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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 165 136
Rank change year-on-year +24 -29 +41
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 29 102 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.90% 1.55% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.75% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 35
10th Percentile £50,600 £47,500 £45,915
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £76,840 £82,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £114,771 £90,625 -
UK median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £75,554
% change year-on-year -2.62% -4.04% +0.74%

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 2,861 5,830 3,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.85% 88.66% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 2,542 2,032
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £31,388
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,342 £65,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £80,000 £83,655
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +31 23 £74,870 -3.39% 77
Glasgow +77 5 £67,000 -10.67% 69
North Lanarkshire - 2 £51,000 - 1
Lanarkshire -10 1 £48,343 - 7
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 3 (10.34%) nginx
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) GCP
1 12 (41.38%) OpenShift
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) SaaS
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
1 3 (10.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) FTP
3 1 (3.45%) SpaceWire
3 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) DB2
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) Xcode
3 3 (10.34%) XCTest
3 3 (10.34%) XCUITest
4 2 (6.90%) Checkstyle
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (37.93%) Banking
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Architect
2 11 (37.93%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Lead
4 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Network Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Network Technical Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Security Technical Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Design Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Information Security Specialist
8 1 (3.45%) Information Specialist
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Software Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) EJB
3 2 (6.90%) JSON
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Private Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.90%) AS400
4 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.90%) iSeries
4 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) Mentoring
2 16 (55.17%) Software Engineering
3 12 (41.38%) Roadmaps
4 11 (37.93%) Microservices
5 10 (34.48%) Customer Experience
6 9 (31.03%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (27.59%) Data Architecture
7 8 (27.59%) TDD
8 7 (24.14%) API Design
8 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) Coaching
8 7 (24.14%) DevOps
8 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
8 7 (24.14%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (24.14%) Zero Trust
9 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (17.24%) IT Strategy
9 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.24%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Swift
4 2 (6.90%) C
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) RPG
4 2 (6.90%) RPG IV
4 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) CCNA
1 3 (10.34%) CCNP
1 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) ECSS
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Google
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) IBM