Technical Leadership Jobs in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 206 189
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 -35
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 55 133 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.81% 0.97% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.23% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 43 83 76
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,539 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £81,875 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £97,500 £93,125
England median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.62% -8.96% +6.18%

All Process and 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 6,211 10,849 8,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.12% 79.38% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,575 7,575 4,354
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,828 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

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 9 June 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 +24 46 £75,000 - 60
East Midlands +21 9 £73,750 +13.46% 54
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 2 (3.64%) CMS
1 2 (3.64%) Headless CMS
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 9 (16.36%) Snowflake
4 8 (14.55%) GCP
4 8 (14.55%) Serverless
5 6 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (10.91%) SaaS
6 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 5 (9.09%) IaaS
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.27%) GitHub
7 4 (7.27%) PaaS
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) Contentful
8 2 (3.64%) Figma
8 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) MPLS
1 15 (27.27%) WAN
2 14 (25.45%) BGP
2 14 (25.45%) IPsec
2 14 (25.45%) LAN
3 13 (23.64%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (23.64%) Junos
4 3 (5.45%) Firewall
5 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.82%) DHCP
6 1 (1.82%) DNS
6 1 (1.82%) Internet
6 1 (1.82%) SAN
6 1 (1.82%) Skype
6 1 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.82%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.82%) VLAN
6 1 (1.82%) VoIP
6 1 (1.82%) VPN
6 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (10.91%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Storybook
2 1 (1.82%) Appium
2 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JMeter
2 1 (1.82%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (1.82%) Maven
2 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.82%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.82%) Selenium
2 1 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 14 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (23.64%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Retail
6 3 (5.45%) Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Games
8 1 (1.82%) Advertising
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Architect
2 21 (38.18%) Lead
3 15 (27.27%) Network Architect
4 7 (12.73%) Technical Leader
5 6 (10.91%) Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Lead Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
7 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Head of Engineering
8 3 (5.45%) Senior
9 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 2 (3.64%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Lead PHP Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Software Engineering Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Software Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) .NET
1 6 (10.91%) React
2 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.45%) CSS
3 3 (5.45%) GraphQL
3 3 (5.45%) HTML
3 3 (5.45%) Kafka
3 3 (5.45%) Node.js
3 3 (5.45%) REST
4 2 (3.64%) CSS3
4 2 (3.64%) Express.js
4 2 (3.64%) hapi
4 2 (3.64%) HTML5
4 2 (3.64%) Material-UI
4 2 (3.64%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (3.64%) MERN Stack
4 2 (3.64%) NestJS
4 2 (3.64%) React Native
4 2 (3.64%) Vue
5 1 (1.82%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
2 6 (10.91%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Agile
1 15 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 14 (25.45%) Mentoring
2 14 (25.45%) Network Design
3 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 10 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (18.18%) DevOps
5 9 (16.36%) Analytics
5 9 (16.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.73%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) Data Governance
7 7 (12.73%) ETL
7 7 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (12.73%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (12.73%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) SQL
2 10 (18.18%) C#
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.91%) Python
5 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.27%) Java
7 2 (3.64%) PHP
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 15 (27.27%) CCNP
3 15 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (25.45%) CCNA
4 14 (25.45%) JNCIS
5 7 (12.73%) Degree
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) SLA
2 6 (10.91%) QA
3 3 (5.45%) PMBOK
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.82%) Grafana
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.82%) SCCM
2 1 (1.82%) SCOM
2 1 (1.82%) SCOrch
2 1 (1.82%) SCSM
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) Cisco
2 15 (27.27%) Juniper
3 8 (14.55%) Google
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.45%) Databricks
5 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) Citrix
6 1 (1.82%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.82%) Mitel
6 1 (1.82%) VMware