Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 31 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 745 110 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.64% 7.36% 9.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.04% 8.45% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 88 65 68
10th Percentile £46,175 £53,850 £41,940
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,962 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,706
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,000 £81,875
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £69,200 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.46% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 3,541 1,302 1,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.09% 87.15% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 977 634 860
10th Percentile £29,700 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,067 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +10.00% +8.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%

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 27 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 27 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.

1 649 (87.11%) Finance
2 632 (84.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 629 (84.43%) Law
4 589 (79.06%) Agile
5 569 (76.38%) Software Engineering
6 531 (71.28%) Operational Stability
7 512 (68.72%) Marketing
8 511 (68.59%) SDLC
9 462 (62.01%) CI/CD
10 416 (55.84%) Community of Practice
11 398 (53.42%) Java
12 319 (42.82%) Information Architecture
13 309 (41.48%) Artificial Intelligence
14 308 (41.34%) Machine Learning
15 293 (39.33%) Architectural Design
16 292 (39.19%) Cloud Native
17 267 (35.84%) AWS
18 254 (34.09%) Continuous Delivery
19 244 (32.75%) SQL
20 191 (25.64%) Spring
21 163 (21.88%) Python
22 155 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
23 145 (19.46%) NoSQL
24 143 (19.19%) Apache Spark
25 123 (16.51%) Kafka
26 122 (16.38%) Big Data
26 122 (16.38%) Tech Ops
27 120 (16.11%) JSON
28 116 (15.57%) Kubernetes
29 109 (14.63%) Mentoring

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
1 143 (19.19%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.30%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (4.30%) FileNet
4 21 (2.82%) GemFire
5 17 (2.28%) Confluence
6 6 (0.81%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.54%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (2.28%) Windchill
2 12 (1.61%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.28%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 267 (35.84%) AWS
2 85 (11.41%) Azure
3 63 (8.46%) Datadog
4 44 (5.91%) Figma
5 32 (4.30%) Amazon S3
5 32 (4.30%) SurveyMonkey
6 22 (2.95%) GCP
7 21 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (0.94%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (0.94%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.81%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (0.54%) SaaS
14 1 (0.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 1 (0.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (11.01%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.54%) BGP
2 4 (0.54%) DNS
2 4 (0.54%) SSL
2 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.27%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (19.46%) NoSQL
2 122 (16.38%) Big Data
3 71 (9.53%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (8.72%) Metadata
5 51 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.10%) CockroachDB
7 28 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 21 (2.82%) Hazelcast
9 17 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (2.28%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.94%) Looker
10 7 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.40%) Tableau
14 2 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (10.74%) Jenkins
2 65 (8.72%) Artifactory
2 65 (8.72%) Bitbucket
2 65 (8.72%) Git
3 54 (7.25%) JUnit
4 37 (4.97%) Cypress.io
5 29 (3.89%) JIRA
6 22 (2.95%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.95%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.95%) Protractor
6 22 (2.95%) Selenium
6 22 (2.95%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.82%) Jaeger
8 15 (2.01%) Cucumber
8 15 (2.01%) GitLab
9 3 (0.40%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Gradle
10 1 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 649 (87.11%) Finance
2 632 (84.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 629 (84.43%) Law
4 512 (68.72%) Marketing
5 109 (14.63%) Banking
6 105 (14.09%) Investment Banking
7 90 (12.08%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (8.99%) Social Skills
9 32 (4.30%) Social Science
10 22 (2.95%) Prime Brokerage
11 13 (1.74%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Games
14 3 (0.40%) Front Office
14 3 (0.40%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.27%) Electronics
15 2 (0.27%) Local Government
15 2 (0.27%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (25.64%) Spring
2 123 (16.51%) Kafka
3 120 (16.11%) JSON
4 101 (13.56%) React
5 97 (13.02%) Spring Boot
6 90 (12.08%) CSS
6 90 (12.08%) HTML
7 79 (10.60%) Web Services
8 74 (9.93%) RESTful
9 71 (9.53%) SAML
10 70 (9.40%) AngularJS
11 67 (8.99%) XML
12 66 (8.86%) Node.js
13 65 (8.72%) JSON-LD
13 65 (8.72%) LDAP
13 65 (8.72%) OpenID
13 65 (8.72%) PySpark
14 62 (8.32%) OpenTelemetry
15 57 (7.65%) Hibernate
16 56 (7.52%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 292 (39.19%) Cloud Native
2 98 (13.15%) Public Cloud
3 95 (12.75%) Management Information System
4 65 (8.72%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (8.72%) Reference Data
5 37 (4.97%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 22 (2.95%) Replication
8 20 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.55%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.15%) Market Risk
11 15 (2.01%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
15 4 (0.54%) Operational Technology
15 4 (0.54%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.50%) Linux
2 4 (0.54%) Android
2 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
3 3 (0.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (79.06%) Agile
2 569 (76.38%) Software Engineering
3 531 (71.28%) Operational Stability
4 511 (68.59%) SDLC
5 462 (62.01%) CI/CD
6 416 (55.84%) Community of Practice
7 319 (42.82%) Information Architecture
8 309 (41.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 308 (41.34%) Machine Learning
10 293 (39.33%) Architectural Design
11 254 (34.09%) Continuous Delivery
12 155 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (16.38%) Tech Ops
14 109 (14.63%) Mentoring
15 108 (14.50%) Roadmaps
16 94 (12.62%) Data Modelling
17 93 (12.48%) Coaching
17 93 (12.48%) Performance Tuning
18 92 (12.35%) Identity Access Management
19 91 (12.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 398 (53.42%) Java
2 244 (32.75%) SQL
3 163 (21.88%) Python
4 108 (14.50%) JavaScript
5 101 (13.56%) Scala
6 75 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 67 (8.99%) Go
8 65 (8.72%) Prolog
8 65 (8.72%) SPARQL
9 32 (4.30%) R
10 28 (3.76%) C#
11 22 (2.95%) Groovy
12 7 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.54%) Swift
14 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
16 1 (0.13%) Bash
16 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (8.19%) Degree
2 33 (4.43%) Master's Degree
3 32 (4.30%) PhD
4 15 (2.01%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.48%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.48%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.21%) CISM
6 9 (1.21%) CISSP
7 7 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.67%) CHECK Team Leader
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.22%) PMO
3 21 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.81%) NIST
5 4 (0.54%) QA
6 3 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (9.26%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.62%) Docker
3 2 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 77 (10.34%) Grafana
3 71 (9.53%) Terraform
4 56 (7.52%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.82%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.82%) Kibana
5 21 (2.82%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (13.42%) Oracle
2 87 (11.68%) Splunk
3 80 (10.74%) Dynatrace
4 33 (4.43%) Microsoft
5 32 (4.30%) Google
5 32 (4.30%) Qualtrics
6 18 (2.42%) SaltStack
7 12 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.81%) Databricks
10 4 (0.54%) Sparx
11 2 (0.27%) Cisco
11 2 (0.27%) SAP
12 1 (0.13%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.13%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore