Lead Jobs in Edinburgh

Leader
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Leader salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 102 200 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.65% 9.32% 6.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.94% 9.75% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 69 126 88
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,833 £41,938
25th Percentile £59,250 £64,472 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,193 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +26.45% +8.33%
75th Percentile £98,474 £97,328 £77,530
90th Percentile £131,583 £117,236 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +9.62% +8.33%

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 1,470 2,051 2,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 95.53% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,207 1,413
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
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
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 43 (42.16%) Mentoring
2 36 (35.29%) Finance
2 36 (35.29%) Azure
3 34 (33.33%) Agile
4 25 (24.51%) AWS
5 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
6 21 (20.59%) Banking
7 18 (17.65%) Public Cloud
8 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
9 16 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
9 16 (15.69%) Coaching
10 15 (14.71%) DevOps
10 15 (14.71%) SDLC
11 14 (13.73%) SC Cleared
11 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
12 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
13 12 (11.76%) Terraform
13 12 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (11.76%) Cypress.io
13 12 (11.76%) QA
14 11 (10.78%) Test Automation
15 10 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (9.80%) Analytics
15 10 (9.80%) Customer Experience
16 9 (8.82%) CI/CD
16 9 (8.82%) Playwright
16 9 (8.82%) GCP
16 9 (8.82%) Spring Boot
16 9 (8.82%) User Experience

Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Simulink
2 3 (2.94%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) Azure
2 25 (24.51%) AWS
3 9 (8.82%) GCP
4 5 (4.90%) SaaS
5 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.92%) Figma
5 4 (3.92%) GitHub
5 4 (3.92%) Miro
6 3 (2.94%) dbt
6 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.96%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.98%) Collibra
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) DNS
2 6 (5.88%) NetScaler
3 4 (3.92%) BGP
3 4 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (3.92%) SSL
3 4 (3.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
1 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
1 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.94%) Power BI
3 3 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 6 (5.88%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.92%) Git
5 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.96%) JUnit
5 2 (1.96%) Snyk
5 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.96%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 36 (35.29%) Finance
2 21 (20.59%) Banking
3 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 16 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Retail Banking
6 5 (4.90%) Retail
7 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.92%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Electronics
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) Playwright
1 9 (8.82%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.90%) Node.js
3 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.92%) React
4 3 (2.94%) .NET
4 3 (2.94%) Kafka
4 3 (2.94%) Pandas
5 2 (1.96%) Spring
6 1 (0.98%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.98%) CSS
6 1 (0.98%) CSS3
6 1 (0.98%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.98%) HTML
6 1 (0.98%) HTML5
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 8 (7.84%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.96%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (42.16%) Mentoring
2 34 (33.33%) Agile
3 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
4 16 (15.69%) Coaching
5 15 (14.71%) DevOps
5 15 (14.71%) SDLC
6 12 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
7 11 (10.78%) Test Automation
8 10 (9.80%) Analytics
8 10 (9.80%) Customer Experience
8 10 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (8.82%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.82%) Data Science
9 9 (8.82%) Prototyping
9 9 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (8.82%) User Experience
10 8 (7.84%) Cloud Operations
10 8 (7.84%) ITIL
10 8 (7.84%) Microservices
10 8 (7.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
2 9 (8.82%) SQL
3 7 (6.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.88%) Bash
4 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.90%) Java
5 5 (4.90%) Python
6 4 (3.92%) C#
6 4 (3.92%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) SC Cleared
1 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.92%) CCNP
2 4 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.94%) Degree
3 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) CISM
4 1 (0.98%) CISSP
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.76%) Terraform
3 6 (5.88%) Ansible
3 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.92%) Grafana
5 2 (1.96%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (5.88%) Citrix
1 6 (5.88%) Google
1 6 (5.88%) Veeam
1 6 (5.88%) VMware
2 5 (4.90%) Meraki
2 5 (4.90%) Oracle
3 4 (3.92%) ForeScout
3 4 (3.92%) Sparx
3 4 (3.92%) Workday
4 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft