Technical Leadership Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 131 132
Rank change year-on-year +50 +1 -35
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 92 56 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.10% 1.72% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.84% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 37 41 72
10th Percentile £58,250 £61,000 £47,037
25th Percentile £66,410 £63,750 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 - £112,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,433 3,039 4,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.50% 93.22% 87.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,966 1,282 3,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,525 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Berkshire +16 62 £70,000 -15.15% 16
Buckinghamshire +6 19 £75,000 +14.50% 8
Oxfordshire +15 11 £86,250 -4.17% 12
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Camunda
3 1 (1.09%) CMS
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 42 (45.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.65%) Azure
2 10 (10.87%) AWS
3 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.61%) GCP
3 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.52%) SaaS
5 5 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (5.43%) GitHub
5 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.09%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.70%) Firewall
2 5 (5.43%) VPN
3 4 (4.35%) WAN
4 3 (3.26%) DNS
5 2 (2.17%) LAN
5 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.09%) BGP
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.09%) DHCP
6 1 (1.09%) HTTP
6 1 (1.09%) MPLS
6 1 (1.09%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.09%) S/MIME
6 1 (1.09%) SNMP
6 1 (1.09%) VLAN
6 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
1 3 (3.26%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.09%) Metadata
3 1 (1.09%) Power BI
3 1 (1.09%) SAS EBI
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
1 8 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.26%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
General
1 64 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 48 (52.17%) Finance
3 43 (46.74%) Manufacturing
4 39 (42.39%) Marketing
5 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Law
7 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (56.52%) Senior
2 40 (43.48%) Analyst
2 40 (43.48%) Senior Analyst
3 39 (42.39%) SAP Analyst
4 20 (21.74%) Lead
5 18 (19.57%) Architect
6 7 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (6.52%) Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Lead Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 2 (2.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Photocopier Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.26%) HTML
2 3 (3.26%) JSON
2 3 (3.26%) Node.js
2 3 (3.26%) SAPUI5
3 2 (2.17%) .NET
3 2 (2.17%) RESTful
4 1 (1.09%) Kafka
4 1 (1.09%) OLE
4 1 (1.09%) React
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.35%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.26%) PKI
5 3 (3.26%) PMI
6 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Windows
1 8 (8.70%) Windows Server
2 5 (5.43%) VMS
3 2 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.35%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (45.65%) Architectural Design
3 41 (44.57%) Data Management
4 39 (42.39%) Data Collection
4 39 (42.39%) Decision Quality
4 39 (42.39%) Impact Analysis
4 39 (42.39%) Incident Management
4 39 (42.39%) Logistics
4 39 (42.39%) Quality Management
4 39 (42.39%) SAP Implementation
4 39 (42.39%) Translating Business Requirements
4 39 (42.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (16.30%) DevOps
6 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
7 11 (11.96%) Agile
7 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.78%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.70%) Migration
10 7 (7.61%) Coaching
10 7 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) SQL
2 8 (8.70%) Java
3 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.52%) Python
4 5 (5.43%) Bash
5 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.26%) ABAP
6 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Degree
2 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (3.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) MCSE
5 2 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CEH
6 1 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) GIAC
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.26%) Def Stans
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) NIST
4 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
4 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
2 5 (5.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Terraform
2 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) vRealize
3 1 (1.09%) Endace
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.09%) Nessus
Vendors
1 42 (45.65%) SAP
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.61%) VMware
4 5 (5.43%) Databricks
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.26%) Workday
6 2 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (1.09%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.09%) Cisco
7 1 (1.09%) F5
7 1 (1.09%) HP
7 1 (1.09%) Juniper
7 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.09%) Pega
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Siemens
7 1 (1.09%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.09%) Thales
7 1 (1.09%) Veeam