Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in 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 16 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,163 3,024 6,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.21% 8.44% 9.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.79% 8.89% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 2,240 3,106
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,562
25th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.74% +4.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +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 27 April 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 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
Central London +17 476 £87,500 -5.41% 75
West London +14 89 £82,500 +52.07% 25
South London +14 41 £66,250 +3.92% 6
East London +11 9 £76,000 -7.88% 32
North London +1 6 £62,475 +78.50% 6
Lead
England

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

1 549 (25.38%) Finance
2 494 (22.84%) Agile
3 478 (22.10%) Social Skills
4 473 (21.87%) AWS
5 454 (20.99%) Azure
6 353 (16.32%) Mentoring
7 334 (15.44%) Java
8 319 (14.75%) SQL
8 319 (14.75%) Python
9 292 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
10 290 (13.41%) DevOps
11 285 (13.18%) Analytics
12 271 (12.53%) Software Engineering
13 265 (12.25%) Degree
14 239 (11.05%) Microsoft
15 234 (10.82%) JavaScript
16 220 (10.17%) CI/CD
17 217 (10.03%) Banking
18 208 (9.62%) C#
19 189 (8.74%) Roadmaps
20 187 (8.65%) .NET
21 179 (8.28%) Line Management
22 171 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
22 171 (7.91%) Computer Science
23 163 (7.54%) Marketing
24 156 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
25 149 (6.89%) Process Improvement
26 148 (6.84%) TypeScript
27 145 (6.70%) Scrum
27 145 (6.70%) Project Management

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 78 (3.61%) Apache
2 76 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 40 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.39%) Confluence
6 28 (1.29%) CMS
7 23 (1.06%) Drupal
8 8 (0.37%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.32%) SAS
10 6 (0.28%) WordPress
11 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.23%) Mendix
11 5 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.14%) Appian
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.092%) Magnolia
15 1 (0.046%) GlassFish
Applications
1 39 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.28%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.14%) InVision
7 3 (0.14%) Sketch
8 2 (0.092%) Notion
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 18 (0.83%) thinkFolio
3 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.32%) Primavera
7 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.18%) SAP CX
8 4 (0.18%) Shopify
8 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.14%) R3 Corda
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.092%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.092%) SAP CRM
10 2 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.092%) SAP SCM
10 2 (0.092%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 473 (21.87%) AWS
2 454 (20.99%) Azure
3 133 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 131 (6.06%) GCP
5 126 (5.83%) SaaS
6 121 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 115 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (4.11%) Snowflake
9 81 (3.74%) dbt
10 62 (2.87%) Serverless
11 60 (2.77%) GitHub
12 38 (1.76%) PaaS
13 36 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 36 (1.66%) PowerApps
14 34 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.57%) Power Automate
15 31 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
15 31 (1.43%) IaaS
16 28 (1.29%) Entra ID
17 25 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (4.95%) Broadband
2 65 (3.01%) Firewall
3 24 (1.11%) DNS
4 22 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.92%) Internet
5 20 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
6 17 (0.79%) WAN
7 16 (0.74%) Network Security
8 15 (0.69%) VPN
9 12 (0.55%) HTTP
10 11 (0.51%) DHCP
10 11 (0.51%) LAN
11 10 (0.46%) BGP
11 10 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (0.42%) SSL
13 7 (0.32%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.28%) Wireless
15 4 (0.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.35%) Power BI
3 88 (4.07%) Data Lake
4 70 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
4 70 (3.24%) Apache Arrow
5 67 (3.10%) Dremio
6 64 (2.96%) Apache Ignite
7 47 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 45 (2.08%) Tableau
9 36 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (1.66%) MySQL
10 35 (1.62%) Big Data
11 32 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 26 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (0.92%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 17 (0.79%) Redis
18 15 (0.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 112 (5.18%) Git
2 83 (3.84%) Jenkins
3 75 (3.47%) JIRA
4 48 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 45 (2.08%) Selenium
6 44 (2.03%) Postman
7 29 (1.34%) JUnit
8 28 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.06%) GitLab
10 12 (0.55%) Maven
10 12 (0.55%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.42%) JMeter
13 8 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.37%) Checkstyle
14 5 (0.23%) NUnit
14 5 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.18%) Appium
15 4 (0.18%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
General
1 549 (25.38%) Finance
2 478 (22.10%) Social Skills
3 217 (10.03%) Banking
4 171 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (7.54%) Marketing
6 133 (6.15%) Advertising
7 110 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 104 (4.81%) Front Office
9 95 (4.39%) Retail
10 91 (4.21%) Law
11 88 (4.07%) Investment Banking
12 71 (3.28%) Legal
13 59 (2.73%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.57%) Games
16 32 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.43%) Retail Banking
18 30 (1.39%) Local Government
19 27 (1.25%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (8.65%) .NET
2 133 (6.15%) React
3 101 (4.67%) REST
4 76 (3.51%) NumPy
4 76 (3.51%) Pandas
5 73 (3.37%) Kafka
6 67 (3.10%) AngularJS
6 67 (3.10%) gRPC
6 67 (3.10%) Protocol Buffers
6 67 (3.10%) Spring Boot
7 66 (3.05%) SciPy
8 65 (3.01%) Spring
9 64 (2.96%) .NET Core
10 61 (2.82%) CSS
11 60 (2.77%) HTML
12 39 (1.80%) JSON
13 30 (1.39%) Web Services
14 29 (1.34%) ASP.NET
14 29 (1.34%) Vue
15 26 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 106 (4.90%) Hedge funds
2 105 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 104 (4.81%) Fixed Income
3 104 (4.81%) Marketing Technology
4 92 (4.25%) Derivative
5 80 (3.70%) Equities
6 75 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 44 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 43 (1.99%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 39 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.76%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.71%) Client/Server
13 37 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.48%) Cloud Native
15 30 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
16 29 (1.34%) Data Centre
17 21 (0.97%) Onboarding
18 20 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 110 (5.09%) Windows
2 108 (4.99%) Linux
3 41 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.11%) Unix
4 24 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.83%) Android
5 18 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.28%) CentOS
8 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 2 (0.092%) Debian
11 1 (0.046%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (22.84%) Agile
2 353 (16.32%) Mentoring
3 292 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
4 290 (13.41%) DevOps
5 285 (13.18%) Analytics
6 271 (12.53%) Software Engineering
7 220 (10.17%) CI/CD
8 189 (8.74%) Roadmaps
9 179 (8.28%) Line Management
10 171 (7.91%) Computer Science
11 156 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 149 (6.89%) Process Improvement
13 145 (6.70%) Project Management
13 145 (6.70%) Scrum
14 141 (6.52%) Fintech
15 137 (6.33%) Data Strategy
16 135 (6.24%) Microservices
17 134 (6.20%) Full Stack Development
18 132 (6.10%) Coaching
18 132 (6.10%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 334 (15.44%) Java
2 319 (14.75%) Python
2 319 (14.75%) SQL
3 234 (10.82%) JavaScript
4 208 (9.62%) C#
5 148 (6.84%) TypeScript
6 74 (3.42%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.45%) PHP
8 41 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 38 (1.76%) C++
10 34 (1.57%) Go
11 32 (1.48%) Scala
12 27 (1.25%) Bicep
13 22 (1.02%) Ruby
14 21 (0.97%) Bash
14 21 (0.97%) Rust
15 20 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.74%) C
16 16 (0.74%) R
17 6 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 265 (12.25%) Degree
2 86 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 71 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 61 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.31%) CISSP
6 44 (2.03%) SC Cleared
7 43 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.79%) CREST Certified
13 16 (0.74%) CISM
13 16 (0.74%) GIAC
14 15 (0.69%) SSCP
15 14 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.55%) GSEC
16 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.83%) QA
2 66 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 43 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.90%) GDPR
5 25 (1.16%) PMO
6 24 (1.11%) SLA
7 21 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.83%) NIST
9 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.32%) GRC
12 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.18%) GAAP
13 4 (0.18%) IFRS
13 4 (0.18%) SOC 1
14 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.092%) HL7
15 2 (0.092%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.092%) P3O
15 2 (0.092%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (5.41%) Docker
2 70 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.37%) HDFS
8 7 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.046%) Firmware
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 142 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.44%) Terraform
3 33 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.06%) Ansible
5 20 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.88%) SCCM
7 17 (0.79%) Functional Safety
7 17 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.46%) Istio
10 9 (0.42%) Puppet
11 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.23%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.18%) Grafana
15 3 (0.14%) Nmap
15 3 (0.14%) QRadar
15 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.092%) Jamf Pro
16 2 (0.092%) Salt
Vendors
1 239 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 71 (3.28%) Databricks
3 60 (2.77%) SAP
4 57 (2.64%) Oracle
5 52 (2.40%) ServiceNow
5 52 (2.40%) VMware
6 36 (1.66%) Google
7 29 (1.34%) Cisco
7 29 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.92%) Workday
9 19 (0.88%) iManage
9 19 (0.88%) Sun
10 18 (0.83%) Charles River
11 17 (0.79%) Aderant
11 17 (0.79%) Bloomberg
12 16 (0.74%) IBM
13 15 (0.69%) Commvault
14 13 (0.60%) Adobe
15 12 (0.55%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.37%) ForgeRock