Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 41 20
Rank change year-on-year +20 -21 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 871 105 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.01% 6.68% 10.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.45% 7.77% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 63 63 75
10th Percentile £42,000 £55,000 £42,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,853 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +9.62% +8.33%

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 3,879 1,352 1,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.03% 86.01% 97.89%
Number of salaries quoted 840 686 908
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,313 £28,175
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 £68,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,075 £77,500 £72,772
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

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 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Glasgow region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 795 (91.27%) Finance
2 774 (88.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 772 (88.63%) Law
4 724 (83.12%) Agile
5 707 (81.17%) Software Engineering
6 674 (77.38%) Operational Stability
7 644 (73.94%) Marketing
8 638 (73.25%) SDLC
9 566 (64.98%) CI/CD
10 509 (58.44%) Java
11 508 (58.32%) Community of Practice
12 404 (46.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 404 (46.38%) Machine Learning
13 391 (44.89%) Information Architecture
14 370 (42.48%) AWS
15 365 (41.91%) Architectural Design
16 339 (38.92%) Cloud Native
17 309 (35.48%) Continuous Delivery
18 306 (35.13%) SQL
19 228 (26.18%) Python
20 201 (23.08%) Spring
21 188 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
22 186 (21.35%) NoSQL
23 182 (20.90%) Apache Spark
24 158 (18.14%) Tech Ops
25 149 (17.11%) Big Data
26 145 (16.65%) Public Cloud
27 137 (15.73%) React
28 132 (15.15%) Kafka
29 131 (15.04%) Banking

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
1 182 (20.90%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.67%) FileNet
4 31 (3.56%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.41%) GemFire
6 17 (1.95%) Confluence
7 5 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.57%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Windchill
2 12 (1.38%) Sketch
3 5 (0.57%) Simulink
4 4 (0.46%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.11%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 370 (42.48%) AWS
2 104 (11.94%) Azure
3 63 (7.23%) Datadog
4 46 (5.28%) GCP
5 44 (5.05%) Figma
6 32 (3.67%) Amazon S3
6 32 (3.67%) SurveyMonkey
7 22 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (0.80%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.69%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.57%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.46%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (0.46%) SaaS
14 1 (0.11%) PaaS
14 1 (0.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (9.41%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.46%) BGP
2 4 (0.46%) DNS
2 4 (0.46%) SSL
2 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (21.35%) NoSQL
2 149 (17.11%) Big Data
3 71 (8.15%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (7.46%) Metadata
5 61 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
6 54 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 38 (4.36%) CockroachDB
8 29 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.41%) Hazelcast
10 20 (2.30%) Looker
11 17 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.46%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.34%) Tableau
15 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 90 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 65 (7.46%) Artifactory
2 65 (7.46%) Bitbucket
2 65 (7.46%) Git
3 54 (6.20%) JUnit
4 36 (4.13%) Cypress.io
5 29 (3.33%) JIRA
6 22 (2.53%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.53%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (2.53%) Protractor
6 22 (2.53%) Selenium
6 22 (2.53%) WebDriver
7 21 (2.41%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.72%) GitLab
9 14 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.11%) Gradle
10 1 (0.11%) Maven
10 1 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 795 (91.27%) Finance
2 774 (88.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 772 (88.63%) Law
4 644 (73.94%) Marketing
5 131 (15.04%) Banking
6 128 (14.70%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (14.35%) Investment Banking
8 80 (9.18%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.67%) Social Science
10 24 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.53%) Prime Brokerage
12 20 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Games
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Front Office
16 3 (0.34%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.23%) Local Government
17 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
18 1 (0.11%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (23.08%) Spring
2 137 (15.73%) React
3 132 (15.15%) Kafka
4 120 (13.78%) JSON
5 104 (11.94%) Spring Boot
6 102 (11.71%) CSS
6 102 (11.71%) HTML
7 86 (9.87%) PySpark
8 83 (9.53%) AngularJS
9 79 (9.07%) Web Services
10 73 (8.38%) RESTful
11 71 (8.15%) SAML
12 69 (7.92%) J2EE
13 67 (7.69%) XML
14 66 (7.58%) Node.js
15 65 (7.46%) JSON-LD
15 65 (7.46%) LDAP
15 65 (7.46%) OpenID
16 62 (7.12%) OpenTelemetry
17 57 (6.54%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 339 (38.92%) Cloud Native
2 145 (16.65%) Public Cloud
3 95 (10.91%) Management Information System
4 65 (7.46%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (7.46%) Reference Data
5 38 (4.36%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.25%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.21%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.41%) Replication
10 19 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 19 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.84%) Market Risk
12 12 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.03%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.57%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.46%) Client/Server
16 4 (0.46%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.08%) Linux
2 4 (0.46%) Android
2 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.46%) Windows
3 3 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (83.12%) Agile
2 707 (81.17%) Software Engineering
3 674 (77.38%) Operational Stability
4 638 (73.25%) SDLC
5 566 (64.98%) CI/CD
6 508 (58.32%) Community of Practice
7 404 (46.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 404 (46.38%) Machine Learning
8 391 (44.89%) Information Architecture
9 365 (41.91%) Architectural Design
10 309 (35.48%) Continuous Delivery
11 188 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (18.14%) Tech Ops
13 119 (13.66%) Roadmaps
14 118 (13.55%) Performance Tuning
15 116 (13.32%) Mentoring
16 113 (12.97%) Decision-Making
17 111 (12.74%) Coaching
18 106 (12.17%) Data Modelling
19 103 (11.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 509 (58.44%) Java
2 306 (35.13%) SQL
3 228 (26.18%) Python
4 130 (14.93%) JavaScript
5 127 (14.58%) Scala
6 86 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.69%) Go
8 65 (7.46%) Prolog
8 65 (7.46%) SPARQL
9 32 (3.67%) R
10 27 (3.10%) C#
11 22 (2.53%) Groovy
12 7 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.57%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.46%) Swift
16 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (7.12%) Degree
2 34 (3.90%) Master's Degree
3 32 (3.67%) PhD
4 23 (2.64%) AWS Certification
5 16 (1.84%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.03%) CISM
7 9 (1.03%) CISSP
8 7 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.36%) Accessibility
2 37 (4.25%) PMO
3 34 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.69%) NIST
5 4 (0.46%) QA
6 3 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) vSphere
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 128 (14.70%) Kubernetes
2 83 (9.53%) Terraform
3 77 (8.84%) Grafana
4 56 (6.43%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.41%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.41%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.41%) Kibana
5 21 (2.41%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (14.12%) Oracle
2 86 (9.87%) Splunk
3 79 (9.07%) Dynatrace
4 32 (3.67%) Google
4 32 (3.67%) Qualtrics
5 28 (3.21%) Microsoft
6 21 (2.41%) Atlassian
7 18 (2.07%) SaltStack
8 12 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.57%) Databricks
10 4 (0.46%) Sparx
11 2 (0.23%) Cisco
11 2 (0.23%) SAP
12 1 (0.11%) Salesforce