Lead Jobs in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 2,314 2,637 7,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.36% 8.40% 9.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.91% 8.85% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,766 1,987 3,138
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,650 £56,374
25th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% -2.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,340 29,809 71,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,175 22,417 34,826
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 11 June 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 11 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
Central London +15 431 £85,000 -10.53% 76
West London +7 93 £84,125 +57.24% 29
South London +20 41 £72,500 +7.41% 6
East London +12 9 £77,250 -6.36% 25
North London +2 5 £54,950 +48.51% 1
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 637 (27.53%) Finance
2 591 (25.54%) Agile
3 568 (24.55%) AWS
4 481 (20.79%) Azure
5 469 (20.27%) Social Skills
6 419 (18.11%) Java
7 417 (18.02%) Python
8 399 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 361 (15.60%) Mentoring
10 338 (14.61%) SQL
11 304 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
12 295 (12.75%) JavaScript
13 293 (12.66%) Banking
14 289 (12.49%) DevOps
15 269 (11.62%) Analytics
16 262 (11.32%) Degree
16 262 (11.32%) Microsoft
17 225 (9.72%) TypeScript
18 213 (9.20%) CI/CD
19 202 (8.73%) Line Management
20 197 (8.51%) C#
20 197 (8.51%) Roadmaps
21 191 (8.25%) .NET
22 187 (8.08%) Asset Management
23 182 (7.87%) GCP
24 178 (7.69%) Front Office
25 173 (7.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 171 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
27 170 (7.35%) Kubernetes
27 170 (7.35%) Data Lake

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
1 161 (6.96%) Apache
2 158 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 37 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 30 (1.30%) Confluence
7 27 (1.17%) CMS
8 24 (1.04%) Drupal
9 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 5 (0.22%) Mendix
10 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Pig
11 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.13%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.13%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.086%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.086%) Magnolia
Applications
1 38 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.26%) EViews
6 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.086%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.043%) Notion
9 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.043%) Sketch
9 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.65%) thinkFolio
4 12 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.30%) Primavera
7 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.17%) Shopify
8 4 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.086%) Magento
10 2 (0.086%) R3 Corda
10 2 (0.086%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.086%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.043%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 568 (24.55%) AWS
2 481 (20.79%) Azure
3 182 (7.87%) GCP
4 163 (7.04%) Snowflake
5 162 (7.00%) dbt
6 119 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
7 112 (4.84%) SaaS
8 111 (4.80%) Power Platform
9 91 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (2.59%) Serverless
11 49 (2.12%) GitHub
12 40 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 34 (1.47%) PaaS
16 32 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
16 32 (1.38%) PowerApps
17 31 (1.34%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.84%) Broadband
2 63 (2.72%) Firewall
3 24 (1.04%) DNS
4 19 (0.82%) Internet
4 19 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
6 16 (0.69%) WAN
7 13 (0.56%) VPN
8 12 (0.52%) HTTP
9 11 (0.48%) Network Security
10 10 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.35%) BGP
12 8 (0.35%) DHCP
12 8 (0.35%) LAN
12 8 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.26%) 5G
13 6 (0.26%) SSL
14 5 (0.22%) Intranet
14 5 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (7.35%) Data Lake
2 150 (6.48%) Apache Arrow
3 149 (6.44%) Amazon Athena
4 147 (6.35%) Dremio
5 144 (6.22%) Apache Ignite
6 125 (5.40%) SQL Server
7 84 (3.63%) Power BI
8 46 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (1.73%) Tableau
11 30 (1.30%) Relational Database
12 28 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (1.21%) MySQL
13 27 (1.17%) Big Data
14 26 (1.12%) MongoDB
15 24 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 18 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.69%) BigQuery
19 15 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 112 (4.84%) Git
2 72 (3.11%) JIRA
3 62 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.38%) Cucumber
4 32 (1.38%) Selenium
5 28 (1.21%) GitLab
5 28 (1.21%) Postman
6 26 (1.12%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.12%) JUnit
7 11 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.48%) JMeter
7 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
8 10 (0.43%) Maven
9 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.35%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.26%) NUnit
12 5 (0.22%) Appium
12 5 (0.22%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 637 (27.53%) Finance
2 469 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 293 (12.66%) Banking
4 178 (7.69%) Front Office
5 171 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 166 (7.17%) Investment Banking
7 163 (7.04%) Marketing
8 142 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 134 (5.79%) Advertising
10 114 (4.93%) Law
11 79 (3.41%) Legal
11 79 (3.41%) Retail
12 61 (2.64%) Public Sector
13 45 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (1.73%) Retail Banking
15 37 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.30%) Back Office
16 30 (1.30%) Local Government
17 29 (1.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.25%) .NET
2 153 (6.61%) Pandas
3 152 (6.57%) NumPy
4 147 (6.35%) gRPC
4 147 (6.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 146 (6.31%) SciPy
6 130 (5.62%) React
7 80 (3.46%) Kafka
7 80 (3.46%) REST
8 59 (2.55%) .NET Core
8 59 (2.55%) CSS
9 57 (2.46%) Spring Boot
10 56 (2.42%) HTML
11 53 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 51 (2.20%) Spring
13 36 (1.56%) RESTful
14 35 (1.51%) JSON
14 35 (1.51%) PySpark
15 32 (1.38%) ASP.NET
16 28 (1.21%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 169 (7.30%) Hedge funds
3 167 (7.22%) Fixed Income
4 162 (7.00%) Derivative
5 154 (6.66%) Equities
6 104 (4.49%) Marketing Technology
7 71 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 61 (2.64%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.33%) Cloud Native
10 43 (1.86%) Virtual Team
11 38 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.51%) Client/Server
12 35 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 32 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 29 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.17%) Data Centre
16 23 (0.99%) Reinsurance
17 20 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 102 (4.41%) Windows
2 95 (4.11%) Linux
3 41 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.86%) Android
4 20 (0.86%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.73%) Unix
7 8 (0.35%) zOS
8 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.22%) CentOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.17%) Solaris
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (25.54%) Agile
2 399 (17.24%) Software Engineering
3 361 (15.60%) Mentoring
4 304 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (12.49%) DevOps
6 269 (11.62%) Analytics
7 213 (9.20%) CI/CD
8 202 (8.73%) Line Management
9 197 (8.51%) Roadmaps
10 187 (8.08%) Asset Management
11 169 (7.30%) Scrum
12 163 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (7.00%) Computer Science
14 154 (6.66%) Microservices
14 154 (6.66%) Project Management
15 151 (6.53%) Process Improvement
16 142 (6.14%) Coaching
17 136 (5.88%) Data Strategy
18 135 (5.83%) Business Case
19 134 (5.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 419 (18.11%) Java
2 417 (18.02%) Python
3 338 (14.61%) SQL
4 295 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 225 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 197 (8.51%) C#
7 60 (2.59%) Kotlin
8 55 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.64%) Go
9 38 (1.64%) Scala
10 37 (1.60%) PHP
11 36 (1.56%) C++
12 28 (1.21%) Rust
13 24 (1.04%) Bicep
14 22 (0.95%) C
15 21 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.78%) Ruby
17 14 (0.61%) R
18 9 (0.39%) Bash
19 6 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 262 (11.32%) Degree
2 85 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 53 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 47 (2.03%) CISSP
6 41 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 39 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 35 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 21 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.73%) CISM
12 16 (0.69%) CREST Certified
13 15 (0.65%) GIAC
14 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.52%) SSCP
17 11 (0.48%) CHECK Team Leader
17 11 (0.48%) GSEC
17 11 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 117 (5.06%) QA
3 46 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (1.56%) GDPR
5 21 (0.91%) PMO
5 21 (0.91%) SLA
6 19 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.73%) NIST
8 14 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.30%) GRC
11 6 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
12 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.22%) GAAP
12 5 (0.22%) IFRS
12 5 (0.22%) NCSC
13 4 (0.17%) SOC 1
14 2 (0.086%) COBIT
14 2 (0.086%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 129 (5.57%) Docker
2 63 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.17%) HDFS
10 3 (0.13%) Ceph
11 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.043%) Firmware
12 1 (0.043%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 170 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.49%) Terraform
3 35 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.82%) Ansible
4 19 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.73%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 16 (0.69%) SCCM
7 13 (0.56%) Istio
7 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.35%) Puppet
9 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.22%) Grafana
10 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.17%) Consul
12 3 (0.13%) Argo
12 3 (0.13%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.13%) Knative
12 3 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 262 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 78 (3.37%) Databricks
3 54 (2.33%) SAP
4 52 (2.25%) Oracle
4 52 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 48 (2.07%) VMware
6 42 (1.82%) Google
7 34 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.38%) Cisco
9 30 (1.30%) Bloomberg
10 17 (0.73%) IBM
11 16 (0.69%) iManage
11 16 (0.69%) Sun
11 16 (0.69%) Workday
12 15 (0.65%) Adobe
12 15 (0.65%) Charles River
12 15 (0.65%) Commvault
13 14 (0.61%) Aderant
13 14 (0.61%) Reuters
14 10 (0.43%) ForgeRock