Technical Leader Job Trends in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead salary in London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 342 286
Rank change year-on-year +54 -56 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 86 86 159
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.55% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.60% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 39 55 137
10th Percentile £67,000 £59,000 £56,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £123,750 £125,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £71,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.28% -10.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 12,862 14,378 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.68% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,531 8,295 13,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
Central London +48 24 £80,000 -27.27% 11
North London - 7 £80,000 -
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 19 (22.09%) AWS
2 18 (20.93%) CI/CD
3 16 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
4 15 (17.44%) Agile
4 15 (17.44%) Azure
5 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
6 13 (15.12%) Java
6 13 (15.12%) Strategic Thinking
7 11 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
7 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.63%) DevOps
8 10 (11.63%) Presales
9 9 (10.47%) Degree
9 9 (10.47%) Logistics
9 9 (10.47%) Observability
10 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.30%) Data Engineering
10 8 (9.30%) GCP
10 8 (9.30%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.14%) AI
11 7 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (8.14%) Git
11 7 (8.14%) ITIL
11 7 (8.14%) ITSM
11 7 (8.14%) Project Delivery
11 7 (8.14%) QA
11 7 (8.14%) SDLC

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Markit EDM
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.09%) AWS
2 15 (17.44%) Azure
3 8 (9.30%) GCP
4 7 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (8.14%) Serverless
5 6 (6.98%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.81%) CloudFront
6 5 (5.81%) Figma
6 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.49%) Datadog
8 3 (3.49%) GitHub
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.33%) dbt
9 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.16%) VPN
3 1 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Tableau
2 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.33%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.16%) MySQL
3 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Bitbucket
2 6 (6.98%) JIRA
2 6 (6.98%) Vite
3 5 (5.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.16%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 29 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.26%) Banking
3 17 (19.77%) Finance
4 13 (15.12%) Front Office
5 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Retail
7 5 (5.81%) Legal
8 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.16%) Advertising
9 1 (1.16%) Automotive
9 1 (1.16%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) Spring
1 7 (8.14%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.81%) .NET
2 5 (5.81%) Jest
2 5 (5.81%) Next.js
2 5 (5.81%) React
3 4 (4.65%) Middleware
3 4 (4.65%) REST
4 3 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.33%) XBRL
6 1 (1.16%) CSS
6 1 (1.16%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.16%) HTML
6 1 (1.16%) Kafka
6 1 (1.16%) Node.js
6 1 (1.16%) RESTful
6 1 (1.16%) SOAP
6 1 (1.16%) Web Services
6 1 (1.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.81%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.16%) FMCG
6 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.16%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Android
1 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.16%) VMS
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.93%) CI/CD
2 16 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
3 15 (17.44%) Agile
4 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
5 13 (15.12%) Strategic Thinking
6 11 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.63%) DevOps
7 10 (11.63%) Presales
8 9 (10.47%) Logistics
8 9 (10.47%) Observability
9 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
9 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.30%) Data Engineering
9 8 (9.30%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.14%) AI
10 7 (8.14%) ITSM
10 7 (8.14%) SDLC
10 7 (8.14%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.12%) Java
2 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.81%) SQL
5 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.33%) ABAP
6 2 (2.33%) Go
6 2 (2.33%) Python
6 2 (2.33%) Rust
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Degree
2 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.98%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.98%) AWS Certified Developer
3 6 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.49%) CISSP
5 2 (2.33%) CEH
5 2 (2.33%) CISM
5 2 (2.33%) GSEC
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.16%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 6 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) IFRS
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Control-M
1 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (4.65%) Databricks
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) AppDynamics
2 3 (3.49%) BigPanda
2 3 (3.49%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.49%) Oracle
2 3 (3.49%) SAP
2 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.49%) Splunk
3 2 (2.33%) Informatica
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe
4 1 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.16%) VMware