Technical Leader Jobs in Edinburgh

Technical Lead
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Lead salary in Edinburgh is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 142 145
Rank change year-on-year +40 +3 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 12 11 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.79% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.54% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £67,850 - £45,250
25th Percentile £82,103 £42,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £122,500 £62,833 £67,500
90th Percentile - £66,050 £68,250
Scotland median annual salary £76,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.08% -4.00% +2.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,457 2,032 2,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.49% 97.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,201 1,443
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £33,098
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Technical Leader 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 Edinburgh region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Docker
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) Kafka
4 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 3 (25.00%) .NET
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
5 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
5 2 (16.67%) Product Vision
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Cost Control

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) SDLC
2 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cost Control
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
3 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Product Vision
3 2 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) ForeScout
2 1 (8.33%) Meraki