Technical Leadership Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 231 217
Rank change year-on-year +47 -14 -17
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,091 919 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.55% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.62% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 707 528 742
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,125 £42,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year - +0.22% +12.25%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,625 £80,408
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,715 56,667 67,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.64% 95.62% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,107 41,040
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +39 285 £67,500 -10.00% 49
North of England +62 246 £65,066 +0.10% 42
South West +27 207 £65,000 +4.21% 54
North West +35 133 £70,000 +4.16% 24
Midlands -4 124 £75,000 +15.38% 39
Scotland -41 120 £75,000 +8.00% 16
Yorkshire +68 95 £62,500 -3.85% 13
East of England -17 90 £65,000 -10.34% 30
West Midlands -4 89 £75,000 +11.11% 30
East Midlands +8 35 £70,000 +27.27% 9
North East +6 18 £75,000 +33.39% 6
Wales +8 11 £59,500 -5.17% 4
Northern Ireland +15 8 £85,200 +42.00% 3
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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 60 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.85%) CMS
3 41 (3.76%) Sitecore CMS
4 37 (3.39%) Kentico
4 37 (3.39%) Umbraco
5 36 (3.30%) Headless CMS
5 36 (3.30%) IIS
6 32 (2.93%) SharePoint
7 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.55%) SAS
10 5 (0.46%) Drupal
11 4 (0.37%) Apache
11 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.18%) CICS
13 2 (0.18%) Confluence
13 2 (0.18%) WinCC
14 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
14 1 (0.092%) Appian
Applications
1 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.64%) Oracle Smart View
3 6 (0.55%) Simulink
4 4 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.37%) Windchill
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.64%) HFM
2 7 (0.64%) Hyperion Planning
2 7 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.092%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 268 (24.56%) Azure
2 179 (16.41%) AWS
3 76 (6.97%) SaaS
4 61 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 57 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.31%) GCP
8 46 (4.22%) Serverless
9 44 (4.03%) OneDrive
10 39 (3.57%) IaaS
11 36 (3.30%) Dropbox
11 36 (3.30%) Google Drive
11 36 (3.30%) Kontent
12 35 (3.21%) Amazon S3
13 32 (2.93%) OpenShift
14 30 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (2.38%) Power Automate
16 22 (2.02%) PowerApps
16 22 (2.02%) Snowflake
17 21 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.85%) Firewall
2 29 (2.66%) WAN
3 23 (2.11%) DNS
4 21 (1.92%) VLAN
5 18 (1.65%) SAN
6 17 (1.56%) Network Security
6 17 (1.56%) VPN
7 16 (1.47%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.37%) Wireless
9 13 (1.19%) 5G
9 13 (1.19%) NAS
10 12 (1.10%) BGP
11 11 (1.01%) LAN
11 11 (1.01%) SSL
12 10 (0.92%) TCP/IP
13 9 (0.82%) Intranet
14 8 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.55%) Internet
15 6 (0.55%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.52%) Big Data
2 66 (6.05%) NoSQL
3 42 (3.85%) Power BI
4 33 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 32 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 30 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (2.66%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.66%) MySQL
8 25 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (2.11%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.74%) Metadata
12 7 (0.64%) DB2
12 7 (0.64%) Essbase
12 7 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.46%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (4.95%) Git
2 21 (1.92%) Postman
2 21 (1.92%) Subversion
3 19 (1.74%) JIRA
4 17 (1.56%) IBM UrbanCode
5 16 (1.47%) CMake
6 9 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
7 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.64%) GitLab
9 6 (0.55%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.55%) RStudio
10 4 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.37%) webpack
11 3 (0.27%) Selenium
11 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.18%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.18%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.18%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.092%) Mockito
General
1 341 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 191 (17.51%) Finance
3 129 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.09%) Influencing Skills
5 91 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (7.06%) Marketing
7 70 (6.42%) Law
8 64 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (4.31%) Automotive
10 45 (4.12%) Banking
11 33 (3.02%) Public Sector
12 30 (2.75%) Electronics
13 26 (2.38%) Retail
14 20 (1.83%) Military
14 20 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.74%) Aviation
15 19 (1.74%) Games
16 18 (1.65%) Aerospace
17 16 (1.47%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 345 (31.62%) Lead
2 251 (23.01%) Senior
3 164 (15.03%) Architect
4 152 (13.93%) Software Engineer
5 151 (13.84%) Developer
6 130 (11.92%) Principal Engineer
7 122 (11.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 109 (9.99%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 100 (9.17%) Technical Leader
10 72 (6.60%) Lead Software Engineer
11 68 (6.23%) Senior Developer
12 57 (5.22%) Big Data Engineer
12 57 (5.22%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 57 (5.22%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 57 (5.22%) Scala Engineer
12 57 (5.22%) Scala Software Engineer
13 55 (5.04%) Lead Developer
14 52 (4.77%) Java Engineer
14 52 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (4.67%) Java Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (9.90%) .NET
2 80 (7.33%) React
3 65 (5.96%) RESTful
4 63 (5.77%) .NET Framework
5 48 (4.40%) ASP.NET
6 47 (4.31%) .NET Core
7 39 (3.57%) Next.js
8 38 (3.48%) Node.js
9 37 (3.39%) ASP.NET MVC
10 34 (3.12%) CSS
10 34 (3.12%) Spring
11 32 (2.93%) HTML
11 32 (2.93%) Spring Boot
12 29 (2.66%) JSON
12 29 (2.66%) XML
13 20 (1.83%) Qt
14 19 (1.74%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.65%) Django
16 16 (1.47%) Laravel
16 16 (1.47%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 118 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.69%) IoT
3 68 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 59 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (4.58%) Management Information System
6 48 (4.40%) Algorithms
7 36 (3.30%) iPad
8 31 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 30 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.38%) Robotics
11 21 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.56%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.19%) Life Science
14 13 (1.19%) Replication
15 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (1.01%) Blockchain
16 11 (1.01%) FPGA
17 10 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
18 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (11.92%) Windows
2 117 (10.72%) Linux
3 33 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.02%) Android
5 20 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.65%) Unix
7 9 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.73%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (35.56%) Agile
2 269 (24.66%) Mentoring
3 263 (24.11%) Software Engineering
4 247 (22.64%) DevOps
5 240 (22.00%) Roadmaps
6 198 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (14.57%) CI/CD
8 154 (14.12%) Technology Roadmap
9 142 (13.02%) Coaching
10 124 (11.37%) SDLC
11 115 (10.54%) Computer Science
11 115 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 103 (9.44%) Project Management
13 87 (7.97%) Project Delivery
14 82 (7.52%) Continuous Integration
15 79 (7.24%) Artificial Intelligence
16 77 (7.06%) Machine Learning
17 76 (6.97%) Design Patterns
18 71 (6.51%) Data Science
19 70 (6.42%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 182 (16.68%) SQL
2 177 (16.22%) Java
3 157 (14.39%) Python
4 127 (11.64%) C#
5 116 (10.63%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.05%) C++
7 65 (5.96%) Scala
8 53 (4.86%) C
9 52 (4.77%) PHP
10 40 (3.67%) SystemVerilog
11 33 (3.02%) TypeScript
12 25 (2.29%) R
13 23 (2.11%) Bash
14 22 (2.02%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.65%) Groovy
15 18 (1.65%) Ruby
16 17 (1.56%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.37%) Swift
18 13 (1.19%) Embedded C
18 13 (1.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 207 (18.97%) Degree
2 132 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 85 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 30 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.83%) PhD
8 18 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.28%) CISSP
12 12 (1.10%) CCNA
12 12 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.82%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.64%) CCIE
15 7 (0.64%) CISM
15 7 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.13%) QA
2 30 (2.75%) GDPR
3 25 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.01%) PMO
5 10 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.73%) Def Stans
7 7 (0.64%) IEC 61508
7 7 (0.64%) ISO 13485
7 7 (0.64%) JTAG
8 5 (0.46%) NIST
9 4 (0.37%) MISRA
9 4 (0.37%) MISRA C
9 4 (0.37%) SEPA
10 3 (0.27%) ECSS
10 3 (0.27%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 43 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.48%) Docker
2 38 (3.48%) Firmware
2 38 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.82%) vSphere
6 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) RACF
8 2 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.092%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.092%) Lustre
9 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 73 (6.69%) Terraform
2 55 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.57%) Ansible
4 23 (2.11%) Progress Chef
5 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.55%) Endace
6 6 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.55%) Nagios
6 6 (0.55%) Puppet
6 6 (0.55%) SCCM
6 6 (0.55%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (0.37%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.18%) MAINVIEW
9 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.092%) Grafana
10 1 (0.092%) Icinga
10 1 (0.092%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 190 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.23%) Google
3 41 (3.76%) Sitecore
3 41 (3.76%) VMware
4 36 (3.30%) Optimizely
5 31 (2.84%) Databricks
6 29 (2.66%) Cadence
7 28 (2.57%) IBM
7 28 (2.57%) Synopsys
8 23 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.92%) Cisco
9 21 (1.92%) Veeam
10 17 (1.56%) Oracle
11 15 (1.37%) Splunk
12 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.82%) Juniper
14 8 (0.73%) Dell
14 8 (0.73%) HP
14 8 (0.73%) Hyperion