Lead Jobs in Scotland

Leader
UK > Scotland

The median Leader salary in Scotland is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 36 25
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,039 344 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.48% 7.26% 9.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.98% 8.04% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 163 220 225
10th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £51,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +9.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,773 £77,530
90th Percentile £104,000 £117,236 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +5.07%

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 6,502 4,276 5,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.27% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,326 2,955
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,785 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 +21 869 £55,000 -21.43% 21
Edinburgh -1 102 £70,000 -14.83% 29
Aberdeen -1 17 £65,000 - 9
Stirling +5 13 £73,805 -
Fife 0 11 £60,000 +34.22%
Aberdeenshire +10 10 £46,250 -28.85% 5
Lanarkshire -8 3 £80,000 - 5
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,500 -
Perthshire - 2 - -
Dundee -15 1 £60,000 -17.24%
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Scotland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 832 (80.08%) Finance
2 790 (76.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 772 (74.30%) Law
4 756 (72.76%) Agile
5 732 (70.45%) Software Engineering
6 672 (64.68%) Operational Stability
7 651 (62.66%) SDLC
8 645 (62.08%) Marketing
9 576 (55.44%) CI/CD
10 516 (49.66%) Java
11 507 (48.80%) Community of Practice
12 408 (39.27%) Artificial Intelligence
13 405 (38.98%) Machine Learning
14 395 (38.02%) AWS
15 391 (37.63%) Information Architecture
16 368 (35.42%) Architectural Design
17 342 (32.92%) Cloud Native
18 321 (30.90%) SQL
19 309 (29.74%) Continuous Delivery
20 232 (22.33%) Python
21 203 (19.54%) Spring
22 193 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
23 189 (18.19%) NoSQL
24 182 (17.52%) Apache Spark
25 163 (15.69%) Public Cloud
26 159 (15.30%) Mentoring
27 158 (15.21%) Tech Ops
28 152 (14.63%) Banking
29 151 (14.53%) Azure
30 149 (14.34%) Big Data

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
1 182 (17.52%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.08%) FileNet
4 31 (2.98%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.02%) GemFire
6 17 (1.64%) Confluence
7 10 (0.96%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.77%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.096%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 29 (2.79%) Simulink
2 23 (2.21%) Stateflow
3 17 (1.64%) Windchill
4 12 (1.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (1.64%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.096%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 395 (38.02%) AWS
2 151 (14.53%) Azure
3 63 (6.06%) Datadog
4 55 (5.29%) GCP
5 48 (4.62%) Figma
6 32 (3.08%) Amazon S3
6 32 (3.08%) SurveyMonkey
7 22 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (0.87%) SaaS
12 8 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.77%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.67%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.58%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.58%) Snowflake
15 5 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 82 (7.89%) Kerberos
2 12 (1.15%) DNS
3 8 (0.77%) BGP
3 8 (0.77%) SSL
3 8 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.58%) NetScaler
5 5 (0.48%) Firewall
6 4 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (18.19%) NoSQL
2 149 (14.34%) Big Data
3 71 (6.83%) Apache Cassandra
4 67 (6.45%) Metadata
5 61 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
6 59 (5.68%) Relational Database
7 38 (3.66%) CockroachDB
8 29 (2.79%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.02%) Hazelcast
10 20 (1.92%) Looker
11 17 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.06%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.87%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.67%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.58%) SQL Server
17 5 (0.48%) Tableau
18 4 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
18 4 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 95 (9.14%) Jenkins
2 69 (6.64%) Git
3 67 (6.45%) Artifactory
4 65 (6.26%) Bitbucket
5 56 (5.39%) JUnit
6 48 (4.62%) Cypress.io
7 35 (3.37%) JIRA
8 23 (2.21%) Selenium
9 22 (2.12%) Jasmine
9 22 (2.12%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (2.12%) Protractor
9 22 (2.12%) WebDriver
10 21 (2.02%) Jaeger
11 15 (1.44%) GitLab
12 14 (1.35%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.19%) Snyk
13 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.19%) Spinnaker
14 1 (0.096%) Gradle
14 1 (0.096%) Spock
General
1 832 (80.08%) Finance
2 790 (76.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 772 (74.30%) Law
4 645 (62.08%) Marketing
5 152 (14.63%) Banking
6 135 (12.99%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (12.03%) Investment Banking
8 107 (10.30%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.08%) Social Science
10 28 (2.69%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.12%) Prime Brokerage
12 21 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.87%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.67%) Public Sector
16 6 (0.58%) Electronics
16 6 (0.58%) Games
17 5 (0.48%) Retail
18 4 (0.38%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (19.54%) Spring
2 141 (13.57%) React
3 137 (13.19%) Kafka
4 120 (11.55%) JSON
5 113 (10.88%) Spring Boot
6 103 (9.91%) CSS
6 103 (9.91%) HTML
7 86 (8.28%) PySpark
8 84 (8.08%) AngularJS
9 79 (7.60%) Web Services
10 73 (7.03%) RESTful
11 72 (6.93%) Node.js
12 71 (6.83%) SAML
13 69 (6.64%) J2EE
14 68 (6.54%) XML
15 65 (6.26%) JSON-LD
15 65 (6.26%) LDAP
15 65 (6.26%) OpenID
16 62 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
17 57 (5.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 342 (32.92%) Cloud Native
2 163 (15.69%) Public Cloud
3 96 (9.24%) Management Information System
4 65 (6.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (6.26%) Reference Data
5 43 (4.14%) Algorithms
6 41 (3.95%) Product Ownership
7 40 (3.85%) Data Structures
8 35 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
9 32 (3.08%) Private Cloud
10 22 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (2.02%) Replication
12 19 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.54%) Market Risk
14 12 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.87%) Operational Technology
17 8 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.87%) Linux
2 9 (0.87%) Windows
3 8 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.38%) Android
5 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.29%) Unix
7 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (72.76%) Agile
2 732 (70.45%) Software Engineering
3 672 (64.68%) Operational Stability
4 651 (62.66%) SDLC
5 576 (55.44%) CI/CD
6 507 (48.80%) Community of Practice
7 408 (39.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 405 (38.98%) Machine Learning
9 391 (37.63%) Information Architecture
10 368 (35.42%) Architectural Design
11 309 (29.74%) Continuous Delivery
12 193 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
13 159 (15.30%) Mentoring
14 158 (15.21%) Tech Ops
15 137 (13.19%) Roadmaps
16 130 (12.51%) Coaching
17 118 (11.36%) Decision-Making
17 118 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
18 114 (10.97%) Data Modelling
19 111 (10.68%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 516 (49.66%) Java
2 321 (30.90%) SQL
3 232 (22.33%) Python
4 137 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 127 (12.22%) Scala
6 99 (9.53%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.45%) Go
8 65 (6.26%) Prolog
8 65 (6.26%) SPARQL
9 34 (3.27%) C#
10 32 (3.08%) R
11 29 (2.79%) MATLAB
12 22 (2.12%) Groovy
13 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.58%) Bash
15 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.38%) C++
16 4 (0.38%) PHP
16 4 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (6.83%) Degree
2 41 (3.95%) Master's Degree
3 32 (3.08%) PhD
4 30 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 27 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 26 (2.50%) SC Cleared
7 10 (0.96%) CISM
7 10 (0.96%) CISSP
8 9 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.38%) CCNP
11 4 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.096%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.56%) PMO
4 20 (1.92%) QA
5 6 (0.58%) NIST
6 3 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.56%) Docker
3 6 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 144 (13.86%) Kubernetes
2 96 (9.24%) Terraform
3 81 (7.80%) Grafana
4 62 (5.97%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.02%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.02%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.02%) Kibana
5 21 (2.02%) Zipkin
6 6 (0.58%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Istio
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 136 (13.09%) Oracle
2 86 (8.28%) Splunk
3 79 (7.60%) Dynatrace
4 39 (3.75%) Microsoft
5 38 (3.66%) Google
6 32 (3.08%) Qualtrics
7 21 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 18 (1.73%) SaltStack
9 14 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.96%) Databricks
11 8 (0.77%) Sparx
12 6 (0.58%) Citrix
12 6 (0.58%) Veeam
12 6 (0.58%) VMware
13 5 (0.48%) Epicor
13 5 (0.48%) IFS
13 5 (0.48%) JD Edwards
13 5 (0.48%) Meraki
14 4 (0.38%) ForeScout
14 4 (0.38%) Workday