Technical Leadership Jobs in Scotland

Technical Leadership
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 172 131
Rank change year-on-year +38 -41 +66
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 28 113 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 1.66% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.82% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 36
10th Percentile £50,700 £47,500 £46,016
25th Percentile £54,688 £54,063 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £75,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +7.57% +13.83%
75th Percentile £76,840 £81,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,453 £90,375 -
UK median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.62% -8.96% +6.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,783 6,212 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.70% 91.15% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 2,458 2,089
10th Percentile £30,300 £28,425 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 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 +20 23 £74,870 -0.70% 54
Glasgow +88 5 £67,000 -10.67% 60
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 - 3
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) GCP
1 11 (39.29%) OpenShift
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (7.14%) FTP
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) DB2
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (10.71%) Xcode
2 3 (10.71%) XCTest
2 3 (10.71%) XCUITest
3 2 (7.14%) Checkstyle
3 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (39.29%) Banking
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Local Government
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Architect
2 11 (39.29%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (25.00%) Lead
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Network Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Network Technical Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Security Technical Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Design Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Software Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.14%) EJB
3 2 (7.14%) JSON
3 2 (7.14%) Node.js
3 2 (7.14%) React
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) Laravel
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) AS400
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.14%) iSeries
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
1 17 (60.71%) Software Engineering
2 16 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 11 (39.29%) Microservices
3 11 (39.29%) Roadmaps
4 10 (35.71%) Customer Experience
5 9 (32.14%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (28.57%) Data Architecture
6 8 (28.57%) TDD
7 7 (25.00%) API Design
7 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (25.00%) DevOps
7 7 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (25.00%) Zero Trust
8 6 (21.43%) Coaching
8 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
9 5 (17.86%) IT Strategy
9 5 (17.86%) Technology Strategy
10 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Swift
3 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) C
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) RPG
4 2 (7.14%) RPG IV
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) C++
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) CCNA
1 2 (7.14%) CCNP
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) ECSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) F5
4 2 (7.14%) IBM