Technical Leadership Job Trends in London

Technical Leadership
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 108 151 164
Rank change year-on-year +43 +13 +65
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 389 338 329
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.84% 2.14% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.27% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 278 192 254
10th Percentile £74,625 £57,683 £55,376
25th Percentile £83,750 £67,519 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £114,375 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £80,939 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.92% - -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in London

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +57 88 £110,000 +37.50% 35
East London -6 12 £105,000 -16.00% 5
West London -2 4 £90,000 +33.33% 9
South London +11 3 £55,200 -10.45% 7
North London +9 1 - - 2
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 16 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.06%) JBoss
3 8 (2.06%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.03%) Appian
5 3 (0.77%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.77%) Mule
5 3 (0.77%) SAS
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.51%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 157 (40.36%) AWS
2 128 (32.90%) Azure
3 52 (13.37%) GCP
4 42 (10.80%) SaaS
5 29 (7.46%) GitHub
6 25 (6.43%) Power Platform
6 25 (6.43%) Serverless
7 17 (4.37%) Snowflake
8 16 (4.11%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (3.86%) PaaS
10 14 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.83%) Azure AKS
12 9 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.31%) Azure Event Grid
12 9 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (2.31%) dbt
12 9 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.08%) Multicast
2 11 (2.83%) LAN
2 11 (2.83%) WAN
2 11 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (2.31%) HTTP
3 9 (2.31%) WebEx
4 7 (1.80%) Firewall
5 5 (1.29%) DNS
5 5 (1.29%) VPN
6 3 (0.77%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.77%) PBX
6 3 (0.77%) PSTN
6 3 (0.77%) VoIP
7 2 (0.51%) Network Security
8 1 (0.26%) BGP
8 1 (0.26%) Broadband
8 1 (0.26%) OSPF
8 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 23 (5.91%) Data Lake
5 21 (5.40%) Power BI
6 20 (5.14%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.37%) Metadata
8 13 (3.34%) MongoDB
9 12 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.83%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.31%) Big Data
11 9 (2.31%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.31%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.54%) MySQL
12 6 (1.54%) Tableau
13 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.03%) QlikView
14 4 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (5.91%) Git
2 19 (4.88%) JIRA
3 14 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.57%) GitLab
5 6 (1.54%) Vite
6 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.03%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.03%) ERwin
7 4 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.77%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.77%) ESLint
8 3 (0.77%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.51%) Selenium
9 2 (0.51%) VisualVM
9 2 (0.51%) YourKit
10 1 (0.26%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 175 (44.99%) Social Skills
2 142 (36.50%) Finance
3 83 (21.34%) Banking
4 56 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.03%) Retail
6 20 (5.14%) Law
7 19 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.60%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.34%) Billing
9 13 (3.34%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 12 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.06%) Legal
11 8 (2.06%) Marketing
12 7 (1.80%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.54%) Front Office
14 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.77%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (35.73%) Architect
2 106 (27.25%) Lead
3 82 (21.08%) Senior
4 63 (16.20%) Solutions Architect
5 42 (10.80%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.03%) Developer
7 27 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (5.14%) Lead Developer
9 19 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (4.37%) Data Architect
10 17 (4.37%) Integration Architect
10 17 (4.37%) Principal Engineer
10 17 (4.37%) Technical Architect
11 16 (4.11%) Technical Leader
12 15 (3.86%) Senior Manager
13 14 (3.60%) Azure Architect
13 14 (3.60%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.60%) Infrastructure Architect
13 14 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.68%) React
2 59 (15.17%) Node.js
3 56 (14.40%) REST
4 33 (8.48%) .NET
5 30 (7.71%) Middleware
6 25 (6.43%) React Native
7 23 (5.91%) SOAP
7 23 (5.91%) Spring
8 22 (5.66%) Kafka
9 21 (5.40%) FastAPI
10 20 (5.14%) Django
11 15 (3.86%) AngularJS
12 14 (3.60%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (3.60%) GraphQL
13 13 (3.34%) pytest
14 12 (3.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 11 (2.83%) Hibernate
15 11 (2.83%) Spring Boot
16 8 (2.06%) PyTorch
16 8 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 70 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.71%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.91%) Mobile App
5 20 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (4.63%) Algorithms
6 18 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (4.37%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.86%) Data Centre
9 13 (3.34%) Derivative
10 12 (3.08%) Equities
10 12 (3.08%) Fixed Income
10 12 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (2.83%) FMCG
12 10 (2.57%) Distributed Architecture
13 9 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (2.06%) DataPower
14 8 (2.06%) Low-Code
14 8 (2.06%) Reinsurance
14 8 (2.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.14%) Windows
2 19 (4.88%) Linux
3 8 (2.06%) Android
3 8 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (41.90%) Agile
2 139 (35.73%) Roadmaps
3 116 (29.82%) Mentoring
4 109 (28.02%) DevOps
5 99 (25.45%) CI/CD
6 84 (21.59%) AI
7 81 (20.82%) Software Engineering
8 78 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (19.02%) Computer Science
9 74 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (17.74%) Microservices
11 68 (17.48%) Decision-Making
12 51 (13.11%) Machine Learning
13 48 (12.34%) Data Governance
14 47 (12.08%) Analytics
14 47 (12.08%) Data Modelling
15 43 (11.05%) ETL
15 43 (11.05%) Technology Roadmap
16 41 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (10.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (21.85%) Python
2 81 (20.82%) Java
3 72 (18.51%) SQL
4 55 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 35 (9.00%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.43%) C#
7 16 (4.11%) C++
8 12 (3.08%) Go
9 11 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.06%) Rust
11 7 (1.80%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.29%) Bash
12 5 (1.29%) Bicep
13 3 (0.77%) Scala
13 3 (0.77%) Swift
14 2 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.51%) SOQL
14 2 (0.51%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 76 (19.54%) Degree
2 31 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (6.17%) Master's Degree
4 22 (5.66%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.34%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.06%) PhD
10 7 (1.80%) CISSP
11 6 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.03%) CCSP
13 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.03%) MCP
14 3 (0.77%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.28%) QA
2 28 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.60%) GDPR
4 11 (2.83%) SLA
5 9 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.31%) NIST
6 8 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.06%) SEPA
7 7 (1.80%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.77%) TARGET2
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.26%) Basel III
11 1 (0.26%) GxP
11 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.26%) MiFID
11 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (8.23%) Docker
2 7 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.77%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.00%) Terraform
3 20 (5.14%) Ansible
4 5 (1.29%) Grafana
5 4 (1.03%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.77%) Nmap
7 2 (0.51%) Argo
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.51%) SCOM
8 1 (0.26%) Control-M
8 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.26%) vRealize
8 1 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.94%) Databricks
3 16 (4.11%) Oracle
4 13 (3.34%) Cisco
4 13 (3.34%) Informatica
5 12 (3.08%) SAP
5 12 (3.08%) Software AG
6 11 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.31%) Google
7 9 (2.31%) Meraki
7 9 (2.31%) Ruckus Wireless
8 8 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.29%) IBM
9 5 (1.29%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.03%) VMware
11 3 (0.77%) Avaya
11 3 (0.77%) Genesys
11 3 (0.77%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud