Technical Leader Jobs in the Midlands

Technical Lead
England > Midlands

The median Technical Lead salary in the Midlands is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 210 251
Rank change year-on-year -11 +41 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 24 123 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.35% 0.96% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 1.01% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8 74 54
10th Percentile £55,125 £50,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £69,375 £60,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £73,805 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +18.09% -3.85%
75th Percentile £96,563 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £84,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,313 12,119 7,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.59% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 8,871 4,536
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,622
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,950 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Midlands 0 21 £77,500 +5.01% 82
East Midlands +5 3 £90,000 +38.46% 62
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Midlands region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (54.17%) Law
2 13 (54.17%) Electronics
2 13 (54.17%) SCADA
2 13 (54.17%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (50.00%) Data Collection
3 12 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 12 (50.00%) Mechatronics
3 12 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 12 (50.00%) Siemens
3 12 (50.00%) Rockwell
3 12 (50.00%) IoT
4 7 (29.17%) Azure
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) SQL
7 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 3 (12.50%) C#
8 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (12.50%) Terraform
8 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 2 (8.33%) Kafka

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (4.17%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) FlexRay
2 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.17%) IPsec
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) Skype
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Couchbase
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (54.17%) Electronics
2 13 (54.17%) Law
3 12 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.17%) MACH
2 1 (4.17%) Next.js
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Legacy Systems
1 13 (54.17%) SCADA
2 12 (50.00%) IoT
2 12 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Infotainment
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 12 (50.00%) Mechatronics
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.33%) Change Management
7 2 (8.33%) Cost Management
7 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (8.33%) Digital Banking
7 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.33%) FinOps
7 2 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (8.33%) Project Management
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) PHP
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) CISA
2 1 (4.17%) CISM
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) GIAC
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) JTAG
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) SCOM
2 1 (4.17%) SCOrch
2 1 (4.17%) SCSM
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 12 (50.00%) Siemens
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) VMware