Technical Leader Job Trends in the North West

Technical Lead
England > North West

The median Technical Lead salary in the North West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 199 184
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 18 34 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.52% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 14
10th Percentile £39,850 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,813 £45,625 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,800 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.55% -8.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91,563 £78,750 £67,875
90th Percentile £95,000 - £72,900
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,442 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.04% -11.25% +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 4,458 6,562 3,765
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.17% 94.83% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,649 3,636 2,868
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,807
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 West.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies 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 16 November 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 16 November 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
Manchester +25 8 £75,000 +21.16% 20
Merseyside +1 5 £75,000 -3.23% 1
Lancashire +22 3 £95,000 +137.50% 5
Cheshire -2 2 £28,000 -
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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 West region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) JSON
2 5 (27.78%) Middleware
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Debt
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) API Integration
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) CMS
3 4 (22.22%) CRM
3 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) HubSpot
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) NetSuite
3 4 (22.22%) Postman
3 4 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) Sales Enablement
3 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 4 (22.22%) Slack
3 4 (22.22%) Zapier
4 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Docker
4 3 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (22.22%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Slack
2 4 (22.22%) Zapier
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Google Ads
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Broadband
1 2 (11.11%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) ESLint
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Storybook
2 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 4 (22.22%) Legal
1 4 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Health
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) JSON
1 5 (27.78%) Middleware
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) JWT
3 2 (11.11%) Loki
3 2 (11.11%) Next.js
3 2 (11.11%) OAuth
3 2 (11.11%) React Native
4 1 (5.56%) Blazor
4 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) MassTransit
4 1 (5.56%) Material-UI
4 1 (5.56%) MediatR
4 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Debt
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) API Integration
2 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) CRM
2 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
2 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 4 (22.22%) Sales Enablement
3 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) HubSpot
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 3 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft