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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 336 382
Rank change year-on-year -111 +46 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 139 546 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.81% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 82 421 361
10th Percentile £54,793 £43,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 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 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
North of England -57 54 £67,037 -9.17% 70
North West -53 46 £67,037 -16.13% 37
Midlands -17 31 £77,500 +10.71% 30
West Midlands +12 28 £77,500 +5.01% 14
South West +79 22 £67,500 +5.88% 34
South East 0 15 £80,000 +23.08% 82
Scotland +110 14 £63,000 -16.00% 15
Yorkshire +16 6 £80,000 +8.39% 26
East Midlands -1 3 £74,250 +14.23% 14
North East +22 2 £73,519 -0.39% 7
East of England 0 2 £80,000 +14.29% 32
Wales +19 1 £27,000 -61.43% 6
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 58 (41.73%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (34.53%) Mentoring
3 38 (27.34%) Software Engineering
4 37 (26.62%) DevOps
5 36 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (24.46%) Social Skills
7 32 (23.02%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (22.30%) Systems Engineering
8 31 (22.30%) Azure
9 30 (21.58%) AWS
9 30 (21.58%) Agile
10 29 (20.86%) Electronics
11 27 (19.42%) Coaching
12 25 (17.99%) Degree
13 22 (15.83%) Law
14 21 (15.11%) Manufacturing
14 21 (15.11%) Data Collection
15 20 (14.39%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 20 (14.39%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (14.39%) Rockwell
15 20 (14.39%) Siemens
15 20 (14.39%) Supply Chain Management
15 20 (14.39%) SCADA
15 20 (14.39%) Mechatronics
15 20 (14.39%) IoT
15 20 (14.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (12.95%) Microservices
16 18 (12.95%) Java
17 17 (12.23%) Project Management
17 17 (12.23%) Terraform

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 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.72%) CMS
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.72%) nginx
1 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.72%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.72%) Maximo
2 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.30%) Azure
2 30 (21.58%) AWS
3 11 (7.91%) GCP
4 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.04%) Serverless
6 6 (4.32%) SaaS
6 6 (4.32%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.88%) GitHub
7 4 (2.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.44%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.44%) IaaS
9 2 (1.44%) PaaS
9 2 (1.44%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.76%) 5G
1 8 (5.76%) SD-WAN
1 8 (5.76%) WAN
2 2 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (1.44%) Firewall
2 2 (1.44%) Network Security
2 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.72%) Broadband
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.72%) DHCP
3 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.72%) FlexRay
3 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.72%) IPsec
3 1 (0.72%) SAN
3 1 (0.72%) Skype
3 1 (0.72%) VLAN
3 1 (0.72%) VoIP
3 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.88%) MySQL
3 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.44%) Big Data
4 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) GitLab
2 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.60%) JIRA
4 4 (2.88%) Git
5 1 (0.72%) ESLint
5 1 (0.72%) Moq
5 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.72%) Storybook
5 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 36 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.86%) Electronics
4 22 (15.83%) Law
5 21 (15.11%) Manufacturing
6 15 (10.79%) Finance
7 11 (7.91%) Games
8 9 (6.47%) Banking
9 8 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (4.32%) Retail Banking
11 5 (3.60%) Retail
12 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.44%) Legal
12 2 (1.44%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.72%) Automotive
13 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.79%) .NET
2 14 (10.07%) Kafka
3 8 (5.76%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.32%) Laravel
4 6 (4.32%) Vue
5 5 (3.60%) React
5 5 (3.60%) RESTful
6 4 (2.88%) CSS
6 4 (2.88%) HTML
7 3 (2.16%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.16%) LAMP
7 3 (2.16%) Next.js
7 3 (2.16%) Node.js
7 3 (2.16%) Serverless Framework
8 2 (1.44%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.44%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.44%) REST
8 2 (1.44%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.39%) IoT
1 20 (14.39%) Legacy Systems
1 20 (14.39%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 20 (14.39%) SCADA
2 10 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.76%) Self-Driving Car
4 7 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.16%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.44%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.44%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Windows
1 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.72%) CentOS
2 1 (0.72%) Debian
2 1 (0.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.73%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (34.53%) Mentoring
3 38 (27.34%) Software Engineering
4 37 (26.62%) DevOps
5 32 (23.02%) Technical Leadership
6 31 (22.30%) Systems Engineering
7 30 (21.58%) Agile
8 27 (19.42%) Coaching
9 21 (15.11%) Data Collection
10 20 (14.39%) Mechatronics
10 20 (14.39%) Supply Chain Management
11 18 (12.95%) Microservices
12 17 (12.23%) Project Management
13 14 (10.07%) Project Delivery
13 14 (10.07%) Roadmaps
14 13 (9.35%) Analytics
14 13 (9.35%) CI/CD
14 13 (9.35%) Computer Science
14 13 (9.35%) Test Automation
15 11 (7.91%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.95%) Java
2 16 (11.51%) Python
3 15 (10.79%) C#
4 12 (8.63%) PHP
5 10 (7.19%) SQL
6 9 (6.47%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.16%) Bash
9 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.72%) ABAP
10 1 (0.72%) Go
10 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Degree
2 20 (14.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (7.91%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.44%) MCSA
5 2 (1.44%) MCSE
5 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.44%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) PMO
2 7 (5.04%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) JTAG
3 1 (0.72%) SLA
3 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (7.19%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (12.23%) Terraform
2 9 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.16%) Grafana
4 2 (1.44%) Ansible
4 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.72%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.72%) SCCM
5 1 (0.72%) SCOM
5 1 (0.72%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.72%) SCSM
Vendors
1 20 (14.39%) Rockwell
1 20 (14.39%) Siemens
2 8 (5.76%) Databricks
3 7 (5.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.16%) SAP
5 2 (1.44%) Google
5 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco
6 1 (0.72%) IBM
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.72%) Twitter
6 1 (0.72%) VMware