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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,180 2,883 6,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.22% 8.55% 9.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.78% 8.98% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 2,150 3,145
10th Percentile £52,265 £58,142 £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 £120,750
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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 20 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 20 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 +18 444 £85,000 -8.11% 76
West London +9 90 £82,500 +54.21% 34
South London +17 40 £72,500 - 13
East London +6 8 £63,000 -23.64% 154
North London +3 6 £62,475 +78.50% 13
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 584 (26.79%) Finance
2 542 (24.86%) Agile
3 514 (23.58%) AWS
4 474 (21.74%) Social Skills
5 466 (21.38%) Azure
6 381 (17.48%) Java
7 350 (16.06%) Python
8 344 (15.78%) Mentoring
9 328 (15.05%) Software Engineering
10 316 (14.50%) SQL
11 308 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
12 285 (13.07%) DevOps
13 274 (12.57%) Analytics
14 267 (12.25%) Degree
15 255 (11.70%) JavaScript
16 252 (11.56%) Microsoft
17 251 (11.51%) Banking
18 211 (9.68%) CI/CD
19 200 (9.17%) Roadmaps
19 200 (9.17%) C#
20 193 (8.85%) .NET
20 193 (8.85%) Line Management
21 178 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
22 176 (8.07%) TypeScript
23 169 (7.75%) Computer Science
24 166 (7.61%) Kubernetes
25 163 (7.48%) Marketing
26 160 (7.34%) Scrum
27 158 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
28 153 (7.02%) Microservices

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
1 114 (5.23%) Apache
2 112 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 37 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.56%) Apache Spark
6 33 (1.51%) Confluence
7 28 (1.28%) CMS
8 23 (1.06%) Drupal
9 9 (0.41%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.23%) Mendix
11 5 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.23%) WordPress
12 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.14%) Appian
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.092%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.092%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.092%) Magnolia
Applications
1 36 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.28%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.092%) InVision
8 2 (0.092%) Notion
8 2 (0.092%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.78%) thinkFolio
4 14 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.55%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.32%) Primavera
7 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.18%) SAP CX
8 4 (0.18%) Shopify
8 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.092%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.092%) SAP CRM
10 2 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.092%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.092%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 514 (23.58%) AWS
2 466 (21.38%) Azure
3 147 (6.74%) GCP
4 123 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
5 118 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 118 (5.41%) SaaS
6 116 (5.32%) Snowflake
7 114 (5.23%) dbt
8 98 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (2.89%) Serverless
10 53 (2.43%) GitHub
11 35 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 35 (1.61%) PaaS
11 35 (1.61%) PowerApps
12 33 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (1.51%) Power Automate
13 30 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 30 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.28%) IaaS
15 27 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.00%) Broadband
2 64 (2.94%) Firewall
3 24 (1.10%) DNS
4 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.96%) Internet
6 20 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 16 (0.73%) WAN
8 15 (0.69%) Network Security
9 13 (0.60%) VPN
10 12 (0.55%) HTTP
11 10 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (0.41%) LAN
13 8 (0.37%) DHCP
13 8 (0.37%) SSL
14 7 (0.32%) BGP
14 7 (0.32%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.28%) Wireless
16 5 (0.23%) Intranet
16 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
16 5 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 122 (5.60%) Data Lake
3 104 (4.77%) Apache Arrow
4 103 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
5 101 (4.63%) Dremio
6 98 (4.50%) Apache Ignite
7 92 (4.22%) Power BI
8 47 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.88%) Tableau
10 39 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.47%) MySQL
11 32 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 31 (1.42%) Big Data
13 28 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.28%) MongoDB
14 23 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 18 (0.83%) Redis
17 15 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 111 (5.09%) Git
2 77 (3.53%) JIRA
3 72 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 36 (1.65%) Postman
5 36 (1.65%) Selenium
6 28 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.24%) JUnit
8 24 (1.10%) GitLab
9 11 (0.50%) Maven
9 11 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.37%) JMeter
12 7 (0.32%) Checkstyle
13 5 (0.23%) Appium
13 5 (0.23%) NUnit
13 5 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.18%) CircleCI
General
1 584 (26.79%) Finance
2 474 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 251 (11.51%) Banking
4 178 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (7.48%) Marketing
6 137 (6.28%) Front Office
7 132 (6.06%) Advertising
8 122 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 121 (5.55%) Investment Banking
10 104 (4.77%) Law
11 85 (3.90%) Retail
12 76 (3.49%) Legal
13 59 (2.71%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.56%) Retail Banking
16 30 (1.38%) Games
16 30 (1.38%) Local Government
17 29 (1.33%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.19%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (8.85%) .NET
2 129 (5.92%) React
3 109 (5.00%) NumPy
3 109 (5.00%) Pandas
4 101 (4.63%) gRPC
4 101 (4.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 100 (4.59%) SciPy
6 89 (4.08%) REST
7 77 (3.53%) Kafka
8 63 (2.89%) Spring Boot
9 62 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 61 (2.80%) Spring
11 60 (2.75%) .NET Core
11 60 (2.75%) CSS
12 59 (2.71%) HTML
13 34 (1.56%) JSON
14 32 (1.47%) ASP.NET
15 29 (1.33%) RESTful
16 26 (1.19%) Vue
17 25 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 128 (5.87%) Fixed Income
2 128 (5.87%) Hedge funds
3 119 (5.46%) Derivative
4 111 (5.09%) Equities
5 104 (4.77%) Marketing Technology
6 75 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 60 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 46 (2.11%) Cloud Native
9 43 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 40 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.79%) Public Cloud
13 38 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
14 36 (1.65%) Client/Server
15 33 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 23 (1.06%) Data Centre
18 21 (0.96%) Onboarding
19 20 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 104 (4.77%) Windows
2 95 (4.36%) Linux
3 37 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.01%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.92%) Android
6 19 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.87%) Unix
7 8 (0.37%) zOS
8 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.046%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (24.86%) Agile
2 344 (15.78%) Mentoring
3 328 (15.05%) Software Engineering
4 308 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (13.07%) DevOps
6 274 (12.57%) Analytics
7 211 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 200 (9.17%) Roadmaps
9 193 (8.85%) Line Management
10 169 (7.75%) Computer Science
11 160 (7.34%) Scrum
12 158 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 153 (7.02%) Microservices
14 150 (6.88%) Project Management
15 149 (6.83%) Process Improvement
16 148 (6.79%) Asset Management
17 143 (6.56%) Coaching
18 137 (6.28%) Data Strategy
19 134 (6.15%) Fintech
19 134 (6.15%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 381 (17.48%) Java
2 350 (16.06%) Python
3 316 (14.50%) SQL
4 255 (11.70%) JavaScript
5 200 (9.17%) C#
6 176 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 62 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 53 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 44 (2.02%) PHP
10 40 (1.83%) Go
11 38 (1.74%) C++
12 35 (1.61%) Scala
13 27 (1.24%) Rust
14 25 (1.15%) Bicep
15 20 (0.92%) C
16 19 (0.87%) Ruby
16 19 (0.87%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.64%) R
18 11 (0.50%) Bash
19 6 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 267 (12.25%) Degree
2 87 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (3.07%) Security Cleared
4 56 (2.57%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.29%) CISSP
6 42 (1.93%) DBS Check
7 41 (1.88%) SC Cleared
8 35 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.78%) CREST Certified
12 16 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.73%) CISM
12 16 (0.73%) GIAC
13 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.69%) SSCP
14 13 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.55%) GSEC
15 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.60%) QA
2 93 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (1.79%) GDPR
5 23 (1.06%) PMO
5 23 (1.06%) SLA
6 19 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.78%) NIST
8 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.32%) GRC
10 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.23%) GAAP
10 5 (0.23%) IFRS
11 4 (0.18%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.14%) NCSC
13 2 (0.092%) HL7
13 2 (0.092%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.092%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 125 (5.73%) Docker
2 65 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.32%) HDFS
9 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.046%) Firmware
12 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 166 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.54%) Terraform
3 35 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.92%) Ansible
4 20 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.78%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.78%) SCCM
5 17 (0.78%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
7 12 (0.55%) Istio
8 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.37%) Puppet
9 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.23%) Grafana
10 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.18%) Consul
12 3 (0.14%) Argo
12 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.14%) Knative
12 3 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 252 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 73 (3.35%) Databricks
3 62 (2.84%) SAP
4 56 (2.57%) Oracle
5 49 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.11%) VMware
7 37 (1.70%) Google
8 31 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.06%) Cisco
10 19 (0.87%) iManage
11 18 (0.83%) Workday
12 17 (0.78%) Aderant
12 17 (0.78%) Bloomberg
12 17 (0.78%) Charles River
12 17 (0.78%) IBM
13 16 (0.73%) Sun
14 15 (0.69%) Commvault
15 13 (0.60%) Adobe
16 10 (0.46%) ForgeRock
16 10 (0.46%) Sitecore