Technical Leader Jobs in the East Midlands

Technical Lead
England > East Midlands

The median Technical Lead salary in the East Midlands is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 154 160
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 3 44 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.11% 0.91% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.96% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 11
10th Percentile - - £41,659
25th Percentile £85,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +44.44% -30.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £72,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,544 4,571 2,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 94.72% 88.70%
Number of salaries quoted 997 3,254 1,275
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.84% +6.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the East Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the East Midlands

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Nottinghamshire +17 2 £90,000 +38.46% 10
Derbyshire +11 1 - - 22
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 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 East Midlands region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) MACH
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) EAM
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) Maximo
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) MACH
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) EAM
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM