Technical Leader Job Trends in East Kilbride

Technical Lead
South Lanarkshire > East Kilbride

The median Technical Lead salary in East Kilbride is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East Kilbride 20.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Lanarkshire median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Kilbride

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in East Kilbride. 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 East Kilbride with a recognized job title 5 4 16
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £37,500 - £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +146.15%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - £100,000
South Lanarkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +146.15%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in East Kilbride

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East Kilbride.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in East Kilbride

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in East Kilbride

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in East Kilbride.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in East Kilbride

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Kilbride

For the 6 months to 28 March 2026, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Kilbride region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Kilbride by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript