Technical Leadership Job Trends in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 65 52
Rank change year-on-year -25 -13 +41
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 11 33 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.00% 2.98% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 3.08% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 46
10th Percentile £65,634 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £72,194 £52,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -4.36% -5.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £79,648 £91,926
90th Percentile £102,500 £80,000 £137,913
Scotland median annual salary £77,217 £68,750 £70,576
% change year-on-year +12.32% -2.59% +0.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 939 1,073 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.29% 96.84% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 415 406 844
10th Percentile £26,100 £36,125 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,465 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% -2.56% -1.93%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,960 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -22.73% +9.45% -12.61%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Games
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Associate Director
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Director
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) NestJS
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Business Case
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Budget Management
4 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (18.18%) Optimization Problems
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) CISM
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft