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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 102 119
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +73
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 79 54 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.23% 2.08% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.21% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 54 41 57
10th Percentile £51,625 £61,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £70,097 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £77,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +24.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,940 £97,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £78,853
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 4,436 2,446 4,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.08% 94.22% 82.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,933 1,282 3,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,018 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -16 59 £75,000 -6.25% 12
South Yorkshire -29 15 £73,500 -2.00% 12
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 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) Azure
2 20 (25.32%) AWS
3 8 (10.13%) SaaS
4 7 (8.86%) GCP
5 6 (7.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 6 (7.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.33%) Serverless
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.80%) Mimecast
8 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (29.11%) Broadband
2 6 (7.59%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) BGP
3 2 (2.53%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) NGFW
3 2 (2.53%) OSPF
3 2 (2.53%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (3.80%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.80%) ClickHouse
2 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.80%) MySQL
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.53%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) GitLab
2 4 (5.06%) Git
3 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.27%) Gatling
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) JMeter
3 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 23 (29.11%) Games
2 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Law
5 6 (7.59%) Marketing
6 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.53%) Finance
7 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) Lead
2 11 (13.92%) Engineering Manager
3 9 (11.39%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Development Manager
6 6 (7.59%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Product Manager
7 5 (6.33%) Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (3.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) React
2 7 (8.86%) .NET
2 7 (8.86%) Node.js
3 5 (6.33%) RESTful
4 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.06%) Vue
5 3 (3.80%) Spring
6 2 (2.53%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.53%) PySpark
6 2 (2.53%) Redux
7 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.27%) CSS
7 1 (1.27%) HTML
7 1 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.27%) Micronaut
7 1 (1.27%) Playwright
7 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.65%) Onboarding
2 23 (29.11%) Mobile App
3 8 (10.13%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) CMDB
5 3 (3.80%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.27%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.11%) Android
1 23 (29.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (77.22%) Mentoring
2 43 (54.43%) Agile
3 42 (53.16%) Roadmaps
4 34 (43.04%) AI
5 32 (40.51%) CI/CD
6 27 (34.18%) Observability
7 25 (31.65%) Decision-Making
8 24 (30.38%) Incident Management
9 23 (29.11%) Backends for Frontends
9 23 (29.11%) Budgeting
9 23 (29.11%) Project Management
10 21 (26.58%) Coaching
10 21 (26.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
12 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (12.66%) Acceptance Criteria
13 10 (12.66%) Analytics
13 10 (12.66%) DevOps
13 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) SQL
2 15 (18.99%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.92%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.66%) C#
4 10 (12.66%) Java
5 5 (6.33%) Python
6 4 (5.06%) PHP
7 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (30.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (3.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) Salesforce
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.80%) Databricks
3 3 (3.80%) IFS
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) Arista
4 2 (2.53%) F5
4 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.53%) UiPath