Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 125 107
Rank change year-on-year +96 -18 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 678 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.15% 0.26% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.50% 0.30% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £60,250 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,875 1,346 1,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.03% 85.95% 98.01%
Number of salaries quoted 841 689 898
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £72,750
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Glasgow region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 678 (100.00%) Agile
1 678 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 677 (99.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 677 (99.85%) Finance
2 677 (99.85%) Law
3 663 (97.79%) Operational Stability
4 617 (91.00%) SDLC
5 553 (81.56%) Marketing
6 548 (80.83%) CI/CD
7 491 (72.42%) Community of Practice
8 487 (71.83%) Java
9 388 (57.23%) Machine Learning
10 387 (57.08%) Artificial Intelligence
11 365 (53.83%) Architectural Design
12 347 (51.18%) Information Architecture
13 340 (50.15%) AWS
14 335 (49.41%) Cloud Native
15 302 (44.54%) SQL
16 292 (43.07%) Continuous Delivery
17 210 (30.97%) Python
18 186 (27.43%) Spring
18 186 (27.43%) NoSQL
19 181 (26.70%) Apache Spark
20 151 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
20 151 (22.27%) Tech Ops
21 148 (21.83%) Big Data
22 134 (19.76%) React
23 132 (19.47%) Kafka
24 127 (18.73%) Scala
24 127 (18.73%) Banking

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 181 (26.70%) Apache Spark
2 51 (7.52%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.72%) FileNet
4 31 (4.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (3.10%) GemFire
6 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 340 (50.15%) AWS
2 54 (7.96%) Azure
3 48 (7.08%) Datadog
4 44 (6.49%) GCP
5 32 (4.72%) Amazon S3
6 22 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.03%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.09%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (27.43%) NoSQL
2 148 (21.83%) Big Data
3 71 (10.47%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (9.59%) Metadata
5 61 (9.00%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.60%) CockroachDB
7 35 (5.16%) Relational Database
8 29 (4.28%) MongoDB
9 21 (3.10%) Hazelcast
10 20 (2.95%) Looker
11 17 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.59%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 75 (11.06%) Jenkins
2 65 (9.59%) Artifactory
2 65 (9.59%) Bitbucket
2 65 (9.59%) Git
3 54 (7.96%) JUnit
4 36 (5.31%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.24%) Jasmine
5 22 (3.24%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (3.24%) Protractor
5 22 (3.24%) Selenium
5 22 (3.24%) WebDriver
6 21 (3.10%) Jaeger
7 14 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.15%) Gradle
8 1 (0.15%) Maven
8 1 (0.15%) Spock
General
1 677 (99.85%) Finance
1 677 (99.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 677 (99.85%) Law
2 553 (81.56%) Marketing
3 127 (18.73%) Banking
4 126 (18.58%) Influencing Skills
5 125 (18.44%) Investment Banking
6 57 (8.41%) Social Skills
7 24 (3.54%) Financial Institution
8 22 (3.24%) Prime Brokerage
9 17 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (27.43%) Spring
2 134 (19.76%) React
3 132 (19.47%) Kafka
4 119 (17.55%) JSON
5 102 (15.04%) CSS
5 102 (15.04%) HTML
6 85 (12.54%) PySpark
6 85 (12.54%) Spring Boot
7 83 (12.24%) AngularJS
8 79 (11.65%) Web Services
9 69 (10.18%) J2EE
9 69 (10.18%) RESTful
10 65 (9.59%) JSON-LD
10 65 (9.59%) LDAP
10 65 (9.59%) Node.js
10 65 (9.59%) OpenID
10 65 (9.59%) SAML
10 65 (9.59%) XML
11 62 (9.14%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (8.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 335 (49.41%) Cloud Native
2 118 (17.40%) Public Cloud
3 79 (11.65%) Management Information System
4 65 (9.59%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (9.59%) Reference Data
5 24 (3.54%) Private Cloud
6 22 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (3.10%) Replication
8 20 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.93%) Linux
2 3 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (100.00%) Agile
1 678 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 663 (97.79%) Operational Stability
3 617 (91.00%) SDLC
4 548 (80.83%) CI/CD
5 491 (72.42%) Community of Practice
6 388 (57.23%) Machine Learning
7 387 (57.08%) Artificial Intelligence
8 365 (53.83%) Architectural Design
9 347 (51.18%) Information Architecture
10 292 (43.07%) Continuous Delivery
11 151 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
11 151 (22.27%) Tech Ops
12 118 (17.40%) Performance Tuning
13 106 (15.63%) Data Modelling
14 102 (15.04%) Microservices
15 101 (14.90%) Decision-Making
16 92 (13.57%) Test Automation
17 89 (13.13%) Coaching
18 86 (12.68%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 487 (71.83%) Java
2 302 (44.54%) SQL
3 210 (30.97%) Python
4 127 (18.73%) Scala
5 126 (18.58%) JavaScript
6 85 (12.54%) TypeScript
7 67 (9.88%) Go
8 65 (9.59%) Prolog
8 65 (9.59%) SPARQL
9 22 (3.24%) Groovy
10 14 (2.06%) C#
11 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (2.80%) AWS Certification
2 7 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.60%) Accessibility
2 34 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.95%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 104 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 68 (10.03%) Terraform
3 62 (9.14%) Grafana
4 41 (6.05%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.10%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.10%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.10%) Kibana
5 21 (3.10%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 119 (17.55%) Oracle
2 71 (10.47%) Splunk
3 64 (9.44%) Dynatrace
4 20 (2.95%) Atlassian
5 18 (2.65%) SaltStack
6 17 (2.51%) Google
7 5 (0.74%) Databricks
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft