Technical Leadership Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 165 164
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -25
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 54 87 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.21% 1.20% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.45% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 39 61 57
10th Percentile £62,250 £52,539 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £97,500 £94,250
England median annual salary £70,600 £73,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.29% -8.75% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,072 6,020 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.16% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 4,530 3,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +31 26 £71,250 -5.00% 18
Solihull +11 8 £75,000 +20.00%
Shropshire +25 5 £71,250 -5.00% 9
Warwickshire -31 3 £80,000 +6.67% 13
Wolverhampton - 3 £95,000 - 3
Staffordshire +26 2 £50,000 - 14
Coventry -10 2 £68,750 -0.70% 6
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 2 (3.70%) CMS
1 2 (3.70%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.70%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) Snowflake
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) Serverless
5 6 (11.11%) SaaS
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.56%) PaaS
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.70%) Contentful
8 2 (3.70%) Figma
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) MPLS
1 15 (27.78%) WAN
2 14 (25.93%) BGP
2 14 (25.93%) IPsec
2 14 (25.93%) LAN
3 13 (24.07%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (24.07%) Junos
4 2 (3.70%) Firewall
5 1 (1.85%) DHCP
5 1 (1.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.85%) IOS XR
5 1 (1.85%) SAN
5 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.85%) Skype
5 1 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.85%) VoIP
5 1 (1.85%) VPN
5 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (9.26%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Big Data
4 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) Storybook
3 1 (1.85%) Babel
3 1 (1.85%) Mocha
3 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.85%) webpack
General
1 20 (37.04%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Games
6 3 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.70%) Agriculture
7 2 (3.70%) Automotive
7 2 (3.70%) Avionics
7 2 (3.70%) Electronics
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Law
8 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Architect
2 18 (33.33%) Lead
3 15 (27.78%) Network Architect
4 8 (14.81%) Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Lead Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Lead Data Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.41%) Head of Engineering
6 4 (7.41%) Lead Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Lead PHP Developer
6 4 (7.41%) PHP Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Software Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Software Manager
8 2 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) AngularJS
2 6 (11.11%) .NET
2 6 (11.11%) React
3 4 (7.41%) CSS
3 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
3 4 (7.41%) HTML
3 4 (7.41%) RESTful
3 4 (7.41%) Vue
4 3 (5.56%) Kafka
4 3 (5.56%) Next.js
5 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) Express.js
5 2 (3.70%) hapi
5 2 (3.70%) HTML5
5 2 (3.70%) Material-UI
5 2 (3.70%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (3.70%) MERN Stack
5 2 (3.70%) NestJS
5 2 (3.70%) React Native
5 2 (3.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) SCADA
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Software Engineering
2 17 (31.48%) Agile
3 15 (27.78%) Mentoring
4 14 (25.93%) Network Design
5 11 (20.37%) Analytics
6 10 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
7 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (14.81%) Migration
9 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.96%) DevOps
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
10 6 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) SQL
2 10 (18.52%) C#
3 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.96%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.11%) PHP
4 6 (11.11%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (3.70%) C
6 2 (3.70%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.70%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.93%) CCNA
3 14 (25.93%) CCNP
3 14 (25.93%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (25.93%) JNCIS
4 7 (12.96%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.85%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) SLA
2 5 (9.26%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) PMBOK
4 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.85%) Functional Safety
2 1 (1.85%) Grafana
2 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.85%) SCCM
2 1 (1.85%) SCOM
2 1 (1.85%) SCOrch
2 1 (1.85%) SCSM
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Cisco
2 15 (27.78%) Juniper
3 7 (12.96%) Google
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.41%) Databricks
6 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.70%) Hyperion
7 2 (3.70%) JD Edwards
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle
7 2 (3.70%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.85%) Mitel
8 1 (1.85%) SAP
8 1 (1.85%) Siemens
8 1 (1.85%) VMware