Technical Leadership Jobs in Scotland

Technical Leadership
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 128 184
Rank change year-on-year -31 +56 -39
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 133 98 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.98% 2.07% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.19% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 49 43 30
10th Percentile £50,500 £41,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,875 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,414 £73,750
90th Percentile £106,000 £97,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +9.59% +4.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Scotland.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -51 75 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Edinburgh +27 52 £70,576 -16.08% 8
Dundee -12 2 £52,500 +9.11%
Aberdeen - 1 £62,500 - 1
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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 57 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.55%) AWS
2 24 (18.05%) SaaS
3 19 (14.29%) Azure
4 9 (6.77%) GCP
4 9 (6.77%) PaaS
5 8 (6.02%) IaaS
6 6 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.76%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.26%) GitHub
9 3 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.50%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.50%) dbt
10 2 (1.50%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) Firewall
2 4 (3.01%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (53.38%) Big Data
2 58 (43.61%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.26%) Power BI
3 3 (2.26%) Tableau
4 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.01%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.75%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) Gradle
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) JUnit
4 1 (0.75%) Maven
4 1 (0.75%) Mocha
4 1 (0.75%) Mockito
4 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.75%) Selenium
4 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.75%) Subversion
4 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (61.65%) Finance
2 66 (49.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (46.62%) Influencing Skills
4 61 (45.86%) Marketing
5 58 (43.61%) Law
6 25 (18.80%) Social Skills
7 21 (15.79%) Banking
8 11 (8.27%) Legal
9 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.26%) Retail
11 3 (2.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 75 (56.39%) Software Engineer
2 74 (55.64%) Lead
3 60 (45.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 57 (42.86%) Big Data Engineer
4 57 (42.86%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 57 (42.86%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 57 (42.86%) Scala Engineer
4 57 (42.86%) Scala Software Engineer
5 52 (39.10%) Java Engineer
6 51 (38.35%) Java Scala Software Engineer
6 51 (38.35%) Java Software Engineer
6 51 (38.35%) Lead Java Engineer
7 24 (18.05%) Senior
8 21 (15.79%) Architect
9 15 (11.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (6.77%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) Principal Software Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) Senior Windows Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) Spring
1 12 (9.02%) Spring Boot
2 11 (8.27%) Kafka
3 6 (4.51%) React
4 5 (3.76%) RESTful
5 4 (3.01%) J2EE
5 4 (3.01%) LDAP
5 4 (3.01%) OAuth
5 4 (3.01%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.01%) OpenID
5 4 (3.01%) REST
5 4 (3.01%) SAML
6 2 (1.50%) Django
6 2 (1.50%) Node.js
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 74 (55.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Blockchain
2 10 (7.52%) Robotics
3 9 (6.77%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.77%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.50%) IoT
6 2 (1.50%) Life Science
6 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.30%) Linux
2 18 (13.53%) Windows
3 9 (6.77%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.01%) Android
4 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (75.19%) Agile
2 87 (65.41%) Software Engineering
3 74 (55.64%) SDLC
4 65 (48.87%) CI/CD
5 59 (44.36%) Performance Tuning
6 57 (42.86%) Community of Practice
6 57 (42.86%) Operational Stability
7 24 (18.05%) DevOps
7 24 (18.05%) Mentoring
8 18 (13.53%) Architectural Patterns
9 16 (12.03%) Analytics
9 16 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (12.03%) Data Science
10 15 (11.28%) Microservices
10 15 (11.28%) Roadmaps
11 13 (9.77%) API Design
11 13 (9.77%) Open Source
12 12 (9.02%) Coaching
12 12 (9.02%) Software Delivery
12 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (57.14%) Java
2 67 (50.38%) SQL
3 57 (42.86%) Scala
4 17 (12.78%) Python
5 5 (3.76%) C
5 5 (3.76%) Embedded C
5 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.01%) Groovy
6 4 (3.01%) Swift
6 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.26%) Ruby
8 2 (1.50%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) PHP
8 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.77%) Degree
2 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.01%) CCNA
2 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.50%) CISSP
4 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.50%) PMP
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) SEPA
2 5 (3.76%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) Basel III
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.28%) Terraform
3 5 (3.76%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.01%) Ansible
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.26%) Puppet
6 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.50%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.75%) Grafana
7 1 (0.75%) Kibana
7 1 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (6.77%) Dell
1 9 (6.77%) Google
2 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.76%) Splunk
4 4 (3.01%) Cisco
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.01%) Okta
5 3 (2.26%) IBM
6 1 (0.75%) Coverity
6 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.75%) Klocwork
6 1 (0.75%) New Relic
6 1 (0.75%) Thales
6 1 (0.75%) Veracode