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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 158 205
Rank change year-on-year +115 +47 -5
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 493 288 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.23% 1.71% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 2.03% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 397 224 143
10th Percentile - £46,930 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £58,250 £61,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £68,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% -9.00% +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 8,645 14,205 13,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.79% 84.51% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,288 9,899 8,009
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,837 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.67% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 13 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 13 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 - 301 £70,600 - 15
Thames Valley +77 124 £82,500 +34.15% 71
Berkshire +94 99 £82,500 +26.92% 40
Hampshire +3 37 £75,000 -6.25% 41
Surrey +20 15 £75,000 +20.00% 21
Oxfordshire -6 13 £65,000 +5.69% 17
Buckinghamshire +26 12 £64,500 +22.86% 21
Middlesex - 7 - - 4
Kent +39 6 £78,250 +63.02% 11
East Sussex +28 2 £72,500 +55.91% 4
Sussex +17 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 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.41%) CMS
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 55 (11.16%) Azure
2 28 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (4.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 24 (4.87%) Azure Service Bus
3 24 (4.87%) SonarCloud
4 21 (4.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 9 (1.83%) AWS
6 6 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.22%) GCP
7 4 (0.81%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.61%) SaaS
9 2 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.41%) Datadog
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.20%) Boomi
10 1 (0.20%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.20%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.20%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.62%) WAN
2 7 (1.42%) BGP
2 7 (1.42%) IPsec
2 7 (1.42%) Junos
2 7 (1.42%) LAN
2 7 (1.42%) MPLS
3 6 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.20%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.22%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.41%) Big Data
4 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 274 (55.58%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (5.88%) Git
3 25 (5.07%) Visual Studio
4 24 (4.87%) MSBuild
4 24 (4.87%) Octopus Deploy
4 24 (4.87%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.61%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) GitLab
6 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 307 (62.27%) Electronics
2 70 (14.20%) Social Skills
3 65 (13.18%) Law
4 55 (11.16%) Finance
5 25 (5.07%) Retail
6 21 (4.26%) Marketing
7 8 (1.62%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (0.81%) Banking
9 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.61%) Advertising
11 2 (0.41%) Games
11 2 (0.41%) Military
11 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Legal
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (55.58%) Systems Engineer
2 164 (33.27%) Senior
3 154 (31.24%) Principal Engineer
4 148 (30.02%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 126 (25.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 87 (17.65%) Architect
7 61 (12.37%) Lead
8 26 (5.27%) Technical Architect
9 22 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
10 21 (4.26%) Salesforce Architect
11 13 (2.64%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) Radar Engineer
13 11 (2.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (1.62%) Network Architect
14 8 (1.62%) Senior Architect
15 7 (1.42%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (1.42%) Data Engineer
15 7 (1.42%) Senior Data Engineer
16 5 (1.01%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.53%) REST
2 29 (5.88%) .NET
3 25 (5.07%) ASP.NET
3 25 (5.07%) CSS
3 25 (5.07%) HTML
4 24 (4.87%) Bootstrap
4 24 (4.87%) gRPC
4 24 (4.87%) JSON
4 24 (4.87%) XML
5 22 (4.46%) Middleware
5 22 (4.46%) SOAP
6 21 (4.26%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.83%) Kafka
8 6 (1.22%) React
9 3 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.41%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.41%) RESTful
10 2 (0.41%) Web Services
11 1 (0.20%) ADO.NET
11 1 (0.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 298 (60.45%) Algorithms
2 42 (8.52%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (1.83%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.01%) Operational Technology
7 4 (0.81%) Life Science
7 4 (0.81%) SCADA
8 3 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.41%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.41%) Online Games
10 1 (0.20%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.20%) CUDA
10 1 (0.20%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.20%) FPGA
10 1 (0.20%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.20%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.42%) Linux
1 7 (1.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (61.05%) Systems Engineering
2 297 (60.24%) Signal Processing
3 147 (29.82%) Test Planning
4 140 (28.40%) Mentoring
5 126 (25.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 71 (14.40%) Microservices
7 68 (13.79%) DevOps
8 62 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (11.16%) Computer Science
10 51 (10.34%) Data Modelling
11 50 (10.14%) Agile
12 47 (9.53%) Data Management
12 47 (9.53%) Design Patterns
13 46 (9.33%) CI/CD
14 41 (8.32%) Thought Leadership
15 37 (7.51%) Analytics
16 33 (6.69%) Architectural Design
17 29 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (5.88%) Data Architecture
17 29 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.49%) R
2 41 (8.32%) C#
3 38 (7.71%) SQL
4 28 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.67%) Python
6 21 (4.26%) Apex Code
7 19 (3.85%) Java
8 12 (2.43%) C++
9 10 (2.03%) C
10 7 (1.42%) Scala
11 3 (0.61%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.20%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 303 (61.46%) BPSS Clearance
2 78 (15.82%) Degree
3 33 (6.69%) Security Cleared
4 32 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.48%) Master's Degree
6 26 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.42%) CCNA
7 7 (1.42%) CCNP
7 7 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.42%) JNCIS
8 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.61%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (60.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 27 (5.48%) GDPR
3 24 (4.87%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.01%) SLA
5 3 (0.61%) QA
6 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (5.48%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.61%) Firmware
4 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.61%) Grafana
4 2 (0.41%) Ansible
4 2 (0.41%) Terraform
4 2 (0.41%) WMI
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 293 (59.43%) IBM
2 21 (4.26%) Salesforce
2 21 (4.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 20 (4.06%) SAP
4 18 (3.65%) Microsoft
5 7 (1.42%) Cisco
5 7 (1.42%) Juniper
6 4 (0.81%) Databricks
6 4 (0.81%) Rockwell
6 4 (0.81%) Siemens
7 3 (0.61%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.41%) Google
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle
8 2 (0.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.20%) Citrix
9 1 (0.20%) EMC
9 1 (0.20%) Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir
9 1 (0.20%) Progress
9 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow