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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 201 228
Rank change year-on-year +31 +27 -21
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,685 1,916 2,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.89% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.97% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 1,203 1,327
10th Percentile £49,250 £50,984 £46,374
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,235 £67,500 £67,350
% change year-on-year +2.57% +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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 +29 1,473 £72,500 -9.38% 366
UK excluding London +48 1,141 £69,235 +2.57% 248
Work from Home +5 688 £75,000 -6.25% 194
London -3 454 £85,000 - 139
South East +47 289 £69,500 -7.33% 48
North of England +69 250 £65,066 +0.10% 52
South West +41 242 £65,000 +18.18% 53
North West +39 136 £70,576 +5.01% 32
Scotland -31 125 £75,000 +7.14% 24
Midlands -2 124 £75,000 +15.38% 34
Yorkshire +76 96 £62,500 -3.85% 16
East of England -11 90 £65,000 -10.34% 30
West Midlands -3 88 £75,000 +11.11% 26
East Midlands +2 36 £70,000 +16.67% 8
North East +10 18 £75,000 +37.96% 5
Wales +12 12 £59,500 -5.17% 7
Northern Ireland +16 9 £85,200 +42.00% 7

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 88 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.49%) CMS
4 40 (2.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 39 (2.31%) IIS
6 36 (2.14%) Kentico
6 36 (2.14%) Umbraco
7 35 (2.08%) Headless CMS
8 26 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.59%) Drupal
10 7 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.42%) SAS
11 6 (0.36%) Apache
11 6 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.36%) Mendix
12 5 (0.30%) Confluence
12 5 (0.30%) K2 blackpearl
13 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.47%) 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 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (1.13%) 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 (0.059%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.059%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 525 (31.16%) Azure
2 382 (22.67%) AWS
3 128 (7.60%) Power Platform
4 113 (6.71%) SaaS
5 105 (6.23%) GCP
6 99 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
8 78 (4.63%) Power Automate
9 64 (3.80%) Serverless
10 62 (3.68%) IaaS
11 61 (3.62%) PowerApps
12 59 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (2.97%) OneDrive
14 49 (2.91%) Amazon S3
15 45 (2.67%) PaaS
16 42 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 42 (2.49%) Dropbox
16 42 (2.49%) Google Drive
17 39 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.22%) Firewall
2 70 (4.15%) DNS
3 45 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 43 (2.55%) WAN
5 42 (2.49%) Wireless
6 41 (2.43%) VPN
7 40 (2.37%) DHCP
8 39 (2.31%) MPLS
9 36 (2.14%) HTTP
10 34 (2.02%) BGP
11 33 (1.96%) Network Security
12 25 (1.48%) LAN
13 21 (1.25%) VLAN
14 20 (1.19%) SAN
14 20 (1.19%) SD-WAN
15 18 (1.07%) OSPF
15 18 (1.07%) SSL
16 14 (0.83%) Internet
16 14 (0.83%) NAS
17 13 (0.77%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.71%) Big Data
2 90 (5.34%) NoSQL
3 87 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.93%) Power BI
5 72 (4.27%) Relational Database
6 62 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (3.26%) Data Lake
8 45 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (2.20%) MySQL
9 37 (2.20%) RDBMS
10 34 (2.02%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (1.42%) Metadata
13 19 (1.13%) DB2
14 18 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 13 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.47%) CockroachDB
18 7 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.42%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 99 (5.88%) Git
2 49 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.37%) JIRA
4 32 (1.90%) GitLab
5 27 (1.60%) Postman
5 27 (1.60%) Subversion
6 17 (1.01%) IBM UrbanCode
7 16 (0.95%) CMake
8 10 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (0.47%) Jaeger
10 8 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.42%) Selenium
12 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.36%) JUnit
12 6 (0.36%) RStudio
13 5 (0.30%) Maven
13 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.24%) TestNG
14 4 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 579 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 323 (19.17%) Finance
3 206 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (7.42%) Influencing Skills
6 95 (5.64%) Marketing
7 89 (5.28%) Law
8 81 (4.81%) Public Sector
9 75 (4.45%) Banking
10 74 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.85%) Automotive
12 32 (1.90%) Electronics
12 32 (1.90%) Retail
13 30 (1.78%) Back Office
14 25 (1.48%) Local Government
15 24 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.36%) Legal
17 21 (1.25%) Games
18 20 (1.19%) Military
18 20 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 495 (29.38%) Lead
2 410 (24.33%) Senior
3 386 (22.91%) Architect
4 216 (12.82%) Developer
5 172 (10.21%) Software Engineer
6 163 (9.67%) Principal Engineer
7 151 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 136 (8.07%) Technical Leader
9 126 (7.48%) Principal Cloud Engineer
10 111 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
11 106 (6.29%) Senior Developer
11 106 (6.29%) Technical Architect
12 79 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
13 75 (4.45%) Lead Developer
14 70 (4.15%) Senior Architect
15 57 (3.38%) Big Data Engineer
15 57 (3.38%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 57 (3.38%) Scala Engineer
15 57 (3.38%) Scala Software Engineer
15 57 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (12.28%) .NET
2 122 (7.24%) React
3 76 (4.51%) HTML
4 75 (4.45%) RESTful
5 68 (4.04%) .NET Core
6 67 (3.98%) .NET Framework
7 59 (3.50%) Spring
8 58 (3.44%) Node.js
9 56 (3.32%) ASP.NET
10 53 (3.15%) Spring Boot
11 50 (2.97%) XML
12 48 (2.85%) Kafka
13 47 (2.79%) CSS
13 47 (2.79%) JSON
14 45 (2.67%) Next.js
15 41 (2.43%) ASP.NET MVC
15 41 (2.43%) OpenID
16 40 (2.37%) SAML
17 34 (2.02%) REST
18 33 (1.96%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 184 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.40%) Product Ownership
3 85 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 72 (4.27%) IoT
5 64 (3.80%) Algorithms
5 64 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 58 (3.44%) Data Centre
7 53 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 43 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.49%) iPad
10 36 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.72%) Cyberattack
11 29 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 29 (1.72%) Robotics
12 27 (1.60%) Blockchain
13 20 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (0.89%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 180 (10.68%) Linux
2 162 (9.61%) Windows
3 48 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.20%) Unix
5 24 (1.42%) Android
6 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 18 (1.07%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.65%) CentOS
9 10 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.18%) zOS
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.059%) Debian
14 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (37.03%) Agile
2 436 (25.88%) Mentoring
3 392 (23.26%) Software Engineering
4 378 (22.43%) DevOps
5 369 (21.90%) Roadmaps
6 328 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
7 272 (16.14%) CI/CD
8 249 (14.78%) Technology Roadmap
9 239 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 207 (12.28%) Coaching
11 196 (11.63%) Computer Science
12 188 (11.16%) SDLC
13 164 (9.73%) Microservices
14 147 (8.72%) Project Management
15 129 (7.66%) Project Delivery
16 125 (7.42%) Scrum
17 119 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
18 115 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 110 (6.53%) Data Modelling
20 108 (6.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 264 (15.67%) Python
2 263 (15.61%) C#
2 263 (15.61%) SQL
3 252 (14.96%) Java
4 173 (10.27%) JavaScript
5 74 (4.39%) Scala
6 73 (4.33%) C++
7 65 (3.86%) PHP
8 63 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 60 (3.56%) C
10 40 (2.37%) SystemVerilog
11 32 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 31 (1.84%) Bash
13 29 (1.72%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.72%) T-SQL
14 28 (1.66%) R
15 22 (1.31%) Ruby
16 20 (1.19%) Go
16 20 (1.19%) Groovy
17 16 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 327 (19.41%) Degree
2 216 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 152 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 123 (7.30%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.86%) Master's Degree
6 58 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 50 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 44 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 40 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 31 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.60%) Azure Certification
14 24 (1.42%) CISSP
14 24 (1.42%) PhD
15 19 (1.13%) CCNA
16 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 12 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 11 (0.65%) CISM
18 10 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.58%) QA
2 34 (2.02%) GDPR
3 29 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 23 (1.36%) SLA
5 14 (0.83%) PMO
6 12 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.47%) Def Stans
9 7 (0.42%) IEC 61508
9 7 (0.42%) ISO 13485
9 7 (0.42%) JTAG
9 7 (0.42%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) MISRA
12 4 (0.24%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) SEPA
13 3 (0.18%) ECSS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 104 (6.17%) Docker
2 89 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 55 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.26%) Firmware
5 22 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.59%) vSphere
8 9 (0.53%) KVM
9 7 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.18%) RACF
12 3 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.059%) Lustre
13 1 (0.059%) LXC
13 1 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 138 (8.19%) Terraform
2 123 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 57 (3.38%) Ansible
4 38 (2.26%) Progress Chef
5 27 (1.60%) Puppet
6 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.59%) Nagios
9 8 (0.47%) Kiali
10 6 (0.36%) Endace
10 6 (0.36%) Kibana
10 6 (0.36%) logstash
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
10 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.30%) SCCM
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
1 320 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.88%) Google
3 65 (3.86%) Cisco
4 62 (3.68%) Databricks
5 58 (3.44%) VMware
6 47 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 40 (2.37%) IBM
7 40 (2.37%) Sitecore
8 35 (2.08%) Optimizely
9 34 (2.02%) Oracle
10 30 (1.78%) Splunk
11 29 (1.72%) Cadence
12 28 (1.66%) Juniper
12 28 (1.66%) Synopsys
13 21 (1.25%) Veeam
14 19 (1.13%) SAP
15 16 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 15 (0.89%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.83%) HP
18 12 (0.71%) Sybase