Technical Leadership Jobs in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 178 191
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -19
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 116 137 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.53% 1.19% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.50% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 109 86 62
10th Percentile £47,683 £41,250 £52,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,205 £70,288 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.99% +1.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,500 - £83,750
England median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.62% -6.45% +3.33%

All Process and 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 7,201 9,128 6,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.20% 79.61% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,596 6,631 3,840
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £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 £61,063 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £82,050
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 14 June 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 14 June 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 +27 63 £75,000 +7.14% 102
Lancashire -28 46 £50,000 -33.33% 11
Cheshire +2 5 £65,250 +9.66% 27
Merseyside +27 1 £75,000 - 6
Cumbria -55 1 £38,500 -45.68% 3
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.45%) IIS
2 2 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (34.48%) Microsoft Office
1 40 (34.48%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 46 (39.66%) AWS
2 20 (17.24%) Azure
3 13 (11.21%) GCP
4 9 (7.76%) Serverless
5 6 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.59%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.72%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.86%) IaaS
9 1 (0.86%) PaaS
9 1 (0.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) VPN
2 4 (3.45%) DHCP
2 4 (3.45%) DNS
2 4 (3.45%) WAN
3 3 (2.59%) Network Security
4 2 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.72%) Firewall
4 2 (1.72%) Junos
4 2 (1.72%) LAN
4 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.72%) TACACS
4 2 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.86%) Internet
5 1 (0.86%) NAS
5 1 (0.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) MongoDB
2 13 (11.21%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.59%) MySQL
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.86%) GIS
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Git
2 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.03%) GitLab
4 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.72%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.72%) JIRA
5 2 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 68 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 40 (34.48%) Aerospace
3 17 (14.66%) Finance
4 8 (6.90%) Banking
5 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.72%) Games
6 2 (1.72%) Legal
6 2 (1.72%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.86%) Automotive
7 1 (0.86%) Electronics
7 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.86%) Marketing
7 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (73.28%) Lead
2 47 (40.52%) Senior
3 41 (35.34%) Team Leader
4 40 (34.48%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 40 (34.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 40 (34.48%) Systems Engineer
5 18 (15.52%) Software Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) Technical Leader
8 9 (7.76%) Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.45%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.45%) AWS Software Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Lead .NET Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) React
2 15 (12.93%) Node.js
3 14 (12.07%) .NET
4 13 (11.21%) Kafka
5 11 (9.48%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.76%) Spring
7 7 (6.03%) CSS
7 7 (6.03%) HTML
7 7 (6.03%) Playwright
7 7 (6.03%) Vue
8 6 (5.17%) RESTful
9 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.31%) Blazor
9 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.45%) Jest
11 3 (2.59%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.59%) Laravel
11 3 (2.59%) Serverless Framework
12 2 (1.72%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Clustering
2 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.31%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.72%) Life Science
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.86%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) CentOS
2 4 (3.45%) Windows
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.86%) Android
3 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (55.17%) Agile
2 51 (43.97%) Coaching
3 41 (35.34%) Software Delivery
3 41 (35.34%) Software Engineering
4 40 (34.48%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 40 (34.48%) Project Management
4 40 (34.48%) Safety Engineering
4 40 (34.48%) SysML
4 40 (34.48%) System Testing
4 40 (34.48%) Systems Engineering
5 31 (26.72%) Mentoring
6 25 (21.55%) Business Continuity
6 25 (21.55%) Line Management
7 24 (20.69%) Microservices
7 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.97%) DevOps
9 20 (17.24%) Situational Awareness
10 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
11 15 (12.93%) Computer Science
12 13 (11.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.72%) JavaScript
2 26 (22.41%) Java
3 21 (18.10%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.34%) C#
5 10 (8.62%) SQL
6 6 (5.17%) Python
7 3 (2.59%) PHP
8 1 (0.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 44 (37.93%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (13.79%) Degree
3 15 (12.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.45%) CCNP
4 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.72%) CCIE
6 2 (1.72%) CCNA
6 2 (1.72%) CISSP
6 2 (1.72%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (10.34%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) Terraform
2 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.86%) Ansible
3 1 (0.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 48 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 40 (34.48%) MathWorks
3 6 (5.17%) VMware
4 5 (4.31%) Cisco
5 3 (2.59%) Google
6 2 (1.72%) Juniper
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle
7 1 (0.86%) Aruba
7 1 (0.86%) Dell
7 1 (0.86%) HP
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.86%) SAP