Technical Leader Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Lead
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Lead salary in the West Midlands is £74,402 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 212 252
Rank change year-on-year +36 +40 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 66 61 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.92% 0.90% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.00% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 46 42 22
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,402 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.04% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £84,964 £72,188 £66,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,759 6,072 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,145 3,346 4,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the West Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the West Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the West Midlands

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Birmingham -5 22 £79,932 +27.89% 6
Warwickshire +53 10 £82,500 - 3
Wolverhampton - 9 £50,000 -
Solihull +2 5 £62,500 -30.56%
Staffordshire -9 5 £65,000 - 3
Worcestershire -15 5 £47,500 -6.68%
Shropshire +1 3 £75,000 -
Coventry - 1 £85,000 - 2
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 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 West Midlands region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 23 (34.85%) Agile
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) Roadmaps
3 14 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (19.70%) Mentoring
5 12 (18.18%) Degree
5 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.15%) Strategic Thinking
6 10 (15.15%) Product Roadmap
6 10 (15.15%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 10 (15.15%) Coaching
6 10 (15.15%) COBOL
6 10 (15.15%) Java
6 10 (15.15%) Micro Focus
6 10 (15.15%) Finance
7 9 (13.64%) ITIL
7 9 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 9 (13.64%) Azure
7 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
7 9 (13.64%) Customer Service
8 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (12.12%) Project Management
8 8 (12.12%) Validation
9 7 (10.61%) Management Information System
9 7 (10.61%) Oracle
9 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
9 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (10.61%) Front End Development
10 6 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (9.09%) Tuxedo
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) AWS
2 9 (13.64%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (7.58%) GCP
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.55%) SaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.03%) Figma
7 2 (3.03%) Intacct
7 2 (3.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.52%) Boomi
8 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) DHCP
1 1 (1.52%) DNS
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.52%) VPN
1 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.06%) MySQL
2 4 (6.06%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Git
1 4 (6.06%) Postman
General
1 10 (15.15%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.55%) Automotive
6 2 (3.03%) Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) Billing
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) RESTful
2 5 (7.58%) HTML
3 4 (6.06%) CSS
3 4 (6.06%) JSON
3 4 (6.06%) Spring
3 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 4 (6.06%) XML
4 2 (3.03%) .NET
4 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.52%) CSS3
5 1 (1.52%) HTML5
5 1 (1.52%) React Native
5 1 (1.52%) Sass
5 1 (1.52%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
1 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Agile
2 15 (22.73%) Roadmaps
3 14 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (19.70%) Mentoring
5 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.15%) Coaching
6 10 (15.15%) Product Roadmap
6 10 (15.15%) Strategic Thinking
7 9 (13.64%) Customer Service
7 9 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 9 (13.64%) ITIL
7 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 8 (12.12%) Project Management
8 8 (12.12%) Validation
9 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
9 7 (10.61%) Front End Development
10 6 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 6 (9.09%) ETL
11 5 (7.58%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) COBOL
1 10 (15.15%) Java
1 10 (15.15%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.06%) C
3 4 (6.06%) C++
3 4 (6.06%) PHP
3 4 (6.06%) Python
4 2 (3.03%) C#
4 2 (3.03%) SQL
5 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Degree
2 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.06%) CCNP
3 4 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) HND
5 2 (3.03%) CISM
5 2 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Micro Focus
2 7 (10.61%) Oracle
3 5 (7.58%) Informatica
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco
4 4 (6.06%) Meraki
4 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.55%) QinetiQ
5 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.03%) Sage
7 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.52%) Conga
7 1 (1.52%) Dell
7 1 (1.52%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) VMware