Technical Director Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Director
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Director salary in the UK excluding London is £125,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 758 753
Rank change year-on-year +199 -5 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Director 17 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.003% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £106,500 £55,250 -
25th Percentile £112,500 £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £65,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
75th Percentile £138,750 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £145,500 £74,750 -
UK median annual salary £120,000 £65,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +84.62% -40.91% +37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,491 67,312 53,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.80% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,637 47,638 30,603
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Technical Director
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Director in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Director in the UK excluding London

Technical Director
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Director in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Director in the UK excluding London

Technical Director
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Director in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Director in the UK excluding London

Technical Director
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Director within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England - 5 £137,500 - 4
South East +102 4 £105,000 +82.61% 7
Midlands +73 3 - - 2
North West - 3 £137,500 - 3
Scotland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands +35 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
South West - 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - -
Technical Director
UK

Technical Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Technical Director job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Director in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Project Management
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
1 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
1 10 (58.82%) Project Delivery
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Business Strategy
2 8 (47.06%) Renewable Energy
2 8 (47.06%) Systems Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) YouTube
2 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 8 (47.06%) Resource Allocation
2 8 (47.06%) SCADA
2 8 (47.06%) Business Development
2 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (47.06%) Facebook
2 8 (47.06%) Systems Analysis
2 8 (47.06%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) TETRA
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security

Technical Director Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TETRA
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
1 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
1 8 (47.06%) Renewable Energy
1 8 (47.06%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
1 10 (58.82%) Project Delivery
1 10 (58.82%) Project Management
2 8 (47.06%) Business Development
2 8 (47.06%) Business Strategy
2 8 (47.06%) Resource Allocation
2 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (47.06%) Strategic Planning
2 8 (47.06%) Systems Analysis
2 8 (47.06%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Facebook
1 8 (47.06%) YouTube
2 1 (5.88%) Google