Lead Jobs in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader salary in Glasgow is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 21 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 36 868 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.84% 21.67% 7.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.81% 22.09% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17 76 65
10th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £54,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £81,250 £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 461 3,930 1,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.64% 98.13% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 236 904 642
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,375 £41,146 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +14.58%
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% +4.76%

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 29 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 29 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 19 (52.78%) Finance
1 19 (52.78%) Law
2 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (47.22%) Software Engineering
4 12 (33.33%) Operational Stability
5 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
5 11 (30.56%) SDLC
5 11 (30.56%) Cloud Native
5 11 (30.56%) Java
5 11 (30.56%) AWS
6 10 (27.78%) Banking
6 10 (27.78%) Marketing
6 10 (27.78%) Python
6 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (25.00%) Azure
8 8 (22.22%) Information Architecture
8 8 (22.22%) Architectural Design
8 8 (22.22%) GCP
9 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
9 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
9 7 (19.44%) Community of Practice
10 6 (16.67%) SQL
10 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 6 (16.67%) Kafka
10 6 (16.67%) DevOps
10 6 (16.67%) Terraform
11 5 (13.89%) Line Management

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 2 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Big Data
1 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (5.56%) KDB
2 2 (5.56%) Kdb+
2 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.78%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.78%) Parquet
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) JUnit
2 1 (2.78%) Snyk
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
1 19 (52.78%) Law
2 18 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 10 (27.78%) Banking
4 10 (27.78%) Marketing
5 3 (8.33%) Military
6 2 (5.56%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Front Office
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Kafka
2 5 (13.89%) Spring
3 4 (11.11%) React
3 4 (11.11%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) Vue
5 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.56%) OAuth
5 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 2 (5.56%) OpenID
5 2 (5.56%) SAML
5 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.56%) Web Services
6 1 (2.78%) Blazor
6 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.78%) Middleware
6 1 (2.78%) PySpark
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.56%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Derivative
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 17 (47.22%) Software Engineering
3 12 (33.33%) Operational Stability
4 11 (30.56%) SDLC
5 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 9 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.22%) Architectural Design
7 8 (22.22%) Information Architecture
8 7 (19.44%) Community of Practice
8 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
9 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 6 (16.67%) DevOps
10 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (13.89%) Line Management
10 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (11.11%) Analytics
11 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
11 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 6 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.56%) Chartered Engineer
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) Netcool
4 1 (2.78%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Cisco
2 3 (8.33%) Juniper
2 3 (8.33%) McAfee
2 3 (8.33%) NetApp
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Facebook
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Murex
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) VMware