Technical Leadership Job Trends in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 148 104
Rank change year-on-year +49 -44 +69
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 86 59 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.40% 1.13% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.26% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 59 39 65
10th Percentile £54,793 £52,500 £45,224
25th Percentile £57,875 £56,323 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -1.36% -0.79%
75th Percentile £84,247 £75,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,180 £96,539
England median annual salary £81,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,141 4,689 3,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.40% 90.17% 89.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 2,328 2,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 West

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 December 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 +43 50 £72,500 +4.69% 137
Cheshire 0 16 £75,000 +50.00% 60
Lancashire +22 15 £55,900 -11.10% 29
Cumbria +4 4 £68,000 -
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 3 (3.49%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.21%) Azure
2 20 (23.26%) AWS
3 12 (13.95%) SaaS
4 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.81%) GitHub
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.65%) GCP
8 3 (3.49%) Serverless
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.16%) PaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.49%) MySQL
4 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Git
1 2 (2.33%) GitLab
1 2 (2.33%) Selenium
2 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (23.26%) Finance
2 10 (11.63%) Banking
2 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.81%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.65%) Billing
5 4 (4.65%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.65%) Games
5 4 (4.65%) Military
5 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.49%) Electronics
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
7 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Local Government
8 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (55.81%) Lead
2 23 (26.74%) Developer
3 17 (19.77%) Lead Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Senior
5 11 (12.79%) Architect
5 11 (12.79%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) .NET Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Lead .NET Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Team Leader
8 5 (5.81%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Payments Architect
10 3 (3.49%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Lead C# Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.40%) .NET
2 7 (8.14%) React
3 5 (5.81%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.65%) CSS
4 4 (4.65%) HTML
4 4 (4.65%) RESTful
5 3 (3.49%) Kafka
5 3 (3.49%) Node.js
6 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.33%) Blazor
6 2 (2.33%) CSS3
6 2 (2.33%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.33%) HTML5
6 2 (2.33%) Spring
6 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.33%) Vue
7 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.16%) NestJS
7 1 (1.16%) Playwright
7 1 (1.16%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.47%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.81%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.81%) Clustering
5 4 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.33%) SCADA
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.16%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.37%) Agile
2 32 (37.21%) Mentoring
3 20 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (22.09%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.09%) Microservices
5 18 (20.93%) Software Engineering
6 16 (18.60%) Coaching
6 16 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.12%) Systems Engineering
8 12 (13.95%) AI
8 12 (13.95%) Clean Code
8 12 (13.95%) Roadmaps
9 10 (11.63%) Performance Engineering
9 10 (11.63%) TDD
10 9 (10.47%) Decision-Making
10 9 (10.47%) DevOps
11 8 (9.30%) MODAF
11 8 (9.30%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 8 (9.30%) People Management
11 8 (9.30%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) C#
2 9 (10.47%) Java
2 9 (10.47%) MATLAB
3 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
3 8 (9.30%) Python
4 6 (6.98%) SQL
5 5 (5.81%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.16%) ABAP
7 1 (1.16%) C++
7 1 (1.16%) Go
7 1 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) BPSS Clearance
1 16 (18.60%) Degree
2 3 (3.49%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.33%) CISSP
3 2 (2.33%) HNC
3 2 (2.33%) HND
3 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.65%) ISO 20022
2 4 (4.65%) SEPA
2 4 (4.65%) TARGET2
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (10.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) Oracle
3 1 (1.16%) Cisco
3 1 (1.16%) Databricks
3 1 (1.16%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (1.16%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.16%) Foundry
3 1 (1.16%) HP
3 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.16%) SAP
3 1 (1.16%) YouTube