Software Team Leader Jobs in Scotland

Software Team Lead
UK > Scotland

The median Software Team Lead salary in Scotland is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 276 213
Rank change year-on-year +138 -63 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 7 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.015% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.015% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £57,500 - £66,250
25th Percentile £62,500 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -19.44%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £76,250
90th Percentile - - £76,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Team Leader in Scotland

Software Team Leader
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Team Leader in Scotland

Software Team 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 Software Team Leader within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 7 £70,000 - 1
Software Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Software Team 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 Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
1 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Line Management
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
1 5 (71.43%) Coaching
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
1 5 (71.43%) SOLID
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Ruby
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) F#

Software Team 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
3 2 (28.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Coaching
1 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Line Management
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) SOLID
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Elixir
4 2 (28.57%) F#
4 2 (28.57%) Go
4 2 (28.57%) Ruby
4 2 (28.57%) Scala