Lead Jobs in the City of London

Leader
Central London > City of London

The median Leader salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 37 25
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 427 360 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 12.71% 7.54% 8.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.27% 7.82% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 352 324 502
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £109,063 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £117,250
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £92,500 £88,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.11% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,218 4,605 6,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,879 5,627
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in the City of London.

Salary trend for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London Bridge +22 1 £35,000 -66.67%
Lead
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 City of London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 114 (26.70%) Finance
2 104 (24.36%) Agile
3 99 (23.19%) Social Skills
4 96 (22.48%) Azure
5 88 (20.61%) Java
6 81 (18.97%) SQL
7 74 (17.33%) CI/CD
8 64 (14.99%) SDET
9 61 (14.29%) AWS
10 60 (14.05%) REST
10 60 (14.05%) Mentoring
11 56 (13.11%) DevOps
12 53 (12.41%) Jenkins
13 50 (11.71%) Line Management
13 50 (11.71%) Degree
14 48 (11.24%) Clean Code
14 48 (11.24%) Fintech
15 47 (11.01%) JavaScript
16 46 (10.77%) Microsoft
17 44 (10.30%) Python
18 42 (9.84%) API Testing
19 40 (9.37%) Cucumber
20 39 (9.13%) Test Strategy
21 38 (8.90%) C#
21 38 (8.90%) Test Automation
21 38 (8.90%) Postman
22 37 (8.67%) SaaS
23 36 (8.43%) BDD
23 36 (8.43%) Selenium
24 35 (8.20%) QA

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.11%) CMS
2 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.41%) Drupal
4 4 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.94%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.70%) Confluence
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.28%) Aladdin
2 13 (3.04%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.70%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (22.48%) Azure
2 61 (14.29%) AWS
3 37 (8.67%) SaaS
4 32 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.98%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.75%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (3.04%) GitHub
9 13 (3.04%) Serverless
10 12 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.34%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.87%) Akamai
12 8 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.87%) AWS Fargate
12 8 (1.87%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.87%) Cloudflare
12 8 (1.87%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.34%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (1.87%) DNS
3 7 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.41%) WAN
5 5 (1.17%) BGP
5 5 (1.17%) Firewall
6 4 (0.94%) LAN
6 4 (0.94%) SSL
7 3 (0.70%) DHCP
7 3 (0.70%) Network Security
7 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.47%) Broadband
8 2 (0.47%) SMTP
8 2 (0.47%) Wireless
9 1 (0.23%) Internet
9 1 (0.23%) MPLS
9 1 (0.23%) OSPF
9 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.04%) Power BI
3 12 (2.81%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.11%) Tableau
5 8 (1.87%) MySQL
5 8 (1.87%) Redis
6 6 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.70%) GIS
9 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.47%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.37%) Cucumber
3 38 (8.90%) Postman
4 36 (8.43%) Selenium
5 29 (6.79%) Git
6 26 (6.09%) JIRA
7 17 (3.98%) Cypress.io
8 16 (3.75%) JUnit
9 8 (1.87%) JMeter
10 6 (1.41%) GitLab
11 5 (1.17%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.70%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.47%) Gradle
14 2 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.23%) Appium
15 1 (0.23%) Calabash
15 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 114 (26.70%) Finance
2 99 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.26%) Banking
4 25 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.62%) Retail
6 15 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.04%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.11%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.87%) Automotive
9 8 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.17%) Games
11 5 (1.17%) Law
12 4 (0.94%) iGaming
12 4 (0.94%) Legal
12 4 (0.94%) Local Government
12 4 (0.94%) Marketing
13 3 (0.70%) Advertising
13 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.05%) REST
2 31 (7.26%) .NET
3 23 (5.39%) React
4 15 (3.51%) Kafka
4 15 (3.51%) Web Services
5 14 (3.28%) jQuery
5 14 (3.28%) JSON
6 13 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 13 (3.04%) Spring
7 12 (2.81%) HTML
8 11 (2.58%) RESTful
8 11 (2.58%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.11%) CSS
10 8 (1.87%) Playwright
10 8 (1.87%) WebdriverIO
11 7 (1.64%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.41%) Laravel
13 5 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (1.17%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.28%) Fixed Income
2 13 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.58%) Clustering
4 10 (2.34%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.64%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.70%) Derivative
10 3 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.47%) Blog
11 2 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.26%) Windows
2 17 (3.98%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.75%) Linux
4 10 (2.34%) Unix
5 4 (0.94%) Android
5 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (24.36%) Agile
2 74 (17.33%) CI/CD
3 64 (14.99%) SDET
4 60 (14.05%) Mentoring
5 56 (13.11%) DevOps
6 50 (11.71%) Line Management
7 48 (11.24%) Clean Code
7 48 (11.24%) Fintech
8 42 (9.84%) API Testing
9 39 (9.13%) Test Strategy
10 38 (8.90%) Test Automation
11 36 (8.43%) BDD
12 34 (7.96%) Computer Science
12 34 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (7.49%) Full Stack Development
13 32 (7.49%) Scrum
14 29 (6.79%) Roadmaps
15 28 (6.56%) Actionable Insight
16 27 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (6.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (20.61%) Java
2 81 (18.97%) SQL
3 47 (11.01%) JavaScript
4 44 (10.30%) Python
5 38 (8.90%) C#
6 23 (5.39%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.04%) PHP
8 8 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.64%) C++
10 6 (1.41%) C
11 4 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.70%) Bash
12 3 (0.70%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) R
14 1 (0.23%) Scala
14 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (11.71%) Degree
2 26 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.75%) DBS Check
5 15 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.17%) CCSP
10 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.17%) CISSP
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.94%) PMP
12 3 (0.70%) CEH
12 3 (0.70%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.20%) QA
2 13 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.41%) GDPR
5 5 (1.17%) NIST
6 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (7.03%) Docker
2 18 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 25 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (3.04%) Terraform
4 13 (3.04%) vCenter Server
5 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.70%) Ansible
6 3 (0.70%) Nmap
7 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 46 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 18 (4.22%) Oracle
4 17 (3.98%) VMware
5 14 (3.28%) Sun
6 13 (3.04%) Bloomberg
6 13 (3.04%) Charles River
6 13 (3.04%) Commvault
7 8 (1.87%) Databricks
7 8 (1.87%) ForgeRock
7 8 (1.87%) Sitecore
8 7 (1.64%) Cisco
9 6 (1.41%) Unisys
10 5 (1.17%) Google
10 5 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.94%) SAP
11 4 (0.94%) Sparx
12 3 (0.70%) ESRI
12 3 (0.70%) Thycotic
12 3 (0.70%) Workday