Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 160 220
Rank change year-on-year +125 +60 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 699 62 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.37% 1.32% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% 1.46% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 13 44 12
10th Percentile - £53,750 £48,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £137,913 £102,305 £88,438
90th Percentile - £117,236 £95,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,527 4,234 5,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.87% 90.05% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,624 2,303 3,003
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +93 686 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Edinburgh +5 9 £110,180 +24.53% 3
Aberdeen -14 4 £65,000 -
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Scotland region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 699 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 691 (98.86%) Agile
3 690 (98.71%) Finance
4 685 (98.00%) Law
4 685 (98.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 670 (95.85%) Operational Stability
6 624 (89.27%) SDLC
7 559 (79.97%) Marketing
8 553 (79.11%) CI/CD
9 494 (70.67%) Community of Practice
10 492 (70.39%) Java
11 393 (56.22%) Artificial Intelligence
12 392 (56.08%) Machine Learning
13 370 (52.93%) Architectural Design
14 348 (49.79%) Information Architecture
15 344 (49.21%) AWS
16 339 (48.50%) Cloud Native
17 304 (43.49%) SQL
18 292 (41.77%) Continuous Delivery
19 214 (30.62%) Python
20 189 (27.04%) Spring
21 186 (26.61%) NoSQL
22 182 (26.04%) Apache Spark
23 155 (22.17%) Tech Ops
23 155 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
24 149 (21.32%) Big Data
25 135 (19.31%) React
25 135 (19.31%) Kafka
26 134 (19.17%) Banking
27 129 (18.45%) Influencing Skills

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 182 (26.04%) Apache Spark
2 52 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.58%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (4.58%) FileNet
4 21 (3.00%) GemFire
5 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 344 (49.21%) AWS
2 54 (7.73%) Azure
3 49 (7.01%) Datadog
4 46 (6.58%) GCP
5 32 (4.58%) Amazon S3
6 22 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.00%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 82 (11.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (26.61%) NoSQL
2 149 (21.32%) Big Data
3 71 (10.16%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (9.30%) Metadata
5 64 (9.16%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.44%) CockroachDB
7 35 (5.01%) Relational Database
8 30 (4.29%) MongoDB
9 21 (3.00%) Hazelcast
10 20 (2.86%) Looker
11 17 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.57%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 65 (9.30%) Artifactory
2 65 (9.30%) Bitbucket
2 65 (9.30%) Git
3 54 (7.73%) JUnit
4 37 (5.29%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.15%) Jasmine
5 22 (3.15%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (3.15%) Protractor
5 22 (3.15%) Selenium
5 22 (3.15%) WebDriver
6 21 (3.00%) Jaeger
7 15 (2.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.43%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) Spock
General
1 690 (98.71%) Finance
2 685 (98.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 685 (98.00%) Law
3 559 (79.97%) Marketing
4 134 (19.17%) Banking
5 129 (18.45%) Influencing Skills
6 126 (18.03%) Investment Banking
7 60 (8.58%) Social Skills
8 27 (3.86%) Financial Institution
9 22 (3.15%) Prime Brokerage
10 17 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.57%) Automotive
12 3 (0.43%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (27.04%) Spring
2 135 (19.31%) Kafka
2 135 (19.31%) React
3 119 (17.02%) JSON
4 103 (14.74%) CSS
4 103 (14.74%) HTML
5 88 (12.59%) Spring Boot
6 86 (12.30%) PySpark
7 83 (11.87%) AngularJS
8 79 (11.30%) Web Services
9 70 (10.01%) RESTful
10 69 (9.87%) J2EE
11 65 (9.30%) JSON-LD
11 65 (9.30%) LDAP
11 65 (9.30%) Node.js
11 65 (9.30%) OpenID
11 65 (9.30%) SAML
11 65 (9.30%) XML
12 63 (9.01%) OpenTelemetry
13 57 (8.15%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 339 (48.50%) Cloud Native
2 120 (17.17%) Public Cloud
3 79 (11.30%) Management Information System
4 65 (9.30%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (9.30%) Reference Data
5 25 (3.58%) Private Cloud
6 22 (3.15%) Data Structures
6 22 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (3.00%) Replication
8 20 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.29%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.72%) Linux
2 3 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 691 (98.86%) Agile
3 670 (95.85%) Operational Stability
4 624 (89.27%) SDLC
5 553 (79.11%) CI/CD
6 494 (70.67%) Community of Practice
7 393 (56.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 392 (56.08%) Machine Learning
9 370 (52.93%) Architectural Design
10 348 (49.79%) Information Architecture
11 292 (41.77%) Continuous Delivery
12 155 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
12 155 (22.17%) Tech Ops
13 118 (16.88%) Performance Tuning
14 106 (15.16%) Data Modelling
15 104 (14.88%) Decision-Making
16 103 (14.74%) Microservices
17 95 (13.59%) Coaching
18 93 (13.30%) Test Automation
19 86 (12.30%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 492 (70.39%) Java
2 304 (43.49%) SQL
3 214 (30.62%) Python
4 127 (18.17%) JavaScript
4 127 (18.17%) Scala
5 85 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 68 (9.73%) Go
7 65 (9.30%) Prolog
7 65 (9.30%) SPARQL
8 22 (3.15%) Groovy
9 14 (2.00%) C#
10 4 (0.57%) C++
10 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (2.72%) AWS Certification
2 7 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.44%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 108 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 70 (10.01%) Terraform
3 63 (9.01%) Grafana
4 42 (6.01%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.00%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.00%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.00%) Kibana
5 21 (3.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 121 (17.31%) Oracle
2 72 (10.30%) Splunk
3 65 (9.30%) Dynatrace
4 20 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 19 (2.72%) Google
6 18 (2.58%) SaltStack
7 5 (0.72%) Databricks
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft