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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 184 174
Rank change year-on-year +47 -10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 88 62 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.13% 0.97% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.07% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 69 39 46
10th Percentile £56,100 £53,250 £53,844
25th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -4.36% +8.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,679 £91,934
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%

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 6,361 5,773 4,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.32% 90.47% 86.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,535 2,521 4,072
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 January 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 +35 61 £75,000 +7.14% 36
East Midlands +4 27 £65,000 +4.00% 73
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 5 (5.68%) CMS
2 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.27%) ArchestrA
3 2 (2.27%) FactoryTalk
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.27%) WinCC
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.14%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.14%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.77%) Azure
2 24 (27.27%) AWS
3 23 (26.14%) SaaS
4 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (9.09%) PaaS
7 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.55%) IaaS
10 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.41%) GCP
11 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
11 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
11 3 (3.41%) Serverless
12 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.27%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Firewall
1 5 (5.68%) WAN
2 4 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.41%) DNS
3 3 (3.41%) Modbus
4 2 (2.27%) LAN
4 2 (2.27%) Profibus
4 2 (2.27%) VLAN
4 2 (2.27%) Wireless
5 1 (1.14%) Broadband
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) ISDN
5 1 (1.14%) PSTN
5 1 (1.14%) RTP
5 1 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.14%) TETRA
5 1 (1.14%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.14%) VoIP
5 1 (1.14%) WebEx
5 1 (1.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.55%) Redis
4 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) DB2
5 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.14%) Metadata
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.14%) Parquet
5 1 (1.14%) Power BI
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) SAS EBI
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 4 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (4.55%) Selenium
3 3 (3.41%) MSTest
3 3 (3.41%) NUnit
4 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (1.14%) JIRA
5 1 (1.14%) MLflow
5 1 (1.14%) Moq
5 1 (1.14%) NSubstitute
General
1 15 (17.05%) Finance
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Legal
6 6 (6.82%) Retail
7 4 (4.55%) Electronics
7 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.27%) Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (43.18%) Lead
2 16 (18.18%) Architect
2 16 (18.18%) Developer
3 14 (15.91%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.50%) Lead Developer
6 9 (10.23%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Lead Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (5.68%) Commercial Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Data Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Lead C# Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) .NET
2 7 (7.95%) .NET Core
2 7 (7.95%) React
3 4 (4.55%) Flask
3 4 (4.55%) Middleware
3 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.55%) RESTful
3 4 (4.55%) Spring
3 4 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.41%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (3.41%) CSS
4 3 (3.41%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.41%) HTML
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.41%) YAML
5 2 (2.27%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.68%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.68%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.41%) SCADA
6 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.14%) CMDB
7 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) Agile
2 27 (30.68%) Mentoring
3 22 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.00%) DevOps
4 19 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (20.45%) Software Engineering
6 16 (18.18%) Data Governance
7 14 (15.91%) AI
8 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
10 10 (11.36%) CRM
10 10 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (10.23%) Coaching
11 9 (10.23%) Containerisation
11 9 (10.23%) Microservices
11 9 (10.23%) Test Automation
12 8 (9.09%) API Management
12 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.73%) C#
2 15 (17.05%) Python
3 11 (12.50%) SQL
4 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.55%) Java
7 3 (3.41%) Scala
8 2 (2.27%) Bicep
8 2 (2.27%) Delphi
8 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.27%) Ladder Logic
8 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (5.68%) Master's Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.27%) CISSP
4 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) CCNA
5 1 (1.14%) CCNP
5 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) NIST
4 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) IEC 61131
4 2 (2.27%) IEC 61508
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Docker
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Databricks
2 5 (5.68%) IBM
2 5 (5.68%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Siemens
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco
4 3 (3.41%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.27%) Avaya
5 2 (2.27%) Citrix
5 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.27%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.27%) Rockwell
5 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.14%) BMC
6 1 (1.14%) Conga
6 1 (1.14%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.14%) Juniper
6 1 (1.14%) Pardot
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce