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Lead and principal IT jobs in London

Live lead and principal IT jobs in London, observed on public careers and vacancy pages and updated hourly.

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193 Live vacancies
147 Source domains
£48,750 Median advertised
42% Remote (known)
5 hours ago Last updated

We are currently tracking 193 live vacancies matching lead and principal IT jobs in London, across 147 source domains. 33 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The source labels with the most observed roles in this slice are Monzo, Horizontaldigital, Theplacetobeagency and Johnathonpasley. Every role links back to the public careers or vacancy page where it was observed.

Of the 193 roles, 12 publish an annual salary. The median advertised range midpoint is £48,750. The middle half of the market sits between £40,375 and £73,750, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for lead and principal IT jobs in London. Contract day and hourly rates are excluded from this annual-salary comparison.

On working pattern, 42% of roles with a known arrangement are fully remote, 53% of roles with a known arrangement are hybrid and 28% of roles with a known basis are contract. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.

The technologies that come up most often in lead and principal IT jobs in London are Machine Learning, Salesforce, AWS, ServiceNow, Python and Azure. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.

193 live vacancies

Senior Machine Learning Manager, Borrowing

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Senior Engineering Manager

Monzo · London
First seen 1 week ago

Machine Learning, Tech Lead

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Product Designer

Monzo · London
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Customer Operations

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Business Banking

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Data Scientist

Monzo · London
First seen 1 week ago

CRM Manager - EU

Monzo · London
First seen 1 week ago

Credit Model Validation Manager (Machine Learning & NPV Models)

Monzo · London
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Senior Solutions Architect - Microsoft Solutions

Ubdsdigital · London
First seen 1 week ago

Senior/Principal Software Engineer

Gembaadvantage · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£70,000 – £100,000 a year
First seen 1 week ago

Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer

Gembaadvantage · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£70,000 – £100,000 a year
First seen 1 week ago

Principal Consultant – CRM & Next-Best-Action Decisioning

Optima Partners · London
First seen 1 week ago

Software Engineering Manager - Data

ENSEK · London · Remote
Remote
Python AWS Spark SQL Databricks
First seen 1 week ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

ENSEK · London · Remote
Remote
Agile SRE Observability
First seen 1 week ago

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Youlend · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£110,000 a year
Machine Learning
First seen 1 week ago

Mid/Senior Solution Architect - UK

MULTIVERSE COMPUTING · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python AWS Azure Google Cloud Kubernetes
First seen 1 week ago

Zoran Marjanovic Engineering Manager

Petmediagroup · London
First seen 1 week ago

Job titles employers are advertising

The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.

Questions about these roles

How many lead and principal IT jobs in London are there right now?

We are tracking 193 live vacancies across 147 source domains. The crawler revisits public careers and vacancy pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.

What do lead and principal IT jobs in London pay?

The median advertised annual salary midpoint is £48,750, based on the 12 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £40,375 to £73,750. Day and hourly rates are kept out of this annual-salary benchmark.

Can these roles be done remotely?

42% are advertised as fully remote and 53% as hybrid. Based on 76 roles that state an arrangement; 117 unknowns are excluded.

Are these contract or permanent roles?

28% of roles with a stated basis are contract or fixed-term; unknowns are excluded. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.

Which sources list the most roles?

The most active source labels right now are Monzo, Horizontaldigital, Theplacetobeagency, Johnathonpasley and Waterstons. Every vacancy links to its public source page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company.

What other skills do these roles ask for?

Most often Machine Learning, Salesforce, AWS, ServiceNow and Python. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.

How much does a IT professional earn in London?

£48,750 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 15% above the £42,500 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the midpoint of each advertised annual range rather than an offer: 181 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.

Can you work from home as a IT professional in London?

72 of the 193 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 32 fully remote and 40 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.

Are there entry-level or graduate IT professional jobs in London?

Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.

What job titles are used for this role?

Employers on this page advertise it as Solutions Architect, Technical Project Manager, Technical Product Manager, Cloud Architect and IT Manager. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.

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