Technical Leadership Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 227 221
Rank change year-on-year +52 -6 -24
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,166 948 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.53% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.60% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 740 555 771
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,600 £42,625
25th Percentile £58,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,563 £84,175 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,900 £92,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +9.59% +7.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,217 59,337 66,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 95.62% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,395 41,344
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
South East +44 298 £69,500 -7.33% 82
North of England +69 260 £66,283 +1.97% 63
South West +35 240 £65,000 +18.18% 57
North West +49 142 £70,725 +4.78% 40
Scotland -27 134 £71,788 +2.55% 17
Midlands 0 126 £75,000 +13.21% 34
Yorkshire +84 100 £62,500 -3.85% 16
West Midlands -4 90 £75,000 +11.11% 26
East of England +14 89 £65,000 -13.33% 44
East Midlands -3 36 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North East +12 18 £75,000 +37.96% 9
Wales +7 11 £59,500 -5.17% 8
Northern Ireland +10 8 £85,200 +42.00% 2
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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 60 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.43%) CMS
2 40 (3.43%) Sitecore CMS
3 36 (3.09%) Kentico
3 36 (3.09%) Umbraco
4 35 (3.00%) Headless CMS
4 35 (3.00%) IIS
5 31 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.51%) SAS
9 5 (0.43%) Drupal
10 4 (0.34%) Apache
10 4 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.26%) CICS
12 2 (0.17%) Confluence
12 2 (0.17%) WinCC
13 1 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.086%) Appian
Applications
1 20 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
3 6 (0.51%) Simulink
4 4 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.34%) Windchill
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.60%) HFM
2 7 (0.60%) Hyperion Planning
2 7 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.086%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 269 (23.07%) Azure
2 208 (17.84%) AWS
3 80 (6.86%) SaaS
4 63 (5.40%) Power Platform
5 58 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (4.37%) GCP
8 49 (4.20%) Serverless
9 44 (3.77%) OneDrive
10 42 (3.60%) IaaS
11 36 (3.09%) Dropbox
11 36 (3.09%) Google Drive
12 35 (3.00%) Kontent
13 34 (2.92%) Amazon S3
14 33 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (2.14%) Snowflake
17 24 (2.06%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.89%) Matillion
19 21 (1.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.80%) DNS
2 43 (3.69%) Firewall
3 39 (3.34%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.49%) DHCP
4 29 (2.49%) HTTP
5 28 (2.40%) WAN
6 20 (1.72%) VLAN
7 18 (1.54%) SAN
7 18 (1.54%) VPN
8 15 (1.29%) Network Security
8 15 (1.29%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.29%) Wireless
9 13 (1.11%) NAS
10 12 (1.03%) 5G
11 11 (0.94%) BGP
11 11 (0.94%) LAN
11 11 (0.94%) SSL
12 9 (0.77%) Intranet
13 8 (0.69%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (7.63%) Big Data
2 66 (5.66%) NoSQL
3 46 (3.95%) Power BI
4 32 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 31 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (2.49%) MySQL
8 25 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (1.89%) Metadata
9 22 (1.89%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.60%) DB2
12 7 (0.60%) Essbase
12 7 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.43%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
15 3 (0.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (4.89%) Git
2 26 (2.23%) Subversion
3 23 (1.97%) JIRA
4 22 (1.89%) Postman
5 19 (1.63%) IBM UrbanCode
6 17 (1.46%) CMake
7 11 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.60%) GitLab
9 7 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.51%) RStudio
10 6 (0.51%) Selenium
11 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.34%) webpack
12 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.17%) CA Release Automation
13 2 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 394 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 248 (21.27%) Finance
3 132 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
5 116 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (6.69%) Marketing
7 70 (6.00%) Law
8 67 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (5.57%) Banking
10 47 (4.03%) Automotive
11 32 (2.74%) Public Sector
12 30 (2.57%) Electronics
13 27 (2.32%) Retail
14 24 (2.06%) Legal
15 21 (1.80%) Aviation
15 21 (1.80%) Military
16 19 (1.63%) Games
17 18 (1.54%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 371 (31.82%) Lead
2 281 (24.10%) Senior
3 198 (16.98%) Architect
4 158 (13.55%) Software Engineer
5 142 (12.18%) Developer
6 131 (11.23%) Principal Engineer
7 127 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 111 (9.52%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 102 (8.75%) Technical Leader
10 76 (6.52%) Lead Software Engineer
11 69 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
12 68 (5.83%) Senior Developer
13 57 (4.89%) Big Data Engineer
13 57 (4.89%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 57 (4.89%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 57 (4.89%) Scala Engineer
13 57 (4.89%) Scala Software Engineer
14 55 (4.72%) Lead Developer
14 55 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
15 52 (4.46%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (9.09%) .NET
2 79 (6.78%) React
3 64 (5.49%) RESTful
4 62 (5.32%) .NET Framework
5 60 (5.15%) HTML
6 48 (4.12%) .NET Core
7 46 (3.95%) ASP.NET
8 45 (3.86%) Spring
9 44 (3.77%) Spring Boot
10 42 (3.60%) OpenID
11 41 (3.52%) SAML
12 38 (3.26%) Next.js
12 38 (3.26%) Node.js
13 36 (3.09%) ASP.NET MVC
14 32 (2.74%) CSS
15 31 (2.66%) Kafka
15 31 (2.66%) XML
16 29 (2.49%) JSON
17 21 (1.80%) Qt
18 19 (1.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 147 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.52%) IoT
3 74 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
5 49 (4.20%) Algorithms
6 48 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.09%) iPad
8 32 (2.74%) Public Cloud
8 32 (2.74%) Robotics
9 31 (2.66%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.49%) Cyberattack
11 21 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.46%) Blockchain
12 17 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.11%) Life Science
15 12 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.94%) Augmented Reality
16 11 (0.94%) Virtual Reality
16 11 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (12.26%) Windows
2 122 (10.46%) Linux
3 36 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.89%) Android
5 20 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.54%) Unix
7 10 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.26%) zOS
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.086%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (37.82%) Agile
2 295 (25.30%) Software Engineering
3 281 (24.10%) Mentoring
4 278 (23.84%) Roadmaps
5 253 (21.70%) DevOps
6 201 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (16.12%) Technology Roadmap
8 162 (13.89%) SDLC
9 159 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 152 (13.04%) Coaching
11 140 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 115 (9.86%) Computer Science
13 102 (8.75%) Project Management
14 87 (7.46%) Microservices
14 87 (7.46%) Project Delivery
15 86 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (7.03%) Continuous Integration
17 80 (6.86%) Machine Learning
18 77 (6.60%) Data Science
19 75 (6.43%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (16.12%) SQL
2 180 (15.44%) Java
3 161 (13.81%) Python
4 129 (11.06%) C#
5 116 (9.95%) JavaScript
6 71 (6.09%) C++
7 63 (5.40%) Scala
8 53 (4.55%) PHP
9 49 (4.20%) C
10 40 (3.43%) SystemVerilog
11 33 (2.83%) TypeScript
12 28 (2.40%) Bash
13 27 (2.32%) T-SQL
14 23 (1.97%) R
15 18 (1.54%) Groovy
16 17 (1.46%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.46%) Ruby
17 16 (1.37%) Perl
18 15 (1.29%) Swift
19 13 (1.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 203 (17.41%) Degree
2 161 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 39 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 37 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 36 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.72%) PhD
11 19 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (1.54%) Azure Certification
13 17 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (1.03%) CCNA
15 12 (1.03%) CISSP
15 12 (1.03%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.60%) CCIE
16 7 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
17 5 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.80%) QA
2 33 (2.83%) GDPR
3 30 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.03%) SEPA
5 10 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.86%) PMO
6 8 (0.69%) Def Stans
7 7 (0.60%) IEC 61508
7 7 (0.60%) ISO 13485
7 7 (0.60%) JTAG
8 5 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.34%) MISRA
9 4 (0.34%) MISRA C
9 4 (0.34%) SLA
10 3 (0.26%) ECSS
10 3 (0.26%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.26%) NIST
11 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 53 (4.55%) Docker
2 47 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 40 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (3.09%) Firmware
5 20 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.77%) vSphere
8 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.26%) RACF
10 3 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.086%) Lustre
11 1 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 96 (8.23%) Terraform
2 62 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.57%) Ansible
4 23 (1.97%) Progress Chef
5 16 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.69%) Nagios
6 8 (0.69%) Puppet
7 6 (0.51%) Endace
7 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.51%) ServiceCenter
8 5 (0.43%) SCCM
9 4 (0.34%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.26%) MAINVIEW
10 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.17%) Kibana
11 2 (0.17%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.086%) Grafana
12 1 (0.086%) Icinga
Vendors
1 185 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.17%) Google
3 43 (3.69%) VMware
4 40 (3.43%) Sitecore
5 35 (3.00%) Optimizely
6 33 (2.83%) Databricks
7 31 (2.66%) IBM
8 29 (2.49%) Cadence
9 28 (2.40%) Synopsys
10 24 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.80%) Cisco
11 21 (1.80%) Veeam
12 17 (1.46%) Splunk
13 16 (1.37%) Oracle
14 10 (0.86%) SAP
14 10 (0.86%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.77%) Dell
15 9 (0.77%) Juniper
16 8 (0.69%) HP
16 8 (0.69%) Hyperion