Technical Leadership Job Trends in Leeds

Technical Leadership
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 54 68
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +77
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 36 32 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.71% 2.98% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.39% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 36 25 38
10th Percentile £62,500 £50,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,250 £70,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -0.41% -6.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £81,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £67,732 £66,283
% change year-on-year +10.73% +2.19% -17.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 943 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.48% 87.80% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 704 543 883
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,264 £53,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year +6.16% -4.40% +0.80%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Leeds

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Leeds

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (33.33%) SaaS
4 6 (16.67%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) OCI
8 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) BGP
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Metadata
2 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Git
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.89%) Financial Institution
5 4 (11.11%) Marketing
5 4 (11.11%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Games
6 2 (5.56%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Lead
2 12 (33.33%) Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Architect
4 7 (19.44%) Senior
5 6 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Python Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead C# Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead Python Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) SaaS Developer
8 3 (8.33%) CloudOps Manager
8 3 (8.33%) Principal Architect
8 3 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Spring
2 7 (19.44%) RESTful
2 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.67%) React
4 5 (13.89%) Micronaut
5 4 (11.11%) .NET
5 4 (11.11%) PySpark
6 1 (2.78%) Django
6 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.78%) Flask
6 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.78%) Redux
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) SOAP
6 1 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 13 (36.11%) Software Engineering
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (27.78%) Coaching
4 10 (27.78%) DevOps
5 9 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.00%) Microservices
6 8 (22.22%) AI
6 8 (22.22%) Analytics
6 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Roadmaps
7 7 (19.44%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (19.44%) People Management
7 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 6 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 6 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) Java
3 10 (27.78%) C#
4 6 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 3 (8.33%) Bash
6 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Databricks
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) UiPath