Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 21 36
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 49 870 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.52% 21.66% 7.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.63% 22.08% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 18 78 66
10th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £55,000 £59,971
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £58,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -13.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £74,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,750 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £63,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% -9.29% +7.69%

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 509 3,941 1,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.52% 98.13% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 246 916 638
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,833 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +13.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.19%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 31 (63.27%) Finance
1 31 (63.27%) Law
2 30 (61.22%) Software Engineering
2 30 (61.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (57.14%) Agile
4 23 (46.94%) Operational Stability
5 19 (38.78%) Cloud Native
5 19 (38.78%) SDLC
6 18 (36.73%) Java
6 18 (36.73%) Banking
6 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
7 16 (32.65%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (30.61%) AWS
8 15 (30.61%) Python
9 14 (28.57%) Information Architecture
9 14 (28.57%) Marketing
9 14 (28.57%) Architectural Design
9 14 (28.57%) Community of Practice
10 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (26.53%) Machine Learning
11 12 (24.49%) Kafka
11 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
12 11 (22.45%) Azure
13 10 (20.41%) Spring
13 10 (20.41%) SQL
13 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
14 9 (18.37%) GCP
14 9 (18.37%) Decision-Making
15 8 (16.33%) RESTful
15 8 (16.33%) Terraform

Lead 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 4 (8.16%) Apache
1 4 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.08%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.04%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.04%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Big Data
2 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (8.16%) KDB
3 4 (8.16%) Kdb+
3 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.08%) Data Mart
4 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.08%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (4.08%) Parquet
4 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) JUnit
3 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Snyk
General
1 31 (63.27%) Finance
1 31 (63.27%) Law
2 30 (61.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (36.73%) Banking
4 14 (28.57%) Marketing
5 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Private Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Military
8 2 (4.08%) Front Office
8 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) Kafka
2 10 (20.41%) Spring
3 8 (16.33%) RESTful
4 7 (14.29%) React
5 4 (8.16%) .NET
5 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
5 4 (8.16%) Web Services
6 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.12%) Vue
7 2 (4.08%) Blazor
7 2 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (4.08%) J2EE
7 2 (4.08%) OAuth
7 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.08%) OpenID
7 2 (4.08%) PySpark
7 2 (4.08%) REST
7 2 (4.08%) SAML
8 1 (2.04%) Middleware
8 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.12%) Credit Risk
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Derivative
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.08%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (2.04%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) Software Engineering
2 28 (57.14%) Agile
3 23 (46.94%) Operational Stability
4 19 (38.78%) SDLC
5 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
6 16 (32.65%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (28.57%) Architectural Design
7 14 (28.57%) Community of Practice
7 14 (28.57%) Information Architecture
8 13 (26.53%) Machine Learning
8 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (18.37%) Decision-Making
10 8 (16.33%) DevOps
10 8 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 7 (14.29%) Mathematics
12 5 (10.20%) Analytics
12 5 (10.20%) Line Management
12 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Java
2 15 (30.61%) Python
3 10 (20.41%) SQL
4 5 (10.20%) C#
5 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) Go
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.08%) Chartered Engineer
1 2 (4.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.33%) Terraform
3 3 (6.12%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Netcool
4 2 (4.08%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 2 (4.08%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) Cisco
3 3 (6.12%) Juniper
3 3 (6.12%) McAfee
3 3 (6.12%) NetApp
3 3 (6.12%) Splunk
4 2 (4.08%) Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.08%) Facebook
4 2 (4.08%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) HubSpot
4 2 (4.08%) IBM
4 2 (4.08%) Murex
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.04%) VMware