Technical Leadership Jobs in South Wales

Technical Leadership
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 97 102
Rank change year-on-year +79 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 74 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.90% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 0.83% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 67 8 2
10th Percentile - £52,361 £52,625
25th Percentile £62,000 £52,436 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £59,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.66% +1.28% +6.44%
75th Percentile - £72,433 £62,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,583 £63,875
Wales median annual salary £70,600 £59,500 £62,742
% change year-on-year +18.66% -5.17% +15.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 743 1,199 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.30% 76.52% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 446 783 557
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,029 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -0.99% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,750 £60,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,433 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in South Wales

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in South Wales

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in South Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in South Wales

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
Newport +19 70 £70,600 +34.00% 58
Cardiff +32 4 £70,000 -0.82% 52
Technical Leadership
Wales

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (4.05%) CMS
1 3 (4.05%) Confluence
1 3 (4.05%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.41%) Azure
2 3 (4.05%) AWS
2 3 (4.05%) Contentful
2 3 (4.05%) GCP
2 3 (4.05%) Serverless
3 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 60 (81.08%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (8.11%) JIRA
3 4 (5.41%) Git
4 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.35%) Appium
5 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.35%) JMeter
5 1 (1.35%) JUnit
5 1 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.35%) Maven
5 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.35%) Selenium
5 1 (1.35%) TestNG
General
1 65 (87.84%) Electronics
2 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (77.03%) Systems Engineer
2 33 (44.59%) Principal Engineer
2 33 (44.59%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 24 (32.43%) Senior
3 24 (32.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Radar Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Developer
5 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (4.05%) System Design Authority
6 1 (1.35%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) REST
2 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.05%) Bootstrap
2 3 (4.05%) CSS
2 3 (4.05%) Express.js
2 3 (4.05%) GraphQL
2 3 (4.05%) hapi
2 3 (4.05%) HTML
2 3 (4.05%) NestJS
2 3 (4.05%) Node.js
2 3 (4.05%) OpenLayers
2 3 (4.05%) React
2 3 (4.05%) React Native
2 3 (4.05%) Vue
3 1 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (87.84%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (94.59%) Systems Engineering
2 65 (87.84%) Signal Processing
3 33 (44.59%) Test Planning
4 20 (27.03%) Mentoring
5 17 (22.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (10.81%) Architectural Design
7 7 (9.46%) Agile
8 4 (5.41%) CI/CD
9 3 (4.05%) API Development
9 3 (4.05%) Configuration Management
9 3 (4.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (4.05%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (4.05%) Microservices
9 3 (4.05%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (4.05%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (4.05%) Sprint Retrospective
9 3 (4.05%) TDD
9 3 (4.05%) Waterfall
10 2 (2.70%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) R
2 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.35%) Groovy
4 1 (1.35%) Java
4 1 (1.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 70 (94.59%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.76%) Degree
3 3 (4.05%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (90.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
Vendors
1 60 (81.08%) IBM
2 3 (4.05%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.05%) Google