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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 393 422
Rank change year-on-year +84 +29 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 595 412 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.73% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.82% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 458 323 320
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £41,747
25th Percentile £55,863 £52,500 £52,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,250 £82,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £100,000
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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 1 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
North of England +70 196 £73,805 +1.80% 34
Midlands +45 124 £73,805 +18.09% 23
South East +12 114 £65,000 +13.04% 23
North West +26 110 £79,932 +10.25% 23
West Midlands +13 79 £73,805 +18.09% 14
South West -12 66 £59,374 +13.09% 17
Yorkshire +54 62 £73,805 +5.44% 6
East Midlands +15 45 £65,000 +44.44% 9
East of England +36 44 £70,000 +50.54% 14
Wales +27 29 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North East +14 26 £73,805 -17.07% 5
Scotland -72 22 £63,500 +5.83% 11
Northern Ireland +24 4 £66,975 - 2
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 230 (38.66%) Agile
2 181 (30.42%) Mentoring
3 167 (28.07%) AWS
4 137 (23.03%) Java
5 123 (20.67%) Roadmaps
6 118 (19.83%) Azure
7 117 (19.66%) Social Skills
8 114 (19.16%) Degree
9 105 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
10 101 (16.97%) Coaching
11 91 (15.29%) DevOps
11 91 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (15.29%) Software Engineering
12 90 (15.13%) Continuous Integration
13 81 (13.61%) Security Cleared
13 81 (13.61%) Open Source
14 78 (13.11%) Product Roadmap
15 75 (12.61%) Microsoft
16 70 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
17 69 (11.60%) Windows
18 66 (11.09%) COBOL
18 66 (11.09%) Micro Focus
18 66 (11.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
19 60 (10.08%) Finance
19 60 (10.08%) .NET
20 57 (9.58%) Project Management
21 55 (9.24%) CI/CD
22 54 (9.08%) ITIL
23 53 (8.91%) Code Quality
23 53 (8.91%) Design Patterns

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 (6.22%) Tuxedo
2 13 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.17%) CMS
4 1 (0.17%) SAS
4 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) MadCap Flare
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 167 (28.07%) AWS
2 118 (19.83%) Azure
3 36 (6.05%) Amazon Kinesis
4 33 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (3.87%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.36%) SaaS
8 18 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (2.86%) Serverless
10 16 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.02%) dbt
12 9 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.34%) Cloudflare
14 7 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.01%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.01%) Power Platform
16 5 (0.84%) GCP
17 4 (0.67%) PaaS
17 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.55%) Firewall
2 21 (3.53%) WAN
3 13 (2.18%) Wireless
4 12 (2.02%) 5G
5 11 (1.85%) LAN
5 11 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 9 (1.51%) VLAN
7 7 (1.18%) NAS
8 6 (1.01%) VoIP
9 5 (0.84%) SAN
9 5 (0.84%) VPN
10 4 (0.67%) Broadband
10 4 (0.67%) Network Security
10 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.50%) CTI
11 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.34%) DNS
12 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
13 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.72%) MySQL
2 35 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.87%) DynamoDB
6 21 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (3.53%) RDBMS
6 21 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.50%) DB2
8 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.34%) GIS
10 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.17%) Big Data
10 1 (0.17%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.17%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (7.23%) GitLab
2 35 (5.88%) Git
3 21 (3.53%) Postman
4 4 (0.67%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.17%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.17%) Phabricator
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 117 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.08%) Finance
3 52 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.39%) Manufacturing
5 32 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (2.86%) Electronics
8 15 (2.52%) Legal
8 15 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.18%) Banking
10 13 (2.18%) Retail
11 12 (2.02%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.85%) Games
12 11 (1.85%) Marketing
12 11 (1.85%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.34%) Aviation
13 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.34%) Military
14 6 (1.01%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.08%) .NET
2 44 (7.39%) React
3 38 (6.39%) RESTful
4 33 (5.55%) JSON
4 33 (5.55%) Node.js
5 26 (4.37%) HTML
6 25 (4.20%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.03%) CSS
7 24 (4.03%) Spring
8 17 (2.86%) Laravel
9 16 (2.69%) GraphQL
9 16 (2.69%) XML
10 10 (1.68%) REST
10 10 (1.68%) Web Services
11 9 (1.51%) http4s
11 9 (1.51%) Scalaz
12 8 (1.34%) Kafka
13 7 (1.18%) Django
14 5 (0.84%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.84%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.55%) Management Information System
2 31 (5.21%) Private Cloud
3 22 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.86%) Robotics
6 10 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.51%) Blog
7 9 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.51%) Media Streaming
8 8 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.34%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.18%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.01%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.01%) NHS
10 6 (1.01%) Thin Client
11 4 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.67%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.60%) Windows
2 38 (6.39%) Windows Server
3 23 (3.87%) Linux
4 19 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.68%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.67%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (38.66%) Agile
2 181 (30.42%) Mentoring
3 123 (20.67%) Roadmaps
4 105 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 101 (16.97%) Coaching
6 91 (15.29%) DevOps
6 91 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (15.29%) Software Engineering
7 90 (15.13%) Continuous Integration
8 81 (13.61%) Open Source
9 78 (13.11%) Product Roadmap
10 70 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
11 57 (9.58%) Project Management
12 55 (9.24%) CI/CD
13 54 (9.08%) ITIL
14 53 (8.91%) Code Quality
14 53 (8.91%) Design Patterns
15 51 (8.57%) Customer Service
16 48 (8.07%) Computer Science
16 48 (8.07%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.03%) Java
2 66 (11.09%) COBOL
2 66 (11.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 51 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 51 (8.57%) Python
4 50 (8.40%) PHP
4 50 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 47 (7.90%) C#
6 42 (7.06%) C++
7 40 (6.72%) C
8 22 (3.70%) SQL
9 13 (2.18%) VB.NET
10 9 (1.51%) Scala
11 8 (1.34%) Rust
12 6 (1.01%) Go
13 4 (0.67%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 114 (19.16%) Degree
2 81 (13.61%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.22%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.67%) CCNA
10 4 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.67%) HND
10 4 (0.67%) PMP
11 3 (0.50%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.50%) CCNP
11 3 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.36%) GMP
2 18 (3.03%) SLA
3 14 (2.35%) PMO
4 10 (1.68%) QA
5 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.67%) GDPR
7 3 (0.50%) JTAG
8 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.51%) vSphere
4 8 (1.34%) Docker
5 3 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (3.53%) Terraform
2 17 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.35%) SCCM
4 7 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.01%) Nagios
6 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) Ansible
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 75 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.09%) Micro Focus
3 40 (6.72%) Oracle
4 34 (5.71%) VMware
5 19 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.18%) Citrix
7 11 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.51%) Cisco
9 7 (1.18%) CheckPoint
9 7 (1.18%) IBM
10 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.01%) Veeam
11 5 (0.84%) Informatica
12 4 (0.67%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (0.67%) ESET
12 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.50%) Meraki
13 3 (0.50%) QinetiQ
13 3 (0.50%) Ruckus Wireless
13 3 (0.50%) SAP