Technical Leader Jobs in Scotland

Technical Lead
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Lead salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 191 217
Rank change year-on-year -68 +26 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 18 28 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15 24 16
10th Percentile - £42,000 £48,199
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% +4.08%
75th Percentile £88,896 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £71,875 £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,497 4,150 5,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 89.90% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 2,256 2,976
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +6.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical 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 Technical Leader within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +35 11 £87,500 +84.21% 11
Aberdeenshire - 5 £45,000 -
Glasgow -124 2 £76,250 +17.31%
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 Scotland region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (27.78%) Operational Technology
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (22.22%) SDLC
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (16.67%) TDD
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 3 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Service Catalogue

Technical 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 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Retail Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) Kafka
2 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) Micronaut
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Operational Technology
2 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) SDLC
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Management
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) ITSM
5 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (5.56%) Project Planning
5 1 (5.56%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Scrum
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CCNP
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) ForeScout
1 1 (5.56%) Meraki
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow