Team Leader Jobs in Edinburgh

Team Lead
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Team Lead salary in Edinburgh is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 115 141
Rank change year-on-year +32 +26 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 10 2 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.05% 0.13% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.14% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 11
10th Percentile £57,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 - £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -32.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 874 1,477 2,084
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 95.91% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 430 1,045 1,223
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,331
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,912 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in Edinburgh

Team Leader
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2025, Team 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 Team Leader in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 8 (80.00%) Coaching
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Line Management
2 5 (50.00%) SOLID
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) Law
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Kafka
4 3 (30.00%) AngularJS

Team 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 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) Coaching
1 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Line Management
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) SOLID
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Database Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Elixir
4 2 (20.00%) F#
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 2 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft