Technical Leadership Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Technical Leadership
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 64 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 +14
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 14 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.77% 2.05% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.26% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 6
10th Percentile £59,875 £68,500 £54,344
25th Percentile £64,688 £76,250 £56,731
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +49.02% -25.00%
75th Percentile £85,002 £103,125 £82,159
90th Percentile £95,876 £118,250 £87,500
North East median annual salary £75,000 £75,400 £63,749
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.28% -20.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 620 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 79.42% 90.91% 87.74%
Number of salaries quoted 467 269 406
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,914 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -5.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Tyne and Wear

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +12 14 £75,000 -21.05% 16
Technical Leadership
North East

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) Express.js
2 1 (7.14%) hapi
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Boilerplate
2 1 (7.14%) NestJS
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
3 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
3 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) AI
4 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (14.29%) Information Assurance
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Technology Enablement
4 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Scala
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Aruba
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco
1 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto