Technical Leadership Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Technical Leadership
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 39 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 8 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 2.01% - 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% - 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - £63,750
25th Percentile £62,500 - £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile £75,625 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -14.97% +27.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 384 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 78.70% 86.10% 87.32%
Number of salaries quoted 221 145 302
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,400
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Northamptonshire

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton - 7 £65,000 - 11
Technical Leadership
East Midlands

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Redis
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SAS EBI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
1 4 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Business Development
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks