Technical Leader Jobs in Edinburgh

Technical Lead
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Lead salary in Edinburgh is £100,286 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 139 153
Rank change year-on-year +34 +14 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 9 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.59% 0.50% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.52% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £70,677 - £45,250
25th Percentile £82,103 £42,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,286 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +111.13% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £122,500 £62,833 £67,500
90th Percentile - £66,050 £68,250
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +4.17%

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 1,476 2,116 2,225
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.57% 97.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,234 1,393
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £68,275
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,773 £84,056
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 18 April 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 18 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 Edinburgh region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Influencing Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) SDLC
2 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) TDD
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Management
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Control
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis

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 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) SDLC
2 3 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Control
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) ForeScout
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki