Technical Leadership Jobs in Wales

Technical Leadership
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 111 122
Rank change year-on-year +91 +11 -11
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 83 11 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.44% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 0.68% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 82 9 5
10th Percentile - £52,386 £53,265
25th Percentile £62,000 £52,436 £56,289
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £59,500 £62,742
Median % change year-on-year +18.66% -5.17% +15.98%
75th Percentile £78,438 £72,433 £69,196
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,866 -
UK median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% -9.38% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 950 1,616 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 85.13% 77.95% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,063 802
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Wales

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in Wales

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Wales over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Wales

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Wales +74 64 £70,600 +18.66% 24
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (3.61%) CMS
1 3 (3.61%) Confluence
1 3 (3.61%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.20%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.51%) Azure
2 3 (3.61%) AWS
2 3 (3.61%) Contentful
2 3 (3.61%) GCP
2 3 (3.61%) Serverless
3 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.69%) Network Security
2 10 (12.05%) Modbus
2 10 (12.05%) MQTT
2 10 (12.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.46%) RDBMS
2 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.20%) GIS
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (61.45%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (4.82%) Git
2 4 (4.82%) JIRA
3 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.20%) Appium
4 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.20%) JMeter
4 1 (1.20%) JUnit
4 1 (1.20%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (1.20%) Maven
4 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.20%) Selenium
4 1 (1.20%) TestNG
General
1 55 (66.27%) Electronics
2 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.20%) Finance
4 1 (1.20%) Legal
4 1 (1.20%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 50 (60.24%) Systems Engineer
2 28 (33.73%) Principal Engineer
2 28 (33.73%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 27 (32.53%) Senior
4 22 (26.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 18 (21.69%) Lead
6 12 (14.46%) Software Engineer
7 11 (13.25%) Developer
7 11 (13.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Lead Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Software Team Leader
8 8 (9.64%) Team Leader
9 6 (7.23%) Firmware Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 3 (3.61%) JavaScript Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Radar Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (2.41%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.41%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) .NET
2 4 (4.82%) REST
3 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.61%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.61%) CSS
3 3 (3.61%) Express.js
3 3 (3.61%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.61%) hapi
3 3 (3.61%) HTML
3 3 (3.61%) NestJS
3 3 (3.61%) Node.js
3 3 (3.61%) OpenLayers
3 3 (3.61%) React
3 3 (3.61%) React Native
3 3 (3.61%) Vue
4 1 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (66.27%) Algorithms
2 18 (21.69%) IoT
3 10 (12.05%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.69%) Linux
1 18 (21.69%) Unix
1 18 (21.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (69.88%) Systems Engineering
2 55 (66.27%) Signal Processing
3 38 (45.78%) Mentoring
4 28 (33.73%) Test Planning
5 23 (27.71%) Agile
6 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (21.69%) Product Strategy
6 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
6 18 (21.69%) Technical Debt
7 17 (20.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (19.28%) CI/CD
9 15 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (15.66%) API Development
11 12 (14.46%) Web Development
12 10 (12.05%) Computer Architecture
13 5 (6.02%) Architectural Design
14 3 (3.61%) Microservices
14 3 (3.61%) Mobile Application Development
14 3 (3.61%) Sprint Planning
14 3 (3.61%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.48%) C#
1 17 (20.48%) R
2 12 (14.46%) SQL
3 10 (12.05%) C
3 10 (12.05%) C++
4 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.20%) Groovy
6 1 (1.20%) Java
6 1 (1.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (69.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (4.82%) Degree
3 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.41%) PhD
4 1 (1.20%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (68.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 10 (12.05%) Firmware
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 51 (61.45%) IBM
2 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.61%) Google
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco
3 1 (1.20%) ESRI
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.20%) Mitel
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) VMware