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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 161 179
Rank change year-on-year +59 +18 +42
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 392 320 336
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.80% 2.08% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 2.19% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 281 179 260
10th Percentile £72,500 £58,016 £55,482
25th Percentile £82,500 £70,975 £71,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £140,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 12,269 14,580 16,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.64% 94.60% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 8,006 13,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
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 13 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 13 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 +46 88 £110,000 +37.50% 34
East London -3 11 £105,000 -16.00% 8
South London +16 3 £55,200 -10.45% 10
West London +1 3 £90,000 +33.33% 10
North London +8 1 - - 4
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 17 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.30%) JBoss
3 9 (2.30%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.28%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.02%) Appian
6 3 (0.77%) Mule
6 3 (0.77%) SAS
7 2 (0.51%) Apache
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 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 9 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.53%) 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
1 159 (40.56%) AWS
2 129 (32.91%) Azure
3 53 (13.52%) GCP
4 44 (11.22%) SaaS
5 30 (7.65%) GitHub
6 24 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 24 (6.12%) Serverless
7 18 (4.59%) Snowflake
8 16 (4.08%) PaaS
9 15 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.81%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.55%) dbt
14 10 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.30%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.57%) LAN
1 14 (3.57%) Multicast
1 14 (3.57%) WAN
2 13 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.81%) WebEx
4 10 (2.55%) HTTP
5 6 (1.53%) Firewall
6 5 (1.28%) DNS
7 4 (1.02%) VPN
8 3 (0.77%) IP Telephony
8 3 (0.77%) PBX
8 3 (0.77%) PSTN
8 3 (0.77%) VoIP
9 2 (0.51%) Network Security
9 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 25 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.36%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.10%) Power BI
6 18 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 16 (4.08%) Metadata
8 15 (3.83%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.30%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.04%) Big Data
12 8 (2.04%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.79%) MySQL
14 6 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.53%) Tableau
15 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.02%) QlikView
15 4 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (6.38%) Git
2 21 (5.36%) JIRA
3 14 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.81%) GitLab
5 6 (1.53%) Vite
6 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.02%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.02%) ERwin
7 4 (1.02%) 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%) NUnit
10 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 173 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 142 (36.22%) Finance
3 87 (22.19%) Banking
4 55 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (9.44%) Retail
6 20 (5.10%) Law
7 17 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.57%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.32%) Billing
10 13 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.32%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.06%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.04%) Legal
12 8 (2.04%) Marketing
12 8 (2.04%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.28%) Front Office
13 5 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.77%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (34.44%) Architect
2 105 (26.79%) Lead
3 89 (22.70%) Senior
4 60 (15.31%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.69%) Developer
7 30 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (5.10%) Lead Developer
9 19 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (4.59%) Integration Architect
10 18 (4.59%) Technical Architect
11 17 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Senior Manager
12 16 (4.08%) Technical Leader
13 15 (3.83%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.83%) Python Engineer
13 15 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
14 14 (3.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.05%) React
1 59 (15.05%) REST
2 57 (14.54%) Node.js
3 35 (8.93%) .NET
4 32 (8.16%) Middleware
5 24 (6.12%) SOAP
6 23 (5.87%) Spring
7 22 (5.61%) React Native
8 21 (5.36%) FastAPI
8 21 (5.36%) Kafka
9 20 (5.10%) Django
10 16 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
11 15 (3.83%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.83%) GraphQL
11 15 (3.83%) pytest
12 14 (3.57%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 11 (2.81%) Hibernate
13 11 (2.81%) Spring Boot
14 10 (2.55%) PyTorch
15 8 (2.04%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 72 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 20 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 20 (5.10%) Mobile App
5 19 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (4.59%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.83%) Derivative
8 14 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 14 (3.57%) Equities
8 14 (3.57%) Fixed Income
9 11 (2.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 11 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (2.55%) FMCG
11 9 (2.30%) DataPower
11 9 (2.30%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (2.04%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.87%) Windows
2 22 (5.61%) Linux
3 7 (1.79%) Android
3 7 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (41.07%) Agile
2 143 (36.48%) Roadmaps
3 115 (29.34%) Mentoring
4 108 (27.55%) DevOps
5 97 (24.74%) CI/CD
6 89 (22.70%) AI
7 85 (21.68%) Software Engineering
8 79 (20.15%) Computer Science
9 77 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (18.37%) Microservices
11 70 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (17.35%) Decision-Making
13 54 (13.78%) Machine Learning
14 49 (12.50%) Data Governance
15 47 (11.99%) Analytics
16 46 (11.73%) Data Modelling
17 43 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
17 43 (10.97%) Test Automation
18 42 (10.71%) Technology Roadmap
19 41 (10.46%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 88 (22.45%) Python
2 81 (20.66%) Java
3 69 (17.60%) SQL
4 54 (13.78%) JavaScript
5 35 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.61%) C#
7 17 (4.34%) C++
8 12 (3.06%) Go
9 11 (2.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.04%) Rust
11 7 (1.79%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.53%) Bash
12 6 (1.53%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.28%) Bicep
14 2 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.51%) Scala
14 2 (0.51%) SOQL
14 2 (0.51%) SOSL
14 2 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (20.41%) Degree
2 31 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) Master's Degree
5 18 (4.59%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 13 (3.32%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.81%) PhD
8 11 (2.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.79%) CISSP
11 7 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (1.02%) CCSP
14 4 (1.02%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.77%) GCIH
15 3 (0.77%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.20%) QA
2 27 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.57%) GDPR
4 11 (2.81%) SLA
5 10 (2.55%) NIST
6 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.04%) SEPA
7 7 (1.79%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.02%) 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%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.26%) MiFID
11 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (8.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.18%) Terraform
3 20 (5.10%) Ansible
4 5 (1.28%) Grafana
5 4 (1.02%) 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%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.87%) Databricks
3 17 (4.34%) Oracle
4 15 (3.83%) Cisco
5 13 (3.32%) Informatica
5 13 (3.32%) Software AG
6 12 (3.06%) SAP
7 11 (2.81%) Meraki
7 11 (2.81%) Ruckus Wireless
7 11 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.04%) Google
8 8 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.28%) IBM
10 5 (1.28%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.77%) Avaya
11 3 (0.77%) Genesys
11 3 (0.77%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) VMware