Technical Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £67,037 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 315 398
Rank change year-on-year -110 +83 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 156 590 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.79% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.83% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 98 453 325
10th Percentile £54,793 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -12.50%

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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
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 Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 -80 58 £67,037 -9.17% 34
North West -54 51 £65,000 -18.68% 19
Scotland +126 26 £63,000 -0.79% 10
Midlands -32 25 £77,500 +5.01% 16
South West +69 23 £75,000 +26.32% 17
West Midlands -1 22 £77,500 +5.01% 10
South East -16 19 £84,125 +29.42% 26
Yorkshire 0 5 £80,725 +9.38% 12
East of England +9 3 £80,000 +14.29% 17
East Midlands +2 3 £90,000 +38.46% 6
North East +27 2 £73,519 -0.39% 3
Wales +14 2 £44,750 -36.07% 4
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Technical Leader 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 Leader in the job title.

1 63 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (39.10%) Mentoring
3 52 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
4 40 (25.64%) Degree
5 39 (25.00%) Coaching
6 37 (23.72%) Software Engineering
7 35 (22.44%) DevOps
8 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
9 33 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (19.87%) Agile
11 30 (19.23%) Azure
11 30 (19.23%) AWS
12 29 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
12 29 (18.59%) Supply Chain Management
12 29 (18.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (14.10%) Chartered Engineer
14 21 (13.46%) Electronics
15 20 (12.82%) Java
16 18 (11.54%) Finance
16 18 (11.54%) Terraform
17 17 (10.90%) Project Management
18 16 (10.26%) Law
18 16 (10.26%) Computer Science
19 15 (9.62%) Microservices
19 15 (9.62%) Kafka
19 15 (9.62%) Roadmaps
20 14 (8.97%) CI/CD
20 14 (8.97%) Banking
21 13 (8.33%) C#
21 13 (8.33%) .NET

Technical Leader 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.28%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.28%) nginx
2 1 (0.64%) CMS
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.64%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) SAP Business One
1 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.23%) AWS
1 30 (19.23%) Azure
2 9 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (5.77%) GCP
2 9 (5.77%) Serverless
3 5 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (3.21%) GitHub
3 5 (3.21%) Snowflake
4 4 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.56%) SaaS
5 3 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (1.92%) Azure Functions
5 3 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (1.92%) IaaS
5 3 (1.92%) PaaS
5 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) 5G
1 8 (5.13%) SD-WAN
1 8 (5.13%) WAN
2 3 (1.92%) DNS
2 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.28%) Firewall
3 2 (1.28%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.28%) IPsec
3 2 (1.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.64%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.64%) Broadband
4 1 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.64%) DHCP
4 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.64%) FlexRay
4 1 (0.64%) SAN
4 1 (0.64%) VLAN
4 1 (0.64%) VoIP
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
4 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.56%) MySQL
3 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.28%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.64%) Big Data
5 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.49%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.85%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) JIRA
4 3 (1.92%) Git
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.64%) ESLint
5 1 (0.64%) Moq
5 1 (0.64%) Snyk
5 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.64%) Storybook
5 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.46%) Electronics
4 18 (11.54%) Finance
5 16 (10.26%) Law
6 14 (8.97%) Banking
7 12 (7.69%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.13%) Retail
9 6 (3.85%) Games
9 6 (3.85%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.92%) Automotive
12 2 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.28%) Legal
12 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.28%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.28%) Publishing
13 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.62%) Kafka
2 13 (8.33%) .NET
3 7 (4.49%) AngularJS
3 7 (4.49%) Vue
4 5 (3.21%) Laravel
4 5 (3.21%) React
5 4 (2.56%) CSS
5 4 (2.56%) HTML
5 4 (2.56%) RESTful
6 3 (1.92%) Next.js
6 3 (1.92%) Node.js
6 3 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.92%) Serverless Framework
6 3 (1.92%) YAML
7 2 (1.28%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.28%) LAMP
7 2 (1.28%) OAuth
7 2 (1.28%) REST
7 2 (1.28%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 13 (8.33%) SCADA
2 12 (7.69%) IoT
2 12 (7.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 9 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.13%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.92%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.92%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.92%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.28%) FMCG
9 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.56%) Windows
1 4 (2.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.64%) CentOS
2 1 (0.64%) Debian
2 1 (0.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (39.10%) Mentoring
3 52 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
4 39 (25.00%) Coaching
5 37 (23.72%) Software Engineering
6 35 (22.44%) DevOps
7 33 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (19.87%) Agile
9 29 (18.59%) Supply Chain Management
10 17 (10.90%) Project Management
11 16 (10.26%) Computer Science
12 15 (9.62%) Microservices
12 15 (9.62%) Roadmaps
13 14 (8.97%) CI/CD
14 13 (8.33%) Data Collection
15 12 (7.69%) Analytics
15 12 (7.69%) Mechatronics
15 12 (7.69%) Test Automation
16 11 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (7.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.82%) Java
2 13 (8.33%) C#
2 13 (8.33%) Python
3 12 (7.69%) SQL
4 11 (7.05%) PHP
5 9 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) ABAP
8 1 (0.64%) Bash
8 1 (0.64%) Go
8 1 (0.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (25.64%) Degree
2 29 (18.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (14.10%) Chartered Engineer
4 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.21%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.28%) MCSA
8 2 (1.28%) MCSE
8 2 (1.28%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) CISA
9 1 (0.64%) CISM
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.64%) GIAC
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.13%) PMO
2 6 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.85%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.92%) GDPR
4 3 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.64%) JTAG
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.77%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (11.54%) Terraform
2 10 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.92%) Ansible
3 3 (1.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.64%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.64%) SCCM
5 1 (0.64%) SCOM
5 1 (0.64%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.64%) SCSM
Vendors
1 12 (7.69%) Rockwell
1 12 (7.69%) Siemens
2 8 (5.13%) Databricks
2 8 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.56%) SAP
4 2 (1.28%) Google
4 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.64%) Ariba
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco
5 1 (0.64%) Commvault
5 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.64%) IBM
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle
5 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.64%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.64%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.64%) Twitter
5 1 (0.64%) Veeam
5 1 (0.64%) VMware