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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 161 136
Rank change year-on-year +30 -25 +42
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 30 122 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.02% 1.82% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.97% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 20 41 42
10th Percentile £50,900 £47,500 £46,619
25th Percentile £53,438 £65,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,542 £82,500 £97,457
90th Percentile £101,818 £91,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% -9.38% +6.67%

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 2,741 6,180 4,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.85% 92.45% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,400 2,209
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,813 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.78%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,958 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 14 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 14 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 +5 26 £74,870 -0.70% 19
Glasgow +113 4 - - 25
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 - 4
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 (6.67%) SAS
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) GCP
1 10 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) FTP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) DB2
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
1 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Xcode
2 3 (10.00%) XCTest
2 3 (10.00%) XCUITest
3 2 (6.67%) Checkstyle
3 2 (6.67%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (43.33%) Banking
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Architect
2 11 (36.67%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (26.67%) Lead
4 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Credit Risk Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) PHP Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Risk Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior PHP Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Software Team Leader
7 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
7 2 (6.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Network Security Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Network Technical Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (13.33%) Kafka
1 4 (13.33%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Node.js
2 3 (10.00%) React
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) EJB
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
3 2 (6.67%) Laravel
3 2 (6.67%) PySpark
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 4 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) AS400
4 2 (6.67%) Credit Risk
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) iSeries
4 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Mentoring
2 18 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 17 (56.67%) Agile
4 12 (40.00%) Microservices
5 10 (33.33%) Customer Experience
5 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 9 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 9 (30.00%) TDD
7 8 (26.67%) Data Architecture
8 7 (23.33%) API Design
8 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (23.33%) DevOps
8 7 (23.33%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (23.33%) Zero Trust
9 6 (20.00%) Coaching
10 5 (16.67%) Analytics
10 5 (16.67%) IT Strategy
10 5 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
10 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) Swift
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) RPG
4 2 (6.67%) RPG IV
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.33%) CCNA
1 1 (3.33%) CCNP
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) CRD IV
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) IFRS
2 2 (6.67%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) ECSS
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) SAP