Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £59,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 35 23
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 841 111 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.27% 7.43% 10.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.70% 8.66% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 84 65 72
10th Percentile £46,250 £54,400 £42,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,962 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 3,876 1,282 1,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.05% 85.87% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 959 631 861
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.24% +7.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,825
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 7 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 7 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.

1 751 (89.30%) Finance
2 731 (86.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 727 (86.44%) Law
4 686 (81.57%) Agile
5 666 (79.19%) Software Engineering
6 629 (74.79%) Operational Stability
7 604 (71.82%) Marketing
8 601 (71.46%) SDLC
9 534 (63.50%) CI/CD
10 479 (56.96%) Community of Practice
11 473 (56.24%) Java
12 373 (44.35%) Artificial Intelligence
13 372 (44.23%) Machine Learning
14 366 (43.52%) Information Architecture
15 340 (40.43%) Architectural Design
16 336 (39.95%) AWS
17 325 (38.64%) Cloud Native
18 289 (34.36%) Continuous Delivery
19 287 (34.13%) SQL
20 211 (25.09%) Python
21 200 (23.78%) Spring
22 180 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
23 172 (20.45%) NoSQL
24 170 (20.21%) Apache Spark
25 148 (17.60%) Tech Ops
26 140 (16.65%) Big Data
27 131 (15.58%) Kafka
28 129 (15.34%) Public Cloud
29 127 (15.10%) React
30 125 (14.86%) 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
1 170 (20.21%) Apache Spark
2 52 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.80%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.80%) FileNet
4 21 (2.50%) GemFire
5 17 (2.02%) Confluence
6 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (2.02%) Windchill
2 12 (1.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.02%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 336 (39.95%) AWS
2 97 (11.53%) Azure
3 63 (7.49%) Datadog
4 44 (5.23%) Figma
5 37 (4.40%) GCP
6 32 (3.80%) Amazon S3
6 32 (3.80%) SurveyMonkey
7 21 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (0.83%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.71%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.59%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.48%) SaaS
15 1 (0.12%) PaaS
15 1 (0.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (9.75%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.48%) BGP
2 4 (0.48%) DNS
2 4 (0.48%) SSL
2 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (20.45%) NoSQL
2 140 (16.65%) Big Data
3 71 (8.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (7.73%) Metadata
5 60 (7.13%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 38 (4.52%) CockroachDB
8 26 (3.09%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.50%) Hazelcast
10 17 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (1.90%) Looker
12 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.48%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.36%) Tableau
15 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 86 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 65 (7.73%) Artifactory
2 65 (7.73%) Bitbucket
2 65 (7.73%) Git
3 54 (6.42%) JUnit
4 37 (4.40%) Cypress.io
5 29 (3.45%) JIRA
6 22 (2.62%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.62%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.62%) Protractor
6 22 (2.62%) Selenium
6 22 (2.62%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.50%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.78%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.78%) GitLab
9 3 (0.36%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) Spock
General
1 751 (89.30%) Finance
2 731 (86.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 727 (86.44%) Law
4 604 (71.82%) Marketing
5 123 (14.63%) Banking
6 118 (14.03%) Investment Banking
7 116 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (8.92%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.80%) Social Science
10 22 (2.62%) Prime Brokerage
11 20 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Games
14 3 (0.36%) Front Office
14 3 (0.36%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.36%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.24%) Local Government
15 2 (0.24%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.12%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (23.78%) Spring
2 131 (15.58%) Kafka
3 127 (15.10%) React
4 120 (14.27%) JSON
5 103 (12.25%) Spring Boot
6 99 (11.77%) CSS
6 99 (11.77%) HTML
7 82 (9.75%) PySpark
8 79 (9.39%) AngularJS
8 79 (9.39%) Web Services
9 74 (8.80%) RESTful
10 71 (8.44%) SAML
11 67 (7.97%) XML
12 66 (7.85%) Node.js
13 65 (7.73%) J2EE
13 65 (7.73%) JSON-LD
13 65 (7.73%) LDAP
13 65 (7.73%) OpenID
14 62 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
15 57 (6.78%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 325 (38.64%) Cloud Native
2 129 (15.34%) Public Cloud
3 95 (11.30%) Management Information System
4 65 (7.73%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (7.73%) Reference Data
5 37 (4.40%) Data Structures
6 35 (4.16%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.97%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.50%) Replication
10 20 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.90%) Market Risk
12 15 (1.78%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.59%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.48%) Client/Server
16 4 (0.48%) Operational Technology
17 3 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.83%) Linux
2 4 (0.48%) Android
2 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.36%) Unix
4 2 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (81.57%) Agile
2 666 (79.19%) Software Engineering
3 629 (74.79%) Operational Stability
4 601 (71.46%) SDLC
5 534 (63.50%) CI/CD
6 479 (56.96%) Community of Practice
7 373 (44.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 372 (44.23%) Machine Learning
9 366 (43.52%) Information Architecture
10 340 (40.43%) Architectural Design
11 289 (34.36%) Continuous Delivery
12 180 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
13 148 (17.60%) Tech Ops
14 117 (13.91%) Mentoring
15 115 (13.67%) Roadmaps
16 111 (13.20%) Performance Tuning
17 108 (12.84%) Coaching
17 108 (12.84%) Decision-Making
18 102 (12.13%) Data Modelling
19 100 (11.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 473 (56.24%) Java
2 287 (34.13%) SQL
3 211 (25.09%) Python
4 124 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 119 (14.15%) Scala
6 83 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.97%) Go
8 65 (7.73%) Prolog
8 65 (7.73%) SPARQL
9 32 (3.80%) R
10 27 (3.21%) C#
11 22 (2.62%) Groovy
12 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.48%) Swift
14 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
16 1 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (7.25%) Degree
2 33 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 32 (3.80%) PhD
4 19 (2.26%) AWS Certification
5 16 (1.90%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.43%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.07%) CISM
7 9 (1.07%) CISSP
8 7 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.48%) CHECK Team Leader
11 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.04%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.92%) PMO
3 30 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.71%) NIST
5 4 (0.48%) QA
6 3 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 79 (9.39%) Terraform
3 77 (9.16%) Grafana
4 56 (6.66%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.50%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.50%) Kibana
5 21 (2.50%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 117 (13.91%) Oracle
2 87 (10.34%) Splunk
3 80 (9.51%) Dynatrace
4 32 (3.80%) Google
4 32 (3.80%) Qualtrics
5 30 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 18 (2.14%) SaltStack
7 17 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.59%) Databricks
10 4 (0.48%) Sparx
11 2 (0.24%) Cisco
11 2 (0.24%) SAP
12 1 (0.12%) Salesforce