Technical Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 367 429
Rank change year-on-year +40 +62 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 553 452 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.86% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 422 352 314
10th Percentile £43,200 £42,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,871 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -6.86% +8.87%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,063 £82,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £93,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.94% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
North of England +62 177 £73,805 +1.80% 31
Midlands +31 118 £70,000 +12.00% 19
South East +12 113 £65,000 +13.04% 31
North West +18 100 £79,932 +10.25% 16
West Midlands +29 75 £73,805 +18.09% 11
South West -19 62 £63,749 +44.88% 12
Yorkshire +62 55 £73,805 +5.44% 8
East of England +38 43 £70,000 +50.54% 15
East Midlands +17 43 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Wales +18 23 £70,000 +27.27% 3
North East +14 22 £73,805 -17.07% 9
Scotland -73 17 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Northern Ireland +20 2 - - 4
Technical Leader
UK

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Technical Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 223 (40.33%) Agile
2 171 (30.92%) Mentoring
3 155 (28.03%) AWS
4 142 (25.68%) Java
5 116 (20.98%) Roadmaps
6 115 (20.80%) Azure
6 115 (20.80%) Social Skills
7 114 (20.61%) Degree
8 100 (18.08%) Technical Leadership
9 94 (17.00%) Coaching
10 93 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
11 85 (15.37%) Software Engineering
12 79 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
13 78 (14.10%) DevOps
14 77 (13.92%) Product Roadmap
15 75 (13.56%) Microsoft
16 72 (13.02%) Security Cleared
17 70 (12.66%) Strategic Thinking
17 70 (12.66%) Open Source
18 67 (12.12%) Windows
19 66 (11.93%) COBOL
19 66 (11.93%) Micro Focus
19 66 (11.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
20 64 (11.57%) Finance
21 57 (10.31%) Project Management
22 56 (10.13%) Design Patterns
23 53 (9.58%) Code Quality
23 53 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
24 52 (9.40%) .NET
25 51 (9.22%) TypeScript

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (6.69%) Tuxedo
2 13 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) SAS
4 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) MadCap Flare
1 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 155 (28.03%) AWS
2 115 (20.80%) Azure
3 32 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (5.61%) Amazon Kinesis
5 24 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (4.16%) Amazon S3
7 18 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.25%) SaaS
8 17 (3.07%) Serverless
9 16 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.45%) Cloudflare
12 7 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.08%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.08%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.90%) GCP
15 4 (0.72%) Azure API Management
15 4 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.51%) Firewall
2 19 (3.44%) WAN
3 12 (2.17%) 5G
4 11 (1.99%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.99%) Wireless
5 9 (1.63%) LAN
5 9 (1.63%) VLAN
6 7 (1.27%) NAS
7 6 (1.08%) VoIP
8 5 (0.90%) SAN
8 5 (0.90%) VPN
9 4 (0.72%) Broadband
9 4 (0.72%) Network Security
10 3 (0.54%) CTI
10 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.36%) DNS
11 2 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.87%) MySQL
2 33 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.61%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.34%) DynamoDB
6 21 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (3.80%) RDBMS
6 21 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.72%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.54%) DB2
9 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.18%) Big Data
10 1 (0.18%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.18%) GIS
10 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (7.96%) GitLab
2 36 (6.51%) Git
3 21 (3.80%) Postman
4 4 (0.72%) JIRA
4 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.36%) Maven
7 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.18%) Phabricator
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.57%) Finance
3 53 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.69%) Manufacturing
5 25 (4.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 22 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.07%) Electronics
8 15 (2.71%) Legal
8 15 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.35%) Banking
10 13 (2.35%) Retail
11 12 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.99%) Games
12 11 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.81%) Marketing
14 8 (1.45%) Aviation
14 8 (1.45%) Military
15 6 (1.08%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.40%) .NET
2 43 (7.78%) React
3 38 (6.87%) RESTful
4 33 (5.97%) JSON
5 26 (4.70%) Node.js
6 25 (4.52%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.34%) Spring
8 23 (4.16%) HTML
9 22 (3.98%) CSS
10 15 (2.71%) XML
11 14 (2.53%) Laravel
12 12 (2.17%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.45%) Kafka
14 5 (0.90%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.90%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.90%) REST
14 5 (0.90%) Web Services
15 4 (0.72%) http4s
15 4 (0.72%) Scalaz
16 3 (0.54%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.97%) Management Information System
2 31 (5.61%) Private Cloud
3 22 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.07%) Robotics
5 17 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.08%) Fat Client
9 6 (1.08%) NHS
9 6 (1.08%) Thin Client
10 5 (0.90%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.90%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.72%) Blog
11 4 (0.72%) FPGA
11 4 (0.72%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.12%) Windows
2 37 (6.69%) Windows Server
3 22 (3.98%) Linux
4 18 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.81%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.72%) Android
9 2 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (40.33%) Agile
2 171 (30.92%) Mentoring
3 116 (20.98%) Roadmaps
4 100 (18.08%) Technical Leadership
5 94 (17.00%) Coaching
6 93 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (15.37%) Software Engineering
8 79 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 78 (14.10%) DevOps
10 77 (13.92%) Product Roadmap
11 70 (12.66%) Open Source
11 70 (12.66%) Strategic Thinking
12 57 (10.31%) Project Management
13 56 (10.13%) Design Patterns
14 53 (9.58%) Code Quality
15 50 (9.04%) CI/CD
15 50 (9.04%) Customer Service
16 48 (8.68%) Computer Science
17 47 (8.50%) ITIL
18 46 (8.32%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 142 (25.68%) Java
2 66 (11.93%) COBOL
2 66 (11.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 51 (9.22%) TypeScript
4 48 (8.68%) JavaScript
4 48 (8.68%) PHP
5 46 (8.32%) Python
6 45 (8.14%) C#
7 42 (7.59%) C++
8 40 (7.23%) C
9 21 (3.80%) SQL
10 13 (2.35%) VB.NET
11 8 (1.45%) Rust
12 6 (1.08%) Go
13 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.72%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.72%) Scala
14 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.54%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (20.61%) Degree
2 72 (13.02%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.90%) CCNP
9 5 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.72%) CCNA
10 4 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.72%) HND
10 4 (0.72%) PMP
11 3 (0.54%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.62%) GMP
2 17 (3.07%) SLA
3 12 (2.17%) PMO
4 10 (1.81%) QA
5 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.72%) GDPR
7 3 (0.54%) JTAG
8 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (3.07%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.07%) Hyper-V
2 9 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (1.63%) vSphere
3 8 (1.45%) Docker
4 3 (0.54%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (3.80%) Terraform
2 16 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.53%) SCCM
4 6 (1.08%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.08%) Nagios
5 5 (0.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 75 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.93%) Micro Focus
3 40 (7.23%) Oracle
4 33 (5.97%) VMware
5 21 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.17%) Citrix
7 11 (1.99%) Cisco
8 7 (1.27%) CheckPoint
8 7 (1.27%) IBM
9 6 (1.08%) Veeam
10 5 (0.90%) Informatica
10 5 (0.90%) Meraki
10 5 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.72%) Barracuda Networks
11 4 (0.72%) ESET
11 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.54%) QinetiQ
12 3 (0.54%) SAP
13 2 (0.36%) BMC