Technical Leadership Jobs in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 70 91
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 +46
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 26 38 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.84% 2.56% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.85% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 20
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £57,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,718 £65,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £75,400 £86,290
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -12.62% +46.25%
75th Percentile £78,946 £80,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,453 £104,249 -
Scotland median annual salary £74,870 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -0.17% +8.00% +15.75%

All Process and 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 893 1,332 1,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.49% 89.58% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 402 933 1,119
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,912 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) SAS
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) GCP
1 10 (38.46%) OpenShift
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) FTP
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) DB2
1 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (7.69%) MySQL
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Xcode
2 3 (11.54%) XCTest
2 3 (11.54%) XCUITest
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 13 (50.00%) Banking
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Architect
2 11 (42.31%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) PHP Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Risk Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Team Leader
6 2 (7.69%) Team Leader
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Network Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Security Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 4 (15.38%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) React
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (7.69%) Laravel
3 2 (7.69%) PySpark
3 2 (7.69%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Private Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) AS400
3 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.69%) iSeries
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Software Engineering
2 16 (61.54%) Mentoring
3 15 (57.69%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) Customer Experience
4 10 (38.46%) Microservices
4 10 (38.46%) Roadmaps
5 9 (34.62%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (34.62%) TDD
6 7 (26.92%) API Design
6 7 (26.92%) Data Architecture
6 7 (26.92%) Translating Business Requirements
6 7 (26.92%) Zero Trust
7 6 (23.08%) Coaching
7 6 (23.08%) DevOps
8 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
8 5 (19.23%) Technology Strategy
9 4 (15.38%) Analytics
9 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
1 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
2 3 (11.54%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.54%) Swift
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) PHP
3 2 (7.69%) RPG
3 2 (7.69%) RPG IV
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) CCNA
1 1 (3.85%) CCNP
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) CRD IV
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) IFRS
2 2 (7.69%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.85%) ECSS
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) F5