Technical Leader Jobs in Scotland

Technical Lead
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Lead salary in Scotland is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 201 221
Rank change year-on-year -69 +20 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 17 26 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.61% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 16
10th Percentile - £42,000 £45,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £50,662
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £89,041 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £78,750 £74,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +14.81%

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 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
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 Leader within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Edinburgh +38 11 £86,536 +82.18% 9
Aberdeenshire - 5 £45,000 -
Glasgow -117 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Scotland region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) Operational Technology
2 5 (29.41%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (23.53%) SDLC
3 4 (23.53%) Docker
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Kafka
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) Retail Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) TDD
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (11.76%) Backlog Management
5 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
5 2 (11.76%) Product Vision
5 2 (11.76%) Cost Control

Technical Leader 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
1 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) TDD
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Dependency Management
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Management
5 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CCNP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) ForeScout
2 1 (5.88%) Meraki
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft