Lead Developer Job Trends in Glasgow

Lead Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Lead Developer salary in Glasgow is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 80 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 4 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.51% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.23% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £64,875 £75,875 -
25th Percentile £66,563 £77,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £81,250 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% - -
75th Percentile £74,063 £87,188 -
90th Percentile £74,625 £89,625 -
Scotland median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.92% -3.70% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 730 865 700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 96.86% 98.04%
Number of salaries quoted 383 450 470
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £51,514
% change year-on-year -15.09% +2.88% -6.34%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Lead Developer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Lead Developer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Lead Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform