Technical Leader Job Trends in England

Technical Lead
UK > England

The median Technical Lead salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 458 316
Rank change year-on-year +89 -142 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 364 178 737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.46% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.51% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 270 118 584
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £64,063 £63,750 £61,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 75,019 34,985 79,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 89.49% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50,497 21,159 60,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in England

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in England

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
London +43 118 £92,500 -7.50% 38
North of England +38 107 £95,000 +24.59% 31
Yorkshire 0 59 £92,500 +15.63% 8
Midlands -18 44 £65,000 -16.13% 13
East of England +17 34 £59,450 -25.69% 5
South East +10 34 £70,000 -12.50% 22
North West 0 32 £95,000 +26.67% 18
West Midlands -21 32 £65,000 -16.13% 7
North East -22 16 £86,103 +17.12% 5
East Midlands -22 12 £70,000 -5.72% 5
South West -58 11 £75,000 +11.11% 10
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 75 (20.60%) Agile
2 54 (14.84%) Technical Leadership
3 49 (13.46%) AWS
3 49 (13.46%) Azure
3 49 (13.46%) CI/CD
3 49 (13.46%) Mentoring
4 48 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (11.54%) DevOps
7 36 (9.89%) AI
8 31 (8.52%) Data Engineering
9 29 (7.97%) Java
10 28 (7.69%) Microsoft
10 28 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 28 (7.69%) Serverless
11 24 (6.59%) Degree
12 22 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (6.04%) Python
12 22 (6.04%) SQL
13 21 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (5.49%) Decision-Making
15 19 (5.22%) C#
15 19 (5.22%) Microservices
15 19 (5.22%) Migration
15 19 (5.22%) Service Delivery
16 18 (4.95%) Coaching
16 18 (4.95%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (4.95%) SaaS
16 18 (4.95%) Security Cleared
16 18 (4.95%) Software Engineering

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.20%) SAS
3 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.65%) Confluence
5 4 (1.10%) Documentum
6 2 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.55%) JBoss
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Markit EDM
1 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.46%) AWS
1 49 (13.46%) Azure
2 28 (7.69%) Serverless
3 22 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (4.95%) SaaS
5 11 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (2.20%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.20%) GitHub
9 7 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.92%) Apigee
9 7 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (1.92%) Azure AKS
9 7 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) VoIP
2 5 (1.37%) Firewall
2 5 (1.37%) VPN
3 4 (1.10%) Broadband
3 4 (1.10%) Internet
4 2 (0.55%) Wireless
5 1 (0.27%) DMARC
5 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.75%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.47%) Big Data
3 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.37%) Power BI
5 4 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.82%) Tableau
7 2 (0.55%) Metadata
7 2 (0.55%) MySQL
7 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.55%) Sisense
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (3.85%) JIRA
2 9 (2.47%) Cypress.io
3 7 (1.92%) GitLab
3 7 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.92%) Maven
3 7 (1.92%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.37%) Git
5 4 (1.10%) Selenium
6 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 66 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.34%) Finance
3 26 (7.14%) Banking
4 25 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.47%) Games
6 9 (2.47%) Retail
7 7 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.10%) Front Office
9 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Publishing
10 3 (0.82%) Law
10 3 (0.82%) Marketing
10 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.67%) .NET
2 15 (4.12%) Middleware
3 10 (2.75%) AngularJS
3 10 (2.75%) Node.js
3 10 (2.75%) REST
3 10 (2.75%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.47%) Spring
5 8 (2.20%) React
6 7 (1.92%) Gherkin
6 7 (1.92%) Jest
7 4 (1.10%) Flutter
7 4 (1.10%) Kafka
7 4 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.10%) RESTful
8 3 (0.82%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.82%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.82%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.82%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.67%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.65%) Mobile Games
5 5 (1.37%) Derivative
5 5 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.37%) Equities
5 5 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.82%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.02%) Windows
2 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.82%) Android
3 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.82%) Linux
4 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (20.60%) Agile
2 54 (14.84%) Technical Leadership
3 49 (13.46%) CI/CD
3 49 (13.46%) Mentoring
4 48 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (11.54%) DevOps
7 36 (9.89%) AI
8 31 (8.52%) Data Engineering
9 28 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 21 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (5.49%) Decision-Making
12 19 (5.22%) Microservices
12 19 (5.22%) Migration
12 19 (5.22%) Service Delivery
13 18 (4.95%) Coaching
13 18 (4.95%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (4.95%) Software Engineering
14 17 (4.67%) Analytics
14 17 (4.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.97%) Java
2 22 (6.04%) Python
2 22 (6.04%) SQL
3 19 (5.22%) C#
4 18 (4.95%) TypeScript
5 16 (4.40%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.20%) Go
7 7 (1.92%) ABAP
7 7 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.65%) Bash
8 6 (1.65%) C++
8 6 (1.65%) Groovy
9 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.55%) C
10 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.55%) Rust
10 2 (0.55%) Scala
11 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.27%) Bicep
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (6.59%) Degree
2 18 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 10 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.75%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.10%) CITP
8 3 (0.82%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.27%) CCNA
10 1 (0.27%) CCNP
10 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.57%) QA
3 6 (1.65%) EMIR
3 6 (1.65%) MiFID
4 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (3.02%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (3.02%) Terraform
2 7 (1.92%) HP Fortify
3 6 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.82%) Control-M
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.75%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.20%) SAP
3 8 (2.20%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.65%) Databricks
5 5 (1.37%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.10%) Informatica
6 4 (1.10%) Intapp
6 4 (1.10%) OpenText
6 4 (1.10%) Oracle
6 4 (1.10%) Pega
6 4 (1.10%) YouTube
7 3 (0.82%) Adobe
7 3 (0.82%) Cisco
7 3 (0.82%) Epicor
7 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.55%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.55%) iManage
8 2 (0.55%) Ruckus Wireless