Technical Leader Jobs in England

Technical Lead
UK > England

The median Technical Lead salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 400 402
Rank change year-on-year +79 +2 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 753 700 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.79% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.86% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 590 540 627
10th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £48,649
25th Percentile £61,360 £56,250 £64,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +17.65%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £122,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +18.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +59 225 £94,500 -0.53% 75
North of England +48 179 £73,805 +1.80% 40
Midlands +31 117 £71,902 +15.04% 21
South East +20 113 £65,000 +13.04% 37
North West +12 102 £79,932 +10.25% 21
West Midlands +29 74 £73,805 +18.09% 13
South West -15 62 £63,749 +44.88% 14
Yorkshire +60 55 £73,805 +5.44% 8
East of England +41 43 £70,000 +50.54% 14
East Midlands +7 43 £65,000 +13.04% 8
North East +19 22 £73,805 -17.07% 13
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 317 (42.10%) Agile
2 262 (34.79%) AWS
3 232 (30.81%) Java
4 218 (28.95%) Mentoring
5 168 (22.31%) Finance
6 167 (22.18%) Social Skills
7 165 (21.91%) Azure
8 161 (21.38%) Software Engineering
9 149 (19.79%) Degree
10 141 (18.73%) Roadmaps
11 129 (17.13%) DevOps
12 128 (17.00%) Technical Leadership
13 118 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (14.74%) Python
15 110 (14.61%) Coaching
16 103 (13.68%) Microsoft
17 101 (13.41%) TypeScript
18 99 (13.15%) JavaScript
19 90 (11.95%) Banking
20 87 (11.55%) Windows
20 87 (11.55%) CI/CD
21 86 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
22 81 (10.76%) Design Patterns
23 79 (10.49%) Product Roadmap
23 79 (10.49%) Open Source
24 78 (10.36%) Project Management
25 77 (10.23%) .NET
26 76 (10.09%) SDLC
27 72 (9.56%) Computer Science
28 70 (9.30%) Strategic Thinking

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 49 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (6.11%) Apache
3 37 (4.91%) Tuxedo
4 18 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.46%) Confluence
6 7 (0.93%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.66%) WordPress
8 4 (0.53%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) Primavera
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 262 (34.79%) AWS
2 165 (21.91%) Azure
3 53 (7.04%) Snowflake
4 46 (6.11%) dbt
5 42 (5.58%) Amazon Kinesis
6 39 (5.18%) SaaS
7 38 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (3.98%) Serverless
11 27 (3.59%) Amazon S3
12 23 (3.05%) Power Platform
13 20 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.52%) GCP
15 13 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (1.73%) PaaS
16 12 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (1.46%) PowerApps
18 10 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.25%) Firewall
2 19 (2.52%) WAN
3 12 (1.59%) 5G
4 11 (1.46%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.33%) Wireless
6 9 (1.20%) LAN
6 9 (1.20%) VLAN
7 7 (0.93%) NAS
8 6 (0.80%) VoIP
9 5 (0.66%) SAN
9 5 (0.66%) VPN
10 4 (0.53%) Network Security
11 3 (0.40%) Broadband
11 3 (0.40%) CTI
11 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.27%) DHCP
12 2 (0.27%) DNS
12 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (8.37%) SQL Server
2 53 (7.04%) Data Lake
3 46 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (6.11%) Apache Arrow
3 46 (6.11%) Apache Ignite
3 46 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (6.11%) Dremio
4 45 (5.98%) MySQL
5 38 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 26 (3.45%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (3.32%) RDBMS
9 22 (2.92%) Power BI
10 19 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.99%) Big Data
12 10 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (7.17%) Git
2 48 (6.37%) GitLab
3 26 (3.45%) Postman
4 12 (1.59%) JIRA
5 8 (1.06%) JUnit
6 7 (0.93%) Checkstyle
6 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.53%) Maven
7 4 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.13%) Gatling
9 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.13%) Phabricator
9 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 168 (22.31%) Finance
2 167 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 90 (11.95%) Banking
4 66 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.11%) Front Office
5 46 (6.11%) Investment Banking
6 38 (5.05%) Manufacturing
7 25 (3.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (2.26%) Legal
9 16 (2.12%) Electronics
9 16 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.12%) Retail
10 15 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.73%) Law
12 13 (1.73%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.59%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (10.23%) .NET
2 57 (7.57%) React
3 53 (7.04%) Spring Boot
4 49 (6.51%) NumPy
4 49 (6.51%) Pandas
5 46 (6.11%) gRPC
5 46 (6.11%) Protocol Buffers
5 46 (6.11%) SciPy
6 45 (5.98%) Kafka
7 44 (5.84%) Spring
8 38 (5.05%) JSON
8 38 (5.05%) RESTful
9 25 (3.32%) HTML
9 25 (3.32%) Node.js
10 24 (3.19%) CSS
11 17 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 17 (2.26%) Laravel
12 16 (2.12%) REST
13 15 (1.99%) XML
14 14 (1.86%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 46 (6.11%) Derivative
2 46 (6.11%) Equities
2 46 (6.11%) Fixed Income
2 46 (6.11%) Hedge funds
3 44 (5.84%) Management Information System
4 31 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.72%) Private Cloud
6 25 (3.32%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.52%) Robotics
9 17 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (1.59%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.59%) Cyberattack
11 12 (1.59%) Data Fabric
12 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 87 (11.55%) Windows
2 48 (6.37%) Linux
3 38 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (1.59%) zOS
6 11 (1.46%) Android
7 10 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.06%) CentOS
8 8 (1.06%) Solaris
8 8 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.06%) Unix
9 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (42.10%) Agile
2 218 (28.95%) Mentoring
3 161 (21.38%) Software Engineering
4 141 (18.73%) Roadmaps
5 129 (17.13%) DevOps
6 128 (17.00%) Technical Leadership
7 118 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (14.61%) Coaching
9 87 (11.55%) CI/CD
10 86 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
11 81 (10.76%) Design Patterns
12 79 (10.49%) Open Source
12 79 (10.49%) Product Roadmap
13 78 (10.36%) Project Management
14 76 (10.09%) SDLC
15 72 (9.56%) Computer Science
16 70 (9.30%) Strategic Thinking
17 60 (7.97%) Customer Service
18 54 (7.17%) Data Modelling
19 53 (7.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 232 (30.81%) Java
2 111 (14.74%) Python
3 101 (13.41%) TypeScript
4 99 (13.15%) JavaScript
5 68 (9.03%) C#
6 66 (8.76%) COBOL
6 66 (8.76%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 60 (7.97%) SQL
8 53 (7.04%) PHP
9 46 (6.11%) C++
10 42 (5.58%) C
11 16 (2.12%) Scala
12 13 (1.73%) Rust
12 13 (1.73%) VB.NET
13 12 (1.59%) Go
13 12 (1.59%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.46%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 149 (19.79%) Degree
2 63 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 50 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.12%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
8 8 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.53%) CCNA
10 4 (0.53%) CIMA
10 4 (0.53%) HND
10 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.53%) PMP
11 3 (0.40%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.40%) CCNP
11 3 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.32%) QA
3 20 (2.66%) GMP
4 17 (2.26%) SLA
5 13 (1.73%) PMO
6 6 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.80%) NCSC
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.53%) GDPR
9 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.40%) JTAG
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (3.98%) Docker
2 21 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.20%) vSphere
5 7 (0.93%) HDFS
6 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.40%) Ceph
7 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.27%) Firmware
8 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (4.78%) Terraform
2 32 (4.25%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.86%) SCCM
5 7 (0.93%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.80%) Nagios
7 5 (0.66%) Ansible
8 3 (0.40%) Knative
9 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) Grafana
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 103 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.76%) Micro Focus
3 47 (6.24%) Oracle
4 33 (4.38%) VMware
5 20 (2.66%) Databricks
5 20 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.99%) IBM
7 12 (1.59%) Citrix
8 11 (1.46%) Cisco
8 11 (1.46%) Google
9 10 (1.33%) SAP
10 7 (0.93%) CheckPoint
10 7 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.80%) Veeam
12 5 (0.66%) Informatica
13 4 (0.53%) Barracuda Networks
13 4 (0.53%) ESET
13 4 (0.53%) F5
13 4 (0.53%) Meraki
13 4 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud