Technical Leadership Jobs in the South East

Technical Leadership
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 161 207
Rank change year-on-year +131 +46 +4
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 639 279 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.60% 1.58% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 1.90% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 482 219 131
10th Percentile - £46,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £61,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile - £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% -9.38% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South East.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Isle of Wight - 431 £70,600 - 4
Thames Valley +84 138 £82,500 +34.15% 62
Berkshire +102 110 £82,500 +32.00% 35
Hampshire +16 36 £75,000 -6.25% 34
Surrey +19 17 £80,000 +28.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +29 14 £65,250 +24.29% 13
Oxfordshire +1 14 £72,500 +17.89% 19
Middlesex - 8 - - 3
Kent +35 6 £78,250 +63.02% 6
East Sussex +24 2 £72,500 +55.91% 3
Sussex +18 1 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.47%) Appian
2 3 (0.47%) CMS
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (10.33%) Azure
2 32 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 23 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
3 23 (3.60%) SonarCloud
4 22 (3.44%) AWS
5 21 (3.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 14 (2.19%) GCP
7 8 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.10%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (0.78%) Serverless
10 4 (0.63%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.63%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.47%) MinIO
11 3 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) WAN
2 10 (1.56%) LAN
3 9 (1.41%) Junos
4 7 (1.10%) BGP
4 7 (1.10%) IPsec
4 7 (1.10%) MPLS
5 6 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (0.78%) VPN
7 3 (0.47%) DNS
7 3 (0.47%) Firewall
8 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.16%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.41%) Big Data
3 9 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.41%) Hadoop
4 8 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.16%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 377 (59.00%) Rational DOORS
2 30 (4.69%) Git
3 24 (3.76%) Visual Studio
4 23 (3.60%) MSBuild
4 23 (3.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 23 (3.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 21 (3.29%) JIRA
6 3 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.47%) Selenium
6 3 (0.47%) Snyk
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
General
1 416 (65.10%) Electronics
2 88 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 71 (11.11%) Law
4 61 (9.55%) Finance
5 24 (3.76%) Retail
6 21 (3.29%) Marketing
7 8 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 6 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.47%) Advertising
12 2 (0.31%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.16%) Automotive
13 1 (0.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Legal
13 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 359 (56.18%) Systems Engineer
2 214 (33.49%) Principal Engineer
3 207 (32.39%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 192 (30.05%) Senior
5 152 (23.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 90 (14.08%) Architect
7 65 (10.17%) Lead
8 33 (5.16%) Radar Engineer
9 26 (4.07%) Technical Architect
10 21 (3.29%) Enterprise Architect
10 21 (3.29%) Salesforce Architect
11 18 (2.82%) System Design Authority
12 16 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.88%) Software Engineer
14 11 (1.72%) Network Architect
15 9 (1.41%) Data Analytics Director
15 9 (1.41%) Senior Software Engineer
16 8 (1.25%) Senior Architect
17 7 (1.10%) Data Engineer
17 7 (1.10%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.20%) REST
2 26 (4.07%) .NET
3 24 (3.76%) ASP.NET
3 24 (3.76%) CSS
3 24 (3.76%) HTML
3 24 (3.76%) JSON
3 24 (3.76%) XML
4 23 (3.60%) Bootstrap
4 23 (3.60%) gRPC
5 22 (3.44%) Middleware
5 22 (3.44%) SOAP
6 21 (3.29%) Lightning Web Components
7 20 (3.13%) Kafka
8 8 (1.25%) React
9 3 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.31%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.31%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.31%) Node.js
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 407 (63.69%) Algorithms
2 42 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 12 (1.88%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 6 (0.94%) Life Science
8 6 (0.94%) SCADA
9 3 (0.47%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.47%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.31%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.31%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.16%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.16%) CUDA
11 1 (0.16%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.16%) FPGA
11 1 (0.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.10%) Linux
2 5 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (67.45%) Systems Engineering
2 406 (63.54%) Signal Processing
3 206 (32.24%) Test Planning
4 149 (23.32%) Mentoring
5 126 (19.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 78 (12.21%) Agile
6 78 (12.21%) DevOps
7 74 (11.58%) Microservices
8 65 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (10.02%) Computer Science
10 60 (9.39%) Data Modelling
11 58 (9.08%) Architectural Design
12 55 (8.61%) CI/CD
13 49 (7.67%) Data Management
14 47 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (7.20%) Design Patterns
16 45 (7.04%) Analytics
17 41 (6.42%) Thought Leadership
18 36 (5.63%) Data Architecture
19 35 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (15.81%) R
2 48 (7.51%) SQL
3 39 (6.10%) C#
4 29 (4.54%) Python
5 28 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.29%) Apex Code
7 16 (2.50%) Java
8 9 (1.41%) C
8 9 (1.41%) C++
9 8 (1.25%) Scala
10 5 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.47%) Bash
11 3 (0.47%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.16%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 433 (67.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 107 (16.74%) Degree
3 37 (5.79%) Master's Degree
4 36 (5.63%) Security Cleared
5 34 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.85%) SC Cleared
7 19 (2.97%) Chartered Engineer
8 11 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.41%) CCNA
10 9 (1.41%) CCNP
10 9 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.10%) JNCIS
12 6 (0.94%) PhD
13 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.31%) JNCIA
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (64.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 35 (5.48%) GDPR
3 25 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.78%) SLA
6 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.16%) MISRA
7 1 (0.16%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.16%) QA
System Software
1 29 (4.54%) Docker
2 6 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Firmware
4 2 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 7 (1.10%) Terraform
2 6 (0.94%) Ansible
3 3 (0.47%) Grafana
3 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 396 (61.97%) IBM
2 21 (3.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.29%) Salesforce
2 21 (3.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 20 (3.13%) SAP
4 10 (1.56%) Google
5 9 (1.41%) Cisco
5 9 (1.41%) Juniper
6 6 (0.94%) Rockwell
6 6 (0.94%) Siemens
7 5 (0.78%) Guidewire
7 5 (0.78%) VMware
8 4 (0.63%) Databricks
9 3 (0.47%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.47%) Black Duck
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle
9 3 (0.47%) UiPath
10 1 (0.16%) Citrix
10 1 (0.16%) Commvault
10 1 (0.16%) EMC