Technical Leadership Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Technical Leadership
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 57 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 6 25 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.67% 2.80% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 3.24% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £57,450 £71,206 £58,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +17.24% +5.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £82,500 - £86,750
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £85,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -35.29% +41.67% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 680 772 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 76.40% 86.35% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 474 347 356
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,780 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,125
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Cambridgeshire

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Peterborough -1 3 £60,000 -2.67% 19
Cambridge -11 2 £60,100 -29.29% 21
Technical Leadership
East of England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Project Leader
4 1 (16.67%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Leader
4 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) ASIC
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Robotics
1 1 (16.67%) Verilog
1 1 (16.67%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Physics
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) PhD