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 116 (3.41%) Fixed Income
6 115 (3.38%) Derivative
7 112 (3.29%) Equities
8 106 (3.12%) Product Ownership
9 99 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
10 90 (2.65%) Public Cloud
11 70 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.91%) Algorithms
13 64 (1.88%) Virtual Team
14 63 (1.85%) Client/Server
15 51 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (1.44%) Private Cloud
17 46 (1.35%) Data Centre
18 41 (1.21%) Cloud Native
19 39 (1.15%) Data Structures
19 39 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 193 (5.67%) Windows
2 156 (4.59%) Linux
3 64 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 49 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.82%) Android
7 27 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.53%) Unix
9 17 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.35%) zOS
11 11 (0.32%) CentOS
12 8 (0.24%) Solaris
13 7 (0.21%) Debian
14 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 3 (0.088%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (32.02%) Agile
2 849 (24.96%) Mentoring
3 544 (16.00%) Coaching
4 409 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
5 376 (11.06%) Software Engineering
6 366 (10.76%) DevOps
7 363 (10.67%) Analytics
8 357 (10.50%) Roadmaps
9 290 (8.53%) CI/CD
10 261 (7.67%) Process Improvement
11 257 (7.56%) Scrum
12 251 (7.38%) Project Management
13 246 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 237 (6.97%) Line Management
15 223 (6.56%) Business Case
16 213 (6.26%) Microservices
17 211 (6.20%) Data Strategy
18 209 (6.15%) Use Case
19 204 (6.00%) Digital Marketing
20 193 (5.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 468 (13.76%) SQL
2 410 (12.06%) Python
3 392 (11.53%) Java
4 359 (10.56%) JavaScript
5 341 (10.03%) C#
6 282 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 66 (1.94%) COBOL
7 66 (1.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 63 (1.85%) C
9 59 (1.73%) PHP
10 53 (1.56%) C++
11 51 (1.50%) PowerShell
12 31 (0.91%) Go
13 26 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.62%) Bash
14 21 (0.62%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.56%) XAML
16 17 (0.50%) MATLAB
17 16 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 363 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 316 (9.29%) Degree
3 207 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 104 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.06%) CISSP
7 68 (2.00%) DBS Check
8 66 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 62 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 51 (1.50%) CISM
12 42 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 36 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 36 (1.06%) CCSP
13 36 (1.06%) DV Cleared
14 27 (0.79%) CCSK
15 21 (0.62%) SSCP
16 18 (0.53%) CISA
16 18 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (5.38%) QA
2 103 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 64 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (1.44%) NIST
5 44 (1.29%) GDPR
6 40 (1.18%) SLA
7 29 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.50%) PMO
9 15 (0.44%) GRC
10 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.32%) HL7
11 11 (0.32%) NCSC
12 5 (0.15%) GAAP
12 5 (0.15%) IFRS
12 5 (0.15%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.15%) RMADS
13 4 (0.12%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 198 (5.82%) Docker
2 86 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.21%) Firmware
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) KVM
11 1 (0.029%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 193 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 125 (3.68%) Terraform
3 49 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (1.18%) Ansible
6 27 (0.79%) Puppet
7 17 (0.50%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.44%) Grafana
8 15 (0.44%) SCCM
9 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 9 (0.26%) Nmap
12 7 (0.21%) MIIS
12 7 (0.21%) Nagios
12 7 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.21%) SysTrack
13 6 (0.18%) Consul
13 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 417 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.35%) Oracle
3 85 (2.50%) Databricks
4 68 (2.00%) Google
5 66 (1.94%) Micro Focus
6 62 (1.82%) VMware
7 59 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 54 (1.59%) SAP
9 46 (1.35%) Sparx
10 43 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 41 (1.21%) IBM
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco
13 23 (0.68%) Splunk
14 18 (0.53%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.41%) Commvault
15 14 (0.41%) ForgeRock
15 14 (0.41%) Sitecore
16 13 (0.38%) Sun
17 11 (0.32%) Qualys
18 10 (0.29%) Veeam