Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,162 2,910 6,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.15% 8.49% 9.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.72% 8.93% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 2,172 3,093
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,564 £56,374
25th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +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 22,249 32,570 65,049
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.05% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,679 24,002 34,556
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 11 May 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 11 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
Central London +18 458 £87,500 -7.89% 61
West London +10 89 £82,500 +54.21% 29
South London +13 39 £72,500 +7.41% 12
East London +3 8 £63,000 -23.64% 37
North London 0 6 £62,475 +78.50% 9
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 571 (26.41%) Finance
2 521 (24.10%) Agile
3 494 (22.85%) AWS
4 471 (21.79%) Social Skills
5 460 (21.28%) Azure
6 358 (16.56%) Java
7 343 (15.86%) Mentoring
8 335 (15.49%) Python
9 319 (14.75%) SQL
10 307 (14.20%) Software Engineering
11 303 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
12 288 (13.32%) DevOps
13 277 (12.81%) Analytics
14 267 (12.35%) Degree
15 248 (11.47%) JavaScript
16 247 (11.42%) Microsoft
17 234 (10.82%) Banking
18 212 (9.81%) CI/CD
19 207 (9.57%) C#
20 197 (9.11%) .NET
21 189 (8.74%) Roadmaps
22 183 (8.46%) Line Management
23 178 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
24 171 (7.91%) Computer Science
25 165 (7.63%) TypeScript
26 163 (7.54%) Marketing
27 162 (7.49%) Kubernetes
28 152 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
28 152 (7.03%) Scrum
29 147 (6.80%) Process Improvement

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
1 100 (4.63%) Apache
2 98 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 39 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 31 (1.43%) Confluence
7 28 (1.30%) CMS
8 23 (1.06%) Drupal
9 9 (0.42%) SAS
10 8 (0.37%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.28%) WordPress
12 5 (0.23%) Mendix
12 5 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.14%) Appian
14 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.093%) Magnolia
15 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
15 2 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.28%) EViews
6 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.093%) InVision
8 2 (0.093%) Notion
8 2 (0.093%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.83%) thinkFolio
4 12 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.32%) Primavera
6 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.19%) SAP CX
7 4 (0.19%) Shopify
7 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.19%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.093%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.093%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.093%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.093%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 494 (22.85%) AWS
2 460 (21.28%) Azure
3 135 (6.24%) GCP
4 129 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (5.78%) SaaS
6 119 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 105 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (4.86%) Snowflake
8 101 (4.67%) dbt
9 65 (3.01%) Serverless
10 58 (2.68%) GitHub
11 38 (1.76%) PaaS
12 36 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (1.62%) PowerApps
14 33 (1.53%) Power Automate
15 31 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
16 30 (1.39%) IaaS
17 27 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (1.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 107 (4.95%) Broadband
2 63 (2.91%) Firewall
3 23 (1.06%) DNS
4 22 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.93%) Internet
5 20 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
6 17 (0.79%) WAN
7 15 (0.69%) Network Security
8 13 (0.60%) VPN
9 12 (0.56%) HTTP
10 10 (0.46%) LAN
10 10 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (0.42%) DHCP
12 8 (0.37%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.37%) SSL
13 7 (0.32%) BGP
13 7 (0.32%) Wireless
14 5 (0.23%) Intranet
14 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 106 (4.90%) Data Lake
3 93 (4.30%) Power BI
4 90 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (4.16%) Apache Arrow
5 87 (4.02%) Dremio
6 84 (3.89%) Apache Ignite
7 46 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 41 (1.90%) Tableau
9 38 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (1.57%) MySQL
11 33 (1.53%) Relational Database
12 32 (1.48%) Big Data
13 28 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.30%) MongoDB
14 22 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 18 (0.83%) Redis
17 15 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 110 (5.09%) Git
2 77 (3.56%) Jenkins
2 77 (3.56%) JIRA
3 42 (1.94%) Cucumber
4 38 (1.76%) Postman
4 38 (1.76%) Selenium
5 29 (1.34%) JUnit
6 28 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 24 (1.11%) GitLab
8 12 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.51%) Maven
9 11 (0.51%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.42%) JMeter
11 8 (0.37%) Checkstyle
12 7 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.23%) Appium
13 5 (0.23%) NUnit
13 5 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 571 (26.41%) Finance
2 471 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 234 (10.82%) Banking
4 178 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (7.54%) Marketing
6 132 (6.11%) Advertising
7 125 (5.78%) Front Office
8 115 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 106 (4.90%) Investment Banking
10 102 (4.72%) Law
11 88 (4.07%) Retail
12 76 (3.52%) Legal
13 57 (2.64%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.57%) Retail Banking
17 30 (1.39%) Games
17 30 (1.39%) Local Government
17 30 (1.39%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (9.11%) .NET
2 132 (6.11%) React
3 95 (4.39%) NumPy
3 95 (4.39%) Pandas
4 91 (4.21%) REST
5 87 (4.02%) gRPC
5 87 (4.02%) Protocol Buffers
6 86 (3.98%) SciPy
7 74 (3.42%) Kafka
8 65 (3.01%) .NET Core
9 63 (2.91%) AngularJS
9 63 (2.91%) CSS
9 63 (2.91%) Spring Boot
10 62 (2.87%) HTML
11 61 (2.82%) Spring
12 35 (1.62%) JSON
13 32 (1.48%) ASP.NET
14 27 (1.25%) RESTful
14 27 (1.25%) Vue
14 27 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 118 (5.46%) Hedge funds
2 117 (5.41%) Fixed Income
3 107 (4.95%) Derivative
4 104 (4.81%) Marketing Technology
5 98 (4.53%) Equities
6 73 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 55 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 43 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 42 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 42 (1.94%) Cloud Native
10 41 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
12 37 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 36 (1.67%) Client/Server
14 33 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.11%) Data Centre
17 22 (1.02%) Onboarding
18 20 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.95%) Windows
2 101 (4.67%) Linux
3 38 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.06%) Unix
6 19 (0.88%) Android
7 18 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.37%) zOS
9 6 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.19%) Solaris
11 1 (0.046%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (24.10%) Agile
2 343 (15.86%) Mentoring
3 307 (14.20%) Software Engineering
4 303 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
5 288 (13.32%) DevOps
6 277 (12.81%) Analytics
7 212 (9.81%) CI/CD
8 189 (8.74%) Roadmaps
9 183 (8.46%) Line Management
10 171 (7.91%) Computer Science
11 152 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 152 (7.03%) Scrum
12 147 (6.80%) Microservices
12 147 (6.80%) Process Improvement
13 145 (6.71%) Project Management
14 138 (6.38%) Data Strategy
15 136 (6.29%) Asset Management
16 135 (6.24%) Coaching
16 135 (6.24%) Fintech
16 135 (6.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 358 (16.56%) Java
2 335 (15.49%) Python
3 319 (14.75%) SQL
4 248 (11.47%) JavaScript
5 207 (9.57%) C#
6 165 (7.63%) TypeScript
7 66 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 49 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 48 (2.22%) PHP
10 39 (1.80%) Go
11 38 (1.76%) C++
12 32 (1.48%) Scala
13 26 (1.20%) Bicep
14 25 (1.16%) Rust
15 20 (0.93%) Ruby
16 19 (0.88%) C
16 19 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.69%) R
18 14 (0.65%) Bash
19 6 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 267 (12.35%) Degree
2 87 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 58 (2.68%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.31%) CISSP
6 43 (1.99%) DBS Check
7 40 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 34 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.02%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.79%) CREST Certified
12 16 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.74%) CISM
12 16 (0.74%) GIAC
13 15 (0.69%) SSCP
14 13 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.56%) GSEC
15 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.51%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.41%) QA
2 84 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 43 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (1.80%) GDPR
5 24 (1.11%) PMO
5 24 (1.11%) SLA
6 18 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.79%) NIST
8 12 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.32%) GRC
11 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) GAAP
11 5 (0.23%) IFRS
12 4 (0.19%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.093%) HL7
14 2 (0.093%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.093%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (5.74%) Docker
2 68 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.37%) HDFS
8 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.093%) Ceph
9 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.046%) Firmware
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 162 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.44%) Terraform
3 34 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.97%) Ansible
5 20 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.88%) SCCM
7 17 (0.79%) Functional Safety
7 17 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 12 (0.56%) Istio
10 9 (0.42%) Puppet
11 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.23%) Grafana
13 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.19%) Consul
15 3 (0.14%) Argo
15 3 (0.14%) Nmap
15 3 (0.14%) QRadar
16 2 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 247 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 72 (3.33%) Databricks
3 60 (2.78%) SAP
4 57 (2.64%) Oracle
5 50 (2.31%) VMware
6 49 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 34 (1.57%) Google
8 31 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.11%) Cisco
10 19 (0.88%) iManage
11 18 (0.83%) Charles River
11 18 (0.83%) Workday
12 17 (0.79%) Aderant
12 17 (0.79%) Bloomberg
12 17 (0.79%) IBM
12 17 (0.79%) Sun
13 15 (0.69%) Commvault
14 13 (0.60%) Adobe
15 10 (0.46%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.46%) Sitecore