Lead Jobs in South London

Leader
London > South London

The median Leader salary in South London is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 45 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 51 41 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 7.13% 4.67% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.01% 4.88% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 13
10th Percentile - £43,958 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% -6.45% +19.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £115,000 £83,250
London median annual salary £92,500 £89,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +3.93% -1.11% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 566 840 661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.16% 95.67% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 165 396 374
10th Percentile £26,375 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,063 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
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 South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in South London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in South London

Lead
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Merton +4 15 £82,500 +37.50% 2
Croydon +10 13 £57,500 -3.36% 2
Bromley -3 11 £61,250 -44.32% 2
Kingston Upon Thames +3 7 £75,000 +3.45% 1
Sutton - 5 - -
Wandsworth - 2 - -
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 South London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 50 (98.04%) Mentoring
2 47 (92.16%) High Availability
3 46 (90.20%) Product Management
3 46 (90.20%) Broadband
3 46 (90.20%) Roadmaps
4 27 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
5 26 (50.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (50.98%) Broadcast Engineering
5 26 (50.98%) Degree
5 26 (50.98%) Computer Science
6 22 (43.14%) Google
7 21 (41.18%) Agile
7 21 (41.18%) Linux
7 21 (41.18%) JavaScript
7 21 (41.18%) DevOps
8 20 (39.22%) Resource Management
8 20 (39.22%) Ansible
8 20 (39.22%) Docker
8 20 (39.22%) AWS Certification
8 20 (39.22%) Kubernetes
8 20 (39.22%) Performance Optimisation
8 20 (39.22%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (39.22%) Terraform
8 20 (39.22%) Prometheus
8 20 (39.22%) Task Automation
8 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (39.22%) Argo
8 20 (39.22%) GitOps
8 20 (39.22%) Pulumi

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) AWS
1 20 (39.22%) Pulumi
2 2 (3.92%) Google Analytics
2 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.96%) Azure
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 46 (90.20%) Broadband
2 1 (1.96%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.96%) Modbus
2 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (39.22%) NoSQL
1 20 (39.22%) RDBMS
1 20 (39.22%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 2 (3.92%) Tableau
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (39.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (19.61%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) Elastic Stack
1 20 (39.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.96%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (1.96%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
1 1 (1.96%) SCADA
1 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (41.18%) Linux
2 20 (39.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (98.04%) Mentoring
2 47 (92.16%) High Availability
3 46 (90.20%) Product Management
3 46 (90.20%) Roadmaps
4 27 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (50.98%) Broadcast Engineering
5 26 (50.98%) Computer Science
6 21 (41.18%) Agile
6 21 (41.18%) DevOps
7 20 (39.22%) Budget Control
7 20 (39.22%) Containerisation
7 20 (39.22%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (39.22%) Cost Optimisation
7 20 (39.22%) GitOps
7 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (39.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 20 (39.22%) Resource Management
7 20 (39.22%) Task Automation
8 2 (3.92%) Data Visualisation
8 2 (3.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 20 (39.22%) Bash
2 20 (39.22%) Go
2 20 (39.22%) Java
2 20 (39.22%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 26 (50.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (50.98%) Degree
2 20 (39.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (39.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Ansible
1 20 (39.22%) Argo
1 20 (39.22%) Kubernetes
1 20 (39.22%) Kustomize
1 20 (39.22%) Prometheus
1 20 (39.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (43.14%) Google
2 1 (1.96%) Databricks
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.96%) VMware