Technical Leader Job Trends in the East of England

Technical Lead
England > East of England

The median Technical Lead salary in the East of England is £60,100 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 166 126
Rank change year-on-year +20 -40 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 13 18 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.51% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.57% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £45,750 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £94,000 - £89,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £71,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.28% -10.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,738 3,155 2,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 89.45% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,268 1,416 1,758
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in the East of England

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the East of England

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the East of England

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Cambridgeshire +14 9 £80,000 -5.88% 4
Hertfordshire - 2 £52,500 - 3
Bedfordshire +35 1 £45,000 -25.00% 1
Norfolk +3 1 £60,000 - 1
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Windows
4 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Design Thinking
4 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
4 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Firewall
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Publishing
3 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Automotive
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (15.38%) FMCG
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Design Thinking
3 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Observability
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft