Technical Leadership Jobs in Manchester

Technical Leadership
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 120 168
Rank change year-on-year +14 +48 -34
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 58 101 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.54% 1.94% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.25% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 53 68 41
10th Percentile £57,750 £41,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +3.93%
75th Percentile £98,474 £78,775 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £80,375 £83,750
North West median annual salary £62,500 £70,576 £67,208
% change year-on-year -11.44% +5.01% -3.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 4,493 4,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.27% 86.34% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 3,425 2,549
10th Percentile £30,975 £30,000 £32,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,397 £69,914 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,325 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership 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
Stockport +3 3 £75,000 +76.47% 3
Technical Leadership
North West

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.17%) IIS
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 40 (68.97%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 9 (15.52%) Serverless
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.45%) CloudFront
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.45%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.72%) OCI
9 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DHCP
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
1 3 (5.17%) VPN
2 2 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.45%) TACACS
2 2 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 9 (15.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) GitLab
2 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) Jasmine
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Automotive
5 2 (3.45%) Games
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (70.69%) Lead
2 18 (31.03%) Software Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Technical Leader
5 7 (12.07%) Senior
6 6 (10.34%) Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Android Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Software Engineering Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) Kafka
1 12 (20.69%) React
2 11 (18.97%) Node.js
3 9 (15.52%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.79%) .NET
5 7 (12.07%) Playwright
5 7 (12.07%) Spring
6 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.90%) GraphQL
7 4 (6.90%) PySpark
8 3 (5.17%) Laravel
8 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (5.17%) Serverless Framework
8 3 (5.17%) Vue
8 3 (5.17%) WPF
9 2 (3.45%) CSS
9 2 (3.45%) HTML
9 2 (3.45%) HTML5
9 2 (3.45%) RESTful
9 2 (3.45%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.07%) Mobile App
3 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.62%) Clustering
4 4 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.17%) Life Science
6 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Android
2 3 (5.17%) CentOS
2 3 (5.17%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (62.07%) Software Engineering
2 29 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 22 (37.93%) Agile
4 16 (27.59%) DevOps
5 15 (25.86%) Microservices
6 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
8 11 (18.97%) Coaching
8 11 (18.97%) Code Quality
8 11 (18.97%) Computer Science
8 11 (18.97%) Software Architecture
9 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
9 9 (15.52%) TDD
10 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.07%) Architectural Design
11 7 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (12.07%) BDD
11 7 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (12.07%) Knowledge Management
11 7 (12.07%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) JavaScript
2 25 (43.10%) Java
3 17 (29.31%) TypeScript
4 9 (15.52%) C#
4 9 (15.52%) SQL
5 6 (10.34%) Python
6 3 (5.17%) PHP
7 2 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.72%) C++
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
8 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (18.97%) Degree
2 2 (3.45%) CCIE
2 2 (3.45%) CCNP
2 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.45%) CISSP
2 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
1 3 (5.17%) VMware
2 2 (3.45%) Cisco
2 2 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.72%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) SAP