Technical Leader Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Lead
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Lead salary in the West Midlands is £73,805 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 197 253
Rank change year-on-year +13 +56 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 73 60 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.99% 0.94% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.04% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 50 46 20
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £41,171
25th Percentile £56,563 £58,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £62,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.09% +11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £84,964 £72,188 £65,625
90th Percentile £88,375 £85,625 £68,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,944 5,756 6,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.22% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,216 3,269 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the West Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the West Midlands

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the West Midlands

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Birmingham -15 22 £79,932 +27.89% 2
Warwickshire +53 14 £82,500 - 4
Wolverhampton - 9 £50,000 -
Staffordshire -15 8 £65,000 - 3
Solihull +4 5 £62,500 -30.56%
Worcestershire -14 5 £47,500 -6.68%
Shropshire -4 3 £75,000 -
Coventry - 1 £85,000 - 1
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 27 (36.99%) Agile
2 15 (20.55%) AWS
2 15 (20.55%) Roadmaps
2 15 (20.55%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.81%) Mentoring
3 13 (17.81%) Degree
4 12 (16.44%) Coaching
5 11 (15.07%) ITIL
5 11 (15.07%) Project Management
5 11 (15.07%) Finance
6 10 (13.70%) Micro Focus
6 10 (13.70%) COBOL
6 10 (13.70%) Java
6 10 (13.70%) Strategic Thinking
6 10 (13.70%) Product Roadmap
6 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
6 10 (13.70%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (12.33%) Customer Service
7 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
7 9 (12.33%) Validation
7 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.33%) Azure
8 7 (9.59%) Computer Science
8 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
8 7 (9.59%) JavaScript
8 7 (9.59%) HTML
8 7 (9.59%) Oracle
8 7 (9.59%) Front End Development

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (8.22%) Tuxedo
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) AWS
2 9 (12.33%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (6.85%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.11%) SaaS
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.74%) Figma
7 2 (2.74%) Intacct
7 2 (2.74%) Serverless
8 1 (1.37%) Boomi
8 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DHCP
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) LAN
1 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
1 1 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) MySQL
2 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
2 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
1 4 (5.48%) Postman
General
1 11 (15.07%) Finance
2 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.22%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.11%) Automotive
6 2 (2.74%) Electronics
7 1 (1.37%) Billing
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) HTML
2 6 (8.22%) CSS
2 6 (8.22%) RESTful
3 4 (5.48%) JSON
3 4 (5.48%) Spring
3 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.48%) XML
4 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.74%) Laravel
4 2 (2.74%) Symfony
5 1 (1.37%) .NET
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.37%) CSS3
5 1 (1.37%) HTML5
5 1 (1.37%) React Native
5 1 (1.37%) Sass
5 1 (1.37%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.85%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
1 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Agile
2 15 (20.55%) Roadmaps
2 15 (20.55%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (17.81%) Mentoring
3 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (16.44%) Coaching
5 11 (15.07%) ITIL
5 11 (15.07%) Project Management
6 10 (13.70%) Product Roadmap
6 10 (13.70%) Strategic Thinking
7 9 (12.33%) Customer Service
7 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
7 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.33%) Validation
8 7 (9.59%) Computer Science
8 7 (9.59%) Front End Development
9 6 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (8.22%) Design Patterns
9 6 (8.22%) ETL
10 5 (6.85%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) COBOL
1 10 (13.70%) Java
1 10 (13.70%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 7 (9.59%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.22%) PHP
4 4 (5.48%) C
4 4 (5.48%) C++
4 4 (5.48%) Python
5 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.37%) C#
5 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.37%) SOQL
5 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Degree
2 7 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.48%) CCNP
3 4 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.48%) HND
3 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) CISM
4 2 (2.74%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) GRC
3 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Micro Focus
2 7 (9.59%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Informatica
3 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.48%) Cisco
4 4 (5.48%) Meraki
4 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.11%) QinetiQ
6 2 (2.74%) Sage
7 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.37%) Conga
7 1 (1.37%) Dell
7 1 (1.37%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) VMware