Technical Leadership Job Trends in Scotland

Technical Leadership
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 88 125
Rank change year-on-year -33 +37 -3
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 26 57 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.90% 2.28% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 2.43% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 53
10th Percentile £51,218 £50,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £66,727 £52,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,217 £66,250 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -6.13% +1.22%
75th Percentile £95,000 £79,648 £78,088
90th Percentile £103,750 £80,000 £137,913
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -8.75%

All Process & 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 2,302 2,344 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.85% 93.95% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,134 974 2,064
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 2026. 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 -26 11 £80,000 +45.45% 20
Glasgow -9 4 £97,500 +30.00% 9
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,000 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £75,900 -
East Ayrshire -4 2 - -
Moray +4 1 - -
Fife - 1 £75,900 - 1
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) dbt
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) LAN
1 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (26.92%) Electronics
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Games
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 7 (26.92%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Associate Director
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Director
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SEO Team Leader
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.85%) NestJS
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (26.92%) Signal Processing
2 7 (26.92%) Test Planning
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 4 (15.38%) High Availability
4 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (11.54%) AI
5 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) Go
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.69%) CISM
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.85%) HNC
3 1 (3.85%) HND
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (7.69%) GxP
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
1 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) IBM
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Aruba
3 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto