Lead Jobs in Kingston Upon Thames

Leader
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

The median Leader salary in Kingston Upon Thames is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 7 23 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 4.46% 6.39% 5.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.64% 6.71% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £34,930 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £43,385 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.94% +65.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £83,250 £80,375
South London median annual salary £61,250 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.52% +7.41% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kingston Upon Thames

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kingston Upon Thames. 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 Kingston Upon Thames with a recognized job title 151 343 152
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.18% 95.28% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59 117 120
10th Percentile £44,800 £32,673 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £46,250 £47,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +0.83% +31.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £90,250
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Kingston Upon Thames

Lead
Salary Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Kingston Upon Thames.

Salary trend for Lead in Kingston Upon Thames

Lead
Job Locations in Kingston Upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Kingston Upon Thames region over the 6 months to 16 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
Surbiton +6 3 - -
New Malden +6 2 £75,000 - 1
Chessington - 1 - - 1
Lead
South London

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames

For the 6 months to 16 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 Kingston Upon Thames region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Product Management
2 6 (85.71%) Broadband
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) Java
4 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (57.14%) Unix
4 4 (57.14%) Budget Control
4 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 4 (57.14%) Bash
4 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
4 4 (57.14%) Google
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (57.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (57.14%) Jaeger
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Argo
4 4 (57.14%) GitOps
4 4 (57.14%) Pulumi
4 4 (57.14%) Kustomize

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Broadband
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (14.29%) Modbus
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (57.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Product Management
2 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Budget Control
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) GitOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (57.14%) Resource Management
3 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Broadcast Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Go
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Argo
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Kustomize
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) VMware