Lead Jobs in Central London

Leader
London > Central London

The median Leader salary in Central London is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 33 23
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 464 385 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 12.24% 7.45% 8.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.86% 7.76% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 367 342 588
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,600 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,400 £115,000
London median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,607 4,963 7,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.17% 96.01% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 4,137 6,374
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Central London.

Salary trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Central London

Lead
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London +21 415 £90,000 -5.26% 53
City of Westminster +7 21 £50,000 -42.86%
Camden -6 13 - - 3
West End of London +15 12 £100,000 +23.08% 3
Southwark +17 3 £65,000 -38.10%
Kensington and Chelsea +2 1 £87,500 - 1
Lambeth - 1 - - 1
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Central London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 122 (26.29%) Azure
2 117 (25.22%) Finance
3 112 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 106 (22.84%) Agile
5 95 (20.47%) SQL
6 82 (17.67%) Java
7 65 (14.01%) AWS
8 64 (13.79%) Microsoft
9 62 (13.36%) CI/CD
10 61 (13.15%) Mentoring
11 58 (12.50%) Degree
12 57 (12.28%) SDET
13 56 (12.07%) DevOps
14 55 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
15 53 (11.42%) Line Management
16 52 (11.21%) Python
17 51 (10.99%) REST
17 51 (10.99%) SaaS
18 47 (10.13%) JavaScript
19 46 (9.91%) Fintech
20 45 (9.70%) Jenkins
21 43 (9.27%) Clean Code
22 42 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
23 41 (8.84%) Project Management
24 38 (8.19%) C#
24 38 (8.19%) Git
25 37 (7.97%) API Testing
26 36 (7.76%) .NET
26 36 (7.76%) ITIL
27 35 (7.54%) Cucumber

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 15 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.94%) CMS
4 6 (1.29%) Drupal
5 4 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.86%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.65%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.65%) Confluence
7 2 (0.43%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.66%) Aladdin
2 16 (3.45%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.22%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (26.29%) Azure
2 65 (14.01%) AWS
3 55 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (10.99%) SaaS
5 32 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.88%) GitHub
8 17 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (3.66%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.66%) PowerApps
9 16 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 16 (3.45%) Serverless
10 14 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.59%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.37%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.16%) Akamai
13 10 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.16%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.16%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (1.72%) DNS
2 8 (1.72%) Firewall
3 7 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.51%) WAN
4 5 (1.08%) BGP
5 4 (0.86%) LAN
5 4 (0.86%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.86%) SSL
6 3 (0.65%) Network Security
6 3 (0.65%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.43%) Broadband
7 2 (0.43%) DHCP
7 2 (0.43%) SMTP
7 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.43%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) MPLS
8 1 (0.22%) OSPF
8 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.60%) Power BI
2 22 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.80%) Tableau
5 8 (1.72%) MySQL
5 8 (1.72%) Redis
6 6 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.65%) GIS
9 3 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.43%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (9.70%) Jenkins
2 38 (8.19%) Git
3 35 (7.54%) Cucumber
4 33 (7.11%) Postman
5 30 (6.47%) Selenium
6 27 (5.82%) JIRA
7 16 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 16 (3.45%) JUnit
8 8 (1.72%) JMeter
9 7 (1.51%) GitLab
10 4 (0.86%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.86%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.65%) MSTest
12 2 (0.43%) Moq
12 2 (0.43%) NUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 117 (25.22%) Finance
2 112 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.90%) Banking
4 27 (5.82%) Retail
5 17 (3.66%) Law
5 17 (3.66%) Legal
6 16 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.16%) Automotive
9 9 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.94%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.29%) Front Office
11 6 (1.29%) Games
11 6 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.29%) Marketing
12 4 (0.86%) iGaming
12 4 (0.86%) Local Government
13 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.99%) REST
2 36 (7.76%) .NET
3 24 (5.17%) React
4 15 (3.23%) HTML
4 15 (3.23%) Web Services
5 14 (3.02%) AngularJS
5 14 (3.02%) Kafka
6 13 (2.80%) RESTful
7 12 (2.59%) CSS
7 12 (2.59%) jQuery
7 12 (2.59%) JSON
8 11 (2.37%) Spring
9 9 (1.94%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.72%) ASP.NET
10 8 (1.72%) WebdriverIO
11 7 (1.51%) Laravel
12 6 (1.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (1.29%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (1.29%) Playwright
12 6 (1.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.45%) Fixed Income
2 13 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.37%) Clustering
3 11 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.16%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.16%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.72%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.51%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.51%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.65%) Derivative
11 3 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.33%) Windows
2 18 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.02%) Linux
4 7 (1.51%) Unix
5 5 (1.08%) Android
6 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (22.84%) Agile
2 62 (13.36%) CI/CD
3 61 (13.15%) Mentoring
4 57 (12.28%) SDET
5 56 (12.07%) DevOps
6 53 (11.42%) Line Management
7 46 (9.91%) Fintech
8 43 (9.27%) Clean Code
9 42 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (8.84%) Project Management
11 37 (7.97%) API Testing
12 36 (7.76%) ITIL
13 35 (7.54%) Computer Science
14 34 (7.33%) Actionable Insight
14 34 (7.33%) Scrum
14 34 (7.33%) Test Strategy
15 33 (7.11%) Full Stack Development
15 33 (7.11%) Test Automation
16 32 (6.90%) BDD
17 31 (6.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (20.47%) SQL
2 82 (17.67%) Java
3 52 (11.21%) Python
4 47 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 38 (8.19%) C#
6 25 (5.39%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.16%) PHP
8 9 (1.94%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.72%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.29%) C
10 6 (1.29%) C++
11 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.65%) Go
13 2 (0.43%) Bash
13 2 (0.43%) R
14 1 (0.22%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (12.50%) Degree
2 27 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.31%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.59%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.16%) CISSP
7 7 (1.51%) CEH
8 6 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.08%) CCSP
9 5 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.68%) QA
2 14 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.29%) GDPR
6 5 (1.08%) NIST
7 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.65%) SOC 1
9 2 (0.43%) HL7
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (6.68%) Docker
2 19 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 28 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.80%) vCenter Server
5 12 (2.59%) Terraform
6 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.86%) SCCM
8 3 (0.65%) Nmap
9 2 (0.43%) Ansible
10 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 64 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.53%) VMware
4 18 (3.88%) Oracle
5 17 (3.66%) Aderant
5 17 (3.66%) iManage
6 16 (3.45%) Charles River
7 14 (3.02%) Sun
8 13 (2.80%) Bloomberg
8 13 (2.80%) Commvault
9 12 (2.59%) Databricks
10 10 (2.16%) ForgeRock
10 10 (2.16%) Sitecore
11 7 (1.51%) Cisco
12 6 (1.29%) Unisys
13 5 (1.08%) Google
13 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.86%) Intapp
14 4 (0.86%) SAP
14 4 (0.86%) Sparx