Technical Leadership Jobs in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 150 164
Rank change year-on-year +88 +14 +39
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 137 101 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.03% 1.44% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 1.72% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 49 75 54
10th Percentile £57,500 £46,447 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £49,250 £61,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £61,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -23.13% +4.92%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £99,688
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,750 £114,250
South East median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 3,183 5,889 5,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.65% 83.89% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 3,933 3,027
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Berkshire +106 110 £82,500 +32.00% 241
Buckinghamshire +23 14 £65,250 +24.29% 112
Oxfordshire +1 13 £80,000 +30.08% 66
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (6.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.46%) CMS
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.47%) Azure
2 21 (15.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 21 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
2 21 (15.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 21 (15.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 21 (15.33%) SonarCloud
3 17 (12.41%) AWS
4 13 (9.49%) GCP
5 8 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.92%) Serverless
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) WAN
2 6 (4.38%) LAN
3 5 (3.65%) BGP
3 5 (3.65%) IPsec
3 5 (3.65%) Junos
3 5 (3.65%) MPLS
4 4 (2.92%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.19%) DNS
5 3 (2.19%) Firewall
5 3 (2.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (6.57%) Big Data
2 9 (6.57%) Data Lake
2 9 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.57%) Hadoop
2 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (16.06%) Visual Studio
2 21 (15.33%) Git
2 21 (15.33%) MSBuild
2 21 (15.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 21 (15.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 71 (51.82%) Law
2 64 (46.72%) Social Skills
3 37 (27.01%) Finance
4 21 (15.33%) Marketing
4 21 (15.33%) Retail
5 9 (6.57%) Electronics
6 8 (5.84%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.46%) Advertising
7 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Automotive
8 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (40.88%) Architect
2 47 (34.31%) Lead
3 24 (17.52%) Technical Architect
4 21 (15.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (15.33%) Salesforce Architect
5 18 (13.14%) Senior
6 9 (6.57%) Data Analytics Director
7 7 (5.11%) Network Architect
8 3 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Data Manager
8 3 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Senior Manager
8 3 (2.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Senior Service Manager
8 3 (2.19%) Service Manager
8 3 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.19%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.66%) REST
2 22 (16.06%) JSON
2 22 (16.06%) XML
3 21 (15.33%) .NET
3 21 (15.33%) ASP.NET
3 21 (15.33%) Bootstrap
3 21 (15.33%) CSS
3 21 (15.33%) gRPC
3 21 (15.33%) HTML
3 21 (15.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (15.33%) Middleware
3 21 (15.33%) SOAP
4 10 (7.30%) Kafka
5 2 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.46%) React
6 1 (0.73%) Node.js
6 1 (0.73%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.73%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.66%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (8.76%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.03%) Virtual Team
4 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.73%) CUDA
6 1 (0.73%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.73%) FPGA
6 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Linux
1 2 (1.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (46.72%) Microservices
2 56 (40.88%) DevOps
3 55 (40.15%) Computer Science
4 51 (37.23%) Data Modelling
5 47 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (32.85%) Data Management
7 42 (30.66%) Design Patterns
8 41 (29.93%) Thought Leadership
9 38 (27.74%) CI/CD
10 36 (26.28%) Agile
11 33 (24.09%) Analytics
11 33 (24.09%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (24.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (21.17%) Data Architecture
13 28 (20.44%) Business Transformation
14 27 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (17.52%) E-Commerce
16 22 (16.06%) Enterprise Architecture
16 22 (16.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (16.06%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.36%) SQL
2 23 (16.79%) C#
3 22 (16.06%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.33%) Apex Code
5 9 (6.57%) C
5 9 (6.57%) C++
6 5 (3.65%) Python
7 3 (2.19%) Bash
7 3 (2.19%) Java
7 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.73%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 63 (45.99%) Degree
2 33 (24.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (21.90%) Master's Degree
4 13 (9.49%) Security Cleared
5 10 (7.30%) AWS Certification
5 10 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.30%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.65%) CCNA
6 5 (3.65%) CCNP
6 5 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.65%) JNCIS
7 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.73%) MCSE
8 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.09%) GDPR
2 24 (17.52%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.92%) SLA
5 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.19%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.73%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.73%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.73%) MISRA
6 1 (0.73%) MISRA C
System Software
1 24 (17.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) Ansible
1 3 (2.19%) Terraform
2 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (15.33%) Salesforce
1 21 (15.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 20 (14.60%) IBM
2 20 (14.60%) SAP
3 11 (8.03%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.57%) Google
5 5 (3.65%) Cisco
5 5 (3.65%) Juniper
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle
6 2 (1.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.73%) Commvault
7 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.73%) Veeam