Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 171 214
Rank change year-on-year +132 +43 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 457 39 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.02% 1.03% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.26% 1.12% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 11
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £98,474 - £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,328 £95,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £73,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +30.14% -5.81% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Engineer in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +87 437 £75,000 +15.38%
Edinburgh +37 20 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 457 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 438 (95.84%) Agile
3 432 (94.53%) Finance
4 429 (93.87%) Law
4 429 (93.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 414 (90.59%) Operational Stability
6 401 (87.75%) SDLC
7 359 (78.56%) CI/CD
8 318 (69.58%) Community of Practice
9 315 (68.93%) Java
10 314 (68.71%) Marketing
11 255 (55.80%) Cloud Native
12 237 (51.86%) Machine Learning
12 237 (51.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 235 (51.42%) Architectural Design
14 220 (48.14%) Information Architecture
15 201 (43.98%) SQL
16 193 (42.23%) Continuous Delivery
17 188 (41.14%) AWS
18 166 (36.32%) Spring
19 117 (25.60%) Kafka
19 117 (25.60%) NoSQL
20 105 (22.98%) Apache Spark
21 103 (22.54%) Python
22 102 (22.32%) Banking
23 98 (21.44%) Investment Banking
23 98 (21.44%) JSON
24 96 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
24 96 (21.01%) Tech Ops
25 95 (20.79%) Big Data

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 105 (22.98%) Apache Spark
2 34 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (7.00%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (7.00%) FileNet
4 21 (4.60%) GemFire
5 1 (0.22%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 188 (41.14%) AWS
2 48 (10.50%) Datadog
3 37 (8.10%) Azure
4 32 (7.00%) Amazon S3
5 24 (5.25%) GCP
6 21 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.53%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.22%) SaaS
9 1 (0.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.35%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (25.60%) NoSQL
2 95 (20.79%) Big Data
3 63 (13.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 50 (10.94%) Elasticsearch
5 44 (9.63%) Metadata
6 38 (8.32%) CockroachDB
7 21 (4.60%) Hazelcast
8 17 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (3.28%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (11.82%) JUnit
2 44 (9.63%) Artifactory
2 44 (9.63%) Bitbucket
2 44 (9.63%) Git
2 44 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 37 (8.10%) Cypress.io
4 22 (4.81%) Jasmine
4 22 (4.81%) Karma Test Runner
4 22 (4.81%) Protractor
4 22 (4.81%) Selenium
4 22 (4.81%) WebDriver
5 21 (4.60%) Jaeger
6 15 (3.28%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.66%) Maven
8 1 (0.22%) Gradle
8 1 (0.22%) Spock
General
1 432 (94.53%) Finance
2 429 (93.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 429 (93.87%) Law
3 314 (68.71%) Marketing
4 102 (22.32%) Banking
5 98 (21.44%) Investment Banking
6 63 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
7 42 (9.19%) Social Skills
8 22 (4.81%) Prime Brokerage
9 6 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.44%) Electronics
10 2 (0.44%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (36.32%) Spring
2 117 (25.60%) Kafka
3 98 (21.44%) JSON
4 84 (18.38%) CSS
4 84 (18.38%) HTML
5 83 (18.16%) React
6 78 (17.07%) Spring Boot
7 69 (15.10%) AngularJS
8 65 (14.22%) Node.js
9 62 (13.57%) OpenTelemetry
10 58 (12.69%) Web Services
11 57 (12.47%) Hibernate
12 54 (11.82%) J2EE
12 54 (11.82%) JMS
12 54 (11.82%) jQuery
12 54 (11.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 50 (10.94%) RESTful
14 49 (10.72%) GraphQL
15 44 (9.63%) JSON-LD
15 44 (9.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 255 (55.80%) Cloud Native
2 58 (12.69%) Management Information System
3 52 (11.38%) Public Cloud
4 44 (9.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 44 (9.63%) Reference Data
5 22 (4.81%) Data Structures
6 21 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 21 (4.60%) Replication
7 20 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (3.28%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.44%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.25%) Linux
2 3 (0.66%) Unix
3 2 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 438 (95.84%) Agile
3 414 (90.59%) Operational Stability
4 401 (87.75%) SDLC
5 359 (78.56%) CI/CD
6 318 (69.58%) Community of Practice
7 237 (51.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 237 (51.86%) Machine Learning
8 235 (51.42%) Architectural Design
9 220 (48.14%) Information Architecture
10 193 (42.23%) Continuous Delivery
11 96 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
11 96 (21.01%) Tech Ops
12 80 (17.51%) Microservices
13 71 (15.54%) Performance Tuning
14 68 (14.88%) Decision-Making
15 65 (14.22%) Data Modelling
15 65 (14.22%) Identity Access Management
16 62 (13.57%) Test Automation
17 57 (12.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 315 (68.93%) Java
2 201 (43.98%) SQL
3 103 (22.54%) Python
4 90 (19.69%) JavaScript
5 80 (17.51%) Scala
6 69 (15.10%) TypeScript
7 46 (10.07%) Go
8 44 (9.63%) Prolog
8 44 (9.63%) SPARQL
9 22 (4.81%) Groovy
10 20 (4.38%) C#
11 10 (2.19%) C
12 4 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (1.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.38%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 82 (17.94%) Kubernetes
2 62 (13.57%) Grafana
3 48 (10.50%) Terraform
4 41 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.60%) HAProxy
5 21 (4.60%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (4.60%) Kibana
5 21 (4.60%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 83 (18.16%) Oracle
2 72 (15.75%) Splunk
3 65 (14.22%) Dynatrace
4 17 (3.72%) Google
5 10 (2.19%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.09%) Databricks
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft