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 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 20 35 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 1,026 312 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.00% 7.17% 8.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.46% 8.01% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 196 200 220
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £77,835
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £86,625
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 6,635 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
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 June 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 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 +16 860 £59,000 -10.94% 26
Edinburgh +5 110 £70,000 -12.10% 42
Aberdeen -4 17 £65,000 - 9
Aberdeenshire +12 13 £45,000 -30.77% 5
Highlands - 5 £30,000 - 3
Stirling -3 3 £73,805 - 1
Lanarkshire -9 3 £80,000 - 12
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,500 -
Perthshire - 2 - -
Fife -8 1 £60,000 +48.51% 2
Dundee -16 1 £60,000 -17.24%
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 811 (79.04%) Finance
2 772 (75.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 753 (73.39%) Law
4 741 (72.22%) Agile
5 718 (69.98%) Software Engineering
6 652 (63.55%) Operational Stability
7 638 (62.18%) SDLC
8 627 (61.11%) Marketing
9 564 (54.97%) CI/CD
10 501 (48.83%) Java
11 493 (48.05%) Community of Practice
12 393 (38.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 392 (38.21%) Machine Learning
14 384 (37.43%) AWS
15 378 (36.84%) Information Architecture
16 358 (34.89%) Architectural Design
17 335 (32.65%) Cloud Native
18 315 (30.70%) SQL
19 299 (29.14%) Continuous Delivery
20 231 (22.51%) Python
21 204 (19.88%) Spring
22 193 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
23 181 (17.64%) NoSQL
24 176 (17.15%) Apache Spark
25 157 (15.30%) Mentoring
26 156 (15.20%) Public Cloud
27 155 (15.11%) Tech Ops
28 151 (14.72%) Azure
29 144 (14.04%) Banking
29 144 (14.04%) 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
1 176 (17.15%) 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
9 2 (0.19%) 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
1 384 (37.43%) AWS
2 151 (14.72%) Azure
3 63 (6.14%) Datadog
4 48 (4.68%) Figma
4 48 (4.68%) GCP
5 32 (3.12%) Amazon S3
5 32 (3.12%) SurveyMonkey
6 21 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.36%) 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%) Firewall
3 8 (0.78%) SSL
3 8 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.58%) NetScaler
5 5 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
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
1 181 (17.64%) NoSQL
2 144 (14.04%) Big Data
3 71 (6.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 67 (6.53%) Metadata
5 62 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (5.36%) Relational Database
7 38 (3.70%) CockroachDB
8 28 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.05%) Hazelcast
10 18 (1.75%) 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 8 (0.78%) SQL Server
16 7 (0.68%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.58%) Tableau
18 4 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
18 4 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 90 (8.77%) 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%) Spock
General
1 811 (79.04%) Finance
2 772 (75.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 753 (73.39%) Law
4 627 (61.11%) Marketing
5 144 (14.04%) Banking
6 125 (12.18%) Influencing Skills
7 122 (11.89%) Investment Banking
8 101 (9.84%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.12%) Social Science
10 27 (2.63%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
12 19 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.68%) Retail Banking
16 6 (0.58%) Games
17 5 (0.49%) Public Sector
18 4 (0.39%) Automotive
18 4 (0.39%) Private Banking
18 4 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (19.88%) Spring
2 139 (13.55%) Kafka
3 138 (13.45%) React
4 120 (11.70%) JSON
5 115 (11.21%) Spring Boot
6 102 (9.94%) CSS
6 102 (9.94%) HTML
7 84 (8.19%) PySpark
8 82 (7.99%) AngularJS
9 79 (7.70%) Web Services
10 74 (7.21%) RESTful
11 73 (7.12%) Node.js
12 71 (6.92%) SAML
13 68 (6.63%) XML
14 67 (6.53%) J2EE
15 65 (6.34%) JSON-LD
15 65 (6.34%) LDAP
15 65 (6.34%) OpenID
16 62 (6.04%) OpenTelemetry
17 57 (5.56%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 335 (32.65%) Cloud Native
2 156 (15.20%) 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
6 38 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.02%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.05%) Replication
10 20 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.56%) Market Risk
12 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.17%) Operational Technology
13 10 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.75%) Linux
2 8 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (0.68%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.39%) Android
5 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (72.22%) Agile
2 718 (69.98%) Software Engineering
3 652 (63.55%) Operational Stability
4 638 (62.18%) SDLC
5 564 (54.97%) CI/CD
6 493 (48.05%) Community of Practice
7 393 (38.30%) Artificial Intelligence
8 392 (38.21%) Machine Learning
9 378 (36.84%) Information Architecture
10 358 (34.89%) Architectural Design
11 299 (29.14%) Continuous Delivery
12 193 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
13 157 (15.30%) Mentoring
14 155 (15.11%) Tech Ops
15 132 (12.87%) Roadmaps
16 126 (12.28%) Coaching
17 117 (11.40%) Decision-Making
18 115 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
19 112 (10.92%) Data Modelling
20 111 (10.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 501 (48.83%) Java
2 315 (30.70%) SQL
3 231 (22.51%) Python
4 135 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 123 (11.99%) Scala
6 98 (9.55%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.53%) Go
8 65 (6.34%) Prolog
8 65 (6.34%) SPARQL
9 37 (3.61%) 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
14 5 (0.49%) PHP
15 4 (0.39%) C++
15 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
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 30 (2.92%) Security Cleared
5 26 (2.53%) SC Cleared
6 25 (2.44%) AWS Certification
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 3 (0.29%) CHECK Team Leader
13 1 (0.097%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.41%) 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
Systems Management
1 141 (13.74%) Kubernetes
2 91 (8.87%) Terraform
3 81 (7.89%) Grafana
4 62 (6.04%) 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
1 134 (13.06%) Oracle
2 87 (8.48%) Splunk
3 80 (7.80%) Dynatrace
4 43 (4.19%) Microsoft
5 35 (3.41%) Google
6 32 (3.12%) Qualtrics
7 19 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 18 (1.75%) SaltStack
9 13 (1.27%) 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