Hybrid/Remote Technical Leader Job Trends

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead salary for remote or hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 272 344
Rank change year-on-year -89 +72 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 60 250 183
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 1.07% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.11% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 50 205 154
10th Percentile £72,500 £53,800 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £60,141
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - +22.03% -1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £148,750 £120,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £75,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% +2.65% -5.63%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 15,105 22,566 23,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 96.28% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,998 14,513 19,625
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,005 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Technical Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leader trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Technical Leader
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Technical Leader job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Technical Leader job vacancies

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Leader over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Technical Leader salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 27 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (31.67%) Finance
4 16 (26.67%) Azure
5 14 (23.33%) DevOps
5 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 13 (21.67%) AWS
7 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 11 (18.33%) Java
9 10 (16.67%) SQL
9 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
10 9 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
10 9 (15.00%) Python
10 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
10 9 (15.00%) People Management
10 9 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (13.33%) GDPR
11 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
11 8 (13.33%) Project Management
11 8 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (11.67%) Agile
12 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
12 7 (11.67%) Coaching
12 7 (11.67%) Technology Strategy
13 6 (10.00%) SOC 2
13 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 6 (10.00%) Serverless
13 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.67%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.67%) CMS
1 1 (1.67%) Drupal
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.67%) nginx
1 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.00%) Serverless
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.00%) SaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.33%) Contentful
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub
7 2 (3.33%) IaaS
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.67%) IPsec
3 1 (1.67%) SAN
3 1 (1.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Tick Data
3 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.67%) ESLint
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Snyk
2 1 (1.67%) Storybook
2 1 (1.67%) webpack
General
1 27 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.67%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Front Office
3 5 (8.33%) Marketing
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Esports
7 1 (1.67%) Games
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.00%) JSON
2 3 (5.00%) React
2 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.00%) Vue
3 2 (3.33%) CSS
3 2 (3.33%) HTML
3 2 (3.33%) Laravel
3 2 (3.33%) Middleware
3 2 (3.33%) Next.js
3 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.33%) React Native
3 2 (3.33%) REST
3 2 (3.33%) Serverless Framework
3 2 (3.33%) Spring
3 2 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (1.67%) MassTransit
4 1 (1.67%) MediatR
4 1 (1.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.67%) Derivative
2 4 (6.67%) Equities
2 4 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
1 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) SUSE
2 1 (1.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
2 14 (23.33%) DevOps
2 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
3 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 9 (15.00%) People Management
5 9 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 8 (13.33%) Project Management
7 7 (11.67%) Agile
7 7 (11.67%) Coaching
7 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
7 7 (11.67%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.00%) Migration
8 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (8.33%) Biometrics
9 5 (8.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) Java
2 10 (16.67%) SQL
3 9 (15.00%) Python
4 6 (10.00%) C#
5 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) PHP
6 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.33%) CEH
4 2 (3.33%) CISM
4 2 (3.33%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) GSEC
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) PhD
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) GDPR
1 8 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 6 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (3.33%) WCAG
5 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) SCCM
3 1 (1.67%) SCOM
3 1 (1.67%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.67%) SCSM
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Google
2 3 (5.00%) SAP
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (1.67%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.67%) VMware