Technical Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 209 227
Rank change year-on-year +40 +18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,726 1,952 2,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 1.85% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.93% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 1,224 1,369
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,400
25th Percentile £59,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +9.59% +6.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 24 April 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 24 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
England +45 1,508 £73,000 -8.75% 487
UK excluding London +58 1,165 £70,000 +3.70% 295
Work from Home +13 715 £75,000 -6.25% 250
London +7 473 £85,000 - 197
South East +49 300 £70,000 -6.67% 82
North of England +87 260 £65,066 +0.10% 60
South West +46 236 £65,000 +18.18% 61
North West +46 142 £70,576 +5.01% 37
Scotland -28 134 £71,788 +2.55% 17
Midlands -6 127 £75,000 +13.21% 33
Yorkshire +85 100 £62,500 -3.85% 16
West Midlands +11 91 £75,000 +11.11% 25
East of England +14 89 £65,000 -13.33% 40
East Midlands -5 36 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North East +16 18 £75,000 +37.96% 9
Wales +13 11 £59,500 +1.28% 6
Northern Ireland +13 8 £85,200 +42.00% 3

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 92 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 42 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.38%) CMS
4 40 (2.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 39 (2.26%) IIS
6 36 (2.09%) Kentico
6 36 (2.09%) Umbraco
7 35 (2.03%) Headless CMS
8 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.58%) Drupal
10 7 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.41%) SAS
11 6 (0.35%) Apache
11 6 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.35%) Mendix
12 5 (0.29%) Confluence
12 5 (0.29%) K2 blackpearl
13 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.17%) CICS
Applications
1 23 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
3 6 (0.35%) Simulink
4 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.23%) Windchill
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.41%) HFM
2 7 (0.41%) Hyperion Planning
2 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.12%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.058%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.058%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.058%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.058%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 541 (31.34%) Azure
2 382 (22.13%) AWS
3 124 (7.18%) Power Platform
4 117 (6.78%) SaaS
5 109 (6.32%) GCP
6 104 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 67 (3.88%) IaaS
10 66 (3.82%) Serverless
11 58 (3.36%) PowerApps
12 56 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (2.90%) OneDrive
14 46 (2.67%) PaaS
15 45 (2.61%) Amazon S3
16 43 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (2.43%) Dropbox
17 42 (2.43%) Google Drive
18 38 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 87 (5.04%) Firewall
2 72 (4.17%) DNS
3 44 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 44 (2.55%) VPN
3 44 (2.55%) Wireless
4 43 (2.49%) WAN
5 41 (2.38%) MPLS
6 38 (2.20%) DHCP
7 36 (2.09%) HTTP
8 34 (1.97%) BGP
9 27 (1.56%) Network Security
10 25 (1.45%) LAN
11 20 (1.16%) SAN
11 20 (1.16%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.16%) VLAN
12 18 (1.04%) SSL
13 17 (0.98%) OSPF
14 14 (0.81%) Internet
14 14 (0.81%) NAS
15 12 (0.70%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.07%) Big Data
2 90 (5.21%) NoSQL
3 82 (4.75%) Power BI
4 81 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 66 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (3.82%) Relational Database
6 62 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 41 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (2.09%) MySQL
9 33 (1.91%) RDBMS
10 31 (1.80%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.51%) Metadata
13 18 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 15 (0.87%) DB2
15 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.46%) CockroachDB
18 7 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 99 (5.74%) Git
2 49 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.43%) JIRA
4 31 (1.80%) GitLab
4 31 (1.80%) Subversion
5 26 (1.51%) Postman
6 19 (1.10%) IBM UrbanCode
7 17 (0.98%) CMake
8 10 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.52%) Selenium
10 8 (0.46%) Jaeger
10 8 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.35%) JUnit
12 6 (0.35%) RStudio
12 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.29%) Maven
14 4 (0.23%) TestNG
14 4 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 574 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 343 (19.87%) Finance
3 211 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (7.36%) Influencing Skills
6 96 (5.56%) Marketing
7 90 (5.21%) Banking
8 89 (5.16%) Law
9 79 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 73 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.78%) Automotive
12 33 (1.91%) Electronics
12 33 (1.91%) Retail
13 32 (1.85%) Legal
14 28 (1.62%) Back Office
15 25 (1.45%) Local Government
15 25 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.22%) Aviation
16 21 (1.22%) Games
16 21 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 494 (28.62%) Lead
2 413 (23.93%) Senior
3 400 (23.17%) Architect
4 220 (12.75%) Developer
5 176 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 163 (9.44%) Principal Engineer
7 152 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 139 (8.05%) Technical Leader
9 128 (7.42%) Principal Cloud Engineer
10 123 (7.13%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (6.55%) Technical Architect
12 104 (6.03%) Senior Developer
13 82 (4.75%) Lead Software Engineer
14 77 (4.46%) Lead Developer
15 65 (3.77%) Senior Architect
16 59 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (3.30%) Big Data Engineer
17 57 (3.30%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 57 (3.30%) Scala Engineer
17 57 (3.30%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (11.70%) .NET
2 124 (7.18%) React
3 77 (4.46%) HTML
4 74 (4.29%) RESTful
5 70 (4.06%) .NET Core
6 66 (3.82%) .NET Framework
7 64 (3.71%) Spring
8 63 (3.65%) Kafka
8 63 (3.65%) Spring Boot
9 56 (3.24%) Node.js
10 54 (3.13%) ASP.NET
11 50 (2.90%) XML
12 47 (2.72%) JSON
13 46 (2.67%) CSS
13 46 (2.67%) Next.js
14 42 (2.43%) OpenID
15 41 (2.38%) SAML
16 40 (2.32%) ASP.NET MVC
17 35 (2.03%) REST
18 34 (1.97%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 183 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 82 (4.75%) Management Information System
4 76 (4.40%) IoT
5 65 (3.77%) Algorithms
6 63 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (3.36%) Data Centre
8 54 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 44 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (2.43%) iPad
11 37 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.91%) Robotics
13 29 (1.68%) Blockchain
13 29 (1.68%) Cyberattack
14 26 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 19 (1.10%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
17 15 (0.87%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 185 (10.72%) Linux
2 172 (9.97%) Windows
3 50 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.14%) Unix
5 24 (1.39%) Android
6 21 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 18 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.64%) CentOS
9 10 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (37.25%) Agile
2 447 (25.90%) Mentoring
3 401 (23.23%) Software Engineering
4 392 (22.71%) DevOps
5 380 (22.02%) Roadmaps
6 330 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (15.70%) CI/CD
8 256 (14.83%) Technology Roadmap
9 240 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 207 (11.99%) Coaching
11 195 (11.30%) SDLC
12 194 (11.24%) Computer Science
13 182 (10.54%) Microservices
14 147 (8.52%) Project Management
15 132 (7.65%) Scrum
16 127 (7.36%) Project Delivery
17 118 (6.84%) Infrastructure as Code
18 113 (6.55%) Artificial Intelligence
19 110 (6.37%) Machine Learning
20 109 (6.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 265 (15.35%) Python
1 265 (15.35%) SQL
2 264 (15.30%) C#
3 253 (14.66%) Java
4 174 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 77 (4.46%) C++
6 71 (4.11%) Scala
7 68 (3.94%) PHP
8 66 (3.82%) TypeScript
9 57 (3.30%) C
10 40 (2.32%) SystemVerilog
11 38 (2.20%) Bash
12 35 (2.03%) PowerShell
13 33 (1.91%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.80%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.45%) R
16 22 (1.27%) Ruby
17 21 (1.22%) Go
18 20 (1.16%) Groovy
19 17 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 321 (18.60%) Degree
2 212 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 150 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 120 (6.95%) SC Cleared
5 69 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 58 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 50 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 46 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 41 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 40 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 31 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.68%) Azure Certification
13 25 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (1.39%) PhD
15 20 (1.16%) CISSP
16 19 (1.10%) CCNA
17 13 (0.75%) PMI Certification
18 12 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (0.46%) CCIE
20 7 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.39%) QA
2 36 (2.09%) GDPR
3 34 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.39%) SLA
5 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.75%) PMO
7 12 (0.70%) SEPA
8 8 (0.46%) Def Stans
8 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.41%) IEC 61508
9 7 (0.41%) ISO 13485
9 7 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.41%) JTAG
10 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.23%) MISRA
11 4 (0.23%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.23%) NCSC
12 3 (0.17%) ECSS
12 3 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 113 (6.55%) Docker
2 92 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 59 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.09%) Firmware
5 26 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.58%) vSphere
9 9 (0.52%) KVM
10 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.17%) RACF
13 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.058%) Lustre
14 1 (0.058%) LXC
14 1 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 140 (8.11%) Terraform
2 133 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.24%) Ansible
4 36 (2.09%) Progress Chef
5 28 (1.62%) Puppet
6 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.75%) Nagios
8 11 (0.64%) FortiGate
8 11 (0.64%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.46%) Kiali
10 7 (0.41%) Kibana
11 6 (0.35%) Endace
11 6 (0.35%) logstash
11 6 (0.35%) ServiceCenter
11 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.29%) SCCM
13 4 (0.23%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 316 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.89%) Google
3 69 (4.00%) Databricks
4 66 (3.82%) Cisco
5 62 (3.59%) VMware
6 49 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 40 (2.32%) Sitecore
8 39 (2.26%) IBM
9 35 (2.03%) Optimizely
10 31 (1.80%) Splunk
11 29 (1.68%) Cadence
11 29 (1.68%) Juniper
11 29 (1.68%) Oracle
12 28 (1.62%) Synopsys
13 21 (1.22%) Veeam
14 20 (1.16%) SAP
15 13 (0.75%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.75%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.70%) HP
16 12 (0.70%) ServiceNow