Technical Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 197 220
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -11
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,660 1,846 3,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.62% 1.90% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.98% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,146 1,353
10th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,250 £61,202 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,501 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £66,045
% change year-on-year - +2.20% +10.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +18 1,456 £72,500 -9.38% 352
UK excluding London +46 1,102 £67,500 - 237
Work from Home +16 716 £73,441 -8.20% 167
London -6 464 £85,000 +3.03% 135
South East +46 279 £65,000 -7.14% 38
North of England +69 260 £65,066 +0.10% 46
South West +33 210 £65,000 +1.56% 44
North West +41 139 £70,288 +8.14% 23
Midlands 0 133 £75,000 +15.38% 37
Scotland -36 114 £75,000 +8.00% 27
Yorkshire +73 99 £62,500 -3.85% 16
West Midlands -11 94 £75,000 +15.38% 22
East of England -20 86 £65,000 -10.34% 35
East Midlands +6 39 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North East +9 22 £75,000 +42.86% 9
Wales +4 11 £59,500 -5.17% 3
Northern Ireland +9 9 £75,400 +25.67% 10

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 84 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 45 (2.71%) CMS
2 45 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.47%) Sitecore CMS
4 40 (2.41%) IIS
5 37 (2.23%) Kentico
5 37 (2.23%) Umbraco
6 36 (2.17%) Headless CMS
7 30 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.66%) Drupal
9 7 (0.42%) Apache
9 7 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.42%) SAS
10 6 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.36%) Confluence
10 6 (0.36%) Mendix
11 5 (0.30%) K2 blackpearl
12 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
4 6 (0.36%) Simulink
5 4 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.24%) Windchill
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.42%) HFM
2 7 (0.42%) Hyperion Planning
2 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.12%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.060%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.060%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 544 (32.77%) Azure
2 363 (21.87%) AWS
3 134 (8.07%) Power Platform
4 111 (6.69%) GCP
5 102 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (6.14%) SaaS
6 97 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 67 (4.04%) PowerApps
9 64 (3.86%) IaaS
10 63 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
10 63 (3.80%) Serverless
11 58 (3.49%) Entra ID
12 50 (3.01%) OneDrive
13 49 (2.95%) Amazon S3
14 46 (2.77%) OpenShift
15 45 (2.71%) PaaS
16 42 (2.53%) Dropbox
16 42 (2.53%) Google Drive
17 40 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.30%) Firewall
2 43 (2.59%) DNS
2 43 (2.59%) WAN
3 41 (2.47%) VPN
4 39 (2.35%) MPLS
5 38 (2.29%) Wireless
6 34 (2.05%) BGP
7 32 (1.93%) Network Security
8 25 (1.51%) LAN
9 21 (1.27%) VLAN
10 20 (1.20%) SAN
10 20 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.08%) 5G
11 18 (1.08%) OSPF
11 18 (1.08%) SSL
12 16 (0.96%) TCP/IP
13 14 (0.84%) Internet
13 14 (0.84%) NAS
14 12 (0.72%) IPsec
15 11 (0.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (6.20%) Big Data
2 90 (5.42%) NoSQL
3 88 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 83 (5.00%) Power BI
5 76 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 59 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 46 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (2.29%) RDBMS
10 37 (2.23%) MySQL
11 34 (2.05%) MongoDB
12 28 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (1.33%) Metadata
14 16 (0.96%) DB2
14 16 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 13 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.48%) CockroachDB
18 7 (0.42%) Essbase
18 7 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 99 (5.96%) Git
2 46 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.23%) JIRA
4 32 (1.93%) GitLab
5 26 (1.57%) Postman
6 24 (1.45%) Subversion
7 17 (1.02%) IBM UrbanCode
8 15 (0.90%) CMake
9 10 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.48%) Jaeger
11 8 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.36%) RStudio
12 6 (0.36%) Selenium
13 5 (0.30%) JUnit
13 5 (0.30%) MLflow
14 4 (0.24%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.24%) Maven
14 4 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 516 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 336 (20.24%) Finance
3 198 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (7.17%) Banking
5 119 (7.17%) Influencing Skills
6 94 (5.66%) Marketing
7 86 (5.18%) Law
8 82 (4.94%) Public Sector
9 70 (4.22%) Legal
9 70 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.89%) Automotive
11 39 (2.35%) Back Office
12 33 (1.99%) Electronics
13 29 (1.75%) Retail
14 25 (1.51%) Local Government
15 24 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (1.27%) Games
18 20 (1.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 475 (28.61%) Lead
2 437 (26.33%) Senior
3 359 (21.63%) Architect
4 228 (13.73%) Developer
5 157 (9.46%) Software Engineer
6 140 (8.43%) Principal Engineer
7 134 (8.07%) Technical Leader
8 133 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 112 (6.75%) Principal Cloud Engineer
10 111 (6.69%) Senior Developer
11 104 (6.27%) Technical Architect
12 92 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
13 77 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
14 72 (4.34%) Lead Developer
15 70 (4.22%) Analyst
16 66 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
17 61 (3.67%) Senior Architect
18 56 (3.37%) Big Data Engineer
18 56 (3.37%) Scala Engineer
18 56 (3.37%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (12.29%) .NET
2 121 (7.29%) React
3 75 (4.52%) RESTful
4 69 (4.16%) .NET Core
4 69 (4.16%) .NET Framework
5 59 (3.55%) Node.js
6 57 (3.43%) ASP.NET
7 54 (3.25%) Spring
8 50 (3.01%) CSS
8 50 (3.01%) HTML
9 48 (2.89%) JSON
10 47 (2.83%) Spring Boot
10 47 (2.83%) XML
11 46 (2.77%) Next.js
12 42 (2.53%) ASP.NET MVC
13 41 (2.47%) Kafka
14 36 (2.17%) AngularJS
14 36 (2.17%) REST
15 28 (1.69%) Django
15 28 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 136 (8.19%) Management Information System
3 89 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 74 (4.46%) IoT
5 65 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 62 (3.73%) Algorithms
7 59 (3.55%) Public Cloud
8 58 (3.49%) Data Centre
9 43 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (2.53%) iPad
11 35 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.45%) Robotics
14 22 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.14%) Blockchain
16 18 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
17 15 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
17 15 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 13 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
18 13 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 165 (9.94%) Linux
2 151 (9.10%) Windows
3 47 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.29%) Unix
5 24 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.39%) Android
7 18 (1.08%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.66%) CentOS
9 7 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.060%) Debian
13 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.060%) tvOS
13 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (38.25%) Agile
2 434 (26.14%) Mentoring
3 394 (23.73%) DevOps
4 384 (23.13%) Roadmaps
5 345 (20.78%) Software Engineering
6 321 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
7 274 (16.51%) CI/CD
8 256 (15.42%) Coaching
9 218 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 214 (12.89%) Technology Roadmap
11 194 (11.69%) Computer Science
12 158 (9.52%) Microservices
12 158 (9.52%) SDLC
13 143 (8.61%) Project Management
14 135 (8.13%) Artificial Intelligence
14 135 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
15 127 (7.65%) Scrum
16 123 (7.41%) Project Delivery
17 113 (6.81%) Machine Learning
18 107 (6.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 308 (18.55%) SQL
2 266 (16.02%) Python
3 254 (15.30%) Java
4 252 (15.18%) C#
5 178 (10.72%) JavaScript
6 79 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 73 (4.40%) Scala
8 66 (3.98%) PHP
8 66 (3.98%) TypeScript
9 64 (3.86%) C++
10 60 (3.61%) C
11 40 (2.41%) SystemVerilog
12 33 (1.99%) Bash
13 32 (1.93%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.69%) R
15 25 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 22 (1.33%) Go
16 22 (1.33%) Ruby
17 20 (1.20%) Groovy
18 17 (1.02%) Swift
Qualifications
1 325 (19.58%) Degree
2 186 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 149 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 122 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 43 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 35 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 30 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.45%) CISSP
11 24 (1.45%) PhD
12 23 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (1.14%) CCNA
14 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.72%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.66%) CISM
16 10 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.30%) QA
2 33 (1.99%) Data Quality
2 33 (1.99%) GDPR
3 27 (1.63%) SLA
4 14 (0.84%) PMO
5 12 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.48%) Def Stans
8 7 (0.42%) IEC 61508
8 7 (0.42%) ISO 13485
8 7 (0.42%) JTAG
8 7 (0.42%) NIST
9 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) MISRA
11 4 (0.24%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) ECSS
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 144 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 99 (5.96%) Docker
3 58 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (3.07%) RACF
5 36 (2.17%) Firmware
6 24 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.60%) vSphere
9 9 (0.54%) KVM
10 7 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.060%) Lustre
13 1 (0.060%) LXC
13 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 131 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 122 (7.35%) Terraform
3 69 (4.16%) Ansible
4 38 (2.29%) Progress Chef
5 28 (1.69%) Puppet
6 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.60%) Nagios
9 8 (0.48%) Kiali
10 6 (0.36%) Endace
10 6 (0.36%) Kibana
10 6 (0.36%) logstash
10 6 (0.36%) SCCM
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
10 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.24%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.24%) Packer
13 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 382 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.93%) Google
3 65 (3.92%) Cisco
4 61 (3.67%) VMware
5 57 (3.43%) Databricks
6 50 (3.01%) CyberArk
7 47 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.47%) Sitecore
9 38 (2.29%) IBM
10 36 (2.17%) Optimizely
11 34 (2.05%) Oracle
12 29 (1.75%) Cadence
13 28 (1.69%) Juniper
13 28 (1.69%) Synopsys
14 26 (1.57%) Splunk
15 21 (1.27%) Veeam
16 18 (1.08%) SAP
17 16 (0.96%) Dynatrace
18 15 (0.90%) Red Hat
19 14 (0.84%) HP