Technical Leadership Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 221 212
Rank change year-on-year +24 -9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,102 890 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.44% 1.59% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.66% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 697 524 739
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,125 £42,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,375 £92,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,642 53,488 70,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.62% 95.49% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 42,723 28,483 41,542
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
South East +41 280 £65,000 -7.14% 49
North of England +49 253 £65,066 +0.10% 58
South West +20 214 £65,000 +3.17% 37
North West +25 138 £70,000 +4.16% 30
Midlands 0 133 £75,000 +15.38% 39
Scotland -32 115 £75,000 - 28
West Midlands -13 94 £75,000 +15.38% 27
Yorkshire +57 93 £59,500 -8.46% 19
East of England -30 85 £65,000 -8.77% 28
East Midlands -3 39 £65,000 - 12
North East +3 22 £75,000 +33.39% 11
Northern Ireland +14 11 £75,400 +25.67% 9
Wales +9 11 £59,500 -5.17% 6
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 58 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 45 (4.08%) CMS
3 41 (3.72%) Sitecore CMS
4 37 (3.36%) Kentico
4 37 (3.36%) Umbraco
5 36 (3.27%) Headless CMS
5 36 (3.27%) IIS
6 33 (2.99%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.54%) Drupal
10 4 (0.36%) Apache
10 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.36%) SAS
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.18%) WinCC
13 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.091%) Appian
13 1 (0.091%) Confluence
13 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.54%) Oracle Smart View
2 6 (0.54%) Simulink
3 4 (0.36%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.36%) Windchill
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.54%) HFM
3 6 (0.54%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.091%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 261 (23.68%) Azure
2 179 (16.24%) AWS
3 67 (6.08%) SaaS
4 65 (5.90%) Power Platform
5 58 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.26%) Entra ID
8 45 (4.08%) Serverless
9 44 (3.99%) OneDrive
10 42 (3.81%) IaaS
11 39 (3.54%) GCP
12 36 (3.27%) Dropbox
12 36 (3.27%) Google Drive
12 36 (3.27%) Kontent
13 35 (3.18%) Amazon S3
14 30 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (2.45%) PowerApps
16 26 (2.36%) Power Automate
17 24 (2.18%) OpenShift
18 21 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.81%) Firewall
2 29 (2.63%) WAN
3 26 (2.36%) DNS
4 21 (1.91%) VLAN
5 18 (1.63%) SAN
6 17 (1.54%) Network Security
7 16 (1.45%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.45%) Wireless
8 15 (1.36%) VPN
9 13 (1.18%) 5G
9 13 (1.18%) BGP
9 13 (1.18%) NAS
10 11 (1.00%) LAN
10 11 (1.00%) SSL
11 10 (0.91%) TCP/IP
12 9 (0.82%) Intranet
13 8 (0.73%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.54%) IPsec
14 6 (0.54%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.99%) Big Data
2 65 (5.90%) NoSQL
3 41 (3.72%) Power BI
4 35 (3.18%) SQL Server
5 32 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 30 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (2.72%) MySQL
7 28 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (2.09%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.63%) Metadata
12 6 (0.54%) Essbase
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.45%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.36%) DB2
14 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
15 3 (0.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (4.90%) Git
2 21 (1.91%) Postman
3 19 (1.72%) Subversion
4 16 (1.45%) JIRA
5 15 (1.36%) CMake
6 10 (0.91%) IBM UrbanCode
7 9 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.64%) GitLab
10 6 (0.54%) RStudio
11 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
12 4 (0.36%) webpack
13 3 (0.27%) Selenium
13 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.18%) Burp Suite
14 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.18%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.18%) WebDriver
15 1 (0.091%) Babel
General
1 324 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 215 (19.51%) Finance
3 124 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (10.62%) Influencing Skills
5 97 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (6.81%) Marketing
7 70 (6.35%) Banking
8 68 (6.17%) Law
9 55 (4.99%) Legal
9 55 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (4.26%) Automotive
11 32 (2.90%) Public Sector
12 30 (2.72%) Electronics
13 24 (2.18%) Retail
14 23 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.81%) Games
16 19 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.72%) Military
17 18 (1.63%) Aviation
18 16 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 354 (32.12%) Lead
2 280 (25.41%) Senior
3 164 (14.88%) Architect
4 157 (14.25%) Developer
5 141 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 109 (9.89%) Principal Engineer
7 108 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 105 (9.53%) Technical Leader
9 96 (8.71%) Principal Cloud Engineer
10 71 (6.44%) Senior Developer
11 70 (6.35%) Lead Software Engineer
12 58 (5.26%) Lead Developer
13 55 (4.99%) Big Data Engineer
13 55 (4.99%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 55 (4.99%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 55 (4.99%) Scala Engineer
13 55 (4.99%) Scala Software Engineer
14 52 (4.72%) Java Engineer
15 51 (4.63%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 51 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (9.98%) .NET
2 85 (7.71%) React
3 65 (5.90%) RESTful
4 64 (5.81%) .NET Framework
5 48 (4.36%) ASP.NET
6 47 (4.26%) .NET Core
7 45 (4.08%) Node.js
8 39 (3.54%) Next.js
9 37 (3.36%) ASP.NET MVC
9 37 (3.36%) CSS
10 35 (3.18%) HTML
11 32 (2.90%) Spring
12 29 (2.63%) JSON
12 29 (2.63%) Spring Boot
13 26 (2.36%) XML
14 24 (2.18%) Django
15 22 (2.00%) AngularJS
16 19 (1.72%) Qt
17 17 (1.54%) Laravel
18 15 (1.36%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.62%) Management Information System
3 75 (6.81%) IoT
4 64 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 58 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (4.26%) Algorithms
7 36 (3.27%) iPad
8 30 (2.72%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.09%) Robotics
11 21 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.72%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.18%) Life Science
14 13 (1.18%) Replication
15 12 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (1.00%) FPGA
17 10 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
18 9 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
18 9 (0.82%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 115 (10.44%) Windows
2 99 (8.98%) Linux
3 33 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.81%) Android
6 18 (1.63%) Unix
7 7 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (36.57%) Agile
2 270 (24.50%) Roadmaps
3 263 (23.87%) Mentoring
4 252 (22.87%) Software Engineering
5 246 (22.32%) DevOps
6 202 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (16.15%) Coaching
8 163 (14.79%) CI/CD
9 147 (13.34%) Technology Roadmap
10 123 (11.16%) SDLC
11 117 (10.62%) Computer Science
12 112 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
13 104 (9.44%) Project Management
14 89 (8.08%) Continuous Integration
15 85 (7.71%) Project Delivery
16 79 (7.17%) Artificial Intelligence
17 77 (6.99%) Machine Learning
18 76 (6.90%) Design Patterns
18 76 (6.90%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 210 (19.06%) SQL
2 166 (15.06%) Java
3 162 (14.70%) Python
4 126 (11.43%) C#
5 121 (10.98%) JavaScript
6 63 (5.72%) Scala
7 60 (5.44%) C++
8 54 (4.90%) PHP
9 51 (4.63%) C
10 50 (4.54%) PowerShell
11 40 (3.63%) SystemVerilog
12 35 (3.18%) TypeScript
13 26 (2.36%) Bash
14 25 (2.27%) R
15 21 (1.91%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.63%) Ruby
17 17 (1.54%) Kotlin
18 16 (1.45%) Perl
18 16 (1.45%) Swift
19 13 (1.18%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 209 (18.97%) Degree
2 137 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 86 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 30 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.81%) PhD
8 19 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.27%) CISSP
12 12 (1.09%) CCNA
12 12 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.73%) CCIE
15 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.64%) CISM
15 7 (0.64%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.90%) QA
2 30 (2.72%) GDPR
3 28 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.00%) PMO
5 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.82%) Def Stans
7 8 (0.73%) IEC 61508
8 7 (0.64%) ISO 13485
8 7 (0.64%) JTAG
9 5 (0.45%) NIST
10 4 (0.36%) MISRA
10 4 (0.36%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.27%) DO-254
11 3 (0.27%) ECSS
11 3 (0.27%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.27%) SLA
12 2 (0.18%) COBIT
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.99%) RACF
3 42 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (3.18%) Docker
5 33 (2.99%) Firmware
6 20 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.82%) vSphere
9 6 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.091%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.091%) Lustre
11 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (5.90%) Terraform
2 52 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.90%) Ansible
4 16 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 6 (0.54%) Endace
5 6 (0.54%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.54%) Nagios
5 6 (0.54%) Puppet
5 6 (0.54%) SCCM
5 6 (0.54%) ServiceCenter
6 5 (0.45%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.091%) Grafana
9 1 (0.091%) Icinga
9 1 (0.091%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 1 (0.091%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 238 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.35%) Google
3 45 (4.08%) VMware
4 44 (3.99%) CyberArk
5 41 (3.72%) Sitecore
6 36 (3.27%) Optimizely
7 29 (2.63%) Cadence
7 29 (2.63%) Databricks
8 28 (2.54%) Synopsys
9 22 (2.00%) Cisco
10 21 (1.91%) Veeam
11 19 (1.72%) IBM
12 18 (1.63%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.54%) Oracle
14 11 (1.00%) SAP
15 10 (0.91%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.82%) Juniper
17 8 (0.73%) HP
17 8 (0.73%) Splunk
18 7 (0.64%) IFS