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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 36 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 98 180 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.59% 8.89% 6.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.87% 9.37% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 69 118 96
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,833 £41,501
25th Percentile £59,250 £56,563 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,632 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +17.97% +12.50%
75th Percentile £98,474 £97,328 £77,530
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,236 £85,000
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
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 1,426 1,921 2,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 94.91% 98.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 1,139 1,501
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,516 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,921 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +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 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Edinburgh region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 36 (36.73%) Mentoring
3 31 (31.63%) Finance
4 30 (30.61%) Agile
5 25 (25.51%) AWS
6 19 (19.39%) Software Engineering
7 18 (18.37%) Public Cloud
8 16 (16.33%) Banking
9 15 (15.31%) SDLC
10 14 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
11 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
11 13 (13.27%) Coaching
11 13 (13.27%) DevOps
11 13 (13.27%) TypeScript
12 12 (12.24%) Cypress.io
12 12 (12.24%) QA
12 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
12 12 (12.24%) Security Cleared
13 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 11 (11.22%) Analytics
14 10 (10.20%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (10.20%) SQL
14 10 (10.20%) ITIL
14 10 (10.20%) Customer Experience
15 9 (9.18%) DNS
15 9 (9.18%) Playwright
15 9 (9.18%) CI/CD
15 9 (9.18%) Spring Boot
15 9 (9.18%) Terraform

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 (4.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 25 (25.51%) AWS
3 6 (6.12%) GCP
4 5 (5.10%) SaaS
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.08%) Figma
5 4 (4.08%) GitHub
5 4 (4.08%) Miro
6 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.04%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.02%) Collibra
8 1 (1.02%) dbt
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) DNS
2 6 (6.12%) NetScaler
3 5 (5.10%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (4.08%) BGP
4 4 (4.08%) SSL
4 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.04%) Bluetooth
5 2 (2.04%) Internet
6 1 (1.02%) LAN
6 1 (1.02%) WAN
6 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.10%) RDBMS
1 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
1 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.06%) Power BI
3 3 (3.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Cypress.io
2 6 (6.12%) JIRA
3 4 (4.08%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.04%) JUnit
4 2 (2.04%) Snyk
4 2 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.04%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 31 (31.63%) Finance
2 16 (16.33%) Banking
3 14 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Retail Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.08%) Tech for Good
8 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Retail
9 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.18%) Playwright
1 9 (9.18%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.10%) Node.js
3 4 (4.08%) .NET
3 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.08%) React
4 3 (3.06%) Kafka
4 3 (3.06%) Pandas
5 2 (2.04%) Spring
6 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.02%) CSS
6 1 (1.02%) CSS3
6 1 (1.02%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.02%) HTML5
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.10%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.08%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.08%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.04%) IoT
6 2 (2.04%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.73%) Mentoring
2 30 (30.61%) Agile
3 19 (19.39%) Software Engineering
4 15 (15.31%) SDLC
5 13 (13.27%) Coaching
5 13 (13.27%) DevOps
6 11 (11.22%) Analytics
6 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
7 10 (10.20%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (10.20%) Customer Experience
7 10 (10.20%) ITIL
8 9 (9.18%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.16%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (8.16%) Microservices
9 8 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (8.16%) User Experience
10 7 (7.14%) Data Science
10 7 (7.14%) Scrum
10 7 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) TypeScript
2 10 (10.20%) SQL
3 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.12%) Bash
4 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.10%) Java
5 5 (5.10%) Python
6 4 (4.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 12 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.10%) CCNP
2 5 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.02%) CISM
5 1 (1.02%) CISSP
5 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (7.14%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.18%) Terraform
3 6 (6.12%) Ansible
3 6 (6.12%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.08%) Grafana
5 2 (2.04%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (6.12%) Citrix
1 6 (6.12%) Meraki
1 6 (6.12%) Veeam
1 6 (6.12%) VMware
2 5 (5.10%) ForeScout
2 5 (5.10%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) Sparx
3 4 (4.08%) Workday
4 3 (3.06%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.02%) Nintex