Technical Leadership Job Trends in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 161 188
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 +9
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 95 62 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.95% 1.19% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.29% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 66 49 76
10th Percentile £54,798 £55,750 £56,094
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,333
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £86,876 £88,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £76,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.58% +5.52% -9.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,696 4,812 8,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.22% 92.27% 84.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,390 2,557 6,541
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,050 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
West Midlands +22 66 £67,539 +0.06% 38
East Midlands -15 29 £65,000 - 23
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (7.37%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.05%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) Azure
2 20 (21.05%) AWS
3 14 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (13.68%) SaaS
5 10 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.53%) PaaS
6 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.32%) IaaS
8 4 (4.21%) GitHub
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.16%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.11%) dbt
10 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) Firewall
1 7 (7.37%) WAN
2 6 (6.32%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.21%) Network Security
4 3 (3.16%) Broadband
4 3 (3.16%) DNS
4 3 (3.16%) VLAN
5 2 (2.11%) LAN
5 2 (2.11%) Wireless
6 1 (1.05%) DHCP
6 1 (1.05%) ISDN
6 1 (1.05%) LTE
6 1 (1.05%) Modbus
6 1 (1.05%) PSTN
6 1 (1.05%) RTP
6 1 (1.05%) SSL
6 1 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.05%) VoIP
6 1 (1.05%) VPN
6 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.26%) Metadata
4 4 (4.21%) Redis
5 3 (3.16%) GIS
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.05%) DB2
7 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.05%) Parquet
7 1 (1.05%) Power BI
7 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.05%) SAS EBI
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.47%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) Cucumber
2 4 (4.21%) GitLab
2 4 (4.21%) Selenium
3 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) JMeter
3 2 (2.11%) JUnit
3 2 (2.11%) Locust
3 2 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.11%) XCUITest
4 1 (1.05%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 20 (21.05%) Finance
2 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Legal
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.26%) Banking
7 4 (4.21%) Retail
8 3 (3.16%) Law
9 2 (2.11%) Electronics
9 2 (2.11%) Marketing
10 1 (1.05%) Advertising
10 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (38.95%) Lead
2 21 (22.11%) Architect
3 20 (21.05%) Senior
4 16 (16.84%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.47%) Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Lead Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Commercial Manager
7 5 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Digital Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) .NET
2 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.21%) Flask
2 4 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (4.21%) React
3 3 (3.16%) CSS
3 3 (3.16%) Django
3 3 (3.16%) HTML
3 3 (3.16%) Middleware
3 3 (3.16%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.16%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.11%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.11%) Node.js
4 2 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.11%) PySpark
4 2 (2.11%) pytest
4 2 (2.11%) RESTful
4 2 (2.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.47%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.11%) CMDB
4 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.05%) SCADA
5 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Windows
2 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) Agile
2 28 (29.47%) Mentoring
3 25 (26.32%) DevOps
4 23 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (21.05%) Roadmaps
6 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 17 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 12 (12.63%) CRM
10 11 (11.58%) AI
10 11 (11.58%) Architecture Roadmap
10 11 (11.58%) Coaching
11 10 (10.53%) Architectural Design
11 10 (10.53%) Data Governance
12 9 (9.47%) Decision-Making
12 9 (9.47%) ITIL
12 9 (9.47%) TOGAF
13 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.74%) Python
2 11 (11.58%) C#
3 9 (9.47%) SQL
4 4 (4.21%) Java
5 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.16%) Scala
6 2 (2.11%) Delphi
6 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.11%) Swift
7 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Degree
2 5 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.16%) CISSP
4 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.11%) CCNP
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) CCIE
6 1 (1.05%) CCNA
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.16%) GDPR
4 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (3.16%) NIST
5 2 (2.11%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (2.11%) WCAG
6 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.32%) Docker
3 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (7.37%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) Grafana
2 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.05%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.42%) Cisco
3 5 (5.26%) Databricks
4 4 (4.21%) Oracle
4 4 (4.21%) SolarWinds
4 4 (4.21%) VMware
5 3 (3.16%) Avaya
5 3 (3.16%) HP
5 3 (3.16%) IBM
5 3 (3.16%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.11%) Apple
6 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.11%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.05%) Aruba
7 1 (1.05%) BMC
7 1 (1.05%) Citrix
7 1 (1.05%) Juniper
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) SAP
7 1 (1.05%) Talend