Lead Jobs in Central London

Leader
London > Central London

The median Leader salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 32 22
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 438 376 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 11.57% 7.50% 8.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.13% 7.82% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 341 329 605
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,200 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% +2.86% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,612 4,809 8,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.97% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 3,990 6,434
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Central London

Lead
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
City of London +17 395 £85,000 -10.53% 53
City of Westminster +2 18 £49,838 -48.88%
Camden -3 13 - -
West End of London +4 10 £100,000 +11.11%
Southwark +17 3 £65,000 -38.10%
Kensington and Chelsea +4 1 £87,500 +9.38%
Lambeth +1 1 - -
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 Central London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 118 (26.94%) Azure
2 114 (26.03%) Finance
3 110 (25.11%) Agile
4 109 (24.89%) Social Skills
5 98 (22.37%) SQL
6 79 (18.04%) Java
7 65 (14.84%) AWS
8 60 (13.70%) Microsoft
8 60 (13.70%) Mentoring
9 55 (12.56%) DevOps
10 54 (12.33%) Degree
11 51 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
12 50 (11.42%) CI/CD
13 49 (11.19%) Python
13 49 (11.19%) Line Management
14 47 (10.73%) SaaS
15 46 (10.50%) SDET
16 44 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (10.05%) REST
17 42 (9.59%) JavaScript
17 42 (9.59%) Project Management
18 41 (9.36%) Git
19 39 (8.90%) Scrum
19 39 (8.90%) Fintech
20 35 (7.99%) .NET
20 35 (7.99%) Docker
21 34 (7.76%) Jenkins
21 34 (7.76%) Computer Science
22 33 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
22 33 (7.53%) Analytical Skills

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.05%) CMS
4 6 (1.37%) Drupal
5 5 (1.14%) Confluence
6 4 (0.91%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.91%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.46%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (3.88%) Aladdin
2 16 (3.65%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 118 (26.94%) Azure
2 65 (14.84%) AWS
3 51 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (10.73%) SaaS
5 33 (7.53%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.57%) Serverless
7 17 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (3.65%) GitHub
9 15 (3.42%) Entra ID
9 15 (3.42%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.42%) PowerApps
10 14 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.20%) AWS Fargate
11 12 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.74%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.28%) Akamai
13 10 (2.28%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.28%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (1.60%) DNS
2 7 (1.60%) Firewall
2 7 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.37%) WAN
4 5 (1.14%) BGP
5 4 (0.91%) Network Security
5 4 (0.91%) SSL
6 3 (0.68%) LAN
6 3 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.68%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.46%) Broadband
7 2 (0.46%) SMTP
8 1 (0.23%) DHCP
8 1 (0.23%) Internet
8 1 (0.23%) NGFW
8 1 (0.23%) OSPF
8 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.23%) VPN
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.16%) Power BI
2 24 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.42%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.97%) Tableau
5 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.83%) MySQL
6 8 (1.83%) Redis
7 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.68%) GIS
9 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 41 (9.36%) Git
2 34 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.16%) Cucumber
4 25 (5.71%) JIRA
4 25 (5.71%) Postman
5 24 (5.48%) Selenium
6 16 (3.65%) JUnit
7 15 (3.42%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.05%) JMeter
9 7 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.60%) GitLab
10 5 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.91%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.91%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.91%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.68%) MSTest
12 3 (0.68%) NUnit
13 2 (0.46%) Moq
13 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 114 (26.03%) Finance
2 109 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.48%) Banking
5 21 (4.79%) Retail
6 15 (3.42%) Law
6 15 (3.42%) Legal
6 15 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.28%) Automotive
8 10 (2.28%) Retail Banking
9 9 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.14%) Advertising
11 5 (1.14%) Front Office
11 5 (1.14%) Marketing
12 4 (0.91%) Local Government
13 3 (0.68%) Games
13 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.05%) REST
2 35 (7.99%) .NET
3 23 (5.25%) React
4 18 (4.11%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.42%) Kafka
6 14 (3.20%) RESTful
7 13 (2.97%) JSON
8 12 (2.74%) Web Services
9 11 (2.51%) CSS
9 11 (2.51%) HTML
9 11 (2.51%) Spring
10 10 (2.28%) ASP.NET
11 9 (2.05%) Spring Boot
12 8 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (1.83%) jQuery
13 7 (1.60%) Laravel
13 7 (1.60%) WebdriverIO
13 7 (1.60%) XML
14 6 (1.37%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.20%) Fixed Income
2 12 (2.74%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.51%) Clustering
3 11 (2.51%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.51%) Reinsurance
4 10 (2.28%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.68%) Derivative
11 3 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.53%) Windows
2 18 (4.11%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.05%) Linux
4 6 (1.37%) Android
4 6 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (25.11%) Agile
2 60 (13.70%) Mentoring
3 55 (12.56%) DevOps
4 50 (11.42%) CI/CD
5 49 (11.19%) Line Management
6 46 (10.50%) SDET
7 44 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (9.59%) Project Management
9 39 (8.90%) Fintech
9 39 (8.90%) Scrum
10 34 (7.76%) Computer Science
11 33 (7.53%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (7.53%) Clean Code
11 33 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (7.53%) ITIL
12 32 (7.31%) Microservices
12 32 (7.31%) Unit Testing
13 30 (6.85%) Test Automation
14 29 (6.62%) API Testing
15 28 (6.39%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 98 (22.37%) SQL
2 79 (18.04%) Java
3 49 (11.19%) Python
4 42 (9.59%) JavaScript
5 33 (7.53%) C#
6 24 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.28%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.37%) C
9 6 (1.37%) C++
9 6 (1.37%) PHP
10 5 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.68%) Go
12 2 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (12.33%) Degree
2 27 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.57%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.74%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.28%) CISSP
7 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.60%) CEH
9 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.91%) CISA
11 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.91%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.94%) QA
2 15 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.37%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) GDPR
7 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.68%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.23%) COBIT
9 1 (0.23%) EMIR
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (7.99%) Docker
2 18 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.97%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.97%) vCenter Server
5 11 (2.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (2.28%) Terraform
7 4 (0.91%) SCCM
8 3 (0.68%) Nmap
9 1 (0.23%) Ansible
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 60 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.85%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.79%) VMware
4 17 (3.88%) Aderant
4 17 (3.88%) iManage
5 16 (3.65%) Charles River
6 15 (3.42%) Oracle
7 14 (3.20%) Sun
8 13 (2.97%) Bloomberg
8 13 (2.97%) Commvault
9 11 (2.51%) Databricks
10 10 (2.28%) ForgeRock
10 10 (2.28%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.37%) Cisco
11 6 (1.37%) Unisys
12 5 (1.14%) Google
12 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.91%) Intapp
13 4 (0.91%) Sparx
14 3 (0.68%) Workday