Technical Leader Jobs in the North of England

Technical Lead
England > North of England

The median Technical Lead salary in the North of England is £67,037 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 225 279
Rank change year-on-year -49 +54 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 54 174 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.47% 0.99% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.05% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37 147 131
10th Percentile - £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £54,793 £65,000 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £73,805 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +1.80% +7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £86,250
90th Percentile £94,000 £86,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,614 16,605 15,383
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 94.92% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,883 12,852 8,160
10th Percentile £25,885 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England.

Salary trend for Technical Leader 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 11 May 2025.

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 11 May 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
North West -50 46 £67,037 -16.13% 34
Yorkshire +19 6 £80,000 +8.39% 20
North East +31 2 £73,519 -0.39% 5
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 20 (37.04%) Systems Engineering
1 20 (37.04%) Supply Chain Management
1 20 (37.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 19 (35.19%) DevOps
3 18 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 17 (31.48%) AWS
5 15 (27.78%) Coaching
6 14 (25.93%) Microservices
7 10 (18.52%) Terraform
7 10 (18.52%) Azure
8 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.67%) Agile
8 9 (16.67%) Java
8 9 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.81%) .NET
9 8 (14.81%) Finance
9 8 (14.81%) Kafka
9 8 (14.81%) GitLab
10 7 (12.96%) Docker
10 7 (12.96%) Software Architecture
10 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (12.96%) Roadmaps
11 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
11 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven
11 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
11 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
11 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
11 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
11 6 (11.11%) SQL

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) AWS
2 10 (18.52%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) Serverless
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.85%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.85%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) VLAN
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) GitLab
2 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.85%) ESLint
4 1 (1.85%) Storybook
4 1 (1.85%) webpack
General
1 8 (14.81%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Banking
3 3 (5.56%) Games
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) .NET
1 8 (14.81%) Kafka
2 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
2 4 (7.41%) Vue
3 3 (5.56%) Laravel
3 3 (5.56%) Serverless Framework
4 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.70%) RESTful
4 2 (3.70%) Spring
4 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.70%) Web Services
5 1 (1.85%) Jest
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) JWT
5 1 (1.85%) MassTransit
5 1 (1.85%) Material-UI
5 1 (1.85%) MediatR
5 1 (1.85%) Next.js
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.70%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) CentOS
1 1 (1.85%) Debian
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Supply Chain Management
1 20 (37.04%) Systems Engineering
2 19 (35.19%) DevOps
3 18 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 15 (27.78%) Coaching
5 14 (25.93%) Microservices
6 9 (16.67%) Agile
6 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 9 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Roadmaps
8 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (12.96%) Software Architecture
9 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven
10 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
10 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.26%) Project Delivery
11 4 (7.41%) Analytics
11 4 (7.41%) Machine Learning
11 4 (7.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) Java
2 6 (11.11%) Python
2 6 (11.11%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.41%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) ABAP
6 1 (1.85%) Go
6 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Terraform
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco
1 1 (1.85%) Google
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.85%) SAP