Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,014 2,372 7,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.71% 8.75% 9.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.26% 9.19% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 1,875 3,244
10th Percentile £51,125 £57,500 £55,300
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in London

Lead
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead in London

Lead
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Central London +8 357 £85,000 -5.56% 61
West London 0 85 £85,750 +70.84% 22
South London 0 32 £72,500 +31.82% 4
East London +18 8 £80,000 -11.11% 19
North London 0 2 - - 4
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 620 (30.78%) Finance
2 558 (27.71%) Agile
3 549 (27.26%) AWS
4 437 (21.70%) Python
5 418 (20.75%) Azure
6 406 (20.16%) Java
7 401 (19.91%) Software Engineering
8 367 (18.22%) Social Skills
9 324 (16.09%) Banking
10 312 (15.49%) SQL
11 295 (14.65%) JavaScript
12 277 (13.75%) Mentoring
13 262 (13.01%) Analytics
14 245 (12.16%) TypeScript
15 242 (12.02%) DevOps
16 239 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
17 222 (11.02%) Asset Management
18 221 (10.97%) Front Office
19 219 (10.87%) Data Lake
20 218 (10.82%) Microsoft
21 215 (10.68%) Fixed Income
21 215 (10.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 214 (10.63%) Investment Banking
23 213 (10.58%) GCP
23 213 (10.58%) dbt
24 211 (10.48%) Hedge funds
24 211 (10.48%) Derivative
25 209 (10.38%) Line Management
25 209 (10.38%) Snowflake
25 209 (10.38%) Apache Airflow

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 209 (10.38%) Apache Airflow
2 205 (10.18%) Apache
3 39 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 29 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 24 (1.19%) CMS
7 19 (0.94%) Confluence
8 17 (0.84%) Drupal
9 7 (0.35%) SAS
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
10 5 (0.25%) Mendix
10 5 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.099%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.099%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.099%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.050%) Appian
13 1 (0.050%) GlassFish
Applications
1 37 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.050%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.050%) EViews
6 1 (0.050%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.050%) Sketch
6 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.65%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.35%) thinkFolio
5 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.25%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.20%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.099%) iTrent
9 2 (0.099%) Primavera
9 2 (0.099%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.099%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.099%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.099%) SAP SM
9 2 (0.099%) Shopify
9 2 (0.099%) Workfront
10 1 (0.050%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 549 (27.26%) AWS
2 418 (20.75%) Azure
3 213 (10.58%) dbt
3 213 (10.58%) GCP
4 209 (10.38%) Snowflake
5 89 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 88 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 57 (2.83%) SaaS
8 54 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (2.68%) Serverless
9 53 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (2.33%) GitHub
11 46 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 44 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 34 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (1.44%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.46%) Broadband
2 42 (2.09%) Firewall
3 20 (0.99%) WAN
4 19 (0.94%) DNS
5 13 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.60%) LAN
7 10 (0.50%) Network Security
7 10 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.45%) BGP
8 9 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.40%) VPN
10 7 (0.35%) 5G
10 7 (0.35%) HTTP
11 6 (0.30%) Internet
12 5 (0.25%) Intranet
12 5 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (0.20%) OSPF
13 4 (0.20%) VSAN
13 4 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (10.87%) Data Lake
2 204 (10.13%) Amazon Athena
3 197 (9.78%) Apache Arrow
3 197 (9.78%) Dremio
4 194 (9.63%) Apache Ignite
5 86 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 63 (3.13%) Power BI
7 41 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (1.84%) Tableau
9 30 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 24 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (1.09%) Big Data
13 21 (1.04%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.94%) MySQL
16 18 (0.89%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
18 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 111 (5.51%) Git
2 60 (2.98%) JIRA
3 47 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.14%) Selenium
5 21 (1.04%) JUnit
6 20 (0.99%) GitLab
7 18 (0.89%) JMeter
7 18 (0.89%) Postman
8 17 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.79%) SpecFlow
10 14 (0.70%) Maven
11 12 (0.60%) NUnit
12 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.50%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.30%) XCUITest
15 5 (0.25%) Appium
15 5 (0.25%) NeoLoad
15 5 (0.25%) Snyk
General
1 620 (30.78%) Finance
2 367 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 324 (16.09%) Banking
4 221 (10.97%) Front Office
5 214 (10.63%) Investment Banking
6 150 (7.45%) Marketing
7 136 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 135 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
9 124 (6.16%) Advertising
10 101 (5.01%) Law
11 74 (3.67%) Legal
12 70 (3.48%) Retail
13 42 (2.09%) Public Sector
14 40 (1.99%) Retail Banking
15 38 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.49%) Back Office
17 26 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (1.24%) Local Government
18 25 (1.24%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (9.83%) NumPy
2 197 (9.78%) gRPC
2 197 (9.78%) Pandas
2 197 (9.78%) Protocol Buffers
3 195 (9.68%) SciPy
4 143 (7.10%) .NET
5 89 (4.42%) React
6 66 (3.28%) Kafka
7 61 (3.03%) PySpark
8 50 (2.48%) Spring Boot
9 44 (2.18%) HTML
10 43 (2.14%) .NET Core
11 41 (2.04%) AngularJS
11 41 (2.04%) CSS
11 41 (2.04%) RESTful
12 39 (1.94%) Spring
13 38 (1.89%) REST
14 33 (1.64%) Node.js
15 29 (1.44%) ASP.NET
16 26 (1.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 215 (10.68%) Fixed Income
1 215 (10.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 211 (10.48%) Derivative
2 211 (10.48%) Hedge funds
3 205 (10.18%) Equities
4 104 (5.16%) Marketing Technology
5 69 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 58 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 50 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 45 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.14%) Reinsurance
12 21 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.99%) Legacy Code
14 18 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.07%) Windows
2 81 (4.02%) Linux
3 26 (1.29%) Android
3 26 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.74%) Unix
7 8 (0.40%) zOS
8 7 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.20%) CentOS
10 4 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.099%) VMS
11 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.050%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.050%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (27.71%) Agile
2 401 (19.91%) Software Engineering
3 277 (13.75%) Mentoring
4 262 (13.01%) Analytics
5 242 (12.02%) DevOps
6 239 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (11.02%) Asset Management
8 209 (10.38%) Line Management
9 208 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 181 (8.99%) Roadmaps
11 146 (7.25%) Scrum
12 144 (7.15%) Data Strategy
13 143 (7.10%) Microservices
14 142 (7.05%) Investment Management
15 137 (6.80%) Use Case
16 136 (6.75%) Migration
17 134 (6.65%) Business Case
18 133 (6.60%) Process Improvement
19 120 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
20 112 (5.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 437 (21.70%) Python
2 406 (20.16%) Java
3 312 (15.49%) SQL
4 295 (14.65%) JavaScript
5 245 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 157 (7.80%) C#
7 56 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 46 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 45 (2.23%) C++
10 43 (2.14%) Go
11 34 (1.69%) Rust
12 32 (1.59%) Scala
13 31 (1.54%) C
14 24 (1.19%) Bicep
15 21 (1.04%) PHP
16 20 (0.99%) Ruby
17 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 10 (0.50%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.35%) R
19 7 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 198 (9.83%) Degree
2 54 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 54 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 36 (1.79%) CISSP
3 36 (1.79%) SC Cleared
4 35 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 32 (1.59%) DBS Check
6 28 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 16 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (0.79%) CISM
9 14 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.50%) ISEB
11 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (0.40%) CISA
12 8 (0.40%) CREST Certified
12 8 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 85 (4.22%) QA
3 35 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.84%) NIST
5 17 (0.84%) SLA
6 16 (0.79%) GDPR
7 15 (0.74%) PMO
8 12 (0.60%) GRC
9 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.45%) COBIT
11 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
13 5 (0.25%) GAAP
13 5 (0.25%) IFRS
13 5 (0.25%) NCSC
14 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.15%) EMIR
System Software
1 111 (5.51%) Docker
2 48 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.15%) Ceph
6 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.099%) HDFS
7 2 (0.099%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.050%) Firmware
8 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 86 (4.27%) Terraform
3 20 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (0.89%) Ansible
5 14 (0.70%) Istio
6 11 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.50%) SCCM
8 8 (0.40%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.35%) Puppet
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.25%) Argo
11 5 (0.25%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.25%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.20%) Consul
12 4 (0.20%) MOM
12 4 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 218 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 76 (3.77%) Databricks
3 53 (2.63%) Google
4 52 (2.58%) SAP
5 48 (2.38%) Bloomberg
6 39 (1.94%) Oracle
6 39 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 31 (1.54%) Reuters
9 29 (1.44%) Cisco
10 28 (1.39%) VMware
11 13 (0.65%) Adobe
12 10 (0.50%) Citrix
12 10 (0.50%) ForgeRock
12 10 (0.50%) IBM
12 10 (0.50%) Sitecore
12 10 (0.50%) Workday
13 8 (0.40%) ION Trading
13 8 (0.40%) Meraki
13 8 (0.40%) PeopleSoft