Technical Leader Job Trends in the North of England

Technical Lead
England > North of England

The median Technical Lead salary in the North of England is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 253 261
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 48 28 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.45% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 38 14 25
10th Percentile £73,750 £47,575 £42,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £55,838 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £68,519 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +38.65% +7.48% -20.31%
75th Percentile - £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £71,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.28% -10.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 9,556 8,552 8,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,571 4,030 6,496
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in the North of England

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the North of England

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +8 26 £90,000 +65.90% 11
North West +20 18 £95,000 +35.71% 12
North East +11 4 £95,000 +18.75% 3
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (18.75%) Agile
3 8 (16.67%) Analytics
3 8 (16.67%) Java
3 8 (16.67%) Serverless
3 8 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.58%) AWS
4 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (14.58%) Middleware
4 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
4 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 6 (12.50%) Apigee
5 6 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (12.50%) DevOps
5 6 (12.50%) Docker
5 6 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 6 (12.50%) Gherkin
5 6 (12.50%) GitLab
5 6 (12.50%) HP Fortify
5 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (12.50%) Jest
5 6 (12.50%) Maven

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (8.33%) CMS
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) Serverless
2 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
2 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (12.50%) Apigee
3 6 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (8.33%) Slack
4 4 (8.33%) Zapier
5 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.17%) Azure
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) SAP HANA
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
2 6 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 6 (12.50%) GitLab
2 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.50%) Maven
3 4 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Git
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 9 (18.75%) Legal
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Marketing
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) Middleware
2 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 6 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 6 (12.50%) Jest
2 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.33%) JSON
3 4 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (4.17%) Node.js
4 2 (4.17%) React
4 2 (4.17%) SAP Basis
4 2 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (4.17%) SAPUI5
5 1 (2.08%) Blazor
5 1 (2.08%) CSS3
5 1 (2.08%) Flutter
5 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.08%) HTML5
5 1 (2.08%) Next.js
5 1 (2.08%) Redux
5 1 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) SUSE
2 2 (4.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (18.75%) Agile
3 8 (16.67%) Analytics
3 8 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (12.50%) DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.33%) API Integration
6 4 (8.33%) Business Continuity
6 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.33%) CRM
6 4 (8.33%) Data Architecture
6 4 (8.33%) Sales Enablement
6 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (6.25%) Coaching
7 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Java
2 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
3 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.42%) Bash
4 5 (10.42%) Groovy
4 5 (10.42%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.33%) HubSpot
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow