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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 101 141
Rank change year-on-year +27 +40 -10
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 137 58 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.82% 1.71% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 1.95% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 117 47 33
10th Percentile £62,757 £62,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,000 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +0.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +10.34% -4.04%

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 5,013 2,971 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.71% 87.41% 78.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,684 1,536 2,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,945 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £78,600
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +3 88 £82,500 +17.02% 34
South Yorkshire -2 45 £73,500 -12.24% 15
North Yorkshire - 2 £75,000 - 10
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
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 7 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.73%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.15%) Azure
2 48 (35.04%) AWS
3 17 (12.41%) GCP
4 16 (11.68%) SaaS
5 9 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (5.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.38%) GitHub
8 6 (4.38%) IaaS
8 6 (4.38%) Serverless
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.65%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (2.19%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) Firewall
2 2 (1.46%) BGP
2 2 (1.46%) DNS
2 2 (1.46%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.46%) LAN
2 2 (1.46%) Network Security
2 2 (1.46%) NGFW
2 2 (1.46%) OSPF
2 2 (1.46%) VLAN
2 2 (1.46%) VXLAN
2 2 (1.46%) WAN
2 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.46%) Wireless
2 2 (1.46%) WLAN
3 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.38%) Metadata
3 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.92%) MySQL
4 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.19%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.46%) Big Data
6 2 (1.46%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.46%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.46%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.73%) Power BI
7 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) GitLab
1 7 (5.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (4.38%) Git
3 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.73%) Gatling
3 1 (0.73%) JMeter
3 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 31 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.17%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.25%) Finance
4 10 (7.30%) Marketing
5 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.84%) Law
7 2 (1.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.46%) Electronics
7 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 42 (30.66%) Lead
2 37 (27.01%) Architect
3 25 (18.25%) Senior
4 20 (14.60%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (13.14%) Principal Engineer
6 12 (8.76%) SAP Architect
6 12 (8.76%) SAP Financial Architect
6 12 (8.76%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 11 (8.03%) Team Leader
8 10 (7.30%) Developer
9 9 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Product Manager
10 8 (5.84%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Technical Architect
11 7 (5.11%) Control Systems Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.41%) .NET
2 16 (11.68%) Terraform
3 12 (8.76%) Node.js
3 12 (8.76%) React
4 6 (4.38%) PySpark
5 5 (3.65%) Middleware
5 5 (3.65%) RESTful
6 4 (2.92%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.92%) CSS
6 4 (2.92%) HTML
6 4 (2.92%) Vue
7 2 (1.46%) Kafka
7 2 (1.46%) XML
8 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.73%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.73%) JSON
8 1 (0.73%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.73%) Spring
8 1 (0.73%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.41%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (10.22%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.30%) Robotics
3 10 (7.30%) SCADA
4 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.46%) IoT
8 2 (1.46%) Social Media
8 2 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.73%) CMDB
9 1 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.73%) NHS
9 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) CentOS
2 6 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.19%) Windows
4 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.36%) Mentoring
2 42 (30.66%) Coaching
3 40 (29.20%) Agile
4 34 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (22.63%) CI/CD
6 28 (20.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (18.98%) AI
7 26 (18.98%) DevOps
8 21 (15.33%) Analytics
8 21 (15.33%) Roadmaps
9 19 (13.87%) Software Engineering
10 17 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (11.68%) Decision-Making
11 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.95%) Line Management
13 13 (9.49%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (9.49%) Microservices
13 13 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (8.76%) Architecture Governance
14 12 (8.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.98%) SQL
2 20 (14.60%) C#
2 20 (14.60%) JavaScript
3 16 (11.68%) Python
3 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
4 13 (9.49%) Java
5 6 (4.38%) Scala
6 3 (2.19%) PHP
7 2 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.73%) Bicep
8 1 (0.73%) Ruby
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.87%) Degree
2 11 (8.03%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) NVQ Level 3
4 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CCNP
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.73%) CCNA
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (2.19%) WCAG
4 2 (1.46%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.73%) GRC
5 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (5.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.76%) SAP
3 9 (6.57%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.11%) Databricks
4 7 (5.11%) Google
5 5 (3.65%) Adobe
6 3 (2.19%) Cisco
6 3 (2.19%) Foundry
7 2 (1.46%) Arista
7 2 (1.46%) Aruba
7 2 (1.46%) F5
7 2 (1.46%) Informatica
7 2 (1.46%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow