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 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 459 386
Rank change year-on-year +76 -73 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 239 222 367
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.46% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.50% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 157 121 278
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £61,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,000 £75,174
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -1.56% -6.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%

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 49,796 44,069 53,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.09% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31,642 23,032 42,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,262
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 23 January 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 23 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
London +48 91 £87,500 +9.38% 39
North of England +28 47 £95,000 +18.75% 32
South East +31 31 £70,000 +133.33% 33
Yorkshire +4 25 £92,500 +28.52% 10
South West +15 22 £80,000 +23.08% 17
Midlands 0 20 £70,000 +7.69% 22
North West +15 18 £95,000 +26.67% 17
East of England +18 14 £60,100 -29.29% 16
East Midlands 0 10 £58,750 -8.56% 10
West Midlands -4 10 £77,500 +19.23% 11
North East -1 4 £95,000 +18.75% 5
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 50 (20.92%) Agile
2 44 (18.41%) Mentoring
2 44 (18.41%) Technical Leadership
3 43 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (17.15%) AWS
5 40 (16.74%) Azure
6 35 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (14.23%) CI/CD
8 28 (11.72%) DevOps
9 27 (11.30%) Microsoft
9 27 (11.30%) Migration
10 24 (10.04%) Java
11 23 (9.62%) JavaScript
11 23 (9.62%) Roadmaps
11 23 (9.62%) Serverless
12 21 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (8.79%) Decision-Making
12 21 (8.79%) Project Delivery
13 20 (8.37%) Analytics
13 20 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (8.37%) Strategic Thinking
14 19 (7.95%) Docker
14 19 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (7.53%) JIRA
15 18 (7.53%) Observability
15 18 (7.53%) SQL
16 17 (7.11%) Service Delivery
16 17 (7.11%) Technical Debt
17 16 (6.69%) Python
17 16 (6.69%) QA

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 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.67%) CMS
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.26%) Confluence
3 3 (1.26%) Documentum
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) CATIA
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.84%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.84%) Shopify
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.15%) AWS
2 40 (16.74%) Azure
3 23 (9.62%) Serverless
4 20 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.28%) SaaS
6 14 (5.86%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (4.60%) GCP
8 9 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.77%) GitHub
8 9 (3.77%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.51%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (2.51%) Apigee
11 6 (2.51%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.09%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.09%) Figma
13 4 (1.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.51%) Firewall
2 4 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.93%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.09%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (2.09%) Tableau
4 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.67%) Power BI
4 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.84%) Metadata
5 2 (0.84%) MySQL
5 2 (0.84%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 18 (7.53%) JIRA
2 12 (5.02%) Git
3 11 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.93%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.51%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.51%) GitLab
5 6 (2.51%) Maven
5 6 (2.51%) Vite
6 4 (1.67%) Postman
7 2 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.42%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 64 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.55%) Finance
3 27 (11.30%) Banking
4 16 (6.69%) Legal
4 16 (6.69%) Retail
5 15 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.44%) Front Office
7 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.35%) Marketing
9 7 (2.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.93%) Publishing
10 5 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.67%) Automotive
11 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Law
13 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.84%) Local Government
14 1 (0.42%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.86%) Middleware
2 13 (5.44%) Spring Boot
3 11 (4.60%) Jest
3 11 (4.60%) Spring
4 10 (4.18%) .NET
5 8 (3.35%) React
6 6 (2.51%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.51%) CSS
6 6 (2.51%) Gherkin
6 6 (2.51%) HTML
6 6 (2.51%) Next.js
6 6 (2.51%) REST
7 4 (1.67%) Flask
7 4 (1.67%) JSON
7 4 (1.67%) Node.js
7 4 (1.67%) OAuth
7 4 (1.67%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.67%) OpenID
7 4 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.26%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.35%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.67%) PKI
7 3 (1.26%) FMCG
7 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.84%) Replication
9 1 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.28%) Windows
2 8 (3.35%) Linux
3 5 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.84%) SUSE
4 2 (0.84%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (20.92%) Agile
2 44 (18.41%) Mentoring
2 44 (18.41%) Technical Leadership
3 43 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (14.23%) CI/CD
6 28 (11.72%) DevOps
7 27 (11.30%) Migration
8 23 (9.62%) Roadmaps
9 21 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (8.79%) Decision-Making
9 21 (8.79%) Project Delivery
10 20 (8.37%) Analytics
10 20 (8.37%) Strategic Thinking
11 19 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (7.53%) Observability
13 17 (7.11%) Service Delivery
13 17 (7.11%) Technical Debt
14 15 (6.28%) ITIL
14 15 (6.28%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.04%) Java
2 23 (9.62%) JavaScript
3 18 (7.53%) SQL
4 16 (6.69%) Python
5 13 (5.44%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.09%) Bash
7 5 (2.09%) Groovy
8 4 (1.67%) C#
9 3 (1.26%) ABAP
9 3 (1.26%) Go
9 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.84%) Rust
11 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (5.44%) Degree
2 11 (4.60%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.09%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.26%) CITP
8 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.84%) CISSP
8 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CEH
9 1 (0.42%) CISM
9 1 (0.42%) GSEC
9 1 (0.42%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.69%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.09%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) IFRS
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (7.95%) Docker
2 7 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.35%) Terraform
2 7 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.51%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.84%) Control-M
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.60%) SAP
3 10 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.77%) Oracle
4 9 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.67%) Databricks
5 4 (1.67%) Epicor
5 4 (1.67%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.26%) Adobe
6 3 (1.26%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.26%) BigPanda
6 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.26%) Informatica
6 3 (1.26%) OpenText
6 3 (1.26%) Pega
6 3 (1.26%) Splunk
6 3 (1.26%) YouTube
7 2 (0.84%) IBM
8 1 (0.42%) VMware
8 1 (0.42%) Zoho