Technical Leader Jobs in the North West

Technical Lead
England > North West

The median Technical Lead salary in the North West is £63,519 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 186 237
Rank change year-on-year -39 +51 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 55 86 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.97% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.02% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36 65 22
10th Percentile - £51,950 £54,125
25th Percentile £54,793 £68,750 £61,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,519 £79,932 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +12.19% -10.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £79,932 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% +6.58% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 6,799 8,448 5,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 95.46% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,531 5,706 3,527
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £78,988 £81,900
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the North West over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Lancashire -45 29 £54,793 -31.45% 2
Manchester +3 19 £70,000 -12.50% 4
Merseyside +10 3 £88,750 +14.52% 2
Cumbria -41 2 - -
Cheshire - 2 £28,000 - 1
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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 West region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 29 (52.73%) Supply Chain Management
1 29 (52.73%) BPSS Clearance
1 29 (52.73%) Systems Engineering
2 13 (23.64%) AWS
3 12 (21.82%) DevOps
3 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
4 11 (20.00%) Microservices
4 11 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (18.18%) Coaching
5 10 (18.18%) Terraform
6 8 (14.55%) Azure
6 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
6 8 (14.55%) Java
7 7 (12.73%) Kafka
8 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
8 6 (10.91%) Software Architecture
8 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
8 6 (10.91%) User Experience
8 6 (10.91%) GitLab
8 6 (10.91%) Docker
8 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Technical Debt
9 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
9 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
10 4 (7.27%) Roadmaps
10 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (7.27%) People Management
10 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
10 4 (7.27%) Grafana
10 4 (7.27%) Problem-Solving

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

Cloud Services
1 13 (23.64%) AWS
2 8 (14.55%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.45%) Serverless
4 2 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (3.64%) Google Ads
4 2 (3.64%) Yarn
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Broadband
1 2 (3.64%) VoIP
2 1 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) VLAN
2 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) GitLab
1 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.64%) ESLint
2 2 (3.64%) Storybook
2 2 (3.64%) webpack
3 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.64%) Finance
2 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.82%) Digital Health
3 1 (1.82%) Legal
3 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Kafka
2 4 (7.27%) .NET
3 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.45%) JWT
3 3 (5.45%) Laravel
3 3 (5.45%) Loki
3 3 (5.45%) Next.js
3 3 (5.45%) OAuth
3 3 (5.45%) React Native
3 3 (5.45%) Serverless Framework
3 3 (5.45%) Vue
4 2 (3.64%) Jest
4 2 (3.64%) JSON
4 2 (3.64%) MassTransit
4 2 (3.64%) Material-UI
4 2 (3.64%) MediatR
4 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.64%) React
4 2 (3.64%) REST
5 1 (1.82%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
1 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.82%) CentOS
2 1 (1.82%) Debian
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) Supply Chain Management
1 29 (52.73%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (21.82%) DevOps
2 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
3 11 (20.00%) Microservices
3 11 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (18.18%) Coaching
5 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (10.91%) Software Architecture
6 6 (10.91%) User Experience
7 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.09%) Technical Debt
8 4 (7.27%) Event-Driven
8 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.27%) People Management
8 4 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.27%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.45%) Front End Development
9 3 (5.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) Java
2 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.45%) C#
4 3 (5.45%) PHP
4 3 (5.45%) Python
4 3 (5.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.82%) Bash
5 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (52.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Grafana
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.82%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Google
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft