Technical Leadership Job Trends in Birmingham

Technical Leadership
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 112 80
Rank change year-on-year +46 -32 +37
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 40 21 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.32% 1.16% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 1.25% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 33 12 19
10th Percentile £56,460 £63,672 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,250 £63,750 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +19.83% -24.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,325 £72,433
90th Percentile £194,000 £82,500 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -8.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,369 1,685 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.32% 93.15% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 968 786 1,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,974 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Birmingham

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) SaaS
3 12 (30.00%) AWS
4 10 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (12.50%) PaaS
7 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (10.00%) IaaS
7 4 (10.00%) Power Automate
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
8 3 (7.50%) Serverless
9 2 (5.00%) Azure API Management
9 2 (5.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) WAN
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) LAN
2 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.50%) Broadband
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) ISDN
3 1 (2.50%) PSTN
3 1 (2.50%) RTP
3 1 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.50%) VoIP
3 1 (2.50%) WebEx
3 1 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) MSTest
1 3 (7.50%) NUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) Moq
3 1 (2.50%) NSubstitute
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Legal
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Retail
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Lead
2 13 (32.50%) Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Architect
4 7 (17.50%) Senior
5 6 (15.00%) C# Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
7 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Consultant
8 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead Python Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Consultant
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) React
2 4 (10.00%) RESTful
3 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
3 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (7.50%) Entity Framework
3 3 (7.50%) YAML
4 2 (5.00%) Middleware
4 2 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) Spring
4 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.50%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Agile
2 17 (42.50%) Mentoring
3 13 (32.50%) AI
3 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (30.00%) DevOps
4 12 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.00%) API Management
5 8 (20.00%) Coaching
5 8 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (15.00%) Architecture Roadmap
7 6 (15.00%) Data Privacy
7 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (15.00%) Microservices
7 6 (15.00%) Observability
7 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) C#
2 5 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) Bicep
4 2 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (5.00%) CISSP
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) CCNA
3 1 (2.50%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.50%) Aruba
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco
3 1 (2.50%) Juniper
3 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.50%) VMware