Technical Leadership Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +24
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 6 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.96% 0.36% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.41% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £71,884 £67,125 £53,038
25th Percentile £78,768 £68,438 £53,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,255 £71,250 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +21.06% +22.92% -10.82%
75th Percentile £144,375 £73,438 £69,120
90th Percentile £172,500 £74,375 £74,148
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.58% -16.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 488 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 73.41% 88.73% 85.06%
Number of salaries quoted 342 185 424
10th Percentile £26,500 £34,550 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,307 £82,500 £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in South Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Sheffield +10 6 £86,255 +15.01% 15
Technical Leadership
Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Python Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Tech Ops
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform