Technical Leadership Jobs

Technical Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 194 217
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -6
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,669 1,792 3,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.92% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.02% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 1,147 1,386
10th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,250 £61,202 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,383 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +2.53% +6.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the UK 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
England +11 1,461 £72,500 -8.96% 318
UK excluding London +22 1,105 £67,500 - 239
Work from Home +5 715 £75,000 -3.23% 176
London -22 467 £85,000 +3.03% 94
South East +48 286 £65,000 -7.14% 42
North of England +38 248 £65,000 - 56
South West +28 217 £65,000 +3.17% 42
North West +22 136 £70,000 +3.70% 29
Midlands -19 133 £75,000 +15.38% 38
Scotland -35 113 £75,000 -0.73% 23
West Midlands -24 92 £75,000 +15.38% 25
Yorkshire +49 90 £59,500 -8.46% 19
East of England -29 86 £65,000 -7.14% 25
East Midlands -9 41 £65,000 - 13
North East 0 22 £75,000 +33.39% 10
Northern Ireland +8 12 £75,400 +25.67% 12
Wales +12 10 £59,500 -5.17% 5

Technical Leadership
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 75 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.88%) CMS
3 43 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 41 (2.46%) Sitecore CMS
5 40 (2.40%) IIS
6 37 (2.22%) Kentico
6 37 (2.22%) Umbraco
7 36 (2.16%) Headless CMS
8 31 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.66%) Drupal
10 7 (0.42%) Apache
10 7 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.36%) Confluence
11 6 (0.36%) Mendix
12 5 (0.30%) K2 blackpearl
13 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.24%) SAS
14 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
3 6 (0.36%) Simulink
4 4 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.24%) Windchill
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.36%) HFM
3 6 (0.36%) Hyperion Planning
4 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.12%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.060%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.060%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.060%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.060%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 531 (31.82%) Azure
2 361 (21.63%) AWS
3 142 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 103 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (5.99%) SaaS
6 97 (5.81%) GCP
7 95 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (5.09%) Power Automate
9 72 (4.31%) PowerApps
10 67 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
11 65 (3.89%) IaaS
12 63 (3.77%) Serverless
13 56 (3.36%) Entra ID
14 50 (3.00%) OneDrive
15 49 (2.94%) Amazon S3
16 43 (2.58%) PaaS
17 42 (2.52%) Dropbox
17 42 (2.52%) Google Drive
18 40 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (2.16%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.33%) Firewall
2 47 (2.82%) DNS
3 44 (2.64%) WAN
4 40 (2.40%) VPN
5 39 (2.34%) MPLS
6 36 (2.16%) BGP
6 36 (2.16%) Wireless
7 32 (1.92%) Network Security
8 26 (1.56%) LAN
9 21 (1.26%) VLAN
10 20 (1.20%) OSPF
10 20 (1.20%) SAN
10 20 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.08%) 5G
11 18 (1.08%) SSL
12 16 (0.96%) TCP/IP
13 14 (0.84%) Internet
13 14 (0.84%) IPsec
13 14 (0.84%) NAS
14 11 (0.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.63%) Big Data
2 89 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 87 (5.21%) Power BI
4 86 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 81 (4.85%) Relational Database
6 55 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 40 (2.40%) MySQL
9 39 (2.34%) RDBMS
10 34 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 28 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (1.32%) Metadata
13 18 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 15 (0.90%) DB2
16 10 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.48%) CockroachDB
18 7 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (6.05%) Git
2 46 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.16%) JIRA
4 32 (1.92%) GitLab
5 26 (1.56%) Postman
6 24 (1.44%) Subversion
7 15 (0.90%) CMake
8 11 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.48%) Jaeger
11 8 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.36%) RStudio
12 6 (0.36%) Selenium
13 5 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
13 5 (0.30%) JUnit
13 5 (0.30%) MLflow
13 5 (0.30%) Storybook
14 4 (0.24%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 507 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 318 (19.05%) Finance
3 202 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (6.77%) Influencing Skills
6 100 (5.99%) Banking
7 89 (5.33%) Marketing
8 86 (5.15%) Public Sector
9 83 (4.97%) Law
10 73 (4.37%) Legal
11 56 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.88%) Automotive
13 39 (2.34%) Back Office
14 32 (1.92%) Electronics
15 28 (1.68%) Retail
16 25 (1.50%) Local Government
17 24 (1.44%) Games
17 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (1.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 483 (28.94%) Lead
2 430 (25.76%) Senior
3 370 (22.17%) Architect
4 240 (14.38%) Developer
5 154 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 142 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
7 140 (8.39%) Technical Leader
8 133 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 118 (7.07%) Senior Developer
10 112 (6.71%) Principal Cloud Engineer
11 111 (6.65%) Technical Architect
12 94 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
13 75 (4.49%) Lead Developer
14 72 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
15 69 (4.13%) Analyst
16 65 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
17 61 (3.65%) Senior Architect
18 53 (3.18%) Java Engineer
19 52 (3.12%) C# Developer
20 51 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (12.34%) .NET
2 134 (8.03%) React
3 76 (4.55%) RESTful
4 70 (4.19%) .NET Core
5 68 (4.07%) .NET Framework
6 67 (4.01%) Node.js
7 58 (3.48%) CSS
8 57 (3.42%) HTML
9 55 (3.30%) ASP.NET
10 54 (3.24%) Spring
11 48 (2.88%) JSON
12 47 (2.82%) Next.js
12 47 (2.82%) Spring Boot
13 46 (2.76%) XML
14 40 (2.40%) ASP.NET MVC
15 39 (2.34%) AngularJS
16 38 (2.28%) Kafka
17 37 (2.22%) REST
18 35 (2.10%) Django
19 27 (1.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 145 (8.69%) Cloud Native
2 136 (8.15%) Management Information System
3 86 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.55%) IoT
5 63 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 62 (3.71%) Algorithms
7 58 (3.48%) Data Centre
8 49 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 42 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.52%) iPad
10 35 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 24 (1.44%) Robotics
12 23 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.14%) Blockchain
15 15 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 152 (9.11%) Linux
2 140 (8.39%) Windows
3 47 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.28%) Unix
5 24 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.38%) Android
7 16 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.66%) CentOS
9 7 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.060%) Debian
13 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.060%) tvOS
13 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (36.79%) Agile
2 432 (25.88%) Mentoring
3 390 (23.37%) Roadmaps
4 388 (23.25%) DevOps
5 349 (20.91%) Software Engineering
6 334 (20.01%) Problem-Solving
7 276 (16.54%) CI/CD
8 249 (14.92%) Coaching
9 223 (13.36%) Technology Roadmap
10 216 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (11.92%) Computer Science
12 156 (9.35%) Microservices
13 155 (9.29%) SDLC
14 149 (8.93%) Project Management
15 136 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
16 134 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence
17 127 (7.61%) Scrum
18 125 (7.49%) Project Delivery
19 119 (7.13%) Machine Learning
20 110 (6.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 291 (17.44%) SQL
2 281 (16.84%) Python
3 258 (15.46%) C#
4 252 (15.10%) Java
5 194 (11.62%) JavaScript
6 78 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 73 (4.37%) TypeScript
8 68 (4.07%) PHP
8 68 (4.07%) Scala
9 64 (3.83%) C++
10 60 (3.59%) C
11 40 (2.40%) SystemVerilog
12 36 (2.16%) Bash
13 32 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.68%) R
15 23 (1.38%) Go
15 23 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 22 (1.32%) Ruby
17 18 (1.08%) Perl
18 17 (1.02%) Swift
Qualifications
1 332 (19.89%) Degree
2 199 (11.92%) Security Cleared
3 156 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 132 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 55 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 47 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 31 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.44%) CISSP
11 24 (1.44%) PhD
12 22 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (1.14%) CCNA
14 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.72%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.66%) CISM
16 10 (0.60%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.57%) QA
2 36 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.04%) GDPR
4 27 (1.62%) SLA
5 14 (0.84%) PMO
6 12 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.60%) Def Stans
8 9 (0.54%) IEC 61508
8 9 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.42%) ISO 13485
9 7 (0.42%) JTAG
9 7 (0.42%) NCSC
9 7 (0.42%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) DO-254
12 4 (0.24%) MISRA
12 4 (0.24%) MISRA C
13 3 (0.18%) ECSS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 147 (8.81%) Active Directory
2 101 (6.05%) Docker
3 61 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (3.00%) RACF
5 33 (1.98%) Firmware
6 27 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.60%) vSphere
9 9 (0.54%) KVM
9 9 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.060%) Lustre
13 1 (0.060%) LXC
13 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 132 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 111 (6.65%) Terraform
3 57 (3.42%) Ansible
4 28 (1.68%) Puppet
5 26 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.60%) Nagios
9 8 (0.48%) Kiali
10 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.36%) Endace
11 6 (0.36%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.36%) Kibana
11 6 (0.36%) logstash
11 6 (0.36%) SCCM
11 6 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
12 5 (0.30%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.24%) Packer
14 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 383 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.93%) Google
3 67 (4.01%) Cisco
4 64 (3.83%) VMware
5 53 (3.18%) Databricks
6 50 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 41 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 41 (2.46%) Sitecore
8 36 (2.16%) Optimizely
9 34 (2.04%) Oracle
10 29 (1.74%) Cadence
11 28 (1.68%) Juniper
11 28 (1.68%) Synopsys
12 25 (1.50%) IBM
13 21 (1.26%) Splunk
13 21 (1.26%) Veeam
14 19 (1.14%) SAP
15 16 (0.96%) Dynatrace
16 15 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.84%) HP