Technical Leadership Job Trends in Southampton

Technical Leadership
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 61 49
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 2 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.37% 0.54% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.65% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £64,085 - £57,400
25th Percentile £65,488 £71,250 £71,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,075 £72,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -23.68% +52.00%
75th Percentile £73,913 £74,375 -
90th Percentile £76,065 £74,750 -
Hampshire median annual salary £73,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% - +22.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 463 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 77.63% 83.27% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 297 333 321
10th Percentile £29,900 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £61,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Southampton

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Southampton over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Southampton

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce