Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £88,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 29 37
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,198 2,803 6,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.26% 8.47% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.81% 8.90% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 2,076 3,132
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,142 £56,374
25th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +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 22,395 31,505 68,143
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 23,241 34,616
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £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 £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +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 24 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 24 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 +17 448 £85,000 -8.11% 90
West London +10 94 £82,500 +54.21% 30
South London +23 40 £72,500 -6.45% 10
East London +6 8 £63,000 -23.64% 35
North London +1 5 £54,950 +57.00% 10
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 588 (26.75%) Finance
2 549 (24.98%) Agile
3 517 (23.52%) AWS
4 473 (21.52%) Social Skills
5 462 (21.02%) Azure
6 384 (17.47%) Java
7 354 (16.11%) Python
8 348 (15.83%) Mentoring
9 338 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 316 (14.38%) SQL
11 309 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 282 (12.83%) DevOps
13 272 (12.37%) Analytics
14 266 (12.10%) Degree
15 261 (11.87%) JavaScript
16 256 (11.65%) Banking
17 251 (11.42%) Microsoft
18 211 (9.60%) CI/CD
19 199 (9.05%) Roadmaps
20 196 (8.92%) C#
21 190 (8.64%) .NET
22 185 (8.42%) Line Management
23 182 (8.28%) TypeScript
24 180 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
25 167 (7.60%) Kubernetes
26 165 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
26 165 (7.51%) Computer Science
27 163 (7.42%) Marketing
28 162 (7.37%) Scrum
29 154 (7.01%) 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
1 120 (5.46%) Apache
2 118 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.55%) Apache Spark
6 32 (1.46%) Confluence
7 28 (1.27%) CMS
8 23 (1.05%) Drupal
9 9 (0.41%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.23%) Mendix
11 5 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.23%) WordPress
12 4 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.14%) Appian
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.091%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.27%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.091%) Notion
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.045%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (0.91%) Aladdin
1 20 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.77%) thinkFolio
3 12 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 7 (0.32%) Primavera
5 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.18%) Shopify
6 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.14%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.091%) Magento
8 2 (0.091%) R3 Corda
8 2 (0.091%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.091%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.091%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 517 (23.52%) AWS
2 462 (21.02%) Azure
3 147 (6.69%) GCP
4 122 (5.55%) Snowflake
5 121 (5.51%) dbt
6 120 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (5.23%) SaaS
8 114 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 91 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (2.96%) Serverless
11 51 (2.32%) GitHub
12 35 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 34 (1.55%) PowerApps
14 33 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.46%) PaaS
15 32 (1.46%) Power Automate
16 31 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 30 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
19 27 (1.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.00%) Broadband
2 64 (2.91%) Firewall
3 24 (1.09%) DNS
4 22 (1.00%) Internet
4 22 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 16 (0.73%) WAN
7 15 (0.68%) Network Security
8 13 (0.59%) VPN
9 12 (0.55%) HTTP
10 10 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (0.41%) LAN
12 8 (0.36%) DHCP
12 8 (0.36%) SSL
13 7 (0.32%) BGP
13 7 (0.32%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.23%) Intranet
15 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (5.73%) Data Lake
2 125 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.00%) Apache Arrow
4 109 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
5 107 (4.87%) Dremio
6 104 (4.73%) Apache Ignite
7 89 (4.05%) Power BI
8 47 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 40 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (1.82%) Tableau
10 32 (1.46%) MySQL
10 32 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 30 (1.36%) Big Data
12 28 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (1.27%) MongoDB
13 23 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 18 (0.82%) Redis
16 16 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 111 (5.05%) Git
2 74 (3.37%) JIRA
3 69 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 35 (1.59%) Selenium
6 34 (1.55%) Postman
7 28 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.23%) JUnit
9 25 (1.14%) GitLab
10 11 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (0.50%) Maven
10 11 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.50%) WebDriver
11 9 (0.41%) JMeter
12 7 (0.32%) Checkstyle
13 6 (0.27%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.23%) Appium
14 5 (0.23%) NUnit
14 5 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 588 (26.75%) Finance
2 473 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 256 (11.65%) Banking
4 180 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (7.42%) Marketing
6 141 (6.41%) Front Office
7 133 (6.05%) Advertising
8 127 (5.78%) Investment Banking
9 125 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 105 (4.78%) Law
11 85 (3.87%) Retail
12 75 (3.41%) Legal
13 59 (2.68%) Public Sector
14 45 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.68%) Retail Banking
16 30 (1.36%) Games
16 30 (1.36%) Local Government
16 30 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.23%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (8.64%) .NET
2 127 (5.78%) React
3 115 (5.23%) NumPy
3 115 (5.23%) Pandas
4 107 (4.87%) gRPC
4 107 (4.87%) Protocol Buffers
5 106 (4.82%) SciPy
6 88 (4.00%) REST
7 78 (3.55%) Kafka
8 62 (2.82%) AngularJS
8 62 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 60 (2.73%) CSS
9 60 (2.73%) Spring
10 59 (2.68%) .NET Core
11 58 (2.64%) HTML
12 35 (1.59%) JSON
13 33 (1.50%) RESTful
14 30 (1.36%) ASP.NET
15 25 (1.14%) Vue
15 25 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 133 (6.05%) Fixed Income
2 133 (6.05%) Hedge funds
3 124 (5.64%) Derivative
4 116 (5.28%) Equities
5 104 (4.73%) Marketing Technology
6 74 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 63 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.18%) Cloud Native
9 43 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
13 36 (1.64%) Client/Server
14 33 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.09%) Data Centre
17 21 (0.96%) Reinsurance
18 20 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.60%) Windows
2 94 (4.28%) Linux
3 37 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.91%) Android
4 20 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.86%) Unix
6 8 (0.36%) zOS
7 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
8 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.045%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (24.98%) Agile
2 348 (15.83%) Mentoring
3 338 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 309 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
5 282 (12.83%) DevOps
6 272 (12.37%) Analytics
7 211 (9.60%) CI/CD
8 199 (9.05%) Roadmaps
9 185 (8.42%) Line Management
10 165 (7.51%) Computer Science
10 165 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 162 (7.37%) Scrum
12 154 (7.01%) Microservices
13 153 (6.96%) Asset Management
14 152 (6.92%) Process Improvement
15 151 (6.87%) Project Management
16 141 (6.41%) Coaching
17 134 (6.10%) Business Case
18 133 (6.05%) Use Case
19 132 (6.01%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 384 (17.47%) Java
2 354 (16.11%) Python
3 316 (14.38%) SQL
4 261 (11.87%) JavaScript
5 196 (8.92%) C#
6 182 (8.28%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 55 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 42 (1.91%) PHP
10 41 (1.87%) Go
11 38 (1.73%) C++
12 34 (1.55%) Scala
13 28 (1.27%) Rust
14 23 (1.05%) Bicep
15 21 (0.96%) C
16 19 (0.86%) Ruby
16 19 (0.86%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.64%) R
18 10 (0.45%) Bash
19 6 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 266 (12.10%) Degree
2 85 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (3.00%) Security Cleared
4 54 (2.46%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.27%) CISSP
6 42 (1.91%) DBS Check
7 40 (1.82%) SC Cleared
8 35 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.77%) CREST Certified
12 16 (0.73%) CISM
12 16 (0.73%) GIAC
13 15 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.68%) SSCP
14 12 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.55%) GSEC
14 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.37%) QA
2 100 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 48 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.73%) GDPR
5 22 (1.00%) PMO
6 21 (0.96%) SLA
7 18 (0.82%) NIST
8 17 (0.77%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.32%) GRC
11 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) GAAP
11 5 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
11 5 (0.23%) IFRS
12 4 (0.18%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) NCSC
14 2 (0.091%) HL7
14 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 129 (5.87%) Docker
2 62 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.45%) 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 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.045%) Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 167 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 100 (4.55%) Terraform
3 35 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.86%) Ansible
6 17 (0.77%) Functional Safety
6 17 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 16 (0.73%) SCCM
8 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
9 12 (0.55%) Istio
10 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.23%) Grafana
12 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.18%) Consul
14 3 (0.14%) Argo
14 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.14%) Knative
14 3 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 251 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 74 (3.37%) Databricks
3 58 (2.64%) SAP
4 55 (2.50%) Oracle
5 51 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.05%) VMware
7 37 (1.68%) Google
8 33 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.09%) Cisco
10 19 (0.86%) iManage
10 19 (0.86%) Workday
11 18 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 17 (0.77%) Aderant
12 17 (0.77%) Charles River
12 17 (0.77%) IBM
13 16 (0.73%) Sun
14 15 (0.68%) Commvault
15 13 (0.59%) Adobe
16 10 (0.45%) ForgeRock
16 10 (0.45%) Sitecore