Lead Jobs in Central London

Leader
London > Central London

The median Leader salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 34 22
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 431 371 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 11.47% 7.47% 8.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.02% 7.78% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 336 324 608
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,938 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £87,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +8.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,586 4,770 8,122
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 96.00% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 3,952 6,482
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Central London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Central London

Lead
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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
City of London +17 388 £85,000 -10.53% 58
City of Westminster +3 18 £49,838 -48.88%
Camden -2 13 - -
West End of London +3 10 £100,000 +11.11%
Southwark +16 2 £67,500 -35.71%
Kensington and Chelsea +5 1 £87,500 +9.38%
Lambeth +1 1 - -
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Central London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 117 (27.15%) Azure
2 111 (25.75%) Finance
3 109 (25.29%) Social Skills
4 108 (25.06%) Agile
5 98 (22.74%) SQL
6 77 (17.87%) Java
7 65 (15.08%) AWS
8 60 (13.92%) Mentoring
9 59 (13.69%) Microsoft
10 54 (12.53%) DevOps
11 53 (12.30%) Degree
12 49 (11.37%) Python
12 49 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
13 48 (11.14%) Line Management
13 48 (11.14%) CI/CD
14 46 (10.67%) SaaS
15 45 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (10.21%) SDET
17 41 (9.51%) Git
17 41 (9.51%) REST
17 41 (9.51%) Project Management
17 41 (9.51%) JavaScript
18 38 (8.82%) Scrum
18 38 (8.82%) Fintech
19 35 (8.12%) .NET
20 34 (7.89%) C#
20 34 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
20 34 (7.89%) Docker
20 34 (7.89%) Power Platform
21 33 (7.66%) Actionable Insight

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 15 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.09%) CMS
4 6 (1.39%) Drupal
5 5 (1.16%) Confluence
6 4 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.93%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.46%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.71%) Aladdin
2 15 (3.48%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.70%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 117 (27.15%) Azure
2 65 (15.08%) AWS
3 49 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (10.67%) SaaS
5 34 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.64%) Serverless
7 17 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (3.71%) GitHub
8 16 (3.71%) Power Automate
8 16 (3.71%) PowerApps
9 15 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.25%) AWS Fargate
10 14 (3.25%) Entra ID
11 12 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.55%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.32%) Akamai
13 10 (2.32%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.32%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (1.62%) DNS
3 6 (1.39%) Firewall
3 6 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.16%) BGP
4 5 (1.16%) WAN
5 4 (0.93%) SSL
6 3 (0.70%) Network Security
6 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.46%) Broadband
7 2 (0.46%) LAN
7 2 (0.46%) SMTP
7 2 (0.46%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.23%) DHCP
8 1 (0.23%) HSRP
8 1 (0.23%) NGFW
8 1 (0.23%) OSPF
8 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.23%) VPN
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.26%) Power BI
2 25 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.48%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.02%) Tableau
5 9 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.86%) MySQL
6 8 (1.86%) Redis
7 5 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.70%) GIS
9 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (9.51%) Git
2 32 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.03%) Cucumber
4 25 (5.80%) JIRA
5 24 (5.57%) Postman
6 23 (5.34%) Selenium
7 16 (3.71%) JUnit
8 15 (3.48%) Cypress.io
9 9 (2.09%) JMeter
10 7 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.62%) GitLab
11 5 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.93%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.93%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.70%) MSTest
13 3 (0.70%) NUnit
14 2 (0.46%) Moq
14 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 111 (25.75%) Finance
2 109 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.57%) Banking
5 21 (4.87%) Retail
6 15 (3.48%) Law
6 15 (3.48%) Legal
6 15 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.32%) Automotive
8 10 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.32%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.16%) Advertising
10 5 (1.16%) Front Office
10 5 (1.16%) Marketing
11 4 (0.93%) Local Government
12 3 (0.70%) Games
12 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.51%) REST
2 35 (8.12%) .NET
3 22 (5.10%) React
4 17 (3.94%) AngularJS
5 14 (3.25%) Kafka
5 14 (3.25%) RESTful
6 12 (2.78%) JSON
6 12 (2.78%) Web Services
7 11 (2.55%) CSS
7 11 (2.55%) HTML
8 10 (2.32%) ASP.NET
8 10 (2.32%) Spring
9 8 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (1.86%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.62%) jQuery
10 7 (1.62%) Laravel
10 7 (1.62%) WebdriverIO
10 7 (1.62%) XML
11 6 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.02%) Fixed Income
2 11 (2.55%) Clustering
2 11 (2.55%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.55%) Mobile App
2 11 (2.55%) Reinsurance
3 10 (2.32%) Driving Licence
4 8 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.39%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.70%) Derivative
9 3 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.19%) Windows
2 18 (4.18%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.09%) Linux
4 4 (0.93%) Android
4 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (25.06%) Agile
2 60 (13.92%) Mentoring
3 54 (12.53%) DevOps
4 48 (11.14%) CI/CD
4 48 (11.14%) Line Management
5 45 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (10.21%) SDET
7 41 (9.51%) Project Management
8 38 (8.82%) Fintech
8 38 (8.82%) Scrum
9 33 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (7.66%) Computer Science
9 33 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (7.66%) ITIL
10 32 (7.42%) Microservices
10 32 (7.42%) Unit Testing
11 31 (7.19%) Clean Code
12 28 (6.50%) API Testing
12 28 (6.50%) Test Automation
13 27 (6.26%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 98 (22.74%) SQL
2 77 (17.87%) Java
3 49 (11.37%) Python
4 41 (9.51%) JavaScript
5 34 (7.89%) C#
6 23 (5.34%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.55%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.39%) C
9 6 (1.39%) C++
10 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.16%) PHP
11 3 (0.70%) Go
12 2 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
13 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 53 (12.30%) Degree
2 27 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.64%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.09%) CISSP
7 8 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.39%) CEH
8 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.93%) CISA
10 4 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.93%) PMP
11 3 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.70%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.80%) QA
2 15 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.16%) GDPR
4 5 (1.16%) NIST
5 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.70%) SOC 1
7 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) EMIR
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (7.89%) Docker
2 17 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (3.02%) vCenter Server
5 11 (2.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (2.32%) Terraform
7 4 (0.93%) SCCM
8 2 (0.46%) Nmap
9 1 (0.23%) Ansible
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 59 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.96%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.87%) VMware
4 17 (3.94%) Aderant
4 17 (3.94%) iManage
5 15 (3.48%) Charles River
5 15 (3.48%) Oracle
6 14 (3.25%) Sun
7 13 (3.02%) Commvault
8 12 (2.78%) Bloomberg
9 11 (2.55%) Databricks
10 10 (2.32%) ForgeRock
10 10 (2.32%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.39%) Cisco
11 6 (1.39%) Unisys
12 5 (1.16%) Google
12 5 (1.16%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.93%) Intapp
13 4 (0.93%) Sparx
14 3 (0.70%) Workday