Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £89,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,247 2,664 7,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.30% 8.35% 9.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.84% 8.79% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,715 2,000 3,114
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,142 £57,000
25th Percentile £69,125 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £121,600
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in London

Lead
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead in London

Lead
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +18 438 £85,000 -10.53% 60
West London +13 94 £82,500 +54.21% 32
South London +24 41 £72,500 -1.69% 8
East London +10 8 £63,000 -23.64% 26
North London +2 5 £54,950 +57.00% 7
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 607 (27.01%) Finance
2 562 (25.01%) Agile
3 538 (23.94%) AWS
4 476 (21.18%) Azure
5 472 (21.01%) Social Skills
6 393 (17.49%) Java
7 379 (16.87%) Python
8 360 (16.02%) Software Engineering
9 354 (15.75%) Mentoring
10 324 (14.42%) SQL
11 311 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
12 288 (12.82%) DevOps
13 269 (11.97%) Analytics
13 269 (11.97%) JavaScript
13 269 (11.97%) Degree
14 262 (11.66%) Banking
15 258 (11.48%) Microsoft
16 212 (9.43%) CI/CD
17 199 (8.86%) Roadmaps
18 196 (8.72%) C#
19 194 (8.63%) TypeScript
20 190 (8.46%) .NET
21 185 (8.23%) Line Management
22 175 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
23 168 (7.48%) Kubernetes
24 167 (7.43%) Computer Science
25 165 (7.34%) Scrum
26 164 (7.30%) Marketing
26 164 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
27 162 (7.21%) Asset Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 131 (5.83%) Apache
2 128 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (1.42%) Confluence
6 28 (1.25%) CMS
7 24 (1.07%) Drupal
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 6 (0.27%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 5 (0.22%) Mendix
10 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.18%) WordPress
12 3 (0.13%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.089%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.089%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 37 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.27%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.089%) Notion
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.045%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.045%) Sketch
9 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.76%) thinkFolio
4 12 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.31%) Primavera
7 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.18%) Shopify
8 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.089%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.089%) Magento
10 2 (0.089%) R3 Corda
10 2 (0.089%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.089%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 538 (23.94%) AWS
2 476 (21.18%) Azure
3 160 (7.12%) GCP
4 133 (5.92%) Snowflake
5 132 (5.87%) dbt
6 119 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
7 118 (5.25%) SaaS
8 110 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 92 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (2.85%) Serverless
11 50 (2.23%) GitHub
12 35 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 34 (1.51%) PaaS
14 33 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 32 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.42%) PowerApps
16 31 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
17 30 (1.34%) IaaS
17 30 (1.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.98%) Broadband
2 65 (2.89%) Firewall
3 25 (1.11%) DNS
4 22 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.93%) Internet
6 19 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 16 (0.71%) WAN
8 15 (0.67%) Network Security
9 13 (0.58%) VPN
10 12 (0.53%) HTTP
11 10 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (0.40%) DHCP
13 8 (0.36%) BGP
13 8 (0.36%) LAN
13 8 (0.36%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.36%) SSL
13 8 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.27%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.27%) Wireless
15 5 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.10%) Data Lake
2 126 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 120 (5.34%) Apache Arrow
4 119 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
5 117 (5.21%) Dremio
6 114 (5.07%) Apache Ignite
7 85 (3.78%) Power BI
8 47 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (1.78%) Tableau
11 32 (1.42%) MySQL
11 32 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 29 (1.29%) Big Data
13 28 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.25%) MongoDB
14 25 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 18 (0.80%) Redis
17 17 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 112 (4.98%) Git
2 74 (3.29%) JIRA
3 64 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 33 (1.47%) Selenium
6 31 (1.38%) Postman
7 27 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.20%) JUnit
8 26 (1.16%) GitLab
9 11 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.49%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.45%) JMeter
10 10 (0.45%) Maven
11 7 (0.31%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.27%) Checkstyle
13 5 (0.22%) Appium
13 5 (0.22%) NUnit
13 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 607 (27.01%) Finance
2 472 (21.01%) Social Skills
3 262 (11.66%) Banking
4 175 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 164 (7.30%) Marketing
6 149 (6.63%) Front Office
7 136 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 136 (6.05%) Investment Banking
8 133 (5.92%) Advertising
9 113 (5.03%) Law
10 83 (3.69%) Retail
11 79 (3.52%) Legal
12 60 (2.67%) Public Sector
13 45 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.65%) Retail Banking
16 33 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.34%) Back Office
17 30 (1.34%) Local Government
18 29 (1.29%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (8.46%) .NET
2 130 (5.79%) React
3 124 (5.52%) Pandas
4 123 (5.47%) NumPy
5 117 (5.21%) gRPC
5 117 (5.21%) Protocol Buffers
6 116 (5.16%) SciPy
7 85 (3.78%) REST
8 79 (3.52%) Kafka
9 60 (2.67%) AngularJS
9 60 (2.67%) CSS
9 60 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 58 (2.58%) .NET Core
11 57 (2.54%) HTML
11 57 (2.54%) Spring
12 34 (1.51%) JSON
13 33 (1.47%) RESTful
14 29 (1.29%) ASP.NET
15 27 (1.20%) Node.js
16 25 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 141 (6.28%) Fixed Income
2 141 (6.28%) Hedge funds
3 133 (5.92%) Derivative
4 125 (5.56%) Equities
5 104 (4.63%) Marketing Technology
6 75 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 62 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 52 (2.31%) Cloud Native
9 43 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 39 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.60%) Client/Server
13 35 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.11%) Data Centre
17 22 (0.98%) Reinsurance
18 21 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.58%) Windows
2 94 (4.18%) Linux
3 39 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.93%) Android
4 21 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.80%) Unix
7 8 (0.36%) zOS
8 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.045%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (25.01%) Agile
2 360 (16.02%) Software Engineering
3 354 (15.75%) Mentoring
4 311 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
5 288 (12.82%) DevOps
6 269 (11.97%) Analytics
7 212 (9.43%) CI/CD
8 199 (8.86%) Roadmaps
9 185 (8.23%) Line Management
10 167 (7.43%) Computer Science
11 165 (7.34%) Scrum
12 164 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (7.21%) Asset Management
14 157 (6.99%) Project Management
15 155 (6.90%) Microservices
16 153 (6.81%) Process Improvement
17 143 (6.36%) Coaching
18 134 (5.96%) Business Case
19 133 (5.92%) Data Strategy
19 133 (5.92%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 393 (17.49%) Java
2 379 (16.87%) Python
3 324 (14.42%) SQL
4 269 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 196 (8.72%) C#
6 194 (8.63%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 57 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 40 (1.78%) PHP
10 38 (1.69%) Go
11 37 (1.65%) C++
12 36 (1.60%) Scala
13 27 (1.20%) Rust
14 24 (1.07%) Bicep
15 21 (0.93%) C
16 20 (0.89%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.80%) Ruby
18 14 (0.62%) R
19 10 (0.45%) Bash
20 6 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 269 (11.97%) Degree
2 87 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (2.98%) Security Cleared
4 54 (2.40%) Master's Degree
5 49 (2.18%) CISSP
6 41 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 41 (1.82%) SC Cleared
7 35 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (0.71%) CISM
10 16 (0.71%) CREST Certified
10 16 (0.71%) GIAC
11 15 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.67%) SSCP
12 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (0.53%) GSEC
14 11 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.21%) QA
2 109 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 48 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.69%) GDPR
5 22 (0.98%) SLA
6 21 (0.93%) PMO
7 18 (0.80%) NIST
8 17 (0.76%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.31%) GRC
12 6 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
13 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.22%) GAAP
13 5 (0.22%) IFRS
14 4 (0.18%) NCSC
14 4 (0.18%) SOC 1
15 2 (0.089%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.089%) P3O
System Software
1 129 (5.74%) Docker
2 64 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.27%) HDFS
9 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.13%) Ceph
11 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.045%) Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 168 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.54%) Terraform
3 36 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.85%) Ansible
4 19 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.76%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.76%) vCenter Server
6 16 (0.71%) SCCM
7 13 (0.58%) Istio
7 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.36%) Puppet
9 5 (0.22%) Grafana
9 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.18%) Consul
11 3 (0.13%) Argo
11 3 (0.13%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.13%) Knative
11 3 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 258 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 74 (3.29%) Databricks
3 56 (2.49%) SAP
4 53 (2.36%) Oracle
5 52 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.05%) VMware
7 40 (1.78%) Google
8 34 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.29%) Cisco
10 19 (0.85%) Bloomberg
10 19 (0.85%) iManage
11 18 (0.80%) Workday
12 17 (0.76%) Aderant
12 17 (0.76%) Charles River
12 17 (0.76%) IBM
13 16 (0.71%) Sun
14 15 (0.67%) Commvault
15 14 (0.62%) Adobe
16 10 (0.45%) ForgeRock
16 10 (0.45%) Sitecore