Technical Leader Jobs in Manchester

Technical Lead
North West > Manchester

The median Technical Lead salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 158 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 22 62 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.96% 1.19% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.26% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20 50 56
10th Percentile - £64,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,297 £65,313 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,932 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +10.25% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,000 -
North West median annual salary £67,037 £79,932 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +10.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,064 4,911 4,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.37% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 3,789 2,654
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,954
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,960 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,150 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Manchester

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Manchester

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Manchester

Technical Leader
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. 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
Bury +2 1 £60,000 -29.41% 1
Technical Leader
North West

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Mentoring
3 12 (54.55%) Microservices
4 10 (45.45%) Terraform
5 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (40.91%) Coaching
5 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) Java
6 8 (36.36%) GitLab
6 8 (36.36%) Azure
6 8 (36.36%) Kafka
7 6 (27.27%) Software Architecture
7 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
7 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
7 6 (27.27%) Python
7 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) Docker
8 5 (22.73%) SQL
8 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
9 4 (18.18%) .NET
9 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
9 4 (18.18%) Vue
9 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
9 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
9 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (13.64%) SQL Optimisation
10 3 (13.64%) Serverless Framework

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) GitLab
2 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Games
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) Vue
3 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.64%) Laravel
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless Framework
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.09%) Sports Betting
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) CentOS
1 1 (4.55%) Debian
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
1 13 (59.09%) Mentoring
2 12 (54.55%) Microservices
3 9 (40.91%) Coaching
3 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Software Architecture
5 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) SQL Optimisation
6 3 (13.64%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) PHP
4 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco