Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £89,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,223 2,785 6,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.31% 8.47% 9.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.86% 8.90% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,694 2,059 3,139
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,142 £56,374
25th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,861 £122,500 £120,250
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 22,535 31,280 69,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 95.12% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,745 23,071 34,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,108 £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 28 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 28 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 +16 448 £85,000 -10.53% 73
West London +12 94 £82,500 +54.21% 28
South London +25 41 £72,500 -6.45% 6
East London +13 8 £63,000 -23.64% 34
North London +5 5 £54,950 +57.00% 5
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 606 (27.26%) Finance
2 560 (25.19%) Agile
3 531 (23.89%) AWS
4 475 (21.37%) Social Skills
5 469 (21.10%) Azure
6 390 (17.54%) Java
7 367 (16.51%) Python
8 353 (15.88%) Mentoring
9 351 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 316 (14.22%) SQL
11 312 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
12 287 (12.91%) DevOps
13 271 (12.19%) Analytics
14 268 (12.06%) JavaScript
14 268 (12.06%) Degree
15 266 (11.97%) Banking
16 254 (11.43%) Microsoft
17 211 (9.49%) CI/CD
18 206 (9.27%) Roadmaps
19 196 (8.82%) C#
20 192 (8.64%) .NET
21 190 (8.55%) TypeScript
22 187 (8.41%) Line Management
23 178 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
24 168 (7.56%) Kubernetes
24 168 (7.56%) Computer Science
25 166 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
26 165 (7.42%) Marketing
27 163 (7.33%) Scrum
28 161 (7.24%) Asset Management

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
1 129 (5.80%) Apache
2 126 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 31 (1.39%) Confluence
7 28 (1.26%) CMS
8 24 (1.08%) Drupal
9 8 (0.36%) SAS
10 6 (0.27%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.22%) Mendix
11 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.18%) WordPress
13 3 (0.13%) Appian
13 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.090%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.27%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.090%) Notion
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.045%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.045%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.90%) Aladdin
1 20 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.76%) thinkFolio
3 12 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.31%) Primavera
6 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.18%) Shopify
7 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.090%) Magento
9 2 (0.090%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.090%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.090%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.090%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.090%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 531 (23.89%) AWS
2 469 (21.10%) Azure
3 157 (7.06%) GCP
4 130 (5.85%) dbt
4 130 (5.85%) Snowflake
5 120 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (5.31%) SaaS
7 112 (5.04%) Power Platform
8 92 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (2.83%) Serverless
10 51 (2.29%) GitHub
11 35 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 33 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 33 (1.48%) PaaS
13 32 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (1.44%) PowerApps
14 30 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.26%) Azure AKS
15 28 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.04%) Broadband
2 64 (2.88%) Firewall
3 24 (1.08%) DNS
4 22 (0.99%) Internet
4 22 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 16 (0.72%) Network Security
6 16 (0.72%) WAN
7 13 (0.58%) VPN
8 12 (0.54%) HTTP
9 10 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
10 9 (0.40%) LAN
11 8 (0.36%) DHCP
11 8 (0.36%) SSL
12 7 (0.31%) BGP
12 7 (0.31%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.22%) Intranet
14 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.07%) Data Lake
2 128 (5.76%) SQL Server
3 118 (5.31%) Apache Arrow
4 117 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 115 (5.17%) Dremio
6 112 (5.04%) Apache Ignite
7 87 (3.91%) Power BI
8 46 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 40 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (1.80%) Tableau
10 32 (1.44%) MySQL
10 32 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.30%) Big Data
12 28 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (1.26%) MongoDB
13 26 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 18 (0.81%) Redis
16 17 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.72%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 112 (5.04%) Git
2 73 (3.28%) JIRA
3 67 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.66%) Cucumber
5 34 (1.53%) Selenium
6 33 (1.48%) Postman
7 28 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.21%) JUnit
9 26 (1.17%) GitLab
10 11 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (0.49%) Maven
10 11 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.49%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.45%) JMeter
12 7 (0.31%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.27%) Checkstyle
14 5 (0.22%) Appium
14 5 (0.22%) NUnit
14 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 606 (27.26%) Finance
2 475 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 266 (11.97%) Banking
4 178 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 165 (7.42%) Marketing
6 149 (6.70%) Front Office
7 135 (6.07%) Investment Banking
8 134 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 133 (5.98%) Advertising
10 111 (4.99%) Law
11 85 (3.82%) Retail
12 78 (3.51%) Legal
13 58 (2.61%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.66%) Retail Banking
17 33 (1.48%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.35%) Back Office
18 30 (1.35%) Games
18 30 (1.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (8.64%) .NET
2 128 (5.76%) React
3 122 (5.49%) NumPy
3 122 (5.49%) Pandas
4 115 (5.17%) gRPC
4 115 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
5 114 (5.13%) SciPy
6 86 (3.87%) REST
7 80 (3.60%) Kafka
8 61 (2.74%) AngularJS
8 61 (2.74%) CSS
8 61 (2.74%) Spring Boot
9 58 (2.61%) .NET Core
9 58 (2.61%) HTML
9 58 (2.61%) Spring
10 34 (1.53%) JSON
11 33 (1.48%) RESTful
12 30 (1.35%) ASP.NET
13 25 (1.12%) Node.js
13 25 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 141 (6.34%) Fixed Income
2 141 (6.34%) Hedge funds
3 133 (5.98%) Derivative
4 124 (5.58%) Equities
5 104 (4.68%) Marketing Technology
6 75 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 62 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 51 (2.29%) Cloud Native
9 43 (1.93%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 39 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.57%) Client/Server
12 35 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 31 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.08%) Data Centre
16 21 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.63%) Windows
2 93 (4.18%) Linux
3 38 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.90%) Android
6 19 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.85%) Unix
7 8 (0.36%) zOS
8 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.045%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (25.19%) Agile
2 353 (15.88%) Mentoring
3 351 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 312 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
5 287 (12.91%) DevOps
6 271 (12.19%) Analytics
7 211 (9.49%) CI/CD
8 206 (9.27%) Roadmaps
9 187 (8.41%) Line Management
10 168 (7.56%) Computer Science
11 166 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 163 (7.33%) Scrum
13 161 (7.24%) Asset Management
14 156 (7.02%) Microservices
15 153 (6.88%) Process Improvement
15 153 (6.88%) Project Management
16 143 (6.43%) Coaching
17 135 (6.07%) Business Case
18 133 (5.98%) Data Strategy
18 133 (5.98%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 390 (17.54%) Java
2 367 (16.51%) Python
3 316 (14.22%) SQL
4 268 (12.06%) JavaScript
5 196 (8.82%) C#
6 190 (8.55%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 56 (2.52%) Kotlin
9 40 (1.80%) PHP
10 38 (1.71%) Go
11 37 (1.66%) C++
12 35 (1.57%) Scala
13 26 (1.17%) Rust
14 24 (1.08%) Bicep
15 20 (0.90%) C
15 20 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.81%) Ruby
17 14 (0.63%) R
18 10 (0.45%) Bash
19 6 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 268 (12.06%) Degree
2 87 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 54 (2.43%) Master's Degree
5 49 (2.20%) CISSP
6 41 (1.84%) DBS Check
6 41 (1.84%) SC Cleared
7 35 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.72%) CISM
10 16 (0.72%) CREST Certified
10 16 (0.72%) GIAC
11 15 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.67%) SSCP
12 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (0.54%) GSEC
13 12 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.26%) QA
2 105 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.71%) GDPR
5 23 (1.03%) SLA
6 22 (0.99%) PMO
7 18 (0.81%) NIST
8 17 (0.76%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.31%) GRC
11 6 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
12 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.22%) GAAP
12 5 (0.22%) IFRS
13 4 (0.18%) SOC 1
14 3 (0.13%) NCSC
15 2 (0.090%) HL7
15 2 (0.090%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 130 (5.85%) Docker
2 63 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.27%) HDFS
9 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.13%) Ceph
11 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.045%) Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 168 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 101 (4.54%) Terraform
3 35 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.85%) Ansible
4 19 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.76%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.76%) vCenter Server
6 16 (0.72%) SCCM
7 13 (0.58%) Istio
7 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.36%) 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
1 254 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 74 (3.33%) Databricks
3 56 (2.52%) SAP
4 55 (2.47%) Oracle
5 52 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.07%) VMware
7 39 (1.75%) Google
8 34 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.08%) Cisco
10 19 (0.85%) iManage
10 19 (0.85%) Workday
11 18 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 17 (0.76%) Aderant
12 17 (0.76%) Charles River
12 17 (0.76%) IBM
13 16 (0.72%) Sun
14 15 (0.67%) Commvault
15 14 (0.63%) Adobe
16 10 (0.45%) ForgeRock
16 10 (0.45%) Sitecore