Technical Lead
UK

The median Technical Lead salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 399 413
Rank change year-on-year +54 +14 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 815 795 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.80% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.87% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 639 598 706
10th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £48,763
25th Percentile £61,360 £56,055 £62,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +18.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.19% +8.87%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,378 91,115 153,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.48% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,475 57,415 84,334
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the UK

Technical Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader.

Salary trend for Technical Leader in the UK

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in the UK

Technical Leader
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +74 751 £75,000 +3.45% 148
UK excluding London +52 552 £70,000 +9.38% 107
Work from Home +81 404 £75,000 +14.77% 68
London +70 224 £92,000 -3.16% 59
North of England +48 178 £73,805 +1.80% 27
Midlands +37 118 £70,000 +12.00% 19
South East +10 112 £65,000 +13.04% 18
North West +16 100 £79,932 +10.25% 15
West Midlands +30 75 £73,805 +18.09% 10
South West -19 62 £63,749 +44.88% 12
Yorkshire +58 56 £73,805 +5.44% 6
East of England +39 43 £70,000 +50.54% 14
East Midlands +16 43 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Wales +17 22 £70,000 +27.27% 3
North East +13 22 £73,805 -17.07% 8
Scotland -78 17 £72,500 +20.83% 14
Northern Ireland +25 2 - - 4

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 329 (40.37%) Agile
2 276 (33.87%) AWS
3 243 (29.82%) Java
4 234 (28.71%) Mentoring
5 185 (22.70%) Azure
6 176 (21.60%) Finance
7 172 (21.10%) Social Skills
8 164 (20.12%) Software Engineering
9 160 (19.63%) Degree
10 141 (17.30%) Roadmaps
11 135 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
12 130 (15.95%) DevOps
13 121 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (13.87%) Python
15 112 (13.74%) Microsoft
16 110 (13.50%) Coaching
17 108 (13.25%) JavaScript
18 106 (13.01%) TypeScript
19 94 (11.53%) Banking
20 91 (11.17%) CI/CD
21 89 (10.92%) Windows
21 89 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
22 83 (10.18%) Design Patterns
23 82 (10.06%) Open Source
24 81 (9.94%) Security Cleared
24 81 (9.94%) .NET
25 80 (9.82%) Project Management
25 80 (9.82%) SDLC
25 80 (9.82%) Product Roadmap
26 74 (9.08%) Computer Science

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (5.64%) Apache
3 37 (4.54%) Tuxedo
4 18 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.47%) Confluence
6 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.98%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.74%) WordPress
9 4 (0.49%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.25%) MadCap Flare
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.49%) Primavera
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 276 (33.87%) AWS
2 185 (22.70%) Azure
3 53 (6.50%) Snowflake
4 47 (5.77%) SaaS
5 46 (5.64%) dbt
6 40 (4.91%) Amazon Kinesis
7 38 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (4.17%) Serverless
9 29 (3.56%) Power Platform
10 27 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.45%) GCP
13 14 (1.72%) PaaS
14 13 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.54%) Firewall
2 19 (2.33%) WAN
3 12 (1.47%) 5G
4 11 (1.35%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.35%) Wireless
5 9 (1.10%) LAN
5 9 (1.10%) VLAN
6 7 (0.86%) NAS
7 6 (0.74%) VoIP
8 5 (0.61%) SAN
8 5 (0.61%) VPN
9 4 (0.49%) Broadband
9 4 (0.49%) Network Security
10 3 (0.37%) CTI
10 3 (0.37%) DNS
10 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.37%) TETRA
11 2 (0.25%) DHCP
11 2 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 53 (6.50%) Data Lake
3 48 (5.89%) MySQL
4 46 (5.64%) Amazon Athena
4 46 (5.64%) Apache Arrow
4 46 (5.64%) Apache Ignite
4 46 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.64%) Dremio
5 38 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 26 (3.19%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (3.07%) RDBMS
9 23 (2.82%) Power BI
10 17 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.96%) Big Data
12 10 (1.23%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.98%) Apache Hive
14 8 (0.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 59 (7.24%) Git
2 53 (6.50%) GitLab
3 26 (3.19%) Postman
4 13 (1.60%) JIRA
5 9 (1.10%) JUnit
6 8 (0.98%) Checkstyle
6 8 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.61%) Maven
8 4 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
10 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) Phabricator
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 176 (21.60%) Finance
2 172 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 94 (11.53%) Banking
4 69 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.64%) Front Office
5 46 (5.64%) Investment Banking
6 38 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 20 (2.45%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.09%) Electronics
10 17 (2.09%) Legal
11 16 (1.96%) Retail
12 15 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.60%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.60%) Law
14 13 (1.60%) Retail Banking
15 12 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.47%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (9.94%) .NET
2 65 (7.98%) React
3 56 (6.87%) Spring Boot
4 49 (6.01%) NumPy
4 49 (6.01%) Pandas
5 46 (5.64%) gRPC
5 46 (5.64%) Kafka
5 46 (5.64%) Protocol Buffers
5 46 (5.64%) SciPy
5 46 (5.64%) Spring
6 38 (4.66%) JSON
6 38 (4.66%) RESTful
7 29 (3.56%) HTML
7 29 (3.56%) Node.js
8 28 (3.44%) CSS
9 21 (2.58%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.45%) Laravel
11 15 (1.84%) XML
12 13 (1.60%) Middleware
12 13 (1.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.77%) Fixed Income
1 47 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 47 (5.77%) Hedge funds
2 46 (5.64%) Derivative
2 46 (5.64%) Equities
3 45 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 33 (4.05%) Private Cloud
5 31 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (3.19%) Cloud Native
7 22 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.33%) Robotics
9 18 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.21%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.09%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.60%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.47%) Cyberattack
13 12 (1.47%) Data Fabric
13 12 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.92%) Windows
2 47 (5.77%) Linux
3 38 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (1.47%) zOS
6 11 (1.35%) Android
7 10 (1.23%) Unix
7 10 (1.23%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.98%) CentOS
8 8 (0.98%) Solaris
8 8 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.49%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (40.37%) Agile
2 234 (28.71%) Mentoring
3 164 (20.12%) Software Engineering
4 141 (17.30%) Roadmaps
5 135 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
6 130 (15.95%) DevOps
7 121 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (13.50%) Coaching
9 91 (11.17%) CI/CD
10 89 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
11 83 (10.18%) Design Patterns
12 82 (10.06%) Open Source
13 80 (9.82%) Product Roadmap
13 80 (9.82%) Project Management
13 80 (9.82%) SDLC
14 74 (9.08%) Computer Science
15 72 (8.83%) Strategic Thinking
16 63 (7.73%) Customer Service
17 59 (7.24%) Code Quality
17 59 (7.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 243 (29.82%) Java
2 113 (13.87%) Python
3 108 (13.25%) JavaScript
4 106 (13.01%) TypeScript
5 71 (8.71%) C#
6 66 (8.10%) COBOL
6 66 (8.10%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 63 (7.73%) SQL
8 58 (7.12%) PHP
9 46 (5.64%) C++
10 42 (5.15%) C
11 14 (1.72%) Scala
12 13 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.60%) VB.NET
13 12 (1.47%) Rust
14 11 (1.35%) Go
14 11 (1.35%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.61%) Delphi
16 4 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.37%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 160 (19.63%) Degree
2 81 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 50 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
13 7 (0.86%) CCNP
14 5 (0.61%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.49%) CCNA
15 4 (0.49%) CIMA
15 4 (0.49%) HND
15 4 (0.49%) PMP
16 3 (0.37%) A+ Certification
16 3 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.19%) QA
3 20 (2.45%) GMP
4 17 (2.09%) SLA
5 13 (1.60%) PMO
6 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.74%) NCSC
7 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.49%) GDPR
9 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.37%) JTAG
9 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (4.05%) Docker
2 21 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.09%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.10%) vSphere
6 8 (0.98%) HDFS
7 4 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.25%) Ceph
9 2 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.25%) Firmware
9 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (4.29%) Terraform
2 34 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.72%) SCCM
5 7 (0.86%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.74%) Nagios
7 4 (0.49%) Ansible
8 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.25%) Knative
8 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.12%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Istio
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 112 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.10%) Micro Focus
3 49 (6.01%) Oracle
4 35 (4.29%) VMware
5 21 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.45%) Databricks
7 15 (1.84%) IBM
8 14 (1.72%) Cisco
9 12 (1.47%) Citrix
10 11 (1.35%) Google
11 10 (1.23%) SAP
12 8 (0.98%) Meraki
12 8 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.86%) Sony
14 6 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.74%) Veeam
15 5 (0.61%) Informatica
16 4 (0.49%) Barracuda Networks
16 4 (0.49%) F5