Lead Jobs in Scotland

Leader
UK > Scotland

The median Leader salary in Scotland is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 51 43 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 173 329 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.06% 6.52% 6.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.24% 6.81% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 100 205 193
10th Percentile £53,072 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £60,238 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £96,539 £86,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,500 £83,644
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,774 4,833 4,392
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.16% 95.74% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,777 2,760 2,872
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £78,725
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Lead in Scotland

Lead
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
Edinburgh -10 78 £91,389 +14.24% 28
Glasgow -9 53 £60,000 -14.17% 25
Stirling +13 12 £47,500 -
Aberdeen -1 11 £65,000 +18.57% 2
Fife +33 10 - - 3
Dundee +3 1 £72,500 +40.79% 1
Falkirk +2 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 Scotland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 66 (38.15%) Agile
2 61 (35.26%) Software Engineering
3 57 (32.95%) Finance
4 56 (32.37%) Social Skills
5 41 (23.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (21.97%) Banking
7 35 (20.23%) Technical Leadership
8 33 (19.08%) Roadmaps
8 33 (19.08%) Validation
8 33 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (17.92%) Change Management
9 31 (17.92%) Renewable Energy
9 31 (17.92%) Mentoring
10 30 (17.34%) Prototyping
10 30 (17.34%) Verification and Validation
10 30 (17.34%) Commercialisation
10 30 (17.34%) Decarbonisation
10 30 (17.34%) MATLAB
10 30 (17.34%) Simulink
11 27 (15.61%) Artificial Intelligence
12 26 (15.03%) Algorithms
12 26 (15.03%) Thought Leadership
13 25 (14.45%) Java
14 24 (13.87%) Stateflow
14 24 (13.87%) Rapid Prototyping
14 24 (13.87%) Product Ownership
14 24 (13.87%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
15 23 (13.29%) Coaching
15 23 (13.29%) DevOps
16 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning

Lead 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 6 (3.47%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.47%) Confluence
1 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.58%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (17.34%) Simulink
2 24 (13.87%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.56%) AWS
2 19 (10.98%) Azure
3 16 (9.25%) GCP
4 9 (5.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.73%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.16%) dbt
7 2 (1.16%) IaaS
7 2 (1.16%) PaaS
7 2 (1.16%) SaaS
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.58%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.58%) Kong
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.58%) npm
8 1 (0.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) Firewall
2 4 (2.31%) Internet
2 4 (2.31%) WAN
3 3 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.73%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (1.73%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.73%) Intranet
3 3 (1.73%) LAN
3 3 (1.73%) VPN
3 3 (1.73%) Wireless
4 1 (0.58%) Junos
4 1 (0.58%) MPLS
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) OSPF
4 1 (0.58%) RSVP
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.20%) BigQuery
2 7 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.73%) Big Data
3 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.16%) Power BI
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.58%) Looker
5 1 (0.58%) Metadata
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.20%) Git
3 6 (3.47%) JIRA
4 4 (2.31%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.31%) Selenium
5 2 (1.16%) Gatling
5 2 (1.16%) JUnit
5 2 (1.16%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.58%) Appium
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Postman
6 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 57 (32.95%) Finance
2 56 (32.37%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (21.97%) Banking
5 19 (10.98%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (10.98%) Law
6 16 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (8.09%) Marketing
8 11 (6.36%) Automotive
9 10 (5.78%) Retail Banking
10 9 (5.20%) Electronics
11 3 (1.73%) Legal
11 3 (1.73%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.16%) Games
12 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Retail
13 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.58%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.20%) React
2 7 (4.05%) .NET
3 5 (2.89%) Kafka
4 4 (2.31%) JSON
4 4 (2.31%) Node.js
4 4 (2.31%) YAML
5 3 (1.73%) CSS
5 3 (1.73%) HTML
6 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.16%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.16%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.58%) Flutter
7 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.58%) Playwright
7 1 (0.58%) PySpark
7 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.92%) Renewable Energy
2 26 (15.03%) Algorithms
3 24 (13.87%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.51%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.73%) Optoelectronics
8 2 (1.16%) Blog
9 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.58%) Life Science
9 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.94%) Windows
2 11 (6.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (38.15%) Agile
2 61 (35.26%) Software Engineering
3 35 (20.23%) Technical Leadership
4 33 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (19.08%) Roadmaps
4 33 (19.08%) Validation
5 31 (17.92%) Change Management
5 31 (17.92%) Mentoring
6 30 (17.34%) Commercialisation
6 30 (17.34%) Decarbonisation
6 30 (17.34%) Prototyping
6 30 (17.34%) Verification and Validation
7 27 (15.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 26 (15.03%) Thought Leadership
9 24 (13.87%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 24 (13.87%) Rapid Prototyping
10 23 (13.29%) Coaching
10 23 (13.29%) DevOps
11 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning
12 18 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.34%) MATLAB
2 25 (14.45%) Java
3 21 (12.14%) Python
4 14 (8.09%) C++
4 14 (8.09%) SQL
5 11 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.20%) C#
7 6 (3.47%) Bash
7 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.31%) Scala
8 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.73%) Go
10 2 (1.16%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) C
11 1 (0.58%) Dart
11 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (9.83%) Degree
2 7 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.47%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.58%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.58%) JNCIE
6 1 (0.58%) JNCIP
6 1 (0.58%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.58%) MCDST
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
6 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.16%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
2 1 (0.58%) PMO
2 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.47%) Docker
1 6 (3.47%) Firmware
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.25%) Terraform
3 6 (3.47%) Istio
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.51%) Google
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.05%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.47%) Oracle
4 4 (2.31%) Cisco
4 4 (2.31%) Confluent
5 3 (1.73%) Meraki
6 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.58%) F5
7 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.58%) Juniper
7 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.58%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.58%) YouTube