Hybrid/Remote Technical Leader Job Trends

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 329 337
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 72 135 143
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 0.71% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.74% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53 86 116
10th Percentile £70,000 £36,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £61,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,348 18,291 19,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 96.44% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9,154 11,429 16,074
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025, 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 22 (30.56%) Azure
1 22 (30.56%) Mentoring
1 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (29.17%) Agile
3 17 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (23.61%) Microsoft
4 16 (22.22%) AWS
4 16 (22.22%) DevOps
4 16 (22.22%) SQL
4 16 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 14 (19.44%) Serverless
7 13 (18.06%) Python
8 11 (15.28%) GitHub
8 11 (15.28%) Java
8 11 (15.28%) Project Delivery
8 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
9 10 (13.89%) Git
9 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.11%) Design Patterns
10 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
10 8 (11.11%) MVC
10 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.11%) SaaS
10 8 (11.11%) TypeScript
11 7 (9.72%) Analytics
11 7 (9.72%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
11 7 (9.72%) Docker
11 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development

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 3 (4.17%) CMS
1 3 (4.17%) Drupal
1 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) AWS
3 14 (19.44%) Serverless
4 11 (15.28%) GitHub
5 8 (11.11%) SaaS
6 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (8.33%) PaaS
6 6 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.56%) Azure App Service
8 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.78%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.78%) Tick Data
4 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Maven
2 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.39%) Selenium
3 1 (1.39%) Vite
3 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 29 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.78%) Back Office
7 2 (2.78%) Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Front Office
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) React
2 6 (8.33%) CSS
2 6 (8.33%) HTML
3 5 (6.94%) .NET
4 4 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 4 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 4 (5.56%) Flask
4 4 (5.56%) Middleware
4 4 (5.56%) OAuth
4 4 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.56%) OpenID
4 4 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
4 4 (5.56%) RESTful
4 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.17%) Node.js
5 3 (4.17%) REST
5 3 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.56%) PKI
3 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Replication
5 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.39%) CMDB
5 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.39%) Derivative
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Equities
5 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.39%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Windows
1 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) SUSE
2 2 (2.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.56%) Mentoring
1 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (29.17%) Agile
3 17 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (22.22%) DevOps
4 16 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.28%) Project Delivery
6 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
7 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 8 (11.11%) MVC
8 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.72%) Analytics
9 7 (9.72%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (9.72%) User Experience
10 6 (8.33%) Coaching
10 6 (8.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.22%) SQL
2 13 (18.06%) Python
3 11 (15.28%) Java
4 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.17%) C#
5 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.39%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Groovy
6 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.56%) Degree
1 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.17%) CISSP
3 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.78%) CEH
3 2 (2.78%) CISM
3 2 (2.78%) GSEC
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.39%) MCP
4 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.94%) QA
1 5 (6.94%) WCAG
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Docker
2 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (2.78%) Google
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.39%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.39%) BigPanda
4 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.39%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.39%) Splunk