Lead Jobs in Scotland

Leader
UK > Scotland

The median Leader salary in Scotland is £63,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 38 27
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,026 332 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.30% 7.27% 8.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.78% 8.09% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 174 217 229
10th Percentile £45,375 £53,750 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £90,000 £77,530
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,894 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

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 6,500 4,102 5,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.88% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,220 3,006
10th Percentile £27,975 £31,363 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,234 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +16 877 £55,000 -20.52% 19
Edinburgh +4 98 £70,000 -12.10% 29
Aberdeen -4 17 £65,000 - 7
Aberdeenshire +12 10 £46,250 -28.85% 3
Stirling -3 3 £73,805 - 1
Lanarkshire -6 3 £80,000 - 8
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,500 -
Highlands - 3 £30,000 - 2
Perthshire - 2 - -
Fife -5 1 £60,000 +48.51%
Dundee -14 1 £60,000 -17.24%
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 834 (81.29%) Finance
2 796 (77.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 780 (76.02%) Law
4 763 (74.37%) Agile
5 736 (71.73%) Software Engineering
6 678 (66.08%) Operational Stability
7 658 (64.13%) SDLC
8 650 (63.35%) Marketing
9 580 (56.53%) CI/CD
10 521 (50.78%) Java
11 509 (49.61%) Community of Practice
12 410 (39.96%) Machine Learning
12 410 (39.96%) Artificial Intelligence
13 400 (38.99%) AWS
14 392 (38.21%) Information Architecture
15 371 (36.16%) Architectural Design
16 345 (33.63%) Cloud Native
17 325 (31.68%) SQL
18 309 (30.12%) Continuous Delivery
19 236 (23.00%) Python
20 206 (20.08%) Spring
21 200 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
22 189 (18.42%) NoSQL
23 182 (17.74%) Apache Spark
24 165 (16.08%) Public Cloud
25 162 (15.79%) Tech Ops
26 154 (15.01%) Azure
27 153 (14.91%) Mentoring
28 149 (14.52%) Big Data
28 149 (14.52%) Banking

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 (17.74%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.12%) Cloud Foundry
3 32 (3.12%) FileNet
4 21 (2.05%) GemFire
5 17 (1.66%) Confluence
6 10 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.78%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.097%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (1.66%) Windchill
2 12 (1.17%) Sketch
3 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (1.66%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 400 (38.99%) AWS
2 154 (15.01%) Azure
3 64 (6.24%) Datadog
4 53 (5.17%) GCP
5 48 (4.68%) Figma
6 32 (3.12%) Amazon S3
6 32 (3.12%) SurveyMonkey
7 22 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (0.88%) SaaS
12 8 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (0.78%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.68%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (0.58%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.58%) Snowflake
15 5 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 82 (7.99%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.27%) DNS
3 8 (0.78%) BGP
3 8 (0.78%) SSL
3 8 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.58%) NetScaler
5 5 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (0.49%) Firewall
6 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.097%) LAN
8 1 (0.097%) WAN
8 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (18.42%) NoSQL
2 149 (14.52%) Big Data
3 71 (6.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 67 (6.53%) Metadata
5 64 (6.24%) Elasticsearch
6 59 (5.75%) Relational Database
7 38 (3.70%) CockroachDB
8 30 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.05%) Hazelcast
10 20 (1.95%) Looker
11 17 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.07%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.88%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.68%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.58%) Tableau
17 4 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
17 4 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 92 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 69 (6.73%) Git
3 67 (6.53%) Artifactory
4 65 (6.34%) Bitbucket
5 56 (5.46%) JUnit
6 49 (4.78%) Cypress.io
7 35 (3.41%) JIRA
8 23 (2.24%) Selenium
9 22 (2.14%) Jasmine
9 22 (2.14%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (2.14%) Protractor
9 22 (2.14%) WebDriver
10 21 (2.05%) Jaeger
11 15 (1.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.46%) GitLab
12 3 (0.29%) Maven
13 2 (0.19%) Snyk
13 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.19%) Spinnaker
14 1 (0.097%) Gradle
General
1 834 (81.29%) Finance
2 796 (77.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 780 (76.02%) Law
4 650 (63.35%) Marketing
5 149 (14.52%) Banking
6 131 (12.77%) Influencing Skills
7 126 (12.28%) Investment Banking
8 102 (9.94%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.12%) Social Science
10 28 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
12 21 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.58%) Games
15 6 (0.58%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.49%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.49%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.39%) Automotive
17 4 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (20.08%) Spring
2 143 (13.94%) React
3 140 (13.65%) Kafka
4 120 (11.70%) JSON
5 116 (11.31%) Spring Boot
6 104 (10.14%) CSS
6 104 (10.14%) HTML
7 86 (8.38%) PySpark
8 84 (8.19%) AngularJS
9 79 (7.70%) Web Services
10 74 (7.21%) RESTful
11 72 (7.02%) Node.js
12 71 (6.92%) SAML
13 69 (6.73%) J2EE
14 68 (6.63%) XML
15 65 (6.34%) JSON-LD
15 65 (6.34%) LDAP
15 65 (6.34%) OpenID
16 63 (6.14%) OpenTelemetry
17 57 (5.56%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 345 (33.63%) Cloud Native
2 165 (16.08%) Public Cloud
3 97 (9.45%) Management Information System
4 65 (6.34%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (6.34%) Reference Data
5 40 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 40 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 33 (3.22%) Private Cloud
7 22 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.05%) Replication
9 20 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.56%) Market Risk
11 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.95%) Linux
2 8 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (0.78%) Windows
3 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.39%) Android
4 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (74.37%) Agile
2 736 (71.73%) Software Engineering
3 678 (66.08%) Operational Stability
4 658 (64.13%) SDLC
5 580 (56.53%) CI/CD
6 509 (49.61%) Community of Practice
7 410 (39.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 410 (39.96%) Machine Learning
8 392 (38.21%) Information Architecture
9 371 (36.16%) Architectural Design
10 309 (30.12%) Continuous Delivery
11 200 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (15.79%) Tech Ops
13 153 (14.91%) Mentoring
14 133 (12.96%) Roadmaps
15 128 (12.48%) Coaching
16 121 (11.79%) Decision-Making
17 119 (11.60%) Performance Tuning
18 114 (11.11%) Data Modelling
19 112 (10.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 521 (50.78%) Java
2 325 (31.68%) SQL
3 236 (23.00%) Python
4 139 (13.55%) JavaScript
5 127 (12.38%) Scala
6 100 (9.75%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.63%) Go
8 65 (6.34%) Prolog
8 65 (6.34%) SPARQL
9 36 (3.51%) C#
10 32 (3.12%) R
11 22 (2.14%) Groovy
12 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.58%) Bash
13 6 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.49%) PHP
15 4 (0.39%) C++
15 4 (0.39%) Swift
16 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (6.34%) Degree
2 35 (3.41%) Master's Degree
3 32 (3.12%) PhD
4 28 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 27 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 10 (0.97%) CISM
7 10 (0.97%) CISSP
8 9 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.49%) CCNP
11 5 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.097%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.61%) PMO
4 20 (1.95%) QA
5 6 (0.58%) NIST
6 3 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.61%) Docker
3 6 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 143 (13.94%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.06%) Terraform
3 82 (7.99%) Grafana
4 63 (6.14%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.05%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.05%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.05%) Kibana
5 21 (2.05%) Zipkin
6 6 (0.58%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Istio
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 138 (13.45%) Oracle
2 87 (8.48%) Splunk
3 80 (7.80%) Dynatrace
4 41 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 35 (3.41%) Google
6 32 (3.12%) Qualtrics
7 21 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 18 (1.75%) SaltStack
9 12 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.97%) Databricks
11 8 (0.78%) Sparx
12 6 (0.58%) Citrix
12 6 (0.58%) Meraki
12 6 (0.58%) Veeam
12 6 (0.58%) VMware
13 5 (0.49%) Epicor
13 5 (0.49%) ForeScout
13 5 (0.49%) IFS
13 5 (0.49%) JD Edwards
14 4 (0.39%) Workday