Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Lead Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Scotland 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 35 149 231
Rank change year-on-year +114 +82 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 679 60 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.93% 1.38% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.23% 1.54% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 18 47 10
10th Percentile - £53,750 £56,000
25th Percentile £65,000 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -11.86% +34.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,328 £92,813
90th Percentile £111,374 £117,236 £96,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.94% +4.52% +10.71%

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 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +91 664 £80,000 +20.75%
Edinburgh +3 11 £100,000 +13.02% 4
Aberdeen -16 4 £65,000 -
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 679 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 667 (98.23%) Agile
3 663 (97.64%) Finance
4 659 (97.05%) Law
4 659 (97.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 644 (94.85%) Operational Stability
6 603 (88.81%) SDLC
7 536 (78.94%) Marketing
8 535 (78.79%) CI/CD
9 478 (70.40%) Community of Practice
10 470 (69.22%) Java
11 374 (55.08%) Artificial Intelligence
11 374 (55.08%) Machine Learning
12 357 (52.58%) Architectural Design
13 334 (49.19%) Information Architecture
14 329 (48.45%) Cloud Native
15 325 (47.86%) AWS
16 293 (43.15%) SQL
17 281 (41.38%) Continuous Delivery
18 206 (30.34%) Python
19 187 (27.54%) Spring
20 178 (26.22%) NoSQL
21 176 (25.92%) Apache Spark
22 148 (21.80%) Tech Ops
22 148 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
23 144 (21.21%) Big Data
24 133 (19.59%) Kafka
25 129 (19.00%) React
26 127 (18.70%) Banking
27 123 (18.11%) JavaScript

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
1 176 (25.92%) Apache Spark
2 52 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.71%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (4.71%) FileNet
4 21 (3.09%) GemFire
5 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 325 (47.86%) AWS
2 53 (7.81%) Azure
3 48 (7.07%) Datadog
4 39 (5.74%) GCP
5 32 (4.71%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.03%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.22%) NoSQL
2 144 (21.21%) Big Data
3 71 (10.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (9.57%) Metadata
5 62 (9.13%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.60%) CockroachDB
7 31 (4.57%) Relational Database
8 28 (4.12%) MongoDB
9 21 (3.09%) Hazelcast
10 18 (2.65%) Looker
11 17 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.59%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 65 (9.57%) Artifactory
2 65 (9.57%) Bitbucket
2 65 (9.57%) Git
3 54 (7.95%) JUnit
4 37 (5.45%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.24%) Jasmine
5 22 (3.24%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (3.24%) Protractor
5 22 (3.24%) Selenium
5 22 (3.24%) WebDriver
6 21 (3.09%) Jaeger
7 15 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) Spock
General
1 663 (97.64%) Finance
2 659 (97.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 659 (97.05%) Law
3 536 (78.94%) Marketing
4 127 (18.70%) Banking
5 122 (17.97%) Investment Banking
6 121 (17.82%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (8.25%) Social Skills
8 25 (3.68%) Financial Institution
9 22 (3.24%) Prime Brokerage
10 15 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Automotive
12 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (27.54%) Spring
2 133 (19.59%) Kafka
3 129 (19.00%) React
4 119 (17.53%) JSON
5 101 (14.87%) CSS
5 101 (14.87%) HTML
6 86 (12.67%) Spring Boot
7 84 (12.37%) PySpark
8 81 (11.93%) AngularJS
9 79 (11.63%) Web Services
10 70 (10.31%) RESTful
11 67 (9.87%) J2EE
12 65 (9.57%) JSON-LD
12 65 (9.57%) LDAP
12 65 (9.57%) Node.js
12 65 (9.57%) OpenID
12 65 (9.57%) SAML
12 65 (9.57%) XML
13 62 (9.13%) OpenTelemetry
14 57 (8.39%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 329 (48.45%) Cloud Native
2 111 (16.35%) Public Cloud
3 79 (11.63%) Management Information System
4 65 (9.57%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (9.57%) Reference Data
5 23 (3.39%) Private Cloud
6 22 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (3.09%) Replication
8 20 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.29%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.63%) Linux
2 3 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 667 (98.23%) Agile
3 644 (94.85%) Operational Stability
4 603 (88.81%) SDLC
5 535 (78.79%) CI/CD
6 478 (70.40%) Community of Practice
7 374 (55.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 374 (55.08%) Machine Learning
8 357 (52.58%) Architectural Design
9 334 (49.19%) Information Architecture
10 281 (41.38%) Continuous Delivery
11 148 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
11 148 (21.80%) Tech Ops
12 114 (16.79%) Performance Tuning
13 104 (15.32%) Data Modelling
14 101 (14.87%) Microservices
15 100 (14.73%) Decision-Making
16 91 (13.40%) Coaching
16 91 (13.40%) Test Automation
17 86 (12.67%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 470 (69.22%) Java
2 293 (43.15%) SQL
3 206 (30.34%) Python
4 123 (18.11%) JavaScript
4 123 (18.11%) Scala
5 83 (12.22%) TypeScript
6 67 (9.87%) Go
7 65 (9.57%) Prolog
7 65 (9.57%) SPARQL
8 22 (3.24%) Groovy
9 15 (2.21%) C#
10 4 (0.59%) C++
11 2 (0.29%) C
11 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (2.50%) AWS Certification
2 7 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.30%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.65%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 103 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 66 (9.72%) Terraform
3 62 (9.13%) Grafana
4 41 (6.04%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.09%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.09%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.09%) Kibana
5 21 (3.09%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 117 (17.23%) Oracle
2 72 (10.60%) Splunk
3 65 (9.57%) Dynatrace
4 18 (2.65%) Atlassian
4 18 (2.65%) SaltStack
5 17 (2.50%) Google
6 5 (0.74%) Databricks
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft