Technical Leadership Jobs

Technical Leadership
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 189 217
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +2
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,399 1,572 3,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.95% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.04% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 918 1,054 1,538
10th Percentile £49,775 £50,083 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England +12 1,213 £71,250 -5.70% 184
UK excluding London +29 886 £67,500 +3.85% 157
Work from Home +10 624 £71,875 -4.87% 113
London -21 411 £80,000 -3.03% 58
North of England +29 218 £69,250 +6.54% 34
South East +55 216 £67,500 +3.85% 36
South West +14 151 £67,500 -3.57% 28
North West +28 128 £72,000 +6.67% 21
Midlands -26 115 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Scotland -36 85 £75,000 -0.73% 17
West Midlands -17 82 £70,000 +12.00% 12
East of England -19 69 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Yorkshire +32 66 £62,690 -3.55% 8
East Midlands -16 33 £70,000 +3.70% 5
North East +4 24 £65,465 +8.00% 7
Northern Ireland +15 17 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Wales +27 15 £70,000 +24.18% 2

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 52 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 37 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.50%) CMS
4 33 (2.36%) IIS
5 28 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
6 27 (1.93%) Kentico
6 27 (1.93%) Umbraco
7 26 (1.86%) Headless CMS
7 26 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.64%) Apache
9 9 (0.64%) Confluence
9 9 (0.64%) SAS
10 7 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.43%) Drupal
11 6 (0.43%) Mendix
11 6 (0.43%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.36%) K2 blackpearl
13 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 26 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.29%) Simulink
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 26 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.21%) HFM
2 3 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
2 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.071%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.071%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.071%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.071%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 485 (34.67%) Azure
2 320 (22.87%) AWS
3 129 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 96 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
5 87 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (5.79%) Power Automate
7 75 (5.36%) PowerApps
7 75 (5.36%) SaaS
8 70 (5.00%) GCP
9 69 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (4.15%) Entra ID
10 58 (4.15%) IaaS
11 47 (3.36%) OneDrive
12 46 (3.29%) Amazon S3
13 45 (3.22%) Serverless
14 42 (3.00%) Dropbox
14 42 (3.00%) Google Drive
15 41 (2.93%) dbt
16 37 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (2.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.36%) Firewall
2 42 (3.00%) WAN
3 36 (2.57%) DNS
4 34 (2.43%) VPN
5 30 (2.14%) Network Security
6 29 (2.07%) BGP
7 27 (1.93%) LAN
8 25 (1.79%) MPLS
9 23 (1.64%) Wireless
10 19 (1.36%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.29%) 5G
12 16 (1.14%) OSPF
12 16 (1.14%) TCP/IP
13 14 (1.00%) SSL
13 14 (1.00%) VLAN
14 13 (0.93%) DHCP
14 13 (0.93%) IPsec
15 11 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.79%) Intranet
15 11 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (5.79%) Relational Database
2 73 (5.22%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.93%) Power BI
5 61 (4.36%) Big Data
6 47 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
8 41 (2.93%) MySQL
9 40 (2.86%) RDBMS
10 34 (2.43%) MongoDB
11 28 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (1.57%) Data Lake
13 20 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (1.07%) DB2
15 13 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (0.71%) Hadoop
16 10 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.57%) Metadata
18 7 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
18 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 99 (7.08%) Git
2 56 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.36%) GitLab
4 31 (2.22%) JIRA
5 26 (1.86%) Postman
6 17 (1.22%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.00%) Selenium
7 14 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.79%) JMeter
9 10 (0.71%) Gatling
9 10 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
9 10 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.64%) Subversion
11 8 (0.57%) CMake
11 8 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.43%) RStudio
12 6 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.36%) Jaeger
13 5 (0.36%) Storybook
13 5 (0.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 424 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 252 (18.01%) Finance
3 183 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (12.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.58%) Banking
7 71 (5.08%) Legal
8 58 (4.15%) Marketing
9 57 (4.07%) Law
10 54 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (2.43%) Back Office
13 27 (1.93%) Electronics
14 26 (1.86%) Games
15 23 (1.64%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.57%) Local Government
17 19 (1.36%) Retail
17 19 (1.36%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 418 (29.88%) Lead
2 353 (25.23%) Senior
3 328 (23.45%) Architect
4 221 (15.80%) Developer
5 107 (7.65%) Technical Architect
6 104 (7.43%) Technical Leader
7 102 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
8 92 (6.58%) Lead Developer
8 92 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 90 (6.43%) Senior Developer
10 89 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 78 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
12 73 (5.22%) Analyst
13 70 (5.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
14 68 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
15 50 (3.57%) Governance Analyst
16 44 (3.15%) Lead Software Engineer
17 42 (3.00%) Senior Architect
18 41 (2.93%) C# Developer
19 38 (2.72%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (12.58%) .NET
2 122 (8.72%) React
3 85 (6.08%) Node.js
4 65 (4.65%) RESTful
5 56 (4.00%) HTML
5 56 (4.00%) Spring
6 54 (3.86%) .NET Framework
7 53 (3.79%) Django
7 53 (3.79%) JSON
8 52 (3.72%) .NET Core
8 52 (3.72%) CSS
9 41 (2.93%) Spring Boot
9 41 (2.93%) XML
10 40 (2.86%) ASP.NET
11 37 (2.64%) AngularJS
12 35 (2.50%) Next.js
12 35 (2.50%) REST
13 28 (2.00%) ASP.NET MVC
14 27 (1.93%) Kafka
15 19 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.94%) Management Information System
2 117 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 45 (3.22%) Algorithms
6 42 (3.00%) iPad
7 40 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 39 (2.79%) IoT
9 38 (2.72%) Data Centre
10 37 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.64%) Onboarding
14 21 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.43%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.36%) Robotics
17 18 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (1.14%) Data Structures
19 15 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
20 14 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (8.22%) Linux
2 105 (7.51%) Windows
3 39 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.64%) Unix
5 20 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.36%) Android
7 14 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.79%) CentOS
9 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.21%) zOS
13 2 (0.14%) VMS
13 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.071%) tvOS
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (37.88%) Agile
2 379 (27.09%) Mentoring
3 358 (25.59%) Roadmaps
4 342 (24.45%) DevOps
5 315 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (20.16%) Software Engineering
7 269 (19.23%) Coaching
8 246 (17.58%) CI/CD
9 184 (13.15%) Technology Roadmap
10 171 (12.22%) Computer Science
11 170 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (9.86%) Project Management
13 131 (9.36%) Artificial Intelligence
13 131 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
14 120 (8.58%) SDLC
15 119 (8.51%) Microservices
16 116 (8.29%) Continuous Integration
17 113 (8.08%) Scrum
18 112 (8.01%) TDD
19 103 (7.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 282 (20.16%) Python
2 255 (18.23%) SQL
3 217 (15.51%) Java
4 210 (15.01%) C#
5 171 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 82 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 57 (4.07%) PHP
8 54 (3.86%) TypeScript
9 49 (3.50%) Scala
10 48 (3.43%) C
10 48 (3.43%) C++
11 33 (2.36%) Bash
12 20 (1.43%) Kotlin
12 20 (1.43%) R
13 16 (1.14%) Perl
14 15 (1.07%) Go
15 14 (1.00%) Bicep
15 14 (1.00%) Ruby
16 13 (0.93%) Embedded C
16 13 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 286 (20.44%) Degree
2 208 (14.87%) Security Cleared
3 148 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 134 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (2.93%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.93%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.57%) CISSP
11 20 (1.43%) CCNA
11 20 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.93%) CISM
13 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.86%) CCIE
13 12 (0.86%) CCNP
13 12 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.36%) QA
2 34 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.00%) SLA
4 25 (1.79%) GDPR
5 14 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.93%) PMO
7 12 (0.86%) NCSC
7 12 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.57%) NIST
10 6 (0.43%) ISO 13485
11 5 (0.36%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.29%) IEC 61508
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 3 (0.21%) JTAG
14 2 (0.14%) COBIT
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.14%) DO-254
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 136 (9.72%) Active Directory
2 94 (6.72%) Docker
3 50 (3.57%) RACF
4 39 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.22%) Firmware
7 11 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.71%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.57%) Lustre
9 8 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.43%) vSphere
12 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.21%) Ceph
13 3 (0.21%) GPFS
13 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.071%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.071%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 111 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 91 (6.50%) Terraform
3 47 (3.36%) Ansible
4 29 (2.07%) Puppet
5 22 (1.57%) Progress Chef
6 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.57%) SCCM
10 6 (0.43%) ServiceCenter
11 5 (0.36%) Kiali
12 4 (0.29%) Kibana
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
13 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.21%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.21%) Endace
13 3 (0.21%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 3 (0.21%) Podman
13 3 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 354 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.72%) Google
3 58 (4.15%) Cisco
4 50 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 43 (3.07%) VMware
6 36 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.36%) Databricks
7 33 (2.36%) Oracle
8 28 (2.00%) Sitecore
9 26 (1.86%) Optimizely
10 21 (1.50%) Juniper
11 19 (1.36%) IBM
12 18 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.29%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.14%) HP
13 16 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.14%) SAP
14 15 (1.07%) Splunk
15 12 (0.86%) Sybase
16 11 (0.79%) Veeam