Technical Leadership Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Technical Leadership
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 54 40
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +19
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 14 15 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.45% 2.59% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.87% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 4
10th Percentile £59,875 £55,434 £54,006
25th Percentile £64,688 £57,646 £54,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,465 £60,857
Median % change year-on-year +14.57% +7.57% -28.40%
75th Percentile £85,002 £97,500 £71,478
90th Percentile £95,876 £107,625 £81,091
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £75,000 £65,465 £60,857
% change year-on-year +14.57% +7.57% -28.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 464 523 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 81.26% 90.17% 92.15%
Number of salaries quoted 349 236 274
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,988 £38,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,569 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,625 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Newcastle upon Tyne

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) Express.js
2 1 (7.14%) hapi
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Boilerplate
2 1 (7.14%) NestJS
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
3 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
3 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Fintech
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Scala
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Aruba
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco
1 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto