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 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 395 427
Rank change year-on-year +76 +32 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 560 439 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.75% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.84% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 427 342 315
10th Percentile £44,200 £42,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,621 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% -7.23% +8.87%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,250 £81,625
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £94,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +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 68,121 52,440 69,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,105 29,890 42,562
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +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 22 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 22 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 +75 182 £73,805 +1.80% 31
Midlands +34 119 £70,000 +12.00% 21
South East +16 112 £65,000 +13.04% 24
North West +26 104 £79,932 +10.25% 18
West Midlands +27 76 £73,805 +18.09% 11
South West -6 62 £63,749 +44.88% 13
Yorkshire +59 56 £73,805 +5.44% 4
East Midlands +12 43 £65,000 +20.93% 10
East of England +46 42 £70,000 +50.54% 12
Wales +26 25 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North East +13 23 £73,805 -17.07% 9
Scotland -72 18 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Northern Ireland +27 3 £58,800 +6.91% 5
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 224 (40.00%) Agile
2 173 (30.89%) Mentoring
3 157 (28.04%) AWS
4 141 (25.18%) Java
5 117 (20.89%) Social Skills
6 116 (20.71%) Roadmaps
6 116 (20.71%) Azure
7 114 (20.36%) Degree
8 99 (17.68%) Technical Leadership
9 97 (17.32%) Coaching
10 92 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (15.54%) Software Engineering
12 81 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
13 80 (14.29%) DevOps
14 77 (13.75%) Product Roadmap
15 76 (13.57%) Security Cleared
16 75 (13.39%) Microsoft
17 72 (12.86%) Open Source
18 70 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
19 67 (11.96%) Windows
20 66 (11.79%) COBOL
20 66 (11.79%) Micro Focus
20 66 (11.79%) Micro Focus COBOL
21 64 (11.43%) Finance
22 56 (10.00%) Project Management
22 56 (10.00%) Design Patterns
23 53 (9.46%) Code Quality
23 53 (9.46%) ITIL
24 52 (9.29%) .NET
24 52 (9.29%) Analytical Skills

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 (6.61%) Tuxedo
2 13 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.71%) 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
2 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 157 (28.04%) AWS
2 116 (20.71%) Azure
3 33 (5.89%) Amazon Kinesis
4 32 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 18 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.21%) SaaS
8 17 (3.04%) Serverless
9 16 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.43%) Cloudflare
12 7 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.07%) dbt
13 6 (1.07%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.07%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.89%) GCP
15 4 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.43%) Firewall
2 20 (3.57%) WAN
3 12 (2.14%) 5G
3 12 (2.14%) Wireless
4 11 (1.96%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.79%) LAN
6 9 (1.61%) VLAN
7 7 (1.25%) NAS
8 6 (1.07%) VoIP
9 5 (0.89%) SAN
9 5 (0.89%) VPN
10 4 (0.71%) Broadband
10 4 (0.71%) Network Security
11 3 (0.54%) CTI
11 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.36%) DNS
12 2 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
13 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.96%) MySQL
2 33 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.54%) SQL Server
5 26 (4.64%) DynamoDB
6 21 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (3.75%) RDBMS
6 21 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.54%) DB2
9 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.36%) GIS
11 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.18%) Big Data
11 1 (0.18%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (7.86%) GitLab
2 36 (6.43%) Git
3 21 (3.75%) Postman
4 4 (0.71%) JIRA
4 4 (0.71%) 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
1 117 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.43%) Finance
3 52 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.61%) Manufacturing
5 27 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.04%) Electronics
8 15 (2.68%) Legal
8 15 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.32%) Banking
10 13 (2.32%) Retail
11 12 (2.14%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.96%) Games
12 11 (1.96%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.79%) Marketing
14 8 (1.43%) Aviation
14 8 (1.43%) Military
15 6 (1.07%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.29%) .NET
2 42 (7.50%) React
3 38 (6.79%) RESTful
4 33 (5.89%) JSON
5 26 (4.64%) Node.js
6 25 (4.46%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.29%) HTML
7 24 (4.29%) Spring
8 23 (4.11%) CSS
9 15 (2.68%) Laravel
9 15 (2.68%) XML
10 14 (2.50%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.43%) Kafka
12 7 (1.25%) REST
12 7 (1.25%) Web Services
13 6 (1.07%) http4s
13 6 (1.07%) Scalaz
14 5 (0.89%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.89%) ASP.NET
15 4 (0.71%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 31 (5.54%) Private Cloud
3 22 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 19 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.04%) Robotics
7 14 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.07%) Blog
11 6 (1.07%) Fat Client
11 6 (1.07%) Media Streaming
11 6 (1.07%) NHS
11 6 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.07%) Thin Client
12 5 (0.89%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.71%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 67 (11.96%) Windows
2 37 (6.61%) Windows Server
3 22 (3.93%) Linux
4 18 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.71%) Android
9 2 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (40.00%) Agile
2 173 (30.89%) Mentoring
3 116 (20.71%) Roadmaps
4 99 (17.68%) Technical Leadership
5 97 (17.32%) Coaching
6 92 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (15.54%) Software Engineering
8 81 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
9 80 (14.29%) DevOps
10 77 (13.75%) Product Roadmap
11 72 (12.86%) Open Source
12 70 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
13 56 (10.00%) Design Patterns
13 56 (10.00%) Project Management
14 53 (9.46%) Code Quality
14 53 (9.46%) ITIL
15 50 (8.93%) CI/CD
15 50 (8.93%) Customer Service
16 48 (8.57%) Computer Science
17 46 (8.21%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 141 (25.18%) Java
2 66 (11.79%) COBOL
2 66 (11.79%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 50 (8.93%) TypeScript
4 49 (8.75%) JavaScript
4 49 (8.75%) PHP
5 45 (8.04%) Python
6 44 (7.86%) C#
7 42 (7.50%) C++
8 40 (7.14%) C
9 21 (3.75%) SQL
10 13 (2.32%) VB.NET
11 8 (1.43%) Rust
12 6 (1.07%) Go
12 6 (1.07%) Scala
13 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.71%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.54%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (20.36%) Degree
2 76 (13.57%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.71%) CCNA
9 4 (0.71%) CCNP
9 4 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.71%) HND
9 4 (0.71%) PMP
10 3 (0.54%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.57%) GMP
2 17 (3.04%) SLA
3 12 (2.14%) PMO
4 10 (1.79%) QA
5 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.71%) 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 (3.04%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.04%) Hyper-V
2 9 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (1.61%) vSphere
3 8 (1.43%) 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 (3.75%) Terraform
2 16 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.50%) SCCM
4 6 (1.07%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.07%) Nagios
5 5 (0.89%) 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 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.79%) Micro Focus
3 40 (7.14%) Oracle
4 33 (5.89%) VMware
5 21 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.14%) Citrix
7 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.79%) Cisco
9 7 (1.25%) CheckPoint
9 7 (1.25%) IBM
10 6 (1.07%) Veeam
11 5 (0.89%) Informatica
12 4 (0.71%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (0.71%) ESET
12 4 (0.71%) Meraki
12 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.54%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.54%) QinetiQ
13 3 (0.54%) SAP
13 3 (0.54%) Sitecore