Technical Leader Jobs in Reading

Technical Lead
Berkshire > Reading

The median Technical Lead salary in Reading is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 113 113
Rank change year-on-year +49 0 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 4 15 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.78% 0.82% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.86% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 10
10th Percentile £70,300 - -
25th Percentile £74,125 £60,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £65,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +52.94% -22.52%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £43,750
90th Percentile - £107,000 £80,950
Berkshire median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% +52.94% -22.52%

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 428 1,738 1,437
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.27% 94.71% 93.92%
Number of salaries quoted 230 1,079 751
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £77,188 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,250 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.70% -

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
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Reading over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 (75.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (75.00%) SOC 2
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates

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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) ETRM
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform