Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £59,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 37 22
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 851 111 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.45% 7.45% 10.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.86% 8.69% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 83 65 71
10th Percentile £46,250 £54,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,962 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £80,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,893 1,278 1,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.11% 85.83% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 941 627 860
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% +6.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,875
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,625
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.69% +15.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Glasgow region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 762 (89.54%) Finance
2 742 (87.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 738 (86.72%) Law
4 697 (81.90%) Agile
5 677 (79.55%) Software Engineering
6 640 (75.21%) Operational Stability
7 614 (72.15%) Marketing
8 611 (71.80%) SDLC
9 542 (63.69%) CI/CD
10 486 (57.11%) Community of Practice
11 482 (56.64%) Java
12 381 (44.77%) Artificial Intelligence
13 380 (44.65%) Machine Learning
14 372 (43.71%) Information Architecture
15 346 (40.66%) Architectural Design
16 345 (40.54%) AWS
17 328 (38.54%) Cloud Native
18 293 (34.43%) Continuous Delivery
19 292 (34.31%) SQL
20 216 (25.38%) Python
21 201 (23.62%) Spring
22 183 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
23 175 (20.56%) NoSQL
24 173 (20.33%) Apache Spark
25 151 (17.74%) Tech Ops
26 142 (16.69%) Big Data
27 133 (15.63%) Public Cloud
28 132 (15.51%) Kafka
29 130 (15.28%) React
30 126 (14.81%) Kubernetes

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 173 (20.33%) Apache Spark
2 52 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.76%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.76%) FileNet
4 21 (2.47%) GemFire
5 17 (2.00%) Confluence
6 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (2.00%) Windchill
2 12 (1.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.00%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 345 (40.54%) AWS
2 99 (11.63%) Azure
3 63 (7.40%) Datadog
4 44 (5.17%) Figma
5 39 (4.58%) GCP
6 32 (3.76%) Amazon S3
6 32 (3.76%) SurveyMonkey
7 21 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (0.82%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.71%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.59%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.47%) SaaS
15 1 (0.12%) PaaS
15 1 (0.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (9.64%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.47%) BGP
2 4 (0.47%) DNS
2 4 (0.47%) SSL
2 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (20.56%) NoSQL
2 142 (16.69%) Big Data
3 71 (8.34%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (7.64%) Metadata
5 61 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (5.64%) Relational Database
7 38 (4.47%) CockroachDB
8 27 (3.17%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.47%) Hazelcast
10 17 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.00%) Looker
11 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.82%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.47%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.35%) Tableau
14 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (10.22%) Jenkins
2 65 (7.64%) Artifactory
2 65 (7.64%) Bitbucket
2 65 (7.64%) Git
3 54 (6.35%) JUnit
4 37 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 29 (3.41%) JIRA
6 22 (2.59%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.59%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.59%) Protractor
6 22 (2.59%) Selenium
6 22 (2.59%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.47%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.76%) GitLab
9 3 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) Spock
General
1 762 (89.54%) Finance
2 742 (87.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 738 (86.72%) Law
4 614 (72.15%) Marketing
5 125 (14.69%) Banking
6 120 (14.10%) Investment Banking
7 119 (13.98%) Influencing Skills
8 76 (8.93%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.76%) Social Science
10 22 (2.59%) Prime Brokerage
11 21 (2.47%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Games
14 3 (0.35%) Front Office
14 3 (0.35%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.35%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.24%) Local Government
15 2 (0.24%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.12%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (23.62%) Spring
2 132 (15.51%) Kafka
3 130 (15.28%) React
4 120 (14.10%) JSON
5 104 (12.22%) Spring Boot
6 100 (11.75%) CSS
6 100 (11.75%) HTML
7 83 (9.75%) PySpark
8 80 (9.40%) AngularJS
9 79 (9.28%) Web Services
10 74 (8.70%) RESTful
11 71 (8.34%) SAML
12 67 (7.87%) XML
13 66 (7.76%) J2EE
13 66 (7.76%) Node.js
14 65 (7.64%) JSON-LD
14 65 (7.64%) LDAP
14 65 (7.64%) OpenID
15 62 (7.29%) OpenTelemetry
16 57 (6.70%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 328 (38.54%) Cloud Native
2 133 (15.63%) Public Cloud
3 95 (11.16%) Management Information System
4 65 (7.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (7.64%) Reference Data
5 37 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 36 (4.23%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.06%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.47%) Replication
10 20 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.88%) Market Risk
12 15 (1.76%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.59%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.47%) Client/Server
16 4 (0.47%) Operational Technology
17 3 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (0.47%) Android
2 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (81.90%) Agile
2 677 (79.55%) Software Engineering
3 640 (75.21%) Operational Stability
4 611 (71.80%) SDLC
5 542 (63.69%) CI/CD
6 486 (57.11%) Community of Practice
7 381 (44.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 380 (44.65%) Machine Learning
9 372 (43.71%) Information Architecture
10 346 (40.66%) Architectural Design
11 293 (34.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 183 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
13 151 (17.74%) Tech Ops
14 117 (13.75%) Mentoring
15 116 (13.63%) Roadmaps
16 113 (13.28%) Performance Tuning
17 110 (12.93%) Decision-Making
18 109 (12.81%) Coaching
19 103 (12.10%) Data Modelling
20 101 (11.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 482 (56.64%) Java
2 292 (34.31%) SQL
3 216 (25.38%) Python
4 126 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 121 (14.22%) Scala
6 84 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.87%) Go
8 65 (7.64%) Prolog
8 65 (7.64%) SPARQL
9 32 (3.76%) R
10 27 (3.17%) C#
11 22 (2.59%) Groovy
12 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.47%) Swift
14 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
16 1 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (7.17%) Degree
2 33 (3.88%) Master's Degree
3 32 (3.76%) PhD
4 20 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 16 (1.88%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.41%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.06%) CISM
7 9 (1.06%) CISSP
8 7 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.35%) CHECK Team Leader
12 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.00%) PMO
3 31 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.71%) NIST
5 4 (0.47%) QA
6 3 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (7.99%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.29%) Docker
3 2 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 80 (9.40%) Terraform
3 77 (9.05%) Grafana
4 56 (6.58%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.47%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.47%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.47%) Kibana
5 21 (2.47%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 119 (13.98%) Oracle
2 87 (10.22%) Splunk
3 80 (9.40%) Dynatrace
4 32 (3.76%) Google
4 32 (3.76%) Qualtrics
5 30 (3.53%) Microsoft
6 18 (2.12%) Atlassian
6 18 (2.12%) SaltStack
7 12 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.59%) Databricks
9 4 (0.47%) Sparx
10 2 (0.24%) Cisco
10 2 (0.24%) SAP
11 1 (0.12%) Salesforce