Technical Leadership Job Trends in Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 93 102
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +107
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 69 51 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.61% 2.15% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.27% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 44 34 70
10th Percentile £54,225 £52,148 £50,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £54,110
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,450 £75,996 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +19.21% -1.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,230 £72,433
90th Percentile £94,250 £98,474 £73,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £76,250 £74,137
% change year-on-year +4.92% +2.85% -6.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,248 2,249 4,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 75.59% 94.85% 86.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,952 1,027 3,239
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,716 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,450
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -26 54 £77,500 -3.13% 22
South Yorkshire -20 5 £82,511 +22.24% 18
North Yorkshire +5 3 £72,500 +23.40% 3
Humberside - 1 £75,900 - 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £77,500 - 2
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.45%) CMS
2 1 (1.45%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.33%) Azure
2 21 (30.43%) AWS
3 10 (14.49%) SaaS
4 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.80%) GCP
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.35%) Mimecast
5 3 (4.35%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.45%) OCI
7 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) Broadband
2 4 (5.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) Metadata
1 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.45%) Power BI
4 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) GitLab
2 4 (5.80%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (36.23%) Games
2 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.80%) Law
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (46.38%) Lead
2 9 (13.04%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) Engineering Manager
2 9 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Lead Developer
5 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Senior
6 5 (7.25%) Architect
6 5 (7.25%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Lead C# Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) React
2 6 (8.70%) Spring
3 5 (7.25%) .NET
3 5 (7.25%) Micronaut
3 5 (7.25%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.80%) PySpark
4 4 (5.80%) RESTful
5 2 (2.90%) Node.js
5 2 (2.90%) REST
6 1 (1.45%) Django
6 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.45%) Flask
6 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.45%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.45%) JSON
6 1 (1.45%) Redux
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.45%) Vue
6 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.68%) Onboarding
2 23 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 8 (11.59%) Product Ownership
4 6 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.35%) CMDB
6 3 (4.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.33%) Android
1 23 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (69.57%) Mentoring
2 35 (50.72%) Agile
3 32 (46.38%) Roadmaps
4 29 (42.03%) AI
4 29 (42.03%) CI/CD
5 25 (36.23%) Decision-Making
6 23 (33.33%) Backends for Frontends
6 23 (33.33%) Budgeting
6 23 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 23 (33.33%) Observability
6 23 (33.33%) Project Management
7 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
8 15 (21.74%) Coaching
9 13 (18.84%) DevOps
10 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.59%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (11.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) SQL
2 10 (14.49%) Java
3 9 (13.04%) C#
4 7 (10.14%) Python
5 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.35%) PHP
8 1 (1.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (2.90%) QA
4 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Databricks
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle
4 3 (4.35%) IBM
4 3 (4.35%) IFS
5 2 (2.90%) UiPath
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Talend