Technical Leader Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Technical Lead
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The median Technical Lead salary in South Lanarkshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Lanarkshire 3.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £85,572
% change year-on-year -15.38% -24.04% +42.62%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South Lanarkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Lanarkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in South Lanarkshire with a recognized job title 27 10 16
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 100.00% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,900 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +146.15%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in South Lanarkshire

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in South Lanarkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in South Lanarkshire

Technical Leader
Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 28 March 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
East Kilbride - 1 £55,000 - 1
Technical Leader
Scotland

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire

For the 6 months to 28 March 2026, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Lanarkshire region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript