Hybrid/Remote Technical Leader Job Trends

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,431 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 340 328
Rank change year-on-year +56 -12 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 91 105 204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.65% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.67% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 70 55 160
10th Percentile £55,750 £30,000 £51,800
25th Percentile £70,313 £54,375 £61,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £67,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year +29.53% -8.54% +1.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,500 £95,125
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%

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 14,803 15,578 25,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 95.96% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,670 9,381 20,835
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,757
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 31 (34.07%) Mentoring
2 30 (32.97%) Agile
2 30 (32.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
5 21 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (21.98%) Serverless
7 19 (20.88%) Azure
8 17 (18.68%) AWS
8 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
9 15 (16.48%) Roadmaps
9 15 (16.48%) SQL
10 14 (15.38%) Migration
11 13 (14.29%) DevOps
12 12 (13.19%) Microservices
12 12 (13.19%) Project Delivery
12 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
13 11 (12.09%) AI
13 11 (12.09%) Design Patterns
13 11 (12.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (12.09%) Git
13 11 (12.09%) GitHub
13 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (10.99%) MVC
14 10 (10.99%) QA
14 10 (10.99%) SaaS
14 10 (10.99%) TypeScript
15 9 (9.89%) Containerisation
15 9 (9.89%) Decision-Making

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 (3.30%) CMS
1 3 (3.30%) Confluence
1 3 (3.30%) Drupal
1 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.98%) Serverless
2 19 (20.88%) Azure
3 17 (18.68%) AWS
4 11 (12.09%) GitHub
5 10 (10.99%) SaaS
6 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.59%) Azure App Service
8 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.59%) PaaS
8 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (3.30%) Apigee
11 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Broadband
1 2 (2.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.10%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.40%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.20%) MySQL
3 2 (2.20%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.30%) GitLab
3 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.30%) Maven
3 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.10%) Selenium
4 1 (1.10%) Vite
4 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 38 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.69%) Finance
4 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.40%) Publishing
5 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Marketing
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Back Office
8 1 (1.10%) Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
8 1 (1.10%) Games
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) .NET
1 8 (8.79%) React
2 6 (6.59%) .NET Framework
2 6 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web API
2 6 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 6 (6.59%) Entity Framework
2 6 (6.59%) Razor View Engine
2 6 (6.59%) RESTful
3 5 (5.49%) CSS
3 5 (5.49%) HTML
4 4 (4.40%) Flask
4 4 (4.40%) OAuth
4 4 (4.40%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.40%) OpenID
4 4 (4.40%) Spring
4 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.30%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.30%) Jest
5 3 (3.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.40%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (4.40%) PKI
4 2 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.20%) Replication
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) CMDB
5 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) IoT
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.10%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Linux
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) SUSE
2 2 (2.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Mentoring
2 30 (32.97%) Agile
2 30 (32.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
5 21 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 15 (16.48%) Roadmaps
7 14 (15.38%) Migration
8 13 (14.29%) DevOps
9 12 (13.19%) Microservices
9 12 (13.19%) Project Delivery
9 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.09%) AI
10 11 (12.09%) Design Patterns
10 11 (12.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (10.99%) MVC
12 9 (9.89%) Containerisation
12 9 (9.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) SQL
2 10 (10.99%) TypeScript
3 9 (9.89%) Java
4 8 (8.79%) Python
5 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.30%) C#
6 3 (3.30%) Go
6 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.20%) Bash
7 2 (2.20%) Groovy
7 2 (2.20%) Rust
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.40%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.20%) CISSP
4 2 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) CEH
5 1 (1.10%) CISM
5 1 (1.10%) GSEC
5 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Terraform
2 3 (3.30%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.40%) SAP
4 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.30%) BigPanda
4 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.30%) Splunk
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.10%) Informatica
6 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto