Technical Leadership Job Trends in the North of England

Technical Leadership
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 180 131
Rank change year-on-year +63 -49 +86
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 162 107 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.51% 1.18% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.30% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 130 69 134
10th Percentile £56,918 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,000 £60,401 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £66,425
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +8.38% -5.11%
75th Percentile £85,940 £79,600 £74,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
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 North of England

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +62 92 £75,000 +9.49% 65
Yorkshire +10 55 £75,900 +8.43% 66
North East +2 16 £75,000 -0.53% 20
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 3 (1.85%) Mule
1 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.23%) HCL Notes
2 2 (1.23%) IIS
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 63 (38.89%) Azure
2 48 (29.63%) AWS
3 30 (18.52%) SaaS
4 11 (6.79%) GCP
4 11 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.32%) GitHub
7 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.47%) Serverless
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.23%) IaaS
9 2 (1.23%) OCI
9 2 (1.23%) PaaS
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) BGP
4 1 (0.62%) LAN
4 1 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.79%) MongoDB
2 11 (6.79%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.32%) MySQL
5 5 (3.09%) Metadata
6 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (7.41%) GitLab
2 9 (5.56%) Git
3 5 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.62%) JUnit
General
1 32 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.14%) Finance
3 11 (6.79%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.17%) Banking
5 9 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.94%) Retail
7 7 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.32%) Marketing
8 6 (3.70%) Electronics
8 6 (3.70%) Games
9 5 (3.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.47%) Billing
10 4 (2.47%) Military
11 3 (1.85%) Law
11 3 (1.85%) Legal
11 3 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Local Government
13 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (53.70%) Lead
2 43 (26.54%) Developer
3 30 (18.52%) Lead Developer
4 25 (15.43%) Architect
5 24 (14.81%) Senior
6 17 (10.49%) Software Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Software Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Technical Leader
10 9 (5.56%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Lead C# Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.94%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) Lead Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.84%) .NET
2 17 (10.49%) React
3 12 (7.41%) RESTful
4 10 (6.17%) Spring
5 9 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.70%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.09%) CSS
7 5 (3.09%) HTML
7 5 (3.09%) Micronaut
8 4 (2.47%) Node.js
8 4 (2.47%) PySpark
8 4 (2.47%) Vue
9 3 (1.85%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.85%) CSS3
9 3 (1.85%) HTML5
9 3 (1.85%) Kafka
10 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (1.23%) Django
10 2 (1.23%) REST
10 2 (1.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 15 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.17%) Driving Licence
3 10 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (3.09%) Clustering
6 4 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.23%) SCADA
8 1 (0.62%) CMDB
8 1 (0.62%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (39.51%) Mentoring
2 50 (30.86%) Agile
3 40 (24.69%) Software Engineering
4 34 (20.99%) Coaching
4 34 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (19.14%) CI/CD
6 31 (19.14%) Microservices
7 29 (17.90%) Roadmaps
8 24 (14.81%) DevOps
9 23 (14.20%) AI
10 19 (11.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (11.11%) TDD
12 17 (10.49%) Clean Code
12 17 (10.49%) Containerisation
13 16 (9.88%) Systems Engineering
14 15 (9.26%) People Management
14 15 (9.26%) Test Automation
15 14 (8.64%) Collaborative Culture
16 13 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.07%) C#
2 27 (16.67%) Python
3 25 (15.43%) Java
4 22 (13.58%) SQL
5 15 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.02%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.56%) MATLAB
8 6 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.85%) Bash
9 3 (1.85%) C++
9 3 (1.85%) PHP
10 2 (1.23%) ABAP
10 2 (1.23%) Bicep
10 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.62%) Delphi
11 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (11.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (10.49%) Degree
3 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.47%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.85%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.23%) CISSP
6 2 (1.23%) HNC
6 2 (1.23%) HND
7 1 (0.62%) CCNP
7 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.41%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.47%) ISO 20022
2 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.47%) SEPA
2 4 (2.47%) TARGET2
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (11.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.64%) Terraform
3 3 (1.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.56%) Databricks
2 9 (5.56%) Oracle
3 3 (1.85%) IBM
4 2 (1.23%) Cisco
4 2 (1.23%) Foundry
4 2 (1.23%) Lotus
4 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (0.62%) Aruba
5 1 (0.62%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.62%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.62%) HP
5 1 (0.62%) IFS
5 1 (0.62%) Talend
5 1 (0.62%) UiPath
5 1 (0.62%) YouTube