Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 119 114
Rank change year-on-year +91 -5 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 664 5 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 16.66% 0.33% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.98% 0.39% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile - £54,875 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% - -
75th Percentile - £73,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +23.08% -11.86% +34.09%

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 3,910 1,288 1,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.12% 85.75% 97.52%
Number of salaries quoted 923 629 861
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,833 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +13.40% +7.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Glasgow region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 664 (100.00%) Agile
1 664 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 659 (99.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 659 (99.25%) Finance
2 659 (99.25%) Law
3 644 (96.99%) Operational Stability
4 602 (90.66%) SDLC
5 536 (80.72%) Marketing
6 535 (80.57%) CI/CD
7 478 (71.99%) Community of Practice
8 470 (70.78%) Java
9 374 (56.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 374 (56.33%) Machine Learning
10 352 (53.01%) Architectural Design
11 334 (50.30%) Information Architecture
12 329 (49.55%) Cloud Native
13 325 (48.95%) AWS
14 292 (43.98%) SQL
15 281 (42.32%) Continuous Delivery
16 204 (30.72%) Python
17 187 (28.16%) Spring
18 178 (26.81%) NoSQL
19 176 (26.51%) Apache Spark
20 148 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
20 148 (22.29%) Tech Ops
21 144 (21.69%) Big Data
22 133 (20.03%) Kafka
23 129 (19.43%) React
24 124 (18.67%) Banking
25 123 (18.52%) JavaScript

Lead Software Engineer 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
1 176 (26.51%) Apache Spark
2 52 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.82%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (4.82%) FileNet
4 21 (3.16%) GemFire
5 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 325 (48.95%) AWS
2 53 (7.98%) Azure
3 48 (7.23%) Datadog
4 39 (5.87%) GCP
5 32 (4.82%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.81%) NoSQL
2 144 (21.69%) Big Data
3 71 (10.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (9.79%) Metadata
5 62 (9.34%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.72%) CockroachDB
7 31 (4.67%) Relational Database
8 28 (4.22%) MongoDB
9 21 (3.16%) Hazelcast
10 18 (2.71%) Looker
11 17 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (10.99%) Jenkins
2 65 (9.79%) Artifactory
2 65 (9.79%) Bitbucket
2 65 (9.79%) Git
3 54 (8.13%) JUnit
4 37 (5.57%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.31%) Jasmine
5 22 (3.31%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (3.31%) Protractor
5 22 (3.31%) Selenium
5 22 (3.31%) WebDriver
6 21 (3.16%) Jaeger
7 15 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) Spock
General
1 659 (99.25%) Finance
1 659 (99.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 659 (99.25%) Law
2 536 (80.72%) Marketing
3 124 (18.67%) Banking
4 122 (18.37%) Investment Banking
5 121 (18.22%) Influencing Skills
6 56 (8.43%) Social Skills
7 22 (3.31%) Financial Institution
7 22 (3.31%) Prime Brokerage
8 15 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (28.16%) Spring
2 133 (20.03%) Kafka
3 129 (19.43%) React
4 119 (17.92%) JSON
5 101 (15.21%) CSS
5 101 (15.21%) HTML
6 86 (12.95%) Spring Boot
7 84 (12.65%) PySpark
8 81 (12.20%) AngularJS
9 79 (11.90%) Web Services
10 70 (10.54%) RESTful
11 67 (10.09%) J2EE
12 65 (9.79%) JSON-LD
12 65 (9.79%) LDAP
12 65 (9.79%) Node.js
12 65 (9.79%) OpenID
12 65 (9.79%) SAML
12 65 (9.79%) XML
13 62 (9.34%) OpenTelemetry
14 57 (8.58%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 329 (49.55%) Cloud Native
2 111 (16.72%) Public Cloud
3 79 (11.90%) Management Information System
4 65 (9.79%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (9.79%) Reference Data
5 23 (3.46%) Private Cloud
6 22 (3.31%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (3.16%) Replication
8 20 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.30%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.78%) Linux
2 3 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (100.00%) Agile
1 664 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 644 (96.99%) Operational Stability
3 602 (90.66%) SDLC
4 535 (80.57%) CI/CD
5 478 (71.99%) Community of Practice
6 374 (56.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 374 (56.33%) Machine Learning
7 352 (53.01%) Architectural Design
8 334 (50.30%) Information Architecture
9 281 (42.32%) Continuous Delivery
10 148 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
10 148 (22.29%) Tech Ops
11 114 (17.17%) Performance Tuning
12 104 (15.66%) Data Modelling
13 101 (15.21%) Microservices
14 100 (15.06%) Decision-Making
15 91 (13.70%) Test Automation
16 88 (13.25%) Coaching
17 86 (12.95%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 470 (70.78%) Java
2 292 (43.98%) SQL
3 204 (30.72%) Python
4 123 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 123 (18.52%) Scala
5 83 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 67 (10.09%) Go
7 65 (9.79%) Prolog
7 65 (9.79%) SPARQL
8 22 (3.31%) Groovy
9 14 (2.11%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (2.56%) AWS Certification
2 7 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.42%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.71%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (9.79%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 103 (15.51%) Kubernetes
2 66 (9.94%) Terraform
3 62 (9.34%) Grafana
4 41 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.16%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.16%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.16%) Kibana
5 21 (3.16%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 117 (17.62%) Oracle
2 72 (10.84%) Splunk
3 65 (9.79%) Dynatrace
4 18 (2.71%) Atlassian
4 18 (2.71%) SaltStack
5 17 (2.56%) Google
6 5 (0.75%) Databricks
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft