Technical Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 379 423
Rank change year-on-year +49 +44 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 543 491 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.80% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.89% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 420 378 331
10th Percentile £42,950 £42,000 £41,881
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,813 £53,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +10.66%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,719 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
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 Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +44 175 £73,805 +1.80% 19
Midlands +35 110 £73,805 +18.09% 19
South East +2 107 £65,000 +13.04% 32
North West +15 99 £79,932 +10.25% 13
West Midlands +24 68 £74,402 +19.04% 12
South West -15 62 £63,749 +44.88% 10
Yorkshire +49 54 £73,805 +1.80% 4
East of England +49 45 £70,000 +50.54% 16
East Midlands +12 42 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Wales +18 23 £70,000 +27.27% 2
North East +16 22 £73,805 -17.07% 2
Scotland -73 19 £76,250 +27.08% 10
Northern Ireland +27 2 - - 2
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 220 (40.52%) Agile
2 170 (31.31%) Mentoring
3 152 (27.99%) AWS
4 142 (26.15%) Java
5 120 (22.10%) Roadmaps
6 113 (20.81%) Social Skills
7 112 (20.63%) Degree
8 110 (20.26%) Azure
9 102 (18.78%) Technical Leadership
10 96 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (16.57%) Coaching
12 81 (14.92%) Product Roadmap
13 80 (14.73%) Software Engineering
14 77 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
14 77 (14.18%) DevOps
15 74 (13.63%) Microsoft
16 71 (13.08%) Security Cleared
17 70 (12.89%) Strategic Thinking
18 68 (12.52%) Open Source
18 68 (12.52%) Finance
19 66 (12.15%) Micro Focus
19 66 (12.15%) COBOL
19 66 (12.15%) Windows
19 66 (12.15%) Micro Focus COBOL
20 56 (10.31%) Project Management
20 56 (10.31%) Design Patterns
21 55 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
22 53 (9.76%) Code Quality
23 52 (9.58%) TypeScript
24 51 (9.39%) .NET

Technical Leader Skill Set
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 37 (6.81%) Tuxedo
2 13 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) SAS
4 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 152 (27.99%) AWS
2 110 (20.26%) Azure
3 31 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (5.34%) Amazon Kinesis
5 24 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (4.24%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.50%) SaaS
8 17 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.13%) Serverless
9 16 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.47%) Cloudflare
12 7 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.10%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.92%) GCP
14 5 (0.92%) Power Platform
15 4 (0.74%) Azure API Management
15 4 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.45%) Firewall
2 19 (3.50%) WAN
3 12 (2.21%) 5G
4 11 (2.03%) SD-WAN
4 11 (2.03%) Wireless
5 9 (1.66%) LAN
5 9 (1.66%) VLAN
6 7 (1.29%) NAS
7 6 (1.10%) VoIP
8 5 (0.92%) SAN
8 5 (0.92%) VPN
9 4 (0.74%) Broadband
9 4 (0.74%) Network Security
10 3 (0.55%) CTI
10 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.37%) DNS
11 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.63%) MySQL
2 32 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 22 (4.05%) DynamoDB
4 22 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (3.87%) RDBMS
6 14 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.55%) DB2
7 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.18%) Big Data
9 1 (0.18%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.18%) GIS
9 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (8.10%) GitLab
2 37 (6.81%) Git
3 21 (3.87%) Postman
4 4 (0.74%) JIRA
4 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.37%) Maven
7 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.18%) Phabricator
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 68 (12.52%) Finance
3 55 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.81%) Manufacturing
5 25 (4.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 22 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.13%) Banking
7 17 (3.13%) Electronics
8 15 (2.76%) Legal
9 14 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.39%) Retail
11 12 (2.21%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.03%) Games
12 11 (2.03%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.84%) Marketing
14 8 (1.47%) Aviation
14 8 (1.47%) Military
15 7 (1.29%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.39%) .NET
2 43 (7.92%) React
3 38 (7.00%) RESTful
4 33 (6.08%) JSON
5 27 (4.97%) Node.js
6 25 (4.60%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.42%) Spring
8 22 (4.05%) HTML
9 21 (3.87%) CSS
10 15 (2.76%) XML
11 12 (2.21%) Laravel
12 10 (1.84%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.47%) Kafka
14 5 (0.92%) ASP.NET
15 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
16 3 (0.55%) .NET Core
16 3 (0.55%) .NET Framework
16 3 (0.55%) REST
16 3 (0.55%) Web Services
17 2 (0.37%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 31 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 22 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 19 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.13%) Robotics
5 17 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.84%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.10%) Fat Client
8 6 (1.10%) NHS
8 6 (1.10%) Thin Client
9 5 (0.92%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.74%) FPGA
10 4 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.15%) Windows
2 37 (6.81%) Windows Server
3 22 (4.05%) Linux
4 17 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.84%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.92%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.74%) Android
9 2 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (40.52%) Agile
2 170 (31.31%) Mentoring
3 120 (22.10%) Roadmaps
4 102 (18.78%) Technical Leadership
5 96 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (16.57%) Coaching
7 81 (14.92%) Product Roadmap
8 80 (14.73%) Software Engineering
9 77 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
9 77 (14.18%) DevOps
10 70 (12.89%) Strategic Thinking
11 68 (12.52%) Open Source
12 56 (10.31%) Design Patterns
12 56 (10.31%) Project Management
13 53 (9.76%) Code Quality
14 51 (9.39%) CI/CD
15 49 (9.02%) Customer Service
16 48 (8.84%) Requirements Analysis
17 47 (8.66%) Computer Science
18 46 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 142 (26.15%) Java
2 66 (12.15%) COBOL
2 66 (12.15%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 52 (9.58%) TypeScript
4 47 (8.66%) C#
5 46 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 46 (8.47%) PHP
5 46 (8.47%) Python
6 44 (8.10%) C++
7 40 (7.37%) C
8 22 (4.05%) SQL
9 13 (2.39%) VB.NET
10 8 (1.47%) Rust
11 6 (1.10%) Go
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.55%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.37%) Scala
14 2 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 112 (20.63%) Degree
2 71 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.92%) CCNP
8 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.74%) CCNA
9 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.74%) HND
9 4 (0.74%) PMP
10 3 (0.55%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.68%) GMP
2 16 (2.95%) SLA
3 11 (2.03%) PMO
4 8 (1.47%) QA
5 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.74%) GDPR
7 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.55%) JTAG
8 2 (0.37%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.95%) Hyper-V
3 9 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.66%) vSphere
4 8 (1.47%) Docker
5 3 (0.55%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.37%) Firmware
6 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (3.87%) Terraform
2 14 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.39%) SCCM
4 6 (1.10%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.10%) Nagios
5 5 (0.92%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 66 (12.15%) Micro Focus
3 39 (7.18%) Oracle
4 31 (5.71%) VMware
5 21 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.03%) Cisco
6 11 (2.03%) Citrix
7 7 (1.29%) CheckPoint
7 7 (1.29%) IBM
7 7 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.10%) Veeam
9 5 (0.92%) Informatica
9 5 (0.92%) Meraki
10 4 (0.74%) Barracuda Networks
10 4 (0.74%) ESET
10 4 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.55%) QinetiQ
11 3 (0.55%) SAP
12 2 (0.37%) BMC