Technical Leader Jobs in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 369 359
Rank change year-on-year +62 -10 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 209 294 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.82% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.86% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 175 224 319
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,313 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,875 £142,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +14.81%

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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £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 £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +5 23 £105,000 +7.69% 3
South London +6 6 £50,950 -40.06%
West London +3 1 £102,500 +35.76% 3
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 97 (46.41%) AWS
2 89 (42.58%) Finance
3 81 (38.76%) Agile
4 78 (37.32%) Java
5 60 (28.71%) Azure
6 57 (27.27%) Banking
7 56 (26.79%) Mentoring
8 52 (24.88%) DevOps
9 51 (24.40%) Software Engineering
9 51 (24.40%) Python
10 48 (22.97%) Social Skills
11 44 (21.05%) SQL
12 40 (19.14%) SDLC
13 39 (18.66%) TypeScript
14 38 (18.18%) CI/CD
14 38 (18.18%) Degree
15 36 (17.22%) JavaScript
16 35 (16.75%) Snowflake
16 35 (16.75%) Data Lake
17 34 (16.27%) Technical Leadership
18 32 (15.31%) Spring Boot
18 32 (15.31%) Data Quality
18 32 (15.31%) Kafka
19 31 (14.83%) Hedge funds
19 31 (14.83%) NumPy
19 31 (14.83%) Fixed Income
19 31 (14.83%) Pandas
19 31 (14.83%) Apache Airflow
20 30 (14.35%) Microservices
21 29 (13.88%) Asset Management

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 31 (14.83%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (13.40%) Apache
3 8 (3.83%) Apache Pig
3 8 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.87%) Confluence
4 6 (2.87%) WordPress
5 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.96%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.48%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.91%) Primavera
3 3 (1.44%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 97 (46.41%) AWS
2 60 (28.71%) Azure
3 35 (16.75%) Snowflake
4 28 (13.40%) dbt
5 21 (10.05%) Power Platform
6 18 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.66%) Serverless
8 15 (7.18%) GCP
9 14 (6.70%) SaaS
10 13 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.78%) Power Automate
11 10 (4.78%) PowerApps
12 9 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (4.31%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (3.83%) GitHub
13 8 (3.83%) WhatsApp
14 7 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (0.96%) DHCP
1 2 (0.96%) DNS
1 2 (0.96%) Firewall
1 2 (0.96%) SSL
2 1 (0.48%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.75%) Data Lake
2 28 (13.40%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (13.40%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (13.40%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (13.40%) Dremio
3 21 (10.05%) Power BI
3 21 (10.05%) SQL Server
4 15 (7.18%) Big Data
5 14 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.78%) MySQL
7 9 (4.31%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.83%) Apache Hive
8 8 (3.83%) Hadoop
9 7 (3.35%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.35%) Spark SQL
10 6 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.87%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.91%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 20 (9.57%) Git
2 9 (4.31%) GitLab
2 9 (4.31%) JUnit
3 8 (3.83%) Checkstyle
3 8 (3.83%) JIRA
3 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.39%) Postman
5 3 (1.44%) Maven
6 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.48%) Gatling
7 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (42.58%) Finance
2 57 (27.27%) Banking
3 48 (22.97%) Social Skills
4 28 (13.40%) Front Office
4 28 (13.40%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.78%) Retail Banking
6 9 (4.31%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.35%) Law
8 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.91%) Local Government
9 3 (1.44%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) iGaming
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.31%) Kafka
1 32 (15.31%) Spring Boot
2 31 (14.83%) NumPy
2 31 (14.83%) Pandas
3 28 (13.40%) gRPC
3 28 (13.40%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (13.40%) SciPy
4 27 (12.92%) .NET
5 22 (10.53%) Spring
6 18 (8.61%) React
7 14 (6.70%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.26%) J2EE
9 9 (4.31%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.83%) ASP.NET
11 7 (3.35%) Laravel
11 7 (3.35%) Middleware
11 7 (3.35%) PySpark
11 7 (3.35%) REST
12 5 (2.39%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (2.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.83%) Fixed Income
1 31 (14.83%) Hedge funds
2 29 (13.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (13.40%) Derivative
3 28 (13.40%) Equities
4 13 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.26%) Client/Server
6 10 (4.78%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.83%) Cyberattack
7 8 (3.83%) Data Fabric
7 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.35%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.87%) Educational Technology
9 6 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.91%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.13%) Linux
2 14 (6.70%) Windows
3 8 (3.83%) zOS
4 4 (1.91%) CentOS
4 4 (1.91%) Solaris
4 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.91%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) Android
5 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.76%) Agile
2 56 (26.79%) Mentoring
3 52 (24.88%) DevOps
4 51 (24.40%) Software Engineering
5 40 (19.14%) SDLC
6 38 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 34 (16.27%) Technical Leadership
8 30 (14.35%) Microservices
9 29 (13.88%) Asset Management
10 28 (13.40%) Greeks
10 28 (13.40%) Investment Management
11 26 (12.44%) Computer Science
11 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.48%) Design Patterns
13 21 (10.05%) ETL
14 20 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (9.57%) Roadmaps
15 18 (8.61%) Analytics
16 17 (8.13%) Coaching
16 17 (8.13%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.32%) Java
2 51 (24.40%) Python
3 44 (21.05%) SQL
4 39 (18.66%) TypeScript
5 36 (17.22%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.53%) C#
7 11 (5.26%) PHP
8 10 (4.78%) Scala
9 9 (4.31%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.44%) Go
13 2 (0.96%) Bash
13 2 (0.96%) Bicep
13 2 (0.96%) C++
13 2 (0.96%) Rust
14 1 (0.48%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.48%) Delphi
14 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (18.18%) Degree
2 14 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.74%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.39%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.91%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.91%) CIMA
7 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.44%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) MCSA
8 2 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.31%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.18%) QA
3 2 (0.96%) HL7
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (10.05%) Docker
2 8 (3.83%) HDFS
3 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.48%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Istio
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.57%) Databricks
3 7 (3.35%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) SAP
4 6 (2.87%) Google
5 4 (1.91%) F5
5 4 (1.91%) IBM
6 2 (0.96%) Aruba
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco
6 2 (0.96%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.48%) Apple
7 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.48%) Meraki
7 1 (0.48%) Okta