Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 37 22
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 868 110 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.67% 7.28% 10.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.09% 8.47% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 76 65 72
10th Percentile £46,250 £54,400 £42,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £70,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £79,875
Scotland median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.29% +7.69% +7.00%

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 3,930 1,298 1,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.13% 85.85% 97.59%
Number of salaries quoted 904 634 868
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,150 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,146 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,102
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 786 (90.55%) Finance
2 766 (88.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 762 (87.79%) Law
4 720 (82.95%) Agile
5 699 (80.53%) Software Engineering
6 664 (76.50%) Operational Stability
7 635 (73.16%) Marketing
8 632 (72.81%) SDLC
9 559 (64.40%) CI/CD
10 502 (57.83%) Java
11 501 (57.72%) Community of Practice
12 398 (45.85%) Artificial Intelligence
13 397 (45.74%) Machine Learning
14 385 (44.35%) Information Architecture
15 364 (41.94%) AWS
16 359 (41.36%) Architectural Design
17 336 (38.71%) Cloud Native
18 303 (34.91%) Continuous Delivery
18 303 (34.91%) SQL
19 226 (26.04%) Python
20 203 (23.39%) Spring
21 189 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
22 182 (20.97%) NoSQL
23 179 (20.62%) Apache Spark
24 157 (18.09%) Tech Ops
25 146 (16.82%) Big Data
26 142 (16.36%) Public Cloud
27 136 (15.67%) React
28 134 (15.44%) Kafka
29 130 (14.98%) Banking

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
1 179 (20.62%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.69%) FileNet
4 21 (2.42%) GemFire
5 17 (1.96%) Confluence
6 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (1.96%) Windchill
2 12 (1.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.96%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 364 (41.94%) AWS
2 103 (11.87%) Azure
3 63 (7.26%) Datadog
4 44 (5.07%) Figma
4 44 (5.07%) GCP
5 32 (3.69%) Amazon S3
5 32 (3.69%) SurveyMonkey
6 21 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (0.81%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.69%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.58%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.46%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (0.46%) SaaS
14 1 (0.12%) PaaS
14 1 (0.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (9.45%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.46%) BGP
2 4 (0.46%) DNS
2 4 (0.46%) SSL
2 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (20.97%) NoSQL
2 146 (16.82%) Big Data
3 71 (8.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (7.49%) Metadata
5 63 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
6 52 (5.99%) Relational Database
7 38 (4.38%) CockroachDB
8 29 (3.34%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.42%) Hazelcast
10 19 (2.19%) Looker
11 17 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.46%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.35%) Tableau
15 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 89 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 65 (7.49%) Artifactory
2 65 (7.49%) Bitbucket
2 65 (7.49%) Git
3 54 (6.22%) JUnit
4 37 (4.26%) Cypress.io
5 29 (3.34%) JIRA
6 22 (2.53%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.53%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.53%) Protractor
6 22 (2.53%) Selenium
6 22 (2.53%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.42%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.73%) GitLab
9 3 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) Spock
General
1 786 (90.55%) Finance
2 766 (88.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 762 (87.79%) Law
4 635 (73.16%) Marketing
5 130 (14.98%) Banking
6 125 (14.40%) Influencing Skills
7 124 (14.29%) Investment Banking
8 78 (8.99%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.69%) Social Science
10 23 (2.65%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.53%) Prime Brokerage
12 19 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (0.69%) Games
14 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.35%) Front Office
15 3 (0.35%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.23%) Local Government
16 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.12%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (23.39%) Spring
2 136 (15.67%) React
3 134 (15.44%) Kafka
4 120 (13.82%) JSON
5 106 (12.21%) Spring Boot
6 102 (11.75%) CSS
6 102 (11.75%) HTML
7 85 (9.79%) PySpark
8 82 (9.45%) AngularJS
9 79 (9.10%) Web Services
10 74 (8.53%) RESTful
11 71 (8.18%) SAML
12 68 (7.83%) J2EE
13 67 (7.72%) XML
14 66 (7.60%) Node.js
15 65 (7.49%) JSON-LD
15 65 (7.49%) LDAP
15 65 (7.49%) OpenID
16 62 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
17 57 (6.57%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 336 (38.71%) Cloud Native
2 142 (16.36%) Public Cloud
3 95 (10.94%) Management Information System
4 65 (7.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (7.49%) Reference Data
5 38 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.26%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.23%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.42%) Replication
10 20 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.84%) Market Risk
12 15 (1.73%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.58%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.46%) Client/Server
16 4 (0.46%) Operational Technology
17 3 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.99%) Linux
2 4 (0.46%) Android
2 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (82.95%) Agile
2 699 (80.53%) Software Engineering
3 664 (76.50%) Operational Stability
4 632 (72.81%) SDLC
5 559 (64.40%) CI/CD
6 501 (57.72%) Community of Practice
7 398 (45.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 397 (45.74%) Machine Learning
9 385 (44.35%) Information Architecture
10 359 (41.36%) Architectural Design
11 303 (34.91%) Continuous Delivery
12 189 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
13 157 (18.09%) Tech Ops
14 118 (13.59%) Roadmaps
15 117 (13.48%) Mentoring
15 117 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
16 114 (13.13%) Decision-Making
17 111 (12.79%) Coaching
18 105 (12.10%) Data Modelling
19 103 (11.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 502 (57.83%) Java
2 303 (34.91%) SQL
3 226 (26.04%) Python
4 130 (14.98%) JavaScript
5 125 (14.40%) Scala
6 86 (9.91%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.72%) Go
8 65 (7.49%) Prolog
8 65 (7.49%) SPARQL
9 32 (3.69%) R
10 28 (3.23%) C#
11 22 (2.53%) Groovy
12 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.46%) Swift
15 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
17 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (7.03%) Degree
2 33 (3.80%) Master's Degree
3 32 (3.69%) PhD
4 22 (2.53%) AWS Certification
5 16 (1.84%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.04%) CISM
7 9 (1.04%) CISSP
8 7 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.23%) CHECK Team Leader
12 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 36 (4.15%) PMO
3 33 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.69%) NIST
5 4 (0.46%) QA
6 3 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.23%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 128 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 82 (9.45%) Terraform
3 77 (8.87%) Grafana
4 56 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.42%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.42%) Kibana
5 21 (2.42%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (14.17%) Oracle
2 87 (10.02%) Splunk
3 80 (9.22%) Dynatrace
4 32 (3.69%) Google
4 32 (3.69%) Qualtrics
5 30 (3.46%) Microsoft
6 20 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 18 (2.07%) SaltStack
8 12 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.58%) Databricks
10 4 (0.46%) Sparx
11 2 (0.23%) Cisco
11 2 (0.23%) SAP
12 1 (0.12%) Salesforce