Technical Leader Jobs in the South West

Technical Lead
England > South West

The median Technical Lead salary in the South West is £75,000 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 156 225 216
Rank change year-on-year +69 -9 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 23 66 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.65% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.70% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 13 44 41
10th Percentile £57,750 £40,900 £38,353
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,374 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +13.09% -26.72%
75th Percentile £111,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £82,500 £80,627
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,318 9,419 5,898
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.16% 88.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,948 6,904 3,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,808 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the South West.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the South West 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
Bristol +61 12 £73,750 +13.46% 11
Devon +7 8 - - 2
Dorset +35 2 - - 1
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Mentoring
3 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (52.17%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (43.48%) Programme Management
5 9 (39.13%) Degree
5 9 (39.13%) Computer Science
5 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
5 9 (39.13%) Product Management
6 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (34.78%) Waterfall
6 8 (34.78%) Requirements Analysis
6 8 (34.78%) Electronics
6 8 (34.78%) Validation
6 8 (34.78%) WAN
6 8 (34.78%) B2B
6 8 (34.78%) Project Management
6 8 (34.78%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (34.78%) Project Delivery
6 8 (34.78%) Conflict Resolution
6 8 (34.78%) SD-WAN
6 8 (34.78%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (34.78%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (34.78%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (34.78%) PMO
6 8 (34.78%) Creative Thinking
6 8 (34.78%) Innovative Thinking
6 8 (34.78%) Defect Tracking

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) GCP
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) Boomi
3 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) 5G
1 8 (34.78%) SD-WAN
1 8 (34.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
General
1 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Electronics
2 8 (34.78%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) Games
5 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.70%) Banking
6 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.70%) Law
7 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) CSS
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
1 2 (8.70%) LAMP
1 2 (8.70%) Laravel
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Self-Driving Car
1 8 (34.78%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.04%) Reinsurance
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Mentoring
3 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (52.17%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (43.48%) Programme Management
5 9 (39.13%) Computer Science
5 9 (39.13%) Product Management
5 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
6 8 (34.78%) B2B
6 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (34.78%) Creative Thinking
6 8 (34.78%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (34.78%) Defect Tracking
6 8 (34.78%) Innovative Thinking
6 8 (34.78%) Project Delivery
6 8 (34.78%) Project Management
6 8 (34.78%) Requirements Analysis
6 8 (34.78%) Validation
6 8 (34.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PHP
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) PMO
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.35%) NIST
4 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) SnapLogic
2 1 (4.35%) Twitter