Technical Leadership Job Trends in West Lothian

Technical Leadership
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in West Lothian 2.27% - 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% - 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £74,950 £58,750
% change year-on-year +6.74% +27.57% -21.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 111 108 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 84.09% 90.00% 87.25%
Number of salaries quoted 35 70 50
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,500 £26,575
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,513 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £32,851 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.59% -45.25% +50.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £50,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £72,750
Scotland median annual salary £54,388 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +43.13% -30.91% +4.76%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in West Lothian

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in West Lothian

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Livingston - 3 £85,000 - 9
Technical Leadership
Scotland

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) IAM Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SAML
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory