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 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 29 36
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,196 2,818 6,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.26% 8.47% 9.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.82% 8.91% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 2,088 3,140
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,142 £56,374
25th Percentile £69,500 £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 £121,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

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 22,363 31,644 68,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,672 23,333 34,565
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,360 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +18 449 £85,000 -8.11% 77
West London +10 93 £82,500 +54.21% 30
South London +24 40 £72,500 -6.45% 11
East London +9 8 £63,000 -23.64% 30
North London +1 5 £54,950 +57.00% 9
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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.

1 588 (26.78%) Finance
2 550 (25.05%) Agile
3 518 (23.59%) AWS
4 473 (21.54%) Social Skills
5 460 (20.95%) Azure
6 385 (17.53%) Java
7 352 (16.03%) Python
8 350 (15.94%) Mentoring
9 338 (15.39%) Software Engineering
10 315 (14.34%) SQL
11 310 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
12 282 (12.84%) DevOps
13 271 (12.34%) Analytics
14 266 (12.11%) Degree
15 262 (11.93%) JavaScript
16 256 (11.66%) Banking
17 252 (11.48%) Microsoft
18 210 (9.56%) CI/CD
19 203 (9.24%) Roadmaps
20 197 (8.97%) C#
21 191 (8.70%) .NET
22 187 (8.52%) Line Management
23 182 (8.29%) TypeScript
24 180 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
25 165 (7.51%) Kubernetes
26 164 (7.47%) Marketing
26 164 (7.47%) Computer Science
27 163 (7.42%) Scrum
27 163 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
28 155 (7.06%) Microservices

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
1 120 (5.46%) Apache
2 118 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.55%) Confluence
6 33 (1.50%) Apache Spark
7 28 (1.28%) CMS
8 23 (1.05%) Drupal
9 9 (0.41%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.23%) Mendix
11 5 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.23%) WordPress
12 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.14%) Appian
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.091%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.27%) EViews
6 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.091%) InVision
8 2 (0.091%) Notion
8 2 (0.091%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (0.91%) Aladdin
1 20 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.77%) thinkFolio
3 13 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.32%) Primavera
6 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.18%) Shopify
7 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.14%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.091%) Magento
9 2 (0.091%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.091%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.091%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.091%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 518 (23.59%) AWS
2 460 (20.95%) Azure
3 146 (6.65%) GCP
4 122 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 121 (5.51%) dbt
5 121 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (5.24%) SaaS
7 113 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 91 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (2.96%) Serverless
10 51 (2.32%) GitHub
11 35 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 34 (1.55%) PowerApps
13 33 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (1.46%) PaaS
14 32 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 31 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (1.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.01%) Broadband
2 64 (2.91%) Firewall
3 24 (1.09%) DNS
4 22 (1.00%) Internet
4 22 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 16 (0.73%) WAN
7 15 (0.68%) Network Security
8 13 (0.59%) VPN
9 12 (0.55%) HTTP
10 10 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (0.41%) LAN
12 8 (0.36%) DHCP
12 8 (0.36%) SSL
13 7 (0.32%) BGP
13 7 (0.32%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.23%) Intranet
15 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (5.74%) Data Lake
2 125 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.01%) Apache Arrow
4 109 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
5 107 (4.87%) Dremio
6 104 (4.74%) Apache Ignite
7 88 (4.01%) Power BI
8 47 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 40 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (1.82%) Tableau
10 32 (1.46%) MySQL
10 32 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 30 (1.37%) Big Data
12 28 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 23 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 18 (0.82%) Redis
16 16 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 111 (5.05%) Git
2 76 (3.46%) JIRA
3 69 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 35 (1.59%) Selenium
6 34 (1.55%) Postman
7 28 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.23%) JUnit
9 24 (1.09%) GitLab
10 11 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (0.50%) Maven
10 11 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.50%) WebDriver
11 9 (0.41%) JMeter
12 7 (0.32%) Checkstyle
13 6 (0.27%) NUnit
13 6 (0.27%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.23%) Appium
14 5 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 588 (26.78%) Finance
2 473 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 256 (11.66%) Banking
4 180 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 164 (7.47%) Marketing
6 141 (6.42%) Front Office
7 133 (6.06%) Advertising
8 127 (5.78%) Investment Banking
9 125 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 105 (4.78%) Law
11 85 (3.87%) Retail
12 75 (3.42%) Legal
13 59 (2.69%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.68%) Retail Banking
17 30 (1.37%) Games
17 30 (1.37%) Local Government
17 30 (1.37%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.23%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.70%) .NET
2 128 (5.83%) React
3 115 (5.24%) NumPy
3 115 (5.24%) Pandas
4 107 (4.87%) gRPC
4 107 (4.87%) Protocol Buffers
5 106 (4.83%) SciPy
6 88 (4.01%) REST
7 77 (3.51%) Kafka
8 63 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 62 (2.82%) Spring Boot
10 60 (2.73%) CSS
10 60 (2.73%) Spring
11 59 (2.69%) .NET Core
12 58 (2.64%) HTML
13 35 (1.59%) JSON
14 32 (1.46%) RESTful
15 30 (1.37%) ASP.NET
16 26 (1.18%) Vue
17 24 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 133 (6.06%) Fixed Income
2 133 (6.06%) Hedge funds
3 124 (5.65%) Derivative
4 116 (5.28%) Equities
5 104 (4.74%) Marketing Technology
6 73 (3.32%) Management Information System
7 63 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 47 (2.14%) Cloud Native
9 43 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.78%) Public Cloud
12 38 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 37 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
14 36 (1.64%) Client/Server
15 32 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
17 24 (1.09%) Data Centre
18 21 (0.96%) Reinsurance
19 20 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.60%) Windows
2 94 (4.28%) Linux
3 37 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.91%) Android
4 20 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.87%) Unix
6 8 (0.36%) zOS
7 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
8 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.046%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (25.05%) Agile
2 350 (15.94%) Mentoring
3 338 (15.39%) Software Engineering
4 310 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
5 282 (12.84%) DevOps
6 271 (12.34%) Analytics
7 210 (9.56%) CI/CD
8 203 (9.24%) Roadmaps
9 187 (8.52%) Line Management
10 164 (7.47%) Computer Science
11 163 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (7.42%) Scrum
12 155 (7.06%) Microservices
13 153 (6.97%) Asset Management
14 151 (6.88%) Process Improvement
15 150 (6.83%) Project Management
16 143 (6.51%) Coaching
17 134 (6.10%) Business Case
18 133 (6.06%) Data Strategy
18 133 (6.06%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 385 (17.53%) Java
2 352 (16.03%) Python
3 315 (14.34%) SQL
4 262 (11.93%) JavaScript
5 197 (8.97%) C#
6 182 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.64%) PowerShell
8 55 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 42 (1.91%) PHP
10 41 (1.87%) Go
11 38 (1.73%) C++
12 34 (1.55%) Scala
13 28 (1.28%) Rust
14 23 (1.05%) Bicep
15 21 (0.96%) C
16 19 (0.87%) Ruby
16 19 (0.87%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.64%) R
18 10 (0.46%) Bash
19 6 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 266 (12.11%) Degree
2 84 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 53 (2.41%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.28%) CISSP
6 42 (1.91%) DBS Check
7 41 (1.87%) SC Cleared
8 35 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.77%) CREST Certified
12 16 (0.73%) CISM
12 16 (0.73%) GIAC
12 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.68%) SSCP
14 12 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.55%) GSEC
14 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.37%) QA
2 98 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.73%) GDPR
5 22 (1.00%) PMO
6 21 (0.96%) SLA
7 19 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.82%) NIST
9 13 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.32%) GRC
11 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) GAAP
11 5 (0.23%) IFRS
12 4 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
12 4 (0.18%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) NCSC
14 2 (0.091%) HL7
14 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 129 (5.87%) Docker
2 61 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.32%) HDFS
9 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.046%) Firmware
12 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 165 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.51%) Terraform
3 35 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.87%) Ansible
6 17 (0.77%) Functional Safety
6 17 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 15 (0.68%) SCCM
8 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
9 12 (0.55%) Istio
10 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.23%) Grafana
12 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.18%) Consul
14 3 (0.14%) Argo
14 3 (0.14%) Knative
14 3 (0.14%) Nmap
14 3 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 252 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 73 (3.32%) Databricks
3 59 (2.69%) SAP
4 55 (2.50%) Oracle
5 51 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.00%) VMware
7 37 (1.68%) Google
8 33 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.05%) Cisco
10 19 (0.87%) iManage
10 19 (0.87%) Workday
11 17 (0.77%) Aderant
11 17 (0.77%) Bloomberg
11 17 (0.77%) Charles River
11 17 (0.77%) IBM
12 16 (0.73%) Sun
13 15 (0.68%) Commvault
14 13 (0.59%) Adobe
15 10 (0.46%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.46%) Sitecore