Technical Leader Jobs in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead salary in London is £95,859 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 336 380
Rank change year-on-year +32 +44 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 245 279 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.00% 0.89% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 207 217 316
10th Percentile £60,816 £58,397 £64,125
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,859 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £135,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,153 29,839 71,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 94.99% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,040 22,415 34,936
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,578 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Central London +11 24 £100,000 +5.26% 6
South London -1 4 - -
West London -10 1 £102,500 +35.76% 3
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 126 (51.43%) AWS
2 122 (49.80%) Finance
3 117 (47.76%) Java
4 109 (44.49%) Agile
5 93 (37.96%) Banking
6 92 (37.55%) Software Engineering
7 84 (34.29%) Python
8 75 (30.61%) JavaScript
9 74 (30.20%) TypeScript
10 71 (28.98%) Data Lake
10 71 (28.98%) Snowflake
11 67 (27.35%) Apache Airflow
11 67 (27.35%) Pandas
11 67 (27.35%) NumPy
11 67 (27.35%) Data Quality
12 66 (26.94%) dbt
13 65 (26.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 65 (26.53%) Asset Management
14 64 (26.12%) Investment Banking
14 64 (26.12%) Front Office
14 64 (26.12%) Fixed Income
14 64 (26.12%) Equities
14 64 (26.12%) Apache
14 64 (26.12%) SciPy
14 64 (26.12%) Hedge funds
14 64 (26.12%) Protocol Buffers
14 64 (26.12%) Greeks
14 64 (26.12%) Investment Management
14 64 (26.12%) Derivative
14 64 (26.12%) Apache Arrow

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 67 (27.35%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (26.12%) Apache
3 11 (4.49%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.45%) Confluence
5 5 (2.04%) Apache Pig
5 5 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.22%) CMS
6 3 (1.22%) WordPress
7 2 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.82%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.41%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.63%) Primavera
3 3 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 126 (51.43%) AWS
2 71 (28.98%) Snowflake
3 66 (26.94%) dbt
4 60 (24.49%) Azure
5 21 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.53%) SaaS
7 15 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (4.90%) Serverless
10 11 (4.49%) Power Automate
10 11 (4.49%) PowerApps
11 10 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.08%) GCP
12 9 (3.67%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (3.27%) WhatsApp
14 6 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) 5G
1 1 (0.41%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (28.98%) Data Lake
2 64 (26.12%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (26.12%) Apache Arrow
2 64 (26.12%) Apache Ignite
2 64 (26.12%) Dremio
3 22 (8.98%) SQL Server
4 20 (8.16%) Power BI
5 14 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.90%) Big Data
7 9 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.86%) Data Mining
8 7 (2.86%) MySQL
8 7 (2.86%) Spark SQL
9 6 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.45%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.04%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.63%) DB2
11 4 (1.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.35%) Git
2 9 (3.67%) GitLab
3 6 (2.45%) JUnit
4 5 (2.04%) Checkstyle
4 5 (2.04%) JIRA
4 5 (2.04%) Postman
4 5 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.22%) Maven
6 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.41%) Gatling
7 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (49.80%) Finance
2 93 (37.96%) Banking
3 64 (26.12%) Front Office
3 64 (26.12%) Investment Banking
4 50 (20.41%) Social Skills
5 10 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.08%) Retail Banking
6 9 (3.67%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.27%) Law
8 4 (1.63%) Advertising
8 4 (1.63%) Local Government
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.41%) Back Office
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) iGaming
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (27.35%) NumPy
1 67 (27.35%) Pandas
2 64 (26.12%) gRPC
2 64 (26.12%) Protocol Buffers
2 64 (26.12%) SciPy
3 36 (14.69%) Kafka
4 27 (11.02%) Spring Boot
5 26 (10.61%) .NET
6 20 (8.16%) React
7 18 (7.35%) Spring
8 10 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.67%) REST
10 8 (3.27%) J2EE
11 7 (2.86%) JSON
11 7 (2.86%) Middleware
11 7 (2.86%) PySpark
12 5 (2.04%) FastAPI
12 5 (2.04%) Swagger
13 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.63%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 65 (26.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 64 (26.12%) Derivative
2 64 (26.12%) Equities
2 64 (26.12%) Fixed Income
2 64 (26.12%) Hedge funds
3 11 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.27%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.27%) Cyberattack
5 8 (3.27%) Data Fabric
5 8 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.63%) NHS
7 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.76%) Linux
2 12 (4.90%) Windows
3 8 (3.27%) zOS
4 4 (1.63%) CentOS
4 4 (1.63%) Solaris
4 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.49%) Agile
2 92 (37.55%) Software Engineering
3 65 (26.53%) Asset Management
4 64 (26.12%) Greeks
4 64 (26.12%) Investment Management
5 53 (21.63%) DevOps
6 50 (20.41%) Mentoring
7 41 (16.73%) SDLC
8 39 (15.92%) CI/CD
9 33 (13.47%) Microservices
10 32 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (10.61%) Roadmaps
12 24 (9.80%) Design Patterns
13 22 (8.98%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.57%) ETL
15 20 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (7.76%) Line Management
17 18 (7.35%) TDD
18 16 (6.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (47.76%) Java
2 84 (34.29%) Python
3 75 (30.61%) JavaScript
4 74 (30.20%) TypeScript
5 38 (15.51%) SQL
6 18 (7.35%) C#
7 10 (4.08%) Scala
8 9 (3.67%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.86%) PHP
9 7 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.04%) C++
10 5 (2.04%) Go
10 5 (2.04%) Rust
11 4 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.22%) C
13 2 (0.82%) Bash
13 2 (0.82%) Bicep
14 1 (0.41%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (13.06%) Degree
2 13 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.27%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.04%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.63%) CIMA
6 4 (1.63%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (27.35%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.90%) QA
3 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (9.39%) Docker
2 5 (2.04%) HDFS
3 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.22%) Ceph
3 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.12%) Terraform
3 4 (1.63%) Ansible
4 3 (1.22%) Knative
5 1 (0.41%) Istio
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.16%) Databricks
3 7 (2.86%) Oracle
3 7 (2.86%) SAP
4 5 (2.04%) Google
4 5 (2.04%) Progress
5 4 (1.63%) F5
5 4 (1.63%) IBM
6 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.82%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe
8 1 (0.41%) Apple
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) Meraki
8 1 (0.41%) Okta