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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 57 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 8 25 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.91% 2.86% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 3.30% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile - £71,206 £57,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £80,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +17.24% +3.57%
75th Percentile £71,600 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,250 - £87,500
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 665 757 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 75.91% 86.51% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 472 325 410
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £82,500 £90,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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
Cambridge -6 4 £60,100 -29.29% 12
Peterborough -3 3 £60,000 -2.67% 9
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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Publishing
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leader
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) ASIC
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Robotics
2 1 (12.50%) Verilog
2 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Design Thinking
3 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Debt
3 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DBS Check
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PhD