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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 88 105
Rank change year-on-year -32 +17 +8
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 23 58 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.85% 2.25% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.42% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 55
10th Percentile £56,039 £50,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -4.36% +4.56%
75th Percentile £95,000 £79,648 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £81,000 £137,913
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%

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 2,173 2,395 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.89% 92.90% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,005 1,817
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,800 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,808 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,950 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 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 12 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 9 £85,000 +38.78% 14
Glasgow -4 4 £97,500 +30.00% 4
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,000 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £75,900 -
East Ayrshire -2 2 - -
Moray +4 1 - -
Fife - 1 £75,900 - 2
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 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) dbt
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) LAN
1 2 (8.70%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (30.43%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Games
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Associate Director
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) IT Director
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.35%) IT Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) NestJS
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) Signal Processing
2 7 (30.43%) Test Planning
3 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) High Availability
5 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (17.39%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (13.04%) AI
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Contract Negotiation
6 3 (13.04%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Go
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISM
2 2 (8.70%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) HNC
3 1 (4.35%) HND
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (8.70%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) IBM
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Aruba
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto