Technical Leader Jobs in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead salary in London is £94,500 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 301 360 381
Rank change year-on-year +59 +21 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 225 286 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.85% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.89% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 188 220 322
10th Percentile £62,158 £58,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £83,750 £70,938 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,500 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £116,563 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the London 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
Central London +30 22 £100,000 +5.26% 8
South London -2 4 - - 1
West London -2 1 £102,500 +35.76% 2
Technical Leader
England

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

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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 113 (50.22%) AWS
2 104 (46.22%) Finance
3 100 (44.44%) Java
4 95 (42.22%) Agile
5 75 (33.33%) Banking
6 74 (32.89%) Software Engineering
7 66 (29.33%) Python
8 61 (27.11%) Azure
9 56 (24.89%) JavaScript
10 55 (24.44%) TypeScript
11 53 (23.56%) Mentoring
11 53 (23.56%) Data Lake
11 53 (23.56%) Snowflake
12 52 (23.11%) DevOps
13 50 (22.22%) Data Quality
14 49 (21.78%) NumPy
14 49 (21.78%) Pandas
14 49 (21.78%) Apache Airflow
14 49 (21.78%) Social Skills
15 47 (20.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 47 (20.89%) Asset Management
16 46 (20.44%) Investment Banking
16 46 (20.44%) Equities
16 46 (20.44%) Fixed Income
16 46 (20.44%) Front Office
16 46 (20.44%) Apache
16 46 (20.44%) SciPy
16 46 (20.44%) Hedge funds
16 46 (20.44%) Protocol Buffers
16 46 (20.44%) Derivative

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (21.78%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (20.44%) Apache
3 11 (4.89%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.11%) Apache Pig
5 6 (2.67%) Confluence
6 5 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 5 (2.22%) WordPress
7 3 (1.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.89%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.44%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.78%) Primavera
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.22%) AWS
2 61 (27.11%) Azure
3 53 (23.56%) Snowflake
4 46 (20.44%) dbt
5 21 (9.33%) Power Platform
6 16 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.67%) SaaS
7 15 (6.67%) Serverless
8 14 (6.22%) GCP
9 13 (5.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (4.44%) Power Automate
10 10 (4.44%) PowerApps
11 9 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.56%) WhatsApp
13 7 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (0.44%) DHCP
1 1 (0.44%) DNS
1 1 (0.44%) Firewall
1 1 (0.44%) FTP
1 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.56%) Data Lake
2 46 (20.44%) Amazon Athena
2 46 (20.44%) Apache Arrow
2 46 (20.44%) Apache Ignite
2 46 (20.44%) Dremio
3 22 (9.78%) SQL Server
4 21 (9.33%) Power BI
5 14 (6.22%) Big Data
5 14 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.00%) MySQL
6 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.11%) Apache Hive
7 7 (3.11%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.11%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.11%) Spark SQL
8 6 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) Git
2 9 (4.00%) GitLab
3 8 (3.56%) JUnit
4 7 (3.11%) Checkstyle
4 7 (3.11%) JIRA
4 7 (3.11%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.22%) Postman
6 3 (1.33%) Maven
7 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.89%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.44%) Gatling
8 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (46.22%) Finance
2 75 (33.33%) Banking
3 49 (21.78%) Social Skills
4 46 (20.44%) Front Office
4 46 (20.44%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.44%) Retail Banking
6 9 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.11%) Law
8 4 (1.78%) Local Government
9 3 (1.33%) Retail
10 2 (0.89%) Advertising
10 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) iGaming
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.78%) NumPy
1 49 (21.78%) Pandas
2 46 (20.44%) gRPC
2 46 (20.44%) Protocol Buffers
2 46 (20.44%) SciPy
3 35 (15.56%) Kafka
4 31 (13.78%) Spring Boot
5 27 (12.00%) .NET
6 21 (9.33%) Spring
7 19 (8.44%) React
8 12 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.44%) J2EE
10 9 (4.00%) REST
11 7 (3.11%) Middleware
11 7 (3.11%) PySpark
12 5 (2.22%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.22%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.22%) FastAPI
12 5 (2.22%) JSON
12 5 (2.22%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 46 (20.44%) Derivative
2 46 (20.44%) Equities
2 46 (20.44%) Fixed Income
2 46 (20.44%) Hedge funds
3 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.44%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.56%) Cyberattack
6 8 (3.56%) Data Fabric
6 8 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.78%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.00%) Linux
2 12 (5.33%) Windows
3 8 (3.56%) zOS
4 4 (1.78%) CentOS
4 4 (1.78%) Solaris
4 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.78%) Unix
5 3 (1.33%) Android
6 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (42.22%) Agile
2 74 (32.89%) Software Engineering
3 53 (23.56%) Mentoring
4 52 (23.11%) DevOps
5 47 (20.89%) Asset Management
6 46 (20.44%) Greeks
6 46 (20.44%) Investment Management
7 44 (19.56%) SDLC
8 41 (18.22%) CI/CD
9 31 (13.78%) Microservices
10 30 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (11.56%) Design Patterns
11 26 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (11.11%) Computer Science
12 25 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 21 (9.33%) ETL
14 20 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (8.44%) Line Management
16 17 (7.56%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 100 (44.44%) Java
2 66 (29.33%) Python
3 56 (24.89%) JavaScript
4 55 (24.44%) TypeScript
5 41 (18.22%) SQL
6 19 (8.44%) C#
7 10 (4.44%) Scala
8 9 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.00%) PHP
9 7 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.67%) Go
11 5 (2.22%) C++
11 5 (2.22%) Rust
12 4 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.33%) C
14 2 (0.89%) Bash
14 2 (0.89%) Bicep
15 1 (0.44%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.44%) Delphi
15 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (16.00%) Degree
2 14 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.78%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.78%) CIMA
5 4 (1.78%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.33%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (0.89%) HL7
3 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (9.78%) Docker
2 7 (3.11%) HDFS
3 4 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.33%) Ceph
4 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.67%) Terraform
3 4 (1.78%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Knative
5 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.44%) Istio
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.89%) Databricks
3 7 (3.11%) Oracle
3 7 (3.11%) SAP
4 6 (2.67%) Google
5 4 (1.78%) F5
5 4 (1.78%) IBM
6 2 (0.89%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.44%) Apple
7 1 (0.44%) Aruba
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco
7 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.44%) Meraki
7 1 (0.44%) Okta
7 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds