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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 144 156
Rank change year-on-year +74 +12 +33
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 125 102 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.68% 1.52% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 1.80% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 44 75 60
10th Percentile £61,450 £46,447 £61,202
25th Percentile £65,000 £49,250 £61,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £61,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -23.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £97,813
90th Percentile £90,750 £94,500 £112,750
South East median annual salary £70,600 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.59% -10.00% +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 3,193 5,670 5,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.99% 84.73% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 3,891 3,075
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +97 100 £82,500 +26.92% 42
Oxfordshire -4 14 £76,250 +23.98% 14
Buckinghamshire +23 11 £65,000 +23.81% 21
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 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.60%) CMS
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.60%) Azure
2 22 (17.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 22 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
2 22 (17.60%) Azure Service Bus
2 22 (17.60%) SonarCloud
3 21 (16.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 8 (6.40%) AWS
5 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.00%) GCP
7 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.60%) Serverless
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.80%) SaaS
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) WAN
2 5 (4.00%) BGP
2 5 (4.00%) IPsec
2 5 (4.00%) Junos
2 5 (4.00%) LAN
2 5 (4.00%) MPLS
3 4 (3.20%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.80%) DNS
4 1 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.60%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.60%) Big Data
2 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (18.40%) Visual Studio
2 22 (17.60%) Git
2 22 (17.60%) MSBuild
2 22 (17.60%) Octopus Deploy
2 22 (17.60%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
General
1 64 (51.20%) Law
2 52 (41.60%) Social Skills
3 35 (28.00%) Finance
4 22 (17.60%) Retail
5 21 (16.80%) Marketing
6 9 (7.20%) Electronics
7 8 (6.40%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) Games
10 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (43.20%) Architect
2 45 (36.00%) Lead
3 24 (19.20%) Technical Architect
4 21 (16.80%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (16.80%) Salesforce Architect
5 18 (14.40%) Senior
6 6 (4.80%) Network Architect
7 4 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) Data Manager
8 3 (2.40%) Senior Manager
8 3 (2.40%) Senior Service Manager
8 3 (2.40%) Service Manager
8 3 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.60%) C# Architect
9 2 (1.60%) Data Analytics Director
9 2 (1.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (0.80%) Associate Director
10 1 (0.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 1 (0.80%) Senior Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.40%) REST
2 24 (19.20%) .NET
3 22 (17.60%) ASP.NET
3 22 (17.60%) Bootstrap
3 22 (17.60%) CSS
3 22 (17.60%) gRPC
3 22 (17.60%) HTML
3 22 (17.60%) JSON
3 22 (17.60%) XML
4 21 (16.80%) Lightning Web Components
4 21 (16.80%) Middleware
4 21 (16.80%) SOAP
5 3 (2.40%) Kafka
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.80%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.80%) OpenGL
7 1 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (33.60%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.60%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.80%) CUDA
4 1 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.80%) FPGA
4 1 (0.80%) Online Games
4 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
2 2 (1.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.00%) Microservices
2 50 (40.00%) DevOps
3 47 (37.60%) Computer Science
4 46 (36.80%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (36.00%) Data Management
6 44 (35.20%) Data Modelling
7 43 (34.40%) Design Patterns
8 41 (32.80%) Thought Leadership
9 32 (25.60%) CI/CD
10 30 (24.00%) Agile
11 26 (20.80%) Analytics
11 26 (20.80%) Business Transformation
11 26 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (20.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (19.20%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (18.40%) E-Commerce
13 23 (18.40%) Event-Driven
13 23 (18.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 22 (17.60%) MVC
14 22 (17.60%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.60%) C#
2 26 (20.80%) SQL
3 23 (18.40%) JavaScript
4 21 (16.80%) Apex Code
5 11 (8.80%) C++
6 9 (7.20%) C
7 5 (4.00%) Java
7 5 (4.00%) Python
8 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.80%) Bash
9 1 (0.80%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.80%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (44.00%) Degree
2 25 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (18.40%) Master's Degree
4 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.00%) CCNA
6 5 (4.00%) CCNP
6 5 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.00%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.00%) GDPR
2 24 (19.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.20%) SLA
4 2 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.80%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) MISRA
5 1 (0.80%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.80%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (19.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Ansible
1 1 (0.80%) Grafana
1 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Salesforce
1 21 (16.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 20 (16.00%) IBM
2 20 (16.00%) SAP
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.00%) Cisco
4 5 (4.00%) Juniper
5 2 (1.60%) Google
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.80%) VMware