Technical Leader Jobs in Reading

Technical Lead
Berkshire > Reading

The median Technical Lead salary in Reading is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 102 125
Rank change year-on-year +42 +23 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 3 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.56% 0.75% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.80% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £76,500 - -
25th Percentile £76,875 £60,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.46% +47.65% -39.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £67,500 £80,500
90th Percentile - £70,500 £83,200
Berkshire median annual salary £68,750 £62,750 £43,750
% change year-on-year +9.56% +43.43% -39.66%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 471 1,509 1,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.20% 94.61% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 283 857 731
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,050
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.98% -3.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Reading

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Reading.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in Reading

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 3 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 Reading region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Biometrics
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) CSS

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Biometrics
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Presales
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) HIPAA