Technical Leader Jobs in the City of London

Technical Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Lead salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 155 182
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 12 23 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.69% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.72% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 40
10th Percentile £69,000 £47,300 £65,750
25th Percentile £81,875 £50,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.09% -2.53%
75th Percentile £109,375 £116,250 £116,250
90th Percentile £123,750 £120,000 £140,750
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,823 3,216 4,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 96.11% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 2,519 3,594
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 31 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 City of London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (25.00%) IaaS
4 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Degree
4 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
5 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
5 2 (16.67%) Data Science
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) MLOps
5 2 (16.67%) Compliance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (25.00%) IaaS
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (16.67%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (25.00%) CRM
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
1 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (25.00%) Service Management
1 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Data Science
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (16.67%) MLOps
2 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Guidewire
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce