Technical Leadership Jobs in Kent

Technical Leadership
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 101 74
Rank change year-on-year +34 -27 +15
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 6 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.74% 0.33% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.41% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £61,250 £41,700 -
25th Percentile £62,375 - £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,250 £48,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -54.29% +50.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £175,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £93,750 - -
South East median annual salary £70,600 £68,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.44% -9.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 686 1,223 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 84.28% 81.64% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 321 891 522
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,525
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Kent

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Kent.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in Kent

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Kent over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Kent

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 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
Chatham +11 4 £90,000 +125.00% 1
Margate - 1 £62,500 -
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Lead
3 3 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Banking
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft