Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 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 2,270 2,669 7,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.30% 8.42% 9.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.84% 8.87% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,729 2,000 3,141
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,233 £56,374
25th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £121,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 23,075 30,104 71,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,017 22,576 35,100
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 £60,255 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +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 6 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 6 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 +17 435 £85,000 -10.53% 54
West London +7 93 £84,125 +57.24% 33
South London +20 41 £72,500 -1.69% 7
East London +9 9 £74,500 -9.70% 27
North London +4 5 £54,950 +48.51% 6
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 619 (27.27%) Finance
2 579 (25.51%) Agile
3 555 (24.45%) AWS
4 479 (21.10%) Azure
5 470 (20.70%) Social Skills
6 408 (17.97%) Java
7 396 (17.44%) Python
8 381 (16.78%) Software Engineering
9 360 (15.86%) Mentoring
10 330 (14.54%) SQL
11 309 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 290 (12.78%) DevOps
13 283 (12.47%) JavaScript
14 278 (12.25%) Banking
15 267 (11.76%) Analytics
16 265 (11.67%) Degree
17 258 (11.37%) Microsoft
18 213 (9.38%) CI/CD
19 211 (9.30%) TypeScript
20 198 (8.72%) C#
21 197 (8.68%) Roadmaps
22 192 (8.46%) Line Management
23 191 (8.41%) .NET
24 176 (7.75%) Asset Management
25 174 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
26 172 (7.58%) GCP
27 169 (7.44%) Kubernetes
28 167 (7.36%) Scrum
29 165 (7.27%) Front Office
29 165 (7.27%) Computer Science

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
1 147 (6.48%) Apache
2 144 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 32 (1.41%) Confluence
7 27 (1.19%) CMS
8 24 (1.06%) Drupal
9 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 5 (0.22%) 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
12 3 (0.13%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.13%) WordPress
13 2 (0.088%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.26%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.044%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.044%) Notion
9 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.044%) Sketch
9 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.84%) Aladdin
3 16 (0.70%) thinkFolio
4 12 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.48%) 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 (0.088%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.088%) Magento
10 2 (0.088%) R3 Corda
10 2 (0.088%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.088%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.044%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 555 (24.45%) AWS
2 479 (21.10%) Azure
3 172 (7.58%) GCP
4 149 (6.56%) Snowflake
5 148 (6.52%) dbt
6 117 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (5.07%) SaaS
8 111 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 91 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (2.73%) Serverless
11 50 (2.20%) GitHub
12 36 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
14 34 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (1.50%) PowerApps
15 33 (1.45%) PaaS
16 32 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.41%) Power Automate
17 31 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.93%) Broadband
2 62 (2.73%) Firewall
3 24 (1.06%) DNS
4 20 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
6 18 (0.79%) Internet
7 16 (0.70%) WAN
8 12 (0.53%) HTTP
8 12 (0.53%) Network Security
8 12 (0.53%) VPN
9 10 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
10 8 (0.35%) BGP
10 8 (0.35%) DHCP
10 8 (0.35%) LAN
10 8 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.26%) 5G
11 6 (0.26%) SSL
12 5 (0.22%) Intranet
12 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.83%) Data Lake
2 136 (5.99%) Apache Arrow
3 135 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
4 133 (5.86%) Dremio
5 130 (5.73%) Apache Ignite
6 125 (5.51%) SQL Server
7 85 (3.74%) Power BI
8 46 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 42 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (1.76%) Tableau
11 31 (1.37%) Relational Database
12 30 (1.32%) MySQL
13 28 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.23%) Big Data
14 27 (1.19%) MongoDB
15 25 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 18 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
18 17 (0.75%) Redis
19 16 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 112 (4.93%) Git
2 74 (3.26%) JIRA
3 63 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 32 (1.41%) Selenium
6 29 (1.28%) Postman
7 27 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.19%) GitLab
7 27 (1.19%) JUnit
8 11 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.48%) JMeter
8 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.44%) Maven
9 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.35%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.26%) NUnit
12 5 (0.22%) Checkstyle
12 5 (0.22%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 619 (27.27%) Finance
2 470 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 278 (12.25%) Banking
4 174 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 165 (7.27%) Front Office
6 164 (7.22%) Marketing
7 152 (6.70%) Investment Banking
8 139 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 134 (5.90%) Advertising
10 114 (5.02%) Law
11 80 (3.52%) Legal
11 80 (3.52%) Retail
12 60 (2.64%) Public Sector
13 45 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (1.76%) Retail Banking
16 35 (1.54%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.32%) Back Office
17 30 (1.32%) Local Government
18 29 (1.28%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.41%) .NET
2 139 (6.12%) Pandas
3 138 (6.08%) NumPy
4 133 (5.86%) gRPC
4 133 (5.86%) Protocol Buffers
5 132 (5.81%) SciPy
6 130 (5.73%) React
7 81 (3.57%) REST
8 80 (3.52%) Kafka
9 59 (2.60%) CSS
10 58 (2.56%) .NET Core
10 58 (2.56%) Spring Boot
11 56 (2.47%) AngularJS
11 56 (2.47%) HTML
12 53 (2.33%) Spring
13 35 (1.54%) JSON
13 35 (1.54%) RESTful
14 31 (1.37%) ASP.NET
15 28 (1.23%) Node.js
16 26 (1.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 160 (7.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 156 (6.87%) Hedge funds
3 155 (6.83%) Fixed Income
4 149 (6.56%) Derivative
5 141 (6.21%) Equities
6 104 (4.58%) Marketing Technology
7 74 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 61 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 53 (2.33%) Cloud Native
10 43 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.67%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.54%) Client/Server
13 35 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
14 32 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.10%) Data Centre
17 22 (0.97%) Reinsurance
18 21 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.41%) Windows
2 95 (4.19%) Linux
3 39 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.88%) Android
5 19 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.75%) Unix
8 8 (0.35%) zOS
9 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.22%) CentOS
11 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.18%) Solaris
13 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.044%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (25.51%) Agile
2 381 (16.78%) Software Engineering
3 360 (15.86%) Mentoring
4 309 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
5 290 (12.78%) DevOps
6 267 (11.76%) Analytics
7 213 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 197 (8.68%) Roadmaps
9 192 (8.46%) Line Management
10 176 (7.75%) Asset Management
11 167 (7.36%) Scrum
12 165 (7.27%) Computer Science
13 162 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 155 (6.83%) Microservices
14 155 (6.83%) Project Management
15 152 (6.70%) Process Improvement
16 143 (6.30%) Coaching
17 134 (5.90%) Business Case
17 134 (5.90%) Data Strategy
18 133 (5.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 408 (17.97%) Java
2 396 (17.44%) Python
3 330 (14.54%) SQL
4 283 (12.47%) JavaScript
5 211 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 198 (8.72%) C#
7 59 (2.60%) Kotlin
8 56 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.67%) Go
9 38 (1.67%) PHP
10 37 (1.63%) C++
10 37 (1.63%) Scala
11 28 (1.23%) Rust
12 24 (1.06%) Bicep
13 22 (0.97%) C
14 21 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.79%) Ruby
16 14 (0.62%) R
17 9 (0.40%) Bash
18 6 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 265 (11.67%) Degree
2 87 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (3.00%) Security Cleared
4 54 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.11%) CISSP
6 41 (1.81%) SC Cleared
7 40 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 35 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 21 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.70%) CISM
11 16 (0.70%) CREST Certified
11 16 (0.70%) GIAC
12 14 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.62%) SSCP
13 13 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.53%) GSEC
15 11 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.48%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.24%) QA
2 117 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.67%) GDPR
5 22 (0.97%) PMO
6 21 (0.93%) SLA
7 18 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.75%) NIST
9 14 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.31%) GRC
12 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.088%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.088%) P3O
System Software
1 128 (5.64%) Docker
2 60 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
7 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Ceph
9 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.044%) Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 169 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.49%) Terraform
3 36 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.84%) Ansible
4 19 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.75%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.75%) vCenter Server
6 15 (0.66%) SCCM
7 13 (0.57%) Istio
7 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.35%) Puppet
9 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.22%) Grafana
10 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.18%) Consul
12 3 (0.13%) Argo
12 3 (0.13%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.13%) Knative
12 3 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 258 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 75 (3.30%) Databricks
3 55 (2.42%) SAP
4 52 (2.29%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.25%) Oracle
6 47 (2.07%) VMware
7 41 (1.81%) Google
8 35 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.28%) Cisco
10 24 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 19 (0.84%) iManage
12 17 (0.75%) Aderant
12 17 (0.75%) IBM
12 17 (0.75%) Workday
13 16 (0.70%) Charles River
13 16 (0.70%) Sun
14 15 (0.66%) Adobe
14 15 (0.66%) Commvault
15 10 (0.44%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.44%) Sitecore