Lead Jobs in East London

Leader
London > East London

The median Leader salary in East London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 22 8 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 6.29% 3.69% 5.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.87% 4.65% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 16
10th Percentile £68,200 £44,650 £58,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £46,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -23.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £91,750 £100,000 £95,000
London median annual salary £92,500 £88,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.11% -2.22% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 223 172 379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 63.71% 79.26% 86.93%
Number of salaries quoted 60 137 266
10th Percentile £37,700 £28,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,688 £40,000 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% +9.52% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £113,875 £150,000 £93,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in East London

Lead
Salary Trend in East London

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

Salary trend for Lead in East London

Lead
Salary Histogram in East London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in East London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in East London

Lead
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the East London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Bexley - 4 - -
Tower Hamlets - 3 - -
Barking - 2 £64,500 -
Waltham Forest - 2 - -
Dagenham - 2 £64,500 - 1
Docklands, London - 2 £87,500 -
Greenwich +4 1 - -
Havering +3 1 - -
Hackney -4 1 £92,500 +2.78%
Redbridge - 1 - -
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 East London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 15 (68.18%) Mentoring
2 14 (63.64%) Roadmaps
3 13 (59.09%) High Availability
3 13 (59.09%) Broadband
3 13 (59.09%) Product Management
3 13 (59.09%) AWS
4 12 (54.55%) Linux
4 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
5 11 (50.00%) Python
5 11 (50.00%) Bash
5 11 (50.00%) Agile
5 11 (50.00%) NoSQL
5 11 (50.00%) Go
5 11 (50.00%) Docker
5 11 (50.00%) DevOps
5 11 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (50.00%) Terraform
5 11 (50.00%) Task Automation
6 10 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (45.45%) Argo
6 10 (45.45%) GitOps
6 10 (45.45%) Pulumi
6 10 (45.45%) Kustomize
6 10 (45.45%) Prometheus
6 10 (45.45%) Cost Optimisation
6 10 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (45.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (45.45%) Jaeger
6 10 (45.45%) Ansible

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Pulumi
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) Figma
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Broadband
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (45.45%) RDBMS
2 10 (45.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jaeger
2 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (45.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) Sass
3 2 (9.09%) Vue
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.55%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Debian
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Mentoring
2 14 (63.64%) Roadmaps
3 13 (59.09%) High Availability
3 13 (59.09%) Product Management
4 11 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 10 (45.45%) Budget Control
5 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 10 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (45.45%) Cost Optimisation
5 10 (45.45%) GitOps
5 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
5 10 (45.45%) Resource Management
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.64%) Broadcast Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 11 (50.00%) Bash
2 11 (50.00%) Go
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (45.45%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) AWS Certification
2 6 (27.27%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 10 (45.45%) Argo
2 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Kustomize
2 10 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Adobe
3 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.55%) New Relic
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) YouTube