Technical Leader Jobs in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead salary in London is £95,000 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 285 363 391
Rank change year-on-year +78 +28 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 237 274 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.98% 0.86% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.90% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 200 211 309
10th Percentile £61,224 £57,500 £66,000
25th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 1 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 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
Central London +21 23 £105,000 +10.53% 6
South London +2 4 - -
West London +2 1 £102,500 +35.76% 5
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 123 (51.90%) AWS
2 116 (48.95%) Finance
3 111 (46.84%) Java
4 104 (43.88%) Agile
5 87 (36.71%) Banking
6 86 (36.29%) Software Engineering
7 78 (32.91%) Python
8 68 (28.69%) JavaScript
9 67 (28.27%) TypeScript
10 65 (27.43%) Data Lake
10 65 (27.43%) Snowflake
11 61 (25.74%) Apache Airflow
11 61 (25.74%) Pandas
11 61 (25.74%) NumPy
11 61 (25.74%) Data Quality
12 60 (25.32%) Azure
12 60 (25.32%) dbt
13 59 (24.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 59 (24.89%) Asset Management
14 58 (24.47%) Investment Banking
14 58 (24.47%) Fixed Income
14 58 (24.47%) Front Office
14 58 (24.47%) Equities
14 58 (24.47%) Apache
14 58 (24.47%) Hedge funds
14 58 (24.47%) SciPy
14 58 (24.47%) Protocol Buffers
14 58 (24.47%) Derivative
14 58 (24.47%) Investment Management
14 58 (24.47%) Greeks

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 61 (25.74%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (24.47%) Apache
3 11 (4.64%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Pig
4 6 (2.53%) Confluence
5 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.69%) WordPress
7 3 (1.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.84%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.84%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.42%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.69%) Primavera
3 3 (1.27%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 123 (51.90%) AWS
2 65 (27.43%) Snowflake
3 60 (25.32%) Azure
3 60 (25.32%) dbt
4 20 (8.44%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.33%) SaaS
6 14 (5.91%) Serverless
7 13 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (4.64%) GCP
9 10 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.22%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.22%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.80%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.38%) WhatsApp
12 6 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (0.42%) DHCP
1 1 (0.42%) DNS
1 1 (0.42%) Firewall
1 1 (0.42%) FTP
1 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (27.43%) Data Lake
2 58 (24.47%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (24.47%) Apache Arrow
2 58 (24.47%) Apache Ignite
2 58 (24.47%) Dremio
3 22 (9.28%) SQL Server
4 20 (8.44%) Power BI
5 14 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.49%) Big Data
7 9 (3.80%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.38%) MySQL
9 7 (2.95%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.95%) Spark SQL
10 6 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.53%) Apache Hive
10 6 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.53%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.53%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.69%) DB2
11 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.59%) Git
2 9 (3.80%) GitLab
3 7 (2.95%) JUnit
4 6 (2.53%) Checkstyle
4 6 (2.53%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.11%) JIRA
5 5 (2.11%) Postman
6 3 (1.27%) Maven
7 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.42%) Gatling
8 1 (0.42%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 116 (48.95%) Finance
2 87 (36.71%) Banking
3 58 (24.47%) Front Office
3 58 (24.47%) Investment Banking
4 47 (19.83%) Social Skills
5 10 (4.22%) Retail Banking
6 9 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.80%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.95%) Law
8 4 (1.69%) Local Government
9 3 (1.27%) Advertising
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) iGaming
11 1 (0.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.74%) NumPy
1 61 (25.74%) Pandas
2 58 (24.47%) gRPC
2 58 (24.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 58 (24.47%) SciPy
3 36 (15.19%) Kafka
4 29 (12.24%) Spring Boot
5 26 (10.97%) .NET
6 20 (8.44%) React
6 20 (8.44%) Spring
7 12 (5.06%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.22%) REST
9 9 (3.80%) J2EE
10 7 (2.95%) Middleware
10 7 (2.95%) PySpark
11 6 (2.53%) JSON
12 5 (2.11%) FastAPI
13 4 (1.69%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.69%) MobX
13 4 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 58 (24.47%) Derivative
2 58 (24.47%) Equities
2 58 (24.47%) Fixed Income
2 58 (24.47%) Hedge funds
3 12 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.64%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.80%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.38%) Cyberattack
6 8 (3.38%) Data Fabric
6 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.59%) Linux
2 12 (5.06%) Windows
3 8 (3.38%) zOS
4 4 (1.69%) CentOS
4 4 (1.69%) Solaris
4 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.84%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (43.88%) Agile
2 86 (36.29%) Software Engineering
3 59 (24.89%) Asset Management
4 58 (24.47%) Greeks
4 58 (24.47%) Investment Management
5 52 (21.94%) DevOps
6 51 (21.52%) Mentoring
7 43 (18.14%) SDLC
8 40 (16.88%) CI/CD
9 32 (13.50%) Microservices
9 32 (13.50%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (10.97%) Roadmaps
11 25 (10.55%) Design Patterns
11 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.70%) Computer Science
13 21 (8.86%) ETL
14 20 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (8.02%) Line Management
16 18 (7.59%) TDD
17 16 (6.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 111 (46.84%) Java
2 78 (32.91%) Python
3 68 (28.69%) JavaScript
4 67 (28.27%) TypeScript
5 39 (16.46%) SQL
6 17 (7.17%) C#
7 10 (4.22%) Scala
8 9 (3.80%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.38%) PHP
10 7 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.11%) C++
11 5 (2.11%) Go
11 5 (2.11%) Rust
12 4 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.27%) C
14 2 (0.84%) Bash
14 2 (0.84%) Bicep
15 1 (0.42%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.42%) Delphi
15 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 33 (13.92%) Degree
2 13 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.22%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.38%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.11%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.69%) CIMA
6 4 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (25.74%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.49%) QA
3 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (9.70%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) HDFS
3 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.27%) Ceph
4 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.33%) Terraform
3 4 (1.69%) Ansible
4 3 (1.27%) Knative
5 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.42%) Istio
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.44%) Databricks
3 7 (2.95%) Oracle
3 7 (2.95%) SAP
4 5 (2.11%) Google
5 4 (1.69%) F5
5 4 (1.69%) IBM
6 3 (1.27%) Progress
6 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.84%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.42%) Apple
8 1 (0.42%) Aruba
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) Meraki
8 1 (0.42%) Okta
8 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds