Technical Leader Jobs in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead salary in London is £91,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 362 375
Rank change year-on-year +60 +13 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 215 287 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.84% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.88% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 180 223 313
10th Percentile £61,360 £58,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £81,875 £71,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,750 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,236 32,601 64,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.01% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,671 24,034 34,497
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in London.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Central London +7 20 £94,000 -1.05% 4
South London +1 4 - -
West London +2 1 £102,500 +35.76% 4
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 106 (49.30%) AWS
2 97 (45.12%) Finance
3 91 (42.33%) Java
4 90 (41.86%) Agile
5 69 (32.09%) Banking
6 66 (30.70%) Software Engineering
7 61 (28.37%) Python
8 59 (27.44%) Azure
9 54 (25.12%) Mentoring
10 49 (22.79%) DevOps
10 49 (22.79%) TypeScript
10 49 (22.79%) Social Skills
10 49 (22.79%) JavaScript
11 47 (21.86%) Snowflake
11 47 (21.86%) Data Lake
12 44 (20.47%) Data Quality
13 43 (20.00%) NumPy
13 43 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
13 43 (20.00%) Pandas
14 42 (19.53%) SQL
15 41 (19.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 41 (19.07%) Asset Management
15 41 (19.07%) Fixed Income
15 41 (19.07%) Hedge funds
15 41 (19.07%) SDLC
16 40 (18.60%) gRPC
16 40 (18.60%) Amazon Athena
16 40 (18.60%) dbt
16 40 (18.60%) Dremio
16 40 (18.60%) Apache Arrow

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 43 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (18.60%) Apache
3 10 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.72%) Apache Pig
5 6 (2.79%) Confluence
5 6 (2.79%) WordPress
6 5 (2.33%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.40%) CMS
8 2 (0.93%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.47%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.86%) Primavera
3 3 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 106 (49.30%) AWS
2 59 (27.44%) Azure
3 47 (21.86%) Snowflake
4 40 (18.60%) dbt
5 21 (9.77%) Power Platform
6 16 (7.44%) Serverless
7 15 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.98%) GCP
7 15 (6.98%) SaaS
8 13 (6.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.65%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.72%) WhatsApp
12 7 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.79%) GitHub
13 6 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (0.47%) DHCP
1 1 (0.47%) DNS
1 1 (0.47%) Firewall
1 1 (0.47%) FTP
1 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.86%) Data Lake
2 40 (18.60%) Amazon Athena
2 40 (18.60%) Apache Arrow
2 40 (18.60%) Apache Ignite
2 40 (18.60%) Dremio
3 21 (9.77%) Power BI
4 20 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 15 (6.98%) Big Data
6 14 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.65%) MySQL
8 9 (4.19%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.72%) Apache Hive
9 8 (3.72%) Hadoop
10 7 (3.26%) Data Mining
10 7 (3.26%) Spark SQL
11 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.86%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (8.37%) Git
2 9 (4.19%) GitLab
2 9 (4.19%) JUnit
3 8 (3.72%) Checkstyle
3 8 (3.72%) JIRA
3 8 (3.72%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.33%) Postman
5 3 (1.40%) Maven
6 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.47%) Gatling
7 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 97 (45.12%) Finance
2 69 (32.09%) Banking
3 49 (22.79%) Social Skills
4 40 (18.60%) Front Office
4 40 (18.60%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.65%) Retail Banking
6 9 (4.19%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.26%) Law
8 4 (1.86%) Local Government
9 3 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) iGaming
11 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.00%) NumPy
1 43 (20.00%) Pandas
2 40 (18.60%) gRPC
2 40 (18.60%) Protocol Buffers
2 40 (18.60%) SciPy
3 32 (14.88%) Kafka
4 31 (14.42%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.09%) .NET
6 21 (9.77%) Spring
7 18 (8.37%) React
8 11 (5.12%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.12%) J2EE
9 7 (3.26%) Middleware
9 7 (3.26%) PySpark
9 7 (3.26%) REST
10 6 (2.79%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.79%) ASP.NET
10 6 (2.79%) Laravel
11 5 (2.33%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.86%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.07%) Fixed Income
1 41 (19.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 41 (19.07%) Hedge funds
2 40 (18.60%) Derivative
2 40 (18.60%) Equities
3 13 (6.05%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.12%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.12%) Client/Server
5 10 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.72%) Cyberattack
6 8 (3.72%) Data Fabric
6 8 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.26%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.33%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.86%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.91%) Linux
2 12 (5.58%) Windows
3 8 (3.72%) zOS
4 4 (1.86%) CentOS
4 4 (1.86%) Solaris
4 4 (1.86%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.86%) Unix
5 3 (1.40%) Android
6 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (41.86%) Agile
2 66 (30.70%) Software Engineering
3 54 (25.12%) Mentoring
4 49 (22.79%) DevOps
5 41 (19.07%) Asset Management
5 41 (19.07%) SDLC
6 40 (18.60%) Greeks
6 40 (18.60%) Investment Management
7 38 (17.67%) CI/CD
8 30 (13.95%) Microservices
8 30 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (12.09%) Computer Science
9 26 (12.09%) Design Patterns
10 24 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (9.77%) ETL
11 21 (9.77%) Roadmaps
12 20 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.91%) Line Management
13 17 (7.91%) Machine Learning
14 16 (7.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 91 (42.33%) Java
2 61 (28.37%) Python
3 49 (22.79%) JavaScript
3 49 (22.79%) TypeScript
4 42 (19.53%) SQL
5 20 (9.30%) C#
6 10 (4.65%) PHP
6 10 (4.65%) Scala
7 9 (4.19%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.33%) Go
10 4 (1.86%) C++
10 4 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.86%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) Bash
11 2 (0.93%) Bicep
11 2 (0.93%) C
12 1 (0.47%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.47%) Delphi
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (17.67%) Degree
2 14 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.86%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.86%) CIMA
6 3 (1.40%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (20.47%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.51%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (9.30%) Docker
2 8 (3.72%) HDFS
3 4 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) Ceph
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (10.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.51%) Terraform
3 3 (1.40%) Ansible
4 2 (0.93%) Knative
5 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.47%) Istio
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.30%) Databricks
3 7 (3.26%) Oracle
3 7 (3.26%) SAP
4 6 (2.79%) Google
5 4 (1.86%) F5
5 4 (1.86%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.47%) Apple
7 1 (0.47%) Aruba
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco
7 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.47%) Meraki
7 1 (0.47%) Okta
7 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds