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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 270 346
Rank change year-on-year -96 +76 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 61 404 381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 1.20% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 1.25% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 46 351 261
10th Percentile £61,274 £50,000 £49,950
25th Percentile £62,813 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - +14.77% -12.87%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.45% -6.45%

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 14,931 32,439 40,397
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 96.00% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9,881 24,904 28,685
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,127 £36,668
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,359 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -9.83% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,175 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 22 (36.07%) Mentoring
2 21 (34.43%) Technical Leadership
3 20 (32.79%) DevOps
4 13 (21.31%) Coaching
4 13 (21.31%) Project Management
4 13 (21.31%) Agile
4 13 (21.31%) AWS
5 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (19.67%) Software Engineering
5 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
6 11 (18.03%) Microservices
6 11 (18.03%) Finance
6 11 (18.03%) Collaborative Culture
7 10 (16.39%) Terraform
8 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.75%) PHP
8 9 (14.75%) .NET
8 9 (14.75%) Azure
9 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (11.48%) SQL
10 7 (11.48%) Java
10 7 (11.48%) TDD
10 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (11.48%) Unit Testing
10 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
11 6 (9.84%) QA
11 6 (9.84%) Android
11 6 (9.84%) Strategic Planning

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 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) Azure
3 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.92%) Serverless
5 2 (3.28%) Contentful
5 2 (3.28%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.64%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
1 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.64%) IPsec
2 1 (1.64%) SAN
2 1 (1.64%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) GIS
1 6 (9.84%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.64%) MySQL
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) GitLab
1 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) ESLint
3 1 (1.64%) Storybook
3 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Banking
3 6 (9.84%) Games
4 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.28%) Law
4 2 (3.28%) Legal
4 2 (3.28%) Marketing
5 1 (1.64%) Advertising
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Esports
5 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) Kafka
3 4 (6.56%) Vue
4 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.92%) Laravel
4 3 (4.92%) React
4 3 (4.92%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (3.28%) Next.js
5 2 (3.28%) Node.js
5 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.64%) Jest
6 1 (1.64%) JWT
6 1 (1.64%) Loki
6 1 (1.64%) MACH
6 1 (1.64%) MassTransit
6 1 (1.64%) Material-UI
6 1 (1.64%) MediatR
6 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) EPoS
5 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Android
1 6 (9.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Mentoring
2 21 (34.43%) Technical Leadership
3 20 (32.79%) DevOps
4 13 (21.31%) Agile
4 13 (21.31%) Coaching
4 13 (21.31%) Project Management
5 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (19.67%) Software Engineering
6 11 (18.03%) Collaborative Culture
6 11 (18.03%) Microservices
7 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
8 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) TDD
9 7 (11.48%) Unit Testing
10 6 (9.84%) Asset Management
10 6 (9.84%) E-Commerce
10 6 (9.84%) Software Architecture
10 6 (9.84%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) PHP
2 7 (11.48%) Java
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) C#
4 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.28%) Python
7 1 (1.64%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) OSCE
3 1 (1.64%) PhD
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Accessibility
1 6 (9.84%) QA
1 6 (9.84%) WCAG
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) HIPAA
3 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.92%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Terraform
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) SCCM
3 1 (1.64%) SCOM
3 1 (1.64%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.64%) SCSM
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) VMware
3 1 (1.64%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.64%) Salesforce