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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 101 135
Rank change year-on-year +36 +34 -13
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 149 62 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.95% 1.87% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.16% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 126 50 28
10th Percentile £62,376 £62,500 £55,188
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,000 £57,646
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.79% +3.65%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £90,000 £81,625
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -0.73%

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 5,108 2,869 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.98% 86.76% 79.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 1,419 1,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,010 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,367 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £79,475
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -6 94 £83,137 +17.92% 89
South Yorkshire +7 50 £73,500 -18.33% 30
North Yorkshire +4 2 £75,000 +3.45% 13
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
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 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.68%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.24%) Azure
2 49 (32.89%) AWS
3 17 (11.41%) GCP
4 16 (10.74%) SaaS
5 9 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (5.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (4.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.03%) GitHub
8 6 (4.03%) IaaS
9 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.36%) OneDrive
9 5 (3.36%) Serverless
10 4 (2.68%) dbt
11 3 (2.01%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) Firewall
2 2 (1.34%) BGP
2 2 (1.34%) DNS
2 2 (1.34%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.34%) LAN
2 2 (1.34%) Network Security
2 2 (1.34%) NGFW
2 2 (1.34%) OSPF
2 2 (1.34%) VLAN
2 2 (1.34%) VXLAN
2 2 (1.34%) WAN
2 2 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.34%) Wireless
2 2 (1.34%) WLAN
3 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.37%) Metadata
3 6 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (4.03%) BigQuery
3 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.68%) MySQL
5 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.68%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (2.01%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.34%) Big Data
7 2 (1.34%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (1.34%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.67%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (4.03%) Git
1 6 (4.03%) GitLab
1 6 (4.03%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (23.49%) Public Sector
1 35 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.12%) Finance
3 10 (6.71%) Marketing
4 9 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.37%) Law
6 2 (1.34%) Banking
6 2 (1.34%) Electronics
6 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (30.20%) Lead
2 43 (28.86%) Architect
3 31 (20.81%) Senior
4 25 (16.78%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (12.08%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Data Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) SAP Architect
6 14 (9.40%) SAP Financial Architect
6 14 (9.40%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 13 (8.72%) Team Leader
8 10 (6.71%) Developer
8 10 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Technical Architect
10 8 (5.37%) Product Manager
11 7 (4.70%) Control Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.08%) .NET
2 17 (11.41%) Terraform
3 12 (8.05%) Node.js
4 11 (7.38%) React
5 8 (5.37%) PySpark
6 5 (3.36%) Middleware
6 5 (3.36%) RESTful
7 4 (2.68%) CSS
7 4 (2.68%) HTML
7 4 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.01%) Vue
9 2 (1.34%) Kafka
9 2 (1.34%) XML
10 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.67%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.67%) JSON
10 1 (0.67%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.67%) Spring
10 1 (0.67%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.08%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (10.07%) Onboarding
3 13 (8.72%) SCADA
4 12 (8.05%) Robotics
5 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (3.36%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.34%) IoT
10 2 (1.34%) Social Media
10 2 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.67%) CMDB
11 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.67%) FMCG
11 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.67%) NHS
11 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.70%) Linux
2 6 (4.03%) CentOS
2 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.01%) Windows
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (50.34%) Mentoring
2 47 (31.54%) Coaching
3 39 (26.17%) Agile
4 34 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (22.15%) CI/CD
6 29 (19.46%) DevOps
7 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (18.12%) AI
8 27 (18.12%) Analytics
9 21 (14.09%) Roadmaps
10 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
10 20 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (12.08%) Software Engineering
12 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (11.41%) Line Management
13 16 (10.74%) Observability
14 15 (10.07%) Architecture Governance
15 14 (9.40%) Architectural Patterns
15 14 (9.40%) Integration Patterns
15 14 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.81%) SQL
2 21 (14.09%) Python
3 20 (13.42%) C#
4 18 (12.08%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.40%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.05%) Java
7 6 (4.03%) Scala
8 3 (2.01%) PHP
9 2 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) Ruby
10 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (14.77%) Degree
2 16 (10.74%) SC Cleared
2 16 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) NVQ Level 3
4 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.34%) CCNP
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) GRC
3 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.01%) QA
3 3 (2.01%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.03%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.40%) SAP
3 9 (6.04%) Databricks
3 9 (6.04%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.70%) Google
5 5 (3.36%) Adobe
6 4 (2.68%) Oracle
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco
7 3 (2.01%) Foundry
8 2 (1.34%) Arista
8 2 (1.34%) Aruba
8 2 (1.34%) F5
8 2 (1.34%) Informatica
8 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.67%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.67%) Siemens