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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 203 231
Rank change year-on-year +36 +28 -21
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,716 1,958 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.75% 1.87% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.96% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,233 1,346
10th Percentile £49,250 £49,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £59,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +9.59% +4.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,350
% change year-on-year +3.70% +0.22% +12.25%

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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 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
England +42 1,499 £73,441 -8.20% 372
UK excluding London +57 1,162 £70,000 +3.70% 250
Work from Home +13 708 £75,000 -6.25% 187
London -3 467 £85,000 - 127
South East +58 296 £69,500 -7.33% 63
North of England +80 259 £65,066 +0.10% 50
South West +53 240 £65,000 +18.18% 53
North West +53 142 £70,725 +4.78% 32
Scotland -31 133 £73,000 +4.29% 13
Midlands -3 125 £75,000 +15.38% 32
Yorkshire +83 99 £62,500 -3.85% 13
East of England 0 90 £65,000 -11.86% 36
West Midlands +3 88 £75,000 +11.11% 25
East Midlands -1 37 £70,000 +7.69% 7
North East +10 18 £75,000 +37.96% 7
Wales +15 11 £59,500 -5.17% 9
Northern Ireland +19 8 £85,200 +42.00% 2

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 90 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 42 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.39%) CMS
4 40 (2.33%) Sitecore CMS
5 39 (2.27%) IIS
6 36 (2.10%) Kentico
6 36 (2.10%) Umbraco
7 35 (2.04%) Headless CMS
8 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.58%) Drupal
10 7 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.41%) SAS
11 6 (0.35%) Apache
11 6 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.35%) Mendix
12 5 (0.29%) Confluence
12 5 (0.29%) K2 blackpearl
13 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.17%) CICS
Applications
1 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
3 6 (0.35%) Simulink
4 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.23%) Windchill
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.41%) HFM
2 7 (0.41%) Hyperion Planning
2 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.12%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.058%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.058%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.058%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.058%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 532 (31.00%) Azure
2 380 (22.14%) AWS
3 124 (7.23%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.76%) SaaS
5 109 (6.35%) GCP
6 102 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (4.31%) Power Automate
9 65 (3.79%) IaaS
10 64 (3.73%) Serverless
11 58 (3.38%) PowerApps
12 57 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (2.91%) OneDrive
14 47 (2.74%) Amazon S3
15 45 (2.62%) PaaS
16 43 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (2.45%) Dropbox
17 42 (2.45%) Google Drive
18 38 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.19%) Firewall
2 72 (4.20%) DNS
3 45 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 44 (2.56%) VPN
5 43 (2.51%) WAN
5 43 (2.51%) Wireless
6 41 (2.39%) MPLS
7 39 (2.27%) DHCP
8 36 (2.10%) HTTP
9 34 (1.98%) BGP
10 31 (1.81%) Network Security
11 25 (1.46%) LAN
12 20 (1.17%) SAN
12 20 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 20 (1.17%) VLAN
13 18 (1.05%) OSPF
13 18 (1.05%) SSL
14 14 (0.82%) Internet
14 14 (0.82%) NAS
15 12 (0.70%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (6.99%) Big Data
2 90 (5.24%) NoSQL
3 83 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.72%) Power BI
5 68 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 63 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (3.38%) Data Lake
8 43 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (2.10%) MySQL
10 35 (2.04%) RDBMS
11 33 (1.92%) MongoDB
12 29 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (1.46%) Metadata
14 18 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 17 (0.99%) DB2
16 13 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
17 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (0.47%) BigQuery
18 8 (0.47%) CockroachDB
19 7 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 98 (5.71%) Git
2 50 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.39%) JIRA
4 31 (1.81%) GitLab
5 30 (1.75%) Subversion
6 26 (1.52%) Postman
7 18 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
8 17 (0.99%) CMake
9 10 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.47%) Jaeger
10 8 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (0.47%) Selenium
10 8 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.35%) JUnit
11 6 (0.35%) RStudio
12 5 (0.29%) Maven
12 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.23%) TestNG
13 4 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 577 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 340 (19.81%) Finance
3 210 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (7.40%) Influencing Skills
6 97 (5.65%) Marketing
7 88 (5.13%) Banking
7 88 (5.13%) Law
8 79 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 73 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.80%) Automotive
11 33 (1.92%) Electronics
12 32 (1.86%) Retail
13 31 (1.81%) Legal
14 29 (1.69%) Back Office
15 25 (1.46%) Local Government
15 25 (1.46%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.22%) Games
16 21 (1.22%) Military
16 21 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 499 (29.08%) Lead
2 414 (24.13%) Senior
3 394 (22.96%) Architect
4 220 (12.82%) Developer
5 176 (10.26%) Software Engineer
6 164 (9.56%) Principal Engineer
7 153 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 137 (7.98%) Technical Leader
9 128 (7.46%) Principal Cloud Engineer
10 117 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
11 112 (6.53%) Technical Architect
12 105 (6.12%) Senior Developer
13 82 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
14 76 (4.43%) Lead Developer
15 68 (3.96%) Senior Architect
16 59 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (3.32%) Big Data Engineer
17 57 (3.32%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 57 (3.32%) Scala Engineer
17 57 (3.32%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (11.89%) .NET
2 123 (7.17%) React
3 77 (4.49%) HTML
4 74 (4.31%) RESTful
5 70 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 66 (3.85%) .NET Framework
7 64 (3.73%) Spring
8 61 (3.55%) Kafka
8 61 (3.55%) Spring Boot
9 57 (3.32%) Node.js
10 54 (3.15%) ASP.NET
11 50 (2.91%) XML
12 47 (2.74%) CSS
12 47 (2.74%) JSON
13 45 (2.62%) Next.js
14 42 (2.45%) OpenID
15 41 (2.39%) SAML
16 40 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
17 36 (2.10%) REST
18 34 (1.98%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 184 (10.72%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 75 (4.37%) IoT
5 65 (3.79%) Algorithms
6 63 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 59 (3.44%) Data Centre
8 55 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 43 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (2.45%) iPad
11 36 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.92%) Robotics
13 31 (1.81%) Blockchain
14 29 (1.69%) Cyberattack
15 28 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 20 (1.17%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
17 15 (0.87%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 184 (10.72%) Linux
2 170 (9.91%) Windows
3 49 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.16%) Unix
5 24 (1.40%) Android
6 22 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 18 (1.05%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.64%) CentOS
9 10 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (37.30%) Agile
2 448 (26.11%) Mentoring
3 401 (23.37%) Software Engineering
4 389 (22.67%) DevOps
5 376 (21.91%) Roadmaps
6 331 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 255 (14.86%) Technology Roadmap
9 238 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 209 (12.18%) Coaching
11 196 (11.42%) Computer Science
12 195 (11.36%) SDLC
13 176 (10.26%) Microservices
14 144 (8.39%) Project Management
15 131 (7.63%) Scrum
16 127 (7.40%) Project Delivery
17 117 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
18 116 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 111 (6.47%) Machine Learning
20 108 (6.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 265 (15.44%) SQL
2 264 (15.38%) C#
3 263 (15.33%) Python
4 255 (14.86%) Java
5 173 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.49%) C++
7 73 (4.25%) Scala
8 68 (3.96%) PHP
9 65 (3.79%) TypeScript
10 59 (3.44%) C
11 40 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
12 34 (1.98%) Bash
13 32 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.81%) PowerShell
15 30 (1.75%) T-SQL
16 27 (1.57%) R
17 21 (1.22%) Ruby
18 20 (1.17%) Go
18 20 (1.17%) Groovy
19 16 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 323 (18.82%) Degree
2 214 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 151 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 121 (7.05%) SC Cleared
5 67 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 57 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 49 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 39 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 26 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (1.40%) PhD
14 23 (1.34%) CISSP
15 19 (1.11%) CCNA
16 13 (0.76%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
18 10 (0.58%) CISM
19 9 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.48%) QA
2 35 (2.04%) GDPR
3 32 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.46%) SLA
5 14 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.76%) PMO
7 10 (0.58%) SEPA
8 8 (0.47%) Def Stans
8 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.41%) IEC 61508
9 7 (0.41%) ISO 13485
9 7 (0.41%) JTAG
10 6 (0.35%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.23%) MISRA
12 4 (0.23%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.23%) NCSC
13 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
System Software
1 111 (6.47%) Docker
2 92 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 58 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.16%) Firmware
5 25 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.58%) vSphere
9 9 (0.52%) KVM
10 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.17%) RACF
13 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.058%) Lustre
14 1 (0.058%) LXC
14 1 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 140 (8.16%) Terraform
2 132 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 57 (3.32%) Ansible
4 37 (2.16%) Progress Chef
5 28 (1.63%) Puppet
6 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.70%) Nagios
7 12 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.47%) Kiali
10 6 (0.35%) Endace
10 6 (0.35%) Kibana
10 6 (0.35%) logstash
10 6 (0.35%) ServiceCenter
10 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.29%) SCCM
12 4 (0.23%) Functional Safety
13 3 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 316 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.88%) Google
3 65 (3.79%) Cisco
3 65 (3.79%) Databricks
4 61 (3.55%) VMware
5 48 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.39%) IBM
7 40 (2.33%) Sitecore
8 35 (2.04%) Optimizely
9 31 (1.81%) Oracle
10 30 (1.75%) Splunk
11 29 (1.69%) Cadence
12 28 (1.63%) Juniper
12 28 (1.63%) Synopsys
13 21 (1.22%) Veeam
14 20 (1.17%) SAP
15 14 (0.82%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.76%) HP
16 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.70%) Fortinet