Technical Leadership Job Trends in the South East

Technical Leadership
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 82 164
Rank change year-on-year +5 +82 +56
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 357 280 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.25% 3.25% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 3.67% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 263 151 197
10th Percentile £46,448 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,600 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +0.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +10.34% -4.04%

All Process & 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 11,377 7,629 13,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.68% 88.45% 81.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,116 4,024 9,174
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,788 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the South East

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South East over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

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 19 July 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
Hampshire +25 129 £72,500 +3.57% 42
Thames Valley -26 89 £70,000 -9.68% 51
Surrey +23 67 £57,500 -36.11% 15
Oxfordshire 0 31 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Berkshire -49 31 £70,000 -15.15% 22
Buckinghamshire -7 27 £65,000 - 14
West Sussex +2 24 £75,700 -10.94% 3
East Sussex +2 17 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Kent -10 17 £42,500 -34.11% 3
Isle of Wight -16 7 £66,300 -6.09% 1
Sussex -6 4 £70,000 -6.67% 1
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 36 (10.08%) SharePoint
2 31 (8.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.40%) Confluence
4 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Camunda
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (4.20%) CATIA
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) HFM
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (29.97%) Azure
2 56 (15.69%) AWS
3 48 (13.45%) SaaS
4 46 (12.89%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (10.64%) Entra ID
6 30 (8.40%) Mimecast
7 14 (3.92%) GCP
8 13 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.80%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.24%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.24%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.96%) Serverless
12 5 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.12%) GitHub
13 4 (1.12%) PaaS
14 3 (0.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.84%) VPN
2 25 (7.00%) Firewall
3 21 (5.88%) WAN
4 17 (4.76%) DNS
5 15 (4.20%) DHCP
6 13 (3.64%) LAN
6 13 (3.64%) VLAN
7 11 (3.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (2.52%) Network Security
9 8 (2.24%) NGFW
9 8 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.96%) BGP
11 6 (1.68%) HTTP
11 6 (1.68%) MPLS
11 6 (1.68%) SNMP
11 6 (1.68%) Wireless
12 5 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (1.40%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.12%) Internet
14 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (3.64%) Redis
4 12 (3.36%) Metadata
5 8 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.56%) Power BI
10 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.28%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 47 (13.17%) JIRA
2 36 (10.08%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (2.24%) Git
3 8 (2.24%) LabVIEW
4 4 (1.12%) Apache Continuum
5 3 (0.84%) JUnit
5 3 (0.84%) Mockito
5 3 (0.84%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.84%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.56%) Postman
6 2 (0.56%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.28%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.61%) Finance
3 55 (15.41%) Aerospace
4 33 (9.24%) Legal
5 16 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.48%) Electronics
6 12 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.96%) Military
9 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Avionics
11 2 (0.56%) Games
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
11 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.28%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.28%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 106 (29.69%) Systems Engineer
2 94 (26.33%) Lead
3 88 (24.65%) Senior
4 55 (15.41%) Architect
5 44 (12.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 39 (10.92%) Principal Engineer
7 33 (9.24%) Support Engineer
8 31 (8.68%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 30 (8.40%) Developer
10 24 (6.72%) Software Engineer
11 22 (6.16%) Lead Developer
12 21 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 21 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
12 21 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 19 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (4.48%) Software Developer
16 15 (4.20%) Lead Systems Engineer
16 15 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.84%) Node.js
2 19 (5.32%) React
3 15 (4.20%) Vue
4 10 (2.80%) .NET
5 7 (1.96%) REST
6 5 (1.40%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (1.40%) SPFx
7 4 (1.12%) HTML
7 4 (1.12%) Qt
7 4 (1.12%) Spring
7 4 (1.12%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.84%) AWS SAM
8 3 (0.84%) CSS
8 3 (0.84%) JPA
8 3 (0.84%) PySpark
8 3 (0.84%) RESTful
8 3 (0.84%) Serverless Framework
8 3 (0.84%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.88%) Acoustics
2 18 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.20%) Embedded Systems
4 13 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.52%) Fibre Optics
7 8 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.24%) PKI
8 7 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (1.12%) FPGA
12 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.84%) Windows
2 19 (5.32%) Linux
3 16 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.84%) Debian
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.65%) Software Engineering
2 72 (20.17%) Mentoring
3 71 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (18.77%) Change Management
5 58 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 55 (15.41%) Systems Engineering
7 53 (14.85%) Agile
8 46 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (12.61%) AI
10 44 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (12.32%) Workflow
11 36 (10.08%) Validation
12 35 (9.80%) DevOps
13 34 (9.52%) Incident Management
14 33 (9.24%) Roadmaps
15 31 (8.68%) Identity Management
16 30 (8.40%) Full-Stack Development
17 27 (7.56%) Computer Science
17 27 (7.56%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 44 (12.32%) Python
2 36 (10.08%) JavaScript
3 31 (8.68%) TypeScript
4 29 (8.12%) R
5 27 (7.56%) SQL
6 18 (5.04%) C#
7 17 (4.76%) C++
8 13 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.36%) C
10 8 (2.24%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.68%) Java
12 5 (1.40%) Bicep
13 3 (0.84%) Julia
13 3 (0.84%) Rust
14 2 (0.56%) Bash
14 2 (0.56%) PHP
15 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.28%) Ruby
15 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (22.13%) Degree
2 62 (17.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 44 (12.32%) Security Cleared
4 41 (11.48%) Chartered Engineer
5 26 (7.28%) SC Cleared
6 25 (7.00%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.48%) Master's Degree
9 11 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (3.08%) PhD
10 9 (2.52%) CCNP
11 7 (1.96%) HNC
11 7 (1.96%) HND
11 7 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (1.68%) CCNA
13 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.56%) ICAEW
15 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 16 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.80%) NCSC
5 8 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 7 (1.96%) SLA
7 5 (1.40%) QA
8 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.12%) NIST
9 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.84%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.84%) MISRA
10 2 (0.56%) GDPR
10 2 (0.56%) WCAG
11 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.32%) Docker
3 10 (2.80%) Firmware
3 10 (2.80%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) UAG
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (10.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (4.20%) Terraform
3 14 (3.92%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.68%) Endace
5 3 (0.84%) Ansible
5 3 (0.84%) Puppet
5 3 (0.84%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.56%) Argo
6 2 (0.56%) Grafana
6 2 (0.56%) Istio
6 2 (0.56%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.56%) WSUS
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 75 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.12%) CrowdStrike
3 21 (5.88%) Cisco
4 18 (5.04%) VMware
5 17 (4.76%) IBM
6 15 (4.20%) Databricks
7 13 (3.64%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.96%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.96%) WatchGuard
9 6 (1.68%) F5
9 6 (1.68%) Juniper
9 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.12%) Aruba
10 4 (1.12%) Google
10 4 (1.12%) Oracle
10 4 (1.12%) Sparx
11 3 (0.84%) Meraki
11 3 (0.84%) Sophos
11 3 (0.84%) Veeam
12 2 (0.56%) Commvault