Technical Leader Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 259 338
Rank change year-on-year -143 +79 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 70 443 309
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 1.28% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 1.33% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 55 396 243
10th Percentile £61,297 £55,400 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,716 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +12.45% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £148,750 £109,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -12.50%

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 18,642 33,194 34,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 96.26% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,397 25,043 25,467
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -11.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,688
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 (38.57%) Technical Leadership
2 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.86%) Mentoring
3 22 (31.43%) DevOps
4 20 (28.57%) Finance
5 19 (27.14%) AWS
6 15 (21.43%) Coaching
6 15 (21.43%) Java
7 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.14%) Project Management
9 11 (15.71%) Agile
9 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (15.71%) Terraform
9 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.29%) Azure
10 10 (14.29%) Microservices
10 10 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 10 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
11 9 (12.86%) SQL
11 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
12 8 (11.43%) People Management
12 8 (11.43%) GDPR
12 8 (11.43%) Customer Experience
13 7 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 7 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
13 7 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
13 7 (10.00%) Kafka
13 7 (10.00%) Microsoft

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 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.43%) nginx
2 1 (1.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.14%) Serverless
5 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.29%) SaaS
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.86%) Contentful
7 2 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.43%) GCP
8 1 (1.43%) IaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) DNS
1 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.43%) IPsec
2 1 (1.43%) SAN
2 1 (1.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.71%) GIS
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.57%) GitLab
3 3 (4.29%) JIRA
4 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.43%) ESLint
4 1 (1.43%) Git
4 1 (1.43%) Snyk
4 1 (1.43%) Storybook
4 1 (1.43%) webpack
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Banking
4 5 (7.14%) Front Office
4 5 (7.14%) Marketing
5 3 (4.29%) Games
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Law
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Esports
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Kafka
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (7.14%) Vue
3 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.29%) Laravel
4 3 (4.29%) React
4 3 (4.29%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (2.86%) CSS
5 2 (2.86%) HTML
5 2 (2.86%) Middleware
5 2 (2.86%) Next.js
5 2 (2.86%) Node.js
5 2 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.86%) REST
5 2 (2.86%) Spring
5 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.43%) JSON
6 1 (1.43%) OAuth
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Derivative
2 4 (5.71%) Equities
2 4 (5.71%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Android
1 4 (5.71%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.57%) Technical Leadership
2 23 (32.86%) Mentoring
3 22 (31.43%) DevOps
4 15 (21.43%) Coaching
5 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 12 (17.14%) Project Management
7 11 (15.71%) Agile
7 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (14.29%) Microservices
8 10 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.43%) Customer Experience
9 8 (11.43%) People Management
10 7 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
11 6 (8.57%) Code Quality
11 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (8.57%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.43%) Java
2 9 (12.86%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) PHP
4 6 (8.57%) C#
4 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.57%) Python
5 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.43%) OSCE
5 1 (1.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) GDPR
2 6 (8.57%) HIPAA
2 6 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.57%) SOC 2
3 5 (7.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (5.71%) QA
4 4 (5.71%) WCAG
5 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) SCCM
3 1 (1.43%) SCOM
3 1 (1.43%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.43%) SCSM
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (1.43%) Google
3 1 (1.43%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.43%) VMware