Technical Leadership Jobs in the South West

Technical Leadership
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 108 146
Rank change year-on-year -8 +38 -23
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 62 239 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.75% 2.58% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.08% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 43 135 90
10th Percentile £48,894 £43,200 £35,483
25th Percentile £58,623 £55,646 £37,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £58,625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +10.87% -12.95%
75th Percentile £86,875 £81,250 £84,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,900 £115,500
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,311 7,748 6,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.29% 83.55% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 5,564 3,572
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 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 -7 26 £71,991 -0.70% 35
Devon +17 15 £53,365 +6.73% 5
Wiltshire +4 9 £64,627 -4.26% 14
Gloucestershire +22 6 £95,000 +54.47% 27
Somerset +5 4 £81,250 +116.67% 7
Cornwall +14 2 £34,500 -23.33%
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) NetWeaver
1 5 (8.06%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.61%) BASE24
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.03%) AWS
2 17 (27.42%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) IaaS
4 5 (8.06%) PaaS
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.84%) Serverless
5 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.23%) Datadog
6 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) OCI
7 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) 5G
1 8 (12.90%) SD-WAN
1 8 (12.90%) WAN
2 7 (11.29%) Firewall
3 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.45%) VLAN
5 3 (4.84%) BGP
5 3 (4.84%) DNS
5 3 (4.84%) VPN
6 2 (3.23%) Network Security
6 2 (3.23%) OSPF
7 1 (1.61%) ATM
7 1 (1.61%) DHCP
7 1 (1.61%) HSRP
7 1 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.06%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (8.06%) SAP BW
2 5 (8.06%) SAP Data Services
2 5 (8.06%) SAP HANA
3 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.61%) MySQL
4 1 (1.61%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) GitLab
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) VersaTest
General
1 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (29.03%) Finance
4 15 (24.19%) Electronics
5 9 (14.52%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (12.90%) Banking
6 8 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
8 6 (9.68%) Retail
9 5 (8.06%) Games
9 5 (8.06%) General Ledger
10 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
11 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (3.23%) Marketing
11 2 (3.23%) Retail Banking
11 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (45.16%) Lead
2 22 (35.48%) Senior
3 13 (20.97%) Technical Leader
4 8 (12.90%) Architect
4 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Project Leader
4 8 (12.90%) Senior Project Leader
4 8 (12.90%) Software Project Leader
4 8 (12.90%) Technical Project Leader
5 5 (8.06%) Team Leader
5 5 (8.06%) Unix Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Web Services
2 4 (6.45%) .NET
2 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.84%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.84%) PySpark
4 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.23%) Kafka
4 2 (3.23%) React
4 2 (3.23%) REST
4 2 (3.23%) RESTful
5 1 (1.61%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) Pandas
5 1 (1.61%) Spring
5 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Self-Driving Car
1 8 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.45%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Blog
4 1 (1.61%) CUDA
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.61%) EMV
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.06%) AIX
3 5 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.06%) Unix
4 4 (6.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (58.06%) Mentoring
2 27 (43.55%) Agile
3 26 (41.94%) Software Engineering
4 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (29.03%) Test Automation
6 17 (27.42%) DevOps
7 14 (22.58%) Computer Science
8 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (19.35%) Project Delivery
10 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
10 10 (16.13%) Programme Management
10 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
11 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (14.52%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (14.52%) Requirements Analysis
11 9 (14.52%) Service Delivery
12 8 (12.90%) Coaching
12 8 (12.90%) Product Management
12 8 (12.90%) Project Management
12 8 (12.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) Java
2 9 (14.52%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) C#
4 6 (9.68%) SQL
5 5 (8.06%) C
5 5 (8.06%) PHP
6 4 (6.45%) C++
6 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.61%) COBOL
7 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) Degree
3 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) CCNP
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.61%) CCNA
7 1 (1.61%) CISSP
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.61%) GCIA
7 1 (1.61%) GCIH
7 1 (1.61%) GIAC
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Snort
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Terraform
2 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.90%) Ansible
4 5 (8.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.23%) Grafana
6 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.23%) Puppet
7 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.61%) SCCM
7 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle
1 7 (11.29%) SAP
2 6 (9.68%) Databricks
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) IBM
4 4 (6.45%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) HP
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.61%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) VMware