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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 106 104
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +104
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 49 44 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.37% 1.47% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.60% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 44 30 75
10th Percentile £58,250 £51,575 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,375 £58,209 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,996 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% +9.11% -13.25%
75th Percentile £84,063 £87,500 £73,091
90th Percentile £90,626 £98,474 £81,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%

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 2,774 2,751 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.31% 91.64% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 1,063 2,870
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,350 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,177 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.64% -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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -24 37 £75,000 +2.05% 30
South Yorkshire -5 4 £118,755 +66.67% 25
North Yorkshire +2 3 £72,500 +23.40% 7
East Yorkshire -4 1 £77,500 - 5
Humberside - 1 £75,900 -
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 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) HCL Notes
3 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.04%) IIS
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) AWS
2 19 (38.78%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) SaaS
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.12%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) OCI
7 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Metadata
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) GitLab
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Financial Institution
5 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) Electronics
6 3 (6.12%) Games
6 3 (6.12%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Lead
2 9 (18.37%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Principal Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Lead Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) C# Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead C# Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) React
2 6 (12.24%) Spring
3 5 (10.20%) .NET
3 5 (10.20%) Micronaut
3 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.16%) PySpark
4 4 (8.16%) RESTful
5 2 (4.08%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.04%) Django
6 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.04%) Flask
6 1 (2.04%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.04%) JSON
6 1 (2.04%) MACH
6 1 (2.04%) SOAP
6 1 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (2.04%) WCF
6 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.12%) CMDB
4 3 (6.12%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.12%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Android
2 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 15 (30.61%) DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Coaching
3 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 12 (24.49%) Agile
4 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.45%) Roadmaps
6 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (16.33%) Data Engineering
8 7 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.29%) People Management
9 6 (12.24%) AI
9 6 (12.24%) Migration
9 6 (12.24%) SOA
9 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) SQL
2 12 (24.49%) Java
2 12 (24.49%) Python
3 9 (18.37%) C#
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) T-SQL
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.12%) Bash
7 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.20%) Terraform
3 3 (6.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Databricks
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) IBM
4 3 (6.12%) IFS
5 2 (4.08%) UiPath
6 1 (2.04%) Lotus
6 1 (2.04%) Talend