Technical Leader Jobs in Birmingham

Technical Lead
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Technical Lead salary in Birmingham is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 124 102
Rank change year-on-year +29 -22 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 9 22 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.64% 0.80% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.85% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 28
10th Percentile £53,625 - £53,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £71,837 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £79,932 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.55% +27.89% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,785 £67,500
90th Percentile - £121,750 £69,125
West Midlands median annual salary £77,500 £73,805 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.01% +18.09% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,326 2,602 1,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 94.38% 93.21%
Number of salaries quoted 773 2,116 1,376
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,997 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £84,964 £82,125
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Birmingham

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Birmingham

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Birmingham

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Data Collection
1 5 (55.56%) Siemens
1 5 (55.56%) Electronics
1 5 (55.56%) Law
1 5 (55.56%) Manufacturing
1 5 (55.56%) SCADA
1 5 (55.56%) Mechatronics
1 5 (55.56%) IoT
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Rockwell
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) YAML
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Electronics
1 5 (55.56%) Law
1 5 (55.56%) Manufacturing
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) IoT
1 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 5 (55.56%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Collection
1 5 (55.56%) Mechatronics
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) FinOps
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Rockwell
1 5 (55.56%) Siemens
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAI