Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Lead Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £120,360 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 110 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 9 42 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.59% 1.97% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 2.06% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 8
10th Percentile - £72,353 £46,375
25th Percentile £100,000 £79,632 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,360 £88,480 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.03% +41.57% +4.17%
75th Percentile £137,913 £117,236 £86,250
90th Percentile - £128,310 £92,625
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £88,480 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.02% +36.12% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,467 2,035 2,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 95.45% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,189 1,421
10th Percentile £32,650 £36,314 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Lead Software Engineer 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 Edinburgh region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 6 (66.67%) Coaching
3 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
1 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Coaching
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) ERP
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
7 Lead Software Engineer jobs in Scotland