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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 430 384 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 11.32% 7.75% 8.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.87% 8.07% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 330 335 603
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,063 £72,500 £74,375
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 £90,000 £90,000 £85,740
% change year-on-year - +4.97% +7.18%

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 3,622 4,756 8,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.37% 96.02% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 3,927 6,428
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,813 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,625
90th Percentile £111,625 £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 9 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 9 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 +15 388 £85,000 -10.53% 51
City of Westminster -1 18 £49,838 -46.12%
Camden -2 12 - -
West End of London +2 10 £100,000 +14.29%
Southwark +16 2 £67,500 -35.71% 1
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 9 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.

1 117 (27.21%) Azure
2 112 (26.05%) Finance
3 109 (25.35%) Agile
4 108 (25.12%) Social Skills
5 99 (23.02%) SQL
6 76 (17.67%) Java
7 65 (15.12%) AWS
8 61 (14.19%) Mentoring
9 58 (13.49%) Microsoft
10 54 (12.56%) DevOps
11 51 (11.86%) Degree
12 48 (11.16%) Microsoft 365
13 47 (10.93%) Python
13 47 (10.93%) CI/CD
14 46 (10.70%) Line Management
15 43 (10.00%) SaaS
15 43 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (10.00%) SDET
16 40 (9.30%) Project Management
17 39 (9.07%) Git
17 39 (9.07%) REST
18 38 (8.84%) JavaScript
18 38 (8.84%) Scrum
19 37 (8.60%) Fintech
20 35 (8.14%) C#
20 35 (8.14%) .NET
21 34 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
21 34 (7.91%) Docker
22 33 (7.67%) Microservices
22 33 (7.67%) Actionable Insight

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 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.09%) CMS
4 6 (1.40%) Drupal
5 5 (1.16%) Confluence
6 4 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.93%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.72%) Aladdin
2 15 (3.49%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 117 (27.21%) Azure
2 65 (15.12%) AWS
3 48 (11.16%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (10.00%) SaaS
5 33 (7.67%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.65%) Serverless
7 17 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (3.72%) GitHub
9 15 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.49%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.49%) PowerApps
10 14 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.26%) AWS Fargate
10 14 (3.26%) Entra ID
11 12 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.79%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.56%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.33%) Akamai
13 10 (2.33%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.33%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (1.63%) DNS
2 7 (1.63%) WAN
3 6 (1.40%) Firewall
3 6 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.16%) BGP
5 4 (0.93%) LAN
5 4 (0.93%) SSL
6 3 (0.70%) Network Security
6 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.47%) Broadband
7 2 (0.47%) H.323
7 2 (0.47%) SMTP
7 2 (0.47%) VSAN
7 2 (0.47%) WebEx
7 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.23%) DHCP
8 1 (0.23%) OSPF
8 1 (0.23%) VPN
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.05%) Power BI
2 25 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.02%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.02%) Tableau
4 9 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.40%) MySQL
5 6 (1.40%) Redis
6 5 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.70%) GIS
8 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (9.07%) Git
2 30 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.81%) JIRA
4 24 (5.58%) Cucumber
5 23 (5.35%) Selenium
6 22 (5.12%) Postman
7 17 (3.95%) JUnit
8 14 (3.26%) Cypress.io
9 10 (2.33%) JMeter
10 7 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.63%) GitLab
11 5 (1.16%) SpecFlow
11 5 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.93%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.93%) NUnit
12 4 (0.93%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.70%) MSTest
14 2 (0.47%) Moq
14 2 (0.47%) NeoLoad
14 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (26.05%) Finance
2 108 (25.12%) Social Skills
3 32 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.35%) Banking
5 21 (4.88%) Retail
6 16 (3.72%) Legal
7 15 (3.49%) Law
8 14 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.56%) Retail Banking
11 10 (2.33%) Automotive
11 10 (2.33%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.40%) Advertising
12 6 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.16%) Front Office
13 5 (1.16%) Marketing
14 4 (0.93%) Local Government
15 3 (0.70%) Games
15 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.07%) REST
2 35 (8.14%) .NET
3 20 (4.65%) React
4 15 (3.49%) AngularJS
4 15 (3.49%) Kafka
4 15 (3.49%) RESTful
5 12 (2.79%) JSON
5 12 (2.79%) Web Services
6 10 (2.33%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.09%) CSS
7 9 (2.09%) HTML
8 8 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (1.86%) Spring
8 8 (1.86%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.86%) XML
9 7 (1.63%) jQuery
9 7 (1.63%) Laravel
10 6 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (1.40%) Vue
10 6 (1.40%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.02%) Fixed Income
2 11 (2.56%) Clustering
2 11 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.56%) Mobile App
2 11 (2.56%) Reinsurance
3 10 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 8 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.40%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.70%) Derivative
9 3 (0.70%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.21%) Windows
2 18 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.09%) Linux
4 5 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) Android
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.47%) Unix
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.35%) Agile
2 61 (14.19%) Mentoring
3 54 (12.56%) DevOps
4 47 (10.93%) CI/CD
5 46 (10.70%) Line Management
6 43 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (10.00%) SDET
7 40 (9.30%) Project Management
8 38 (8.84%) Scrum
9 37 (8.60%) Fintech
10 34 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (7.67%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (7.67%) Microservices
12 32 (7.44%) ITIL
13 31 (7.21%) Computer Science
13 31 (7.21%) Unit Testing
14 30 (6.98%) Test Automation
15 29 (6.74%) Clean Code
16 28 (6.51%) Test Strategy
17 27 (6.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 99 (23.02%) SQL
2 76 (17.67%) Java
3 47 (10.93%) Python
4 38 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 35 (8.14%) C#
6 23 (5.35%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.40%) C
9 6 (1.40%) C++
10 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.16%) PHP
11 3 (0.70%) Go
12 2 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
13 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 51 (11.86%) Degree
2 25 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.65%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.79%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.79%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.09%) CISSP
7 8 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.40%) CEH
8 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.93%) CISA
10 4 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.93%) PMP
11 3 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.70%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.81%) QA
2 14 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.16%) NIST
5 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.93%) GDPR
6 3 (0.70%) SOC 1
7 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) EMIR
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (7.91%) Docker
2 17 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (3.02%) vCenter Server
5 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (2.33%) Terraform
7 4 (0.93%) SCCM
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.47%) Nmap
9 1 (0.23%) Ansible
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 58 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.35%) VMware
4 16 (3.72%) Aderant
4 16 (3.72%) iManage
5 15 (3.49%) Charles River
6 14 (3.26%) Oracle
6 14 (3.26%) Sun
7 13 (3.02%) Commvault
8 12 (2.79%) Bloomberg
9 11 (2.56%) Databricks
10 10 (2.33%) ForgeRock
10 10 (2.33%) Sitecore
11 8 (1.86%) Cisco
12 6 (1.40%) Unisys
13 5 (1.16%) Google
13 5 (1.16%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.93%) Intapp
14 4 (0.93%) Sparx
15 3 (0.70%) ESRI