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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 367 367
Rank change year-on-year +59 0 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 214 291 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.83% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.87% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 180 224 318
10th Percentile £61,224 £58,950 £65,875
25th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £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 £108,438
90th Percentile £148,750 £132,125 £142,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +18.52%

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 22,176 33,447 64,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,669 24,574 34,911
10th Percentile £38,084 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +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 4 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 4 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 +11 21 £97,000 -0.51% 5
South London +5 5 £50,950 -40.06%
West London -5 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 4 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.

1 103 (48.13%) AWS
2 93 (43.46%) Finance
3 87 (40.65%) Agile
4 84 (39.25%) Java
5 63 (29.44%) Banking
6 60 (28.04%) Azure
7 58 (27.10%) Software Engineering
8 56 (26.17%) Python
9 55 (25.70%) Mentoring
10 51 (23.83%) DevOps
11 49 (22.90%) Social Skills
12 45 (21.03%) TypeScript
13 43 (20.09%) JavaScript
13 43 (20.09%) SQL
14 41 (19.16%) Data Lake
14 41 (19.16%) Snowflake
15 40 (18.69%) SDLC
16 38 (17.76%) CI/CD
16 38 (17.76%) Data Quality
16 38 (17.76%) Degree
17 37 (17.29%) NumPy
17 37 (17.29%) Pandas
17 37 (17.29%) Apache Airflow
18 36 (16.82%) Hedge funds
18 36 (16.82%) Fixed Income
19 35 (16.36%) Asset Management
19 35 (16.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 34 (15.89%) Apache
20 34 (15.89%) Equities
20 34 (15.89%) Front Office

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 37 (17.29%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (15.89%) Apache
3 9 (4.21%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.74%) Apache Pig
5 6 (2.80%) Confluence
5 6 (2.80%) WordPress
6 5 (2.34%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.40%) CMS
8 2 (0.93%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.47%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.87%) Primavera
3 3 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 103 (48.13%) AWS
2 60 (28.04%) Azure
3 41 (19.16%) Snowflake
4 34 (15.89%) dbt
5 21 (9.81%) Power Platform
6 17 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.48%) Serverless
8 15 (7.01%) GCP
8 15 (7.01%) SaaS
9 13 (6.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (4.67%) Power Automate
10 10 (4.67%) PowerApps
11 9 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.74%) WhatsApp
13 7 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.27%) GitHub
13 7 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (0.93%) DHCP
1 2 (0.93%) DNS
1 2 (0.93%) Firewall
1 2 (0.93%) SSL
2 1 (0.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.16%) Data Lake
2 34 (15.89%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (15.89%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (15.89%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (15.89%) Dremio
3 21 (9.81%) Power BI
3 21 (9.81%) SQL Server
4 15 (7.01%) Big Data
5 14 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.67%) MySQL
7 9 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.74%) Apache Hive
8 8 (3.74%) Hadoop
9 7 (3.27%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.27%) Spark SQL
10 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.87%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) Git
2 9 (4.21%) GitLab
2 9 (4.21%) JUnit
3 8 (3.74%) Checkstyle
3 8 (3.74%) JIRA
3 8 (3.74%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.34%) Postman
5 3 (1.40%) Maven
6 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.47%) Gatling
7 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (43.46%) Finance
2 63 (29.44%) Banking
3 49 (22.90%) Social Skills
4 34 (15.89%) Front Office
4 34 (15.89%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.67%) Retail Banking
6 9 (4.21%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.27%) Law
8 4 (1.87%) Local Government
9 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) iGaming
11 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.29%) NumPy
1 37 (17.29%) Pandas
2 34 (15.89%) gRPC
2 34 (15.89%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (15.89%) SciPy
3 31 (14.49%) Kafka
3 31 (14.49%) Spring Boot
4 27 (12.62%) .NET
5 21 (9.81%) Spring
6 18 (8.41%) React
7 13 (6.07%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.14%) J2EE
9 8 (3.74%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.27%) ASP.NET
10 7 (3.27%) Laravel
10 7 (3.27%) Middleware
10 7 (3.27%) PySpark
10 7 (3.27%) REST
11 5 (2.34%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.87%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.82%) Fixed Income
1 36 (16.82%) Hedge funds
2 35 (16.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (15.89%) Derivative
3 34 (15.89%) Equities
4 13 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.14%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.14%) Client/Server
6 10 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.74%) Cyberattack
7 8 (3.74%) Data Fabric
7 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.27%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.80%) Educational Technology
10 5 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.87%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.94%) Linux
2 13 (6.07%) Windows
3 8 (3.74%) zOS
4 4 (1.87%) CentOS
4 4 (1.87%) Solaris
4 4 (1.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.87%) Unix
5 3 (1.40%) Android
6 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.65%) Agile
2 58 (27.10%) Software Engineering
3 55 (25.70%) Mentoring
4 51 (23.83%) DevOps
5 40 (18.69%) SDLC
6 38 (17.76%) CI/CD
7 35 (16.36%) Asset Management
8 34 (15.89%) Greeks
8 34 (15.89%) Investment Management
9 32 (14.95%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (14.02%) Microservices
11 26 (12.15%) Computer Science
11 26 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (11.68%) Design Patterns
13 22 (10.28%) Roadmaps
14 21 (9.81%) ETL
15 20 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
16 17 (7.94%) Line Management
16 17 (7.94%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 84 (39.25%) Java
2 56 (26.17%) Python
3 45 (21.03%) TypeScript
4 43 (20.09%) JavaScript
4 43 (20.09%) SQL
5 21 (9.81%) C#
6 11 (5.14%) PHP
7 10 (4.67%) Scala
8 9 (4.21%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.27%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.87%) Go
11 3 (1.40%) C++
11 3 (1.40%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) Bash
12 2 (0.93%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) Delphi
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (17.76%) Degree
2 14 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.14%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.34%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.87%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.87%) CIMA
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.40%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.93%) MCSA
8 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.01%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (9.81%) Docker
2 8 (3.74%) HDFS
3 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) Ceph
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.54%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Ansible
3 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.47%) Istio
4 1 (0.47%) Knative
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.35%) Databricks
3 7 (3.27%) Oracle
3 7 (3.27%) SAP
4 6 (2.80%) Google
5 4 (1.87%) F5
5 4 (1.87%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) Aruba
6 2 (0.93%) Cisco
6 2 (0.93%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.47%) Apple
7 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.47%) Meraki
7 1 (0.47%) Okta