Technical Leader Jobs in Central London

Technical Lead
London > Central London

The median Technical Lead salary in Central London is £111,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 166 181
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 13 22 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.51% 0.58% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.61% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 58
10th Percentile £70,600 £47,300 £65,000
25th Percentile £86,875 £50,000 £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £111,250 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £123,750 £120,000 £108,750
90th Percentile - £150,000 £135,000
London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +24 12 £110,000 +19.57% 7
Technical Leader
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Central London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Ansible
3 5 (38.46%) Docker
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Bash
3 5 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Terraform
4 4 (30.77%) Data Science
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (30.77%) MLOps
4 4 (30.77%) AWS CDK
4 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
4 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) IaaS
5 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (23.08%) IaaS
4 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (15.38%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
1 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Science
2 4 (30.77%) MLOps
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Change Control
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Security Management
4 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Bash
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Guidewire
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) VMware