Lead Jobs in Southwark

Leader
Central London > Southwark

The median Leader salary in Southwark is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 August 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 26 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 +1
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead 6 5 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southwark 13.04% 6.58% 24.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.22% 6.76% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year - -36.59% +13.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% +5.71%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Southwark

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southwark. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Southwark with a recognized job title 37 74 53
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 80.43% 97.37% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 53
10th Percentile £30,200 £47,409 £51,250
25th Percentile £44,469 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -18.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £89,875 £80,125 -
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £74,744
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.01% +3.10%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Southwark

Lead
Salary Trend in Southwark

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Southwark.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Southwark

Lead
Job Locations in Southwark

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Southwark region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 5 £65,000 - 1
Lead
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 Southwark region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) Hitachi
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Go
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
1 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Presales
1 4 (66.67%) Loki
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Value Proposition
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
1 4 (66.67%) Pulumi
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Engineering

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southwark 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
1 4 (66.67%) Pulumi
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Presales
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
1 4 (66.67%) Value Proposition
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Go
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Hitachi