Technical Leader Jobs in Edinburgh

Technical Lead
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Lead salary in Edinburgh is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 128 149
Rank change year-on-year +33 +21 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 12 10 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.79% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.57% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £58,480 - £46,625
25th Percentile £70,000 £42,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -24.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £122,500 £62,833 £69,063
90th Percentile - - £69,625
Scotland median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% -1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,467 1,756 2,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 94.56% 98.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 1,054 1,552
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,459 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (25.00%) Kafka
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) dbt
4 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (8.33%) ForeScout
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Open Source
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Service Design
5 1 (8.33%) Tech Ops
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) ForeScout
1 1 (8.33%) Meraki
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow