Hybrid/Remote Technical Leader Job Trends

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead salary for remote/hybrid work is £83,774 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 328 298
Rank change year-on-year +53 -30 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 101 95 273
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.62% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.65% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 81 48 225
10th Percentile £55,750 £30,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,774 £73,750 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year +13.59% -0.07% +3.59%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,250 £96,900
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year - +8.39% -7.74%

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 15,294 14,564 26,608
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 95.34% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,216 8,934 22,299
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 39 (38.61%) Mentoring
2 37 (36.63%) Agile
3 34 (33.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.77%) CI/CD
5 23 (22.77%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (21.78%) Azure
7 20 (19.80%) AWS
7 20 (19.80%) Roadmaps
8 19 (18.81%) Serverless
9 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
10 15 (14.85%) AI
10 15 (14.85%) SQL
11 14 (13.86%) DevOps
12 13 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (12.87%) Test Automation
13 12 (11.88%) Design Patterns
13 12 (11.88%) Microservices
13 12 (11.88%) Migration
13 12 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (10.89%) Analytics
14 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (10.89%) Git
14 11 (10.89%) GitHub
14 11 (10.89%) QA
15 10 (9.90%) Coaching
15 10 (9.90%) Decision-Making
15 10 (9.90%) Java
15 10 (9.90%) MVC
15 10 (9.90%) Observability

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 (2.97%) CMS
1 3 (2.97%) Confluence
1 3 (2.97%) Drupal
1 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.78%) Azure
2 20 (19.80%) AWS
3 19 (18.81%) Serverless
4 11 (10.89%) GitHub
5 10 (9.90%) SaaS
6 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.93%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.94%) Azure App Service
8 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.94%) PaaS
9 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (2.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.99%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
1 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.96%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.98%) MySQL
3 2 (1.98%) Power BI
3 2 (1.98%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 7 (6.93%) JIRA
3 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.97%) GitLab
3 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.97%) Maven
3 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) Vite
4 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 40 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.95%) Finance
4 4 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.96%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (3.96%) Publishing
4 4 (3.96%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.97%) Marketing
6 2 (1.98%) Games
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Automotive
7 1 (0.99%) Back Office
7 1 (0.99%) Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Front Office
7 1 (0.99%) Police
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) React
2 8 (7.92%) .NET
3 6 (5.94%) .NET Framework
3 6 (5.94%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (5.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 6 (5.94%) Entity Framework
3 6 (5.94%) Razor View Engine
3 6 (5.94%) RESTful
4 5 (4.95%) CSS
4 5 (4.95%) HTML
5 4 (3.96%) Flask
5 4 (3.96%) OAuth
5 4 (3.96%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.96%) OpenID
5 4 (3.96%) Spring
5 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.97%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.97%) Middleware
6 3 (2.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.96%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.96%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.96%) PKI
3 3 (2.97%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.98%) IoT
4 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.98%) Replication
5 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.99%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Linux
1 4 (3.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.98%) Android
2 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.98%) SUSE
2 2 (1.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.61%) Mentoring
2 37 (36.63%) Agile
3 34 (33.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.77%) CI/CD
5 23 (22.77%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (19.80%) Roadmaps
7 15 (14.85%) AI
8 14 (13.86%) DevOps
9 13 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (12.87%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.88%) Design Patterns
10 12 (11.88%) Microservices
10 12 (11.88%) Migration
10 12 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.89%) Analytics
11 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (9.90%) Coaching
12 10 (9.90%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.90%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.85%) SQL
2 10 (9.90%) Java
2 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
3 9 (8.91%) Python
4 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.96%) C#
5 4 (3.96%) Go
6 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.98%) Bash
7 2 (1.98%) Groovy
7 2 (1.98%) Rust
8 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (7.92%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (5.94%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.97%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) QA
2 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Terraform
2 3 (2.97%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.96%) SAP
4 3 (2.97%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.97%) BigPanda
4 3 (2.97%) ConnectWise
4 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.97%) Splunk
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle
6 1 (0.99%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.99%) Informatica
6 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto