Technical Leadership Job Trends

Technical Leadership
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 141 167
Rank change year-on-year +27 +26 +42
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,462 905 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.16% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.33% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 950 643 1,126
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process & 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 65,702 38,866 81,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.29% 92.92% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40,633 22,660 59,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 2026. 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 +30 1,218 £80,000 +3.23% 668
UK excluding London +2 796 £72,500 -3.33% 480
Work from Home +32 520 £77,839 +7.36% 329
London +80 516 £90,000 -5.26% 243
South East -15 231 £75,000 - 145
North of England -21 176 £75,000 - 127
Midlands 0 104 £65,000 -7.14% 63
South West -28 90 £80,000 +11.13% 64
North West -10 88 £75,000 - 63
East of England +15 74 £60,100 -6.09% 52
West Midlands -12 69 £65,000 -10.34% 33
Yorkshire -46 69 £73,500 -0.34% 43
Northern Ireland +4 56 £82,500 - 4
East Midlands -30 35 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Scotland -19 34 £75,900 +4.78% 30
Wales -28 31 £67,500 -10.00% 12
North East -27 19 £70,039 -6.61% 21

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 66 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.37%) ArcGIS
5 15 (1.03%) Confluence
6 11 (0.75%) JBoss
7 10 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.62%) Appian
8 9 (0.62%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.27%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.14%) Apache
12 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Mule
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (3.15%) AutoCAD
2 32 (2.19%) Revit
3 15 (1.03%) CATIA
4 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Weka
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (0.27%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.068%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.068%) HFM
6 1 (0.068%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.068%) Shopify
6 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 508 (34.75%) Azure
2 396 (27.09%) AWS
3 156 (10.67%) GCP
4 99 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (6.57%) SaaS
6 82 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 77 (5.27%) Power Platform
8 76 (5.20%) GitHub
9 60 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.63%) Serverless
11 42 (2.87%) PaaS
12 32 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
13 30 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.64%) dbt
16 23 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.57%) PowerApps
17 22 (1.50%) OpenShift
18 21 (1.44%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.20%) Firewall
2 70 (4.79%) WAN
3 46 (3.15%) TETRA
4 43 (2.94%) DNS
5 38 (2.60%) LAN
6 36 (2.46%) Broadband
7 34 (2.33%) VPN
8 33 (2.26%) Network Security
9 31 (2.12%) Wireless
10 30 (2.05%) HTTP
11 29 (1.98%) SD-WAN
12 23 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (1.23%) VLAN
14 17 (1.16%) DHCP
14 17 (1.16%) TCP/IP
15 15 (1.03%) Multicast
16 13 (0.89%) WebEx
17 11 (0.75%) BGP
18 10 (0.68%) Cisco Wireless
19 8 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 50 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (2.74%) Power BI
4 39 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (2.46%) Metadata
6 33 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 32 (2.19%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.05%) GIS
9 22 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.37%) QGIS
10 20 (1.37%) Spatial Data
11 19 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
12 18 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.89%) MongoDB
14 13 (0.89%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.89%) Redis
15 8 (0.55%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.55%) MySQL
16 7 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 88 (6.02%) Git
2 76 (5.20%) JIRA
3 47 (3.21%) Rational DOORS
4 42 (2.87%) GitLab
5 21 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.44%) Selenium
6 11 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.68%) JMeter
8 9 (0.62%) JUnit
9 6 (0.41%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.34%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (0.34%) Locust
10 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.27%) NUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.27%) Snyk
12 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.21%) ESLint
12 3 (0.21%) Gatling
12 3 (0.21%) XCUITest
General
1 404 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 292 (19.97%) Finance
3 112 (7.66%) Banking
4 98 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (5.40%) Public Sector
7 71 (4.86%) Legal
8 65 (4.45%) Law
9 47 (3.21%) Retail
10 42 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.85%) Games
12 22 (1.50%) Electronics
13 21 (1.44%) Aerospace
14 20 (1.37%) Marketing
14 20 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.09%) Billing
15 16 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.96%) Military
17 13 (0.89%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 488 (33.38%) Lead
2 313 (21.41%) Senior
3 237 (16.21%) Architect
4 180 (12.31%) Developer
5 142 (9.71%) Software Engineer
6 137 (9.37%) Systems Engineer
7 134 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
8 91 (6.22%) Lead Developer
8 91 (6.22%) Technical Leader
9 78 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
10 73 (4.99%) Senior Developer
11 71 (4.86%) Consultant
12 65 (4.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 56 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
14 54 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
15 53 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 49 (3.35%) Engineering Manager
17 43 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
18 40 (2.74%) Team Leader
19 37 (2.53%) Lead Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (9.17%) .NET
2 111 (7.59%) React
3 83 (5.68%) REST
4 66 (4.51%) Node.js
5 63 (4.31%) Spring
6 49 (3.35%) CSS
6 49 (3.35%) RESTful
7 47 (3.21%) HTML
7 47 (3.21%) PyTorch
8 42 (2.87%) Middleware
9 41 (2.80%) Spring Boot
10 34 (2.33%) AngularJS
11 31 (2.12%) GraphQL
12 28 (1.92%) .NET Core
13 25 (1.71%) SOAP
14 23 (1.57%) Django
14 23 (1.57%) JSON
15 21 (1.44%) pytest
16 20 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
17 18 (1.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 177 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 106 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.76%) Algorithms
3 55 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 44 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.26%) Mobile App
10 30 (2.05%) Security Posture
11 29 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.37%) Equities
14 19 (1.30%) Derivative
14 19 (1.30%) PKI
15 17 (1.16%) Acoustics
15 17 (1.16%) Fixed Income
15 17 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 16 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 97 (6.63%) Windows
2 58 (3.97%) Linux
3 45 (3.08%) Apple iOS
4 41 (2.80%) Android
5 39 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.068%) CentOS
10 1 (0.068%) Unix
10 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (34.88%) Mentoring
2 393 (26.88%) Agile
3 344 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 325 (22.23%) Software Engineering
5 319 (21.82%) DevOps
6 296 (20.25%) Roadmaps
7 280 (19.15%) AI
8 244 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 166 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 164 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 157 (10.74%) Microservices
13 150 (10.26%) Test Automation
14 145 (9.92%) Decision-Making
15 134 (9.17%) Coaching
16 121 (8.28%) Project Delivery
17 120 (8.21%) Machine Learning
18 119 (8.14%) Observability
19 116 (7.93%) Full-Stack Development
19 116 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 270 (18.47%) Python
2 196 (13.41%) Java
3 190 (13.00%) SQL
4 133 (9.10%) JavaScript
5 112 (7.66%) TypeScript
6 101 (6.91%) C#
7 38 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.33%) C++
9 18 (1.23%) Apex Code
10 16 (1.09%) R
11 14 (0.96%) Bicep
12 12 (0.82%) C
13 11 (0.75%) Go
14 9 (0.62%) Scala
15 8 (0.55%) PHP
15 8 (0.55%) SOQL
15 8 (0.55%) SOSL
16 7 (0.48%) Bash
16 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.41%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 161 (11.01%) Degree
2 159 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 103 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 65 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 64 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 48 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.60%) DBS Check
9 35 (2.39%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
11 28 (1.92%) CCNP
12 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.64%) PhD
13 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.37%) CISSP
15 18 (1.23%) CCIE
16 13 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.43%) QA
2 80 (5.47%) Accessibility
3 65 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.60%) NIST
5 35 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 29 (1.98%) GDPR
8 13 (0.89%) GRC
8 13 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 13 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.68%) SLA
10 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.48%) WCAG
11 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.34%) IEC 61508
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS
12 5 (0.34%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 88 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 84 (5.75%) Docker
3 37 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.89%) Firmware
6 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.48%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.068%) Ceph
11 1 (0.068%) GPFS
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 146 (9.99%) Terraform
2 118 (8.07%) Kubernetes
3 46 (3.15%) Ansible
4 40 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.71%) Grafana
6 11 (0.75%) Puppet
7 9 (0.62%) Argo
8 8 (0.55%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.41%) Endace
9 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.34%) vRealize
11 3 (0.21%) Control-M
11 3 (0.21%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.14%) Packer
12 2 (0.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 226 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.83%) Cisco
3 50 (3.42%) Databricks
4 48 (3.28%) Oracle
4 48 (3.28%) VMware
5 38 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 33 (2.26%) Google
6 33 (2.26%) IBM
7 19 (1.30%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.23%) SAP
9 17 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
10 16 (1.09%) Adobe
10 16 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 14 (0.96%) Meraki
12 13 (0.89%) F5
12 13 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.89%) SolarWinds
12 13 (0.89%) Splunk
13 12 (0.82%) Ruckus Wireless
14 11 (0.75%) Fortinet