Hybrid/Remote Technical Leader Job Trends

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,466 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 355 258
Rank change year-on-year +88 -97 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 140 62 400
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 0.44% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.48% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 126 47 347
10th Percentile £54,125 £61,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,899 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,466 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% - +14.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,450 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.78% +8.60% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 17,159 13,009 31,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 92.09% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,506 9,042 24,888
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Technical Leader
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Technical Leader job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Technical Leader job vacancies

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technical Leader over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Technical Leader salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 53 (37.86%) Agile
2 46 (32.86%) Mentoring
3 36 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 32 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (16.43%) AWS
7 23 (16.43%) DevOps
8 22 (15.71%) Roadmaps
9 21 (15.00%) Microservices
10 20 (14.29%) AI
10 20 (14.29%) Azure
11 18 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (12.86%) Serverless
12 17 (12.14%) Microsoft
12 17 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (12.14%) TypeScript
13 15 (10.71%) Observability
14 14 (10.00%) Coaching
14 14 (10.00%) Code Quality
14 14 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (9.29%) Test Automation
16 12 (8.57%) Degree
16 12 (8.57%) QA
17 11 (7.86%) .NET
17 11 (7.86%) Event-Driven
17 11 (7.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 11 (7.86%) ITIL

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (2.86%) Drupal
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.71%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.43%) AWS
2 20 (14.29%) Azure
3 18 (12.86%) Serverless
4 11 (7.86%) SaaS
5 7 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.29%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.57%) Azure App Service
7 5 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.57%) GitHub
7 5 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (3.57%) PaaS
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) LAN
2 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.71%) WAN
2 1 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Git
2 7 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.14%) GitLab
3 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) Maven
3 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.00%) Finance
3 13 (9.29%) Banking
3 13 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Marketing
7 5 (3.57%) Retail
8 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Publishing
9 3 (2.14%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Front Office
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.86%) .NET
1 11 (7.86%) React
2 8 (5.71%) Middleware
2 8 (5.71%) RESTful
3 7 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 5 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 5 (3.57%) Entity Framework
4 5 (3.57%) Razor View Engine
5 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.86%) Flutter
5 4 (2.86%) Kafka
6 3 (2.14%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.14%) Jest
6 3 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.14%) REST
6 3 (2.14%) Spring
6 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.57%) Derivative
2 5 (3.57%) Driving Licence
2 5 (3.57%) Equities
2 5 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.14%) IoT
4 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.14%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.71%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.71%) DTCC
6 1 (0.71%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Android
1 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.43%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.86%) Agile
2 46 (32.86%) Mentoring
3 36 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 32 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (16.43%) DevOps
8 22 (15.71%) Roadmaps
9 21 (15.00%) Microservices
10 20 (14.29%) AI
11 18 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (10.71%) Observability
14 14 (10.00%) Coaching
14 14 (10.00%) Code Quality
14 14 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (9.29%) Test Automation
16 11 (7.86%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.14%) TypeScript
2 11 (7.86%) Java
3 10 (7.14%) C#
4 9 (6.43%) SQL
5 8 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.29%) Go
6 6 (4.29%) Python
7 3 (2.14%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.43%) Bash
8 2 (1.43%) Groovy
8 2 (1.43%) Rust
9 1 (0.71%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 12 (8.57%) Degree
2 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 5 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.14%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.57%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.29%) EMIR
3 6 (4.29%) MiFID
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
1 6 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Terraform
2 3 (2.14%) HP Fortify
2 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.57%) ConnectWise
4 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.43%) BigPanda
6 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle
6 2 (1.43%) Splunk
7 1 (0.71%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.71%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.71%) SAP