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 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 31 23
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 476 409 694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 12.63% 7.66% 8.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.28% 7.97% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 381 364 583
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,125 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £92,500 £88,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.11% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £104,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £121,750 £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 3,583 5,132 7,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 96.18% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 4,291 6,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £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 27 April 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 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
City of London +23 427 £90,000 -5.26% 52
City of Westminster +11 22 £50,000 -28.57%
Camden -5 13 - - 3
West End of London +13 12 £100,000 +17.65% 4
Southwark +14 3 £65,000 -38.10%
Kensington and Chelsea +4 1 £87,500 - 1
Lambeth - 1 - - 2
Lead
London

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 Central London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 122 (25.63%) Azure
2 120 (25.21%) Finance
3 112 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 106 (22.27%) Agile
5 92 (19.33%) SQL
6 90 (18.91%) Java
7 74 (15.55%) CI/CD
8 68 (14.29%) AWS
9 65 (13.66%) Mentoring
10 64 (13.45%) SDET
11 62 (13.03%) Microsoft
12 60 (12.61%) REST
13 59 (12.39%) Degree
14 57 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (11.97%) DevOps
15 54 (11.34%) Python
16 53 (11.13%) Line Management
16 53 (11.13%) Jenkins
17 50 (10.50%) SaaS
17 50 (10.50%) JavaScript
18 48 (10.08%) Fintech
18 48 (10.08%) Clean Code
19 43 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
20 42 (8.82%) API Testing
21 41 (8.61%) Project Management
22 40 (8.40%) C#
22 40 (8.40%) Cucumber
23 39 (8.19%) Test Strategy
24 38 (7.98%) Test Automation
24 38 (7.98%) Postman

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 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.89%) CMS
3 6 (1.26%) Drupal
4 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.84%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.63%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.63%) Confluence
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.57%) Aladdin
2 16 (3.36%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.21%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (25.63%) Azure
2 68 (14.29%) AWS
3 57 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (10.50%) SaaS
5 32 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 17 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 16 (3.36%) GitHub
9 15 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (2.73%) Serverless
11 12 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.10%) Azure Functions
13 9 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.68%) Akamai
14 8 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.68%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.10%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (1.68%) DNS
3 7 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.26%) Firewall
4 6 (1.26%) WAN
5 5 (1.05%) BGP
6 4 (0.84%) LAN
6 4 (0.84%) SSL
7 3 (0.63%) DHCP
7 3 (0.63%) Network Security
7 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.63%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.42%) Broadband
8 2 (0.42%) SMTP
8 2 (0.42%) Wireless
9 1 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) MPLS
9 1 (0.21%) OSPF
9 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.46%) Power BI
2 21 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.15%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.73%) Tableau
5 8 (1.68%) MySQL
5 8 (1.68%) Redis
6 6 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.63%) GIS
9 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.42%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 53 (11.13%) Jenkins
2 40 (8.40%) Cucumber
3 38 (7.98%) Postman
4 37 (7.77%) Git
5 36 (7.56%) Selenium
6 27 (5.67%) JIRA
7 17 (3.57%) Cypress.io
8 16 (3.36%) JUnit
9 8 (1.68%) JMeter
10 6 (1.26%) GitLab
11 5 (1.05%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.63%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.42%) Gradle
14 2 (0.42%) MSTest
14 2 (0.42%) NUnit
14 2 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 120 (25.21%) Finance
2 112 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.72%) Banking
4 28 (5.88%) Retail
5 17 (3.57%) Law
5 17 (3.57%) Legal
6 16 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 8 (1.68%) Automotive
10 8 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.26%) Front Office
11 6 (1.26%) Games
11 6 (1.26%) Marketing
12 4 (0.84%) iGaming
12 4 (0.84%) Local Government
13 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.61%) REST
2 32 (6.72%) .NET
3 26 (5.46%) React
4 15 (3.15%) Kafka
4 15 (3.15%) Web Services
5 14 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 14 (2.94%) HTML
5 14 (2.94%) jQuery
5 14 (2.94%) JSON
5 14 (2.94%) Spring
6 12 (2.52%) RESTful
6 12 (2.52%) Spring Boot
7 11 (2.31%) CSS
8 8 (1.68%) Playwright
8 8 (1.68%) WebdriverIO
9 7 (1.47%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.47%) Laravel
10 6 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (1.26%) Vue
11 5 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 13 (2.73%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.31%) Clustering
3 11 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.10%) Driving Licence
5 9 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (1.89%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.47%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.63%) Derivative
11 3 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.93%) Windows
2 17 (3.57%) Linux
2 17 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.10%) Unix
4 5 (1.05%) Android
5 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (22.27%) Agile
2 74 (15.55%) CI/CD
3 65 (13.66%) Mentoring
4 64 (13.45%) SDET
5 57 (11.97%) DevOps
6 53 (11.13%) Line Management
7 48 (10.08%) Clean Code
7 48 (10.08%) Fintech
8 43 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (8.82%) API Testing
10 41 (8.61%) Project Management
11 39 (8.19%) Test Strategy
12 38 (7.98%) Test Automation
13 36 (7.56%) BDD
13 36 (7.56%) ITIL
14 34 (7.14%) Computer Science
14 34 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
15 33 (6.93%) Actionable Insight
16 32 (6.72%) Roadmaps
16 32 (6.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 92 (19.33%) SQL
2 90 (18.91%) Java
3 54 (11.34%) Python
4 50 (10.50%) JavaScript
5 40 (8.40%) C#
6 25 (5.25%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.73%) PHP
8 8 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.47%) C++
10 6 (1.26%) C
11 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.63%) Bash
12 3 (0.63%) Go
13 2 (0.42%) R
14 1 (0.21%) Scala
14 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (12.39%) Degree
2 26 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.20%) DBS Check
4 17 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.10%) CISSP
9 7 (1.47%) CEH
9 7 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.05%) CCSP
11 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.84%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.84%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.35%) QA
2 13 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.26%) GDPR
6 5 (1.05%) NIST
7 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) SOC 1
9 2 (0.42%) HL7
9 2 (0.42%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 32 (6.72%) Docker
2 19 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 26 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.73%) Terraform
4 13 (2.73%) vCenter Server
5 11 (2.31%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (0.84%) SCCM
7 3 (0.63%) Ansible
7 3 (0.63%) Nmap
8 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 62 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.09%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.41%) VMware
4 18 (3.78%) Oracle
5 17 (3.57%) Aderant
5 17 (3.57%) iManage
6 16 (3.36%) Charles River
7 14 (2.94%) Sun
8 13 (2.73%) Bloomberg
8 13 (2.73%) Commvault
9 12 (2.52%) Databricks
10 8 (1.68%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.68%) Sitecore
11 7 (1.47%) Cisco
12 6 (1.26%) Unisys
13 5 (1.05%) Google
13 5 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.05%) SAP
14 4 (0.84%) Intapp
14 4 (0.84%) Sparx