Technology Director Job Trends

Director of Technology
UK

The median Director of Technology salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 696 665 761
Rank change year-on-year -31 +96 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Technology Director 89 27 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.054% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.060% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 54 8 27
10th Percentile £80,497 £98,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £90,149 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.62%
75th Percentile £125,000 £111,250 £143,750
90th Percentile £143,500 £124,000 £170,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £98,750 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% +17.65% -26.98%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 100,207 44,834 78,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.91% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,470 26,530 52,665
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

Technology Director
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technology Director' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Technology Director job vacancy trend in the UK

Technology Director
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Technology Director job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Technology Director job vacancies in the UK

Technology Director
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Director over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Technology Director in the UK

Technology Director
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Director within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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 -26 75 £100,000 - 111
UK excluding London -38 58 £98,750 -1.25% 48
Work from Home -18 29 £100,000 -18.37% 30
London -34 29 £120,000 +9.09% 74
North of England - 21 £95,000 - 5
North West - 17 £100,000 - 4
South West - 12 £90,775 - 10
Scotland - 9 - - 6
East of England - 8 £121,283 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £83,210 - 1
Wales - 4 - - 2
Midlands -32 3 £110,000 +10.00% 2
South East -29 2 £98,750 -1.25% 15
West Midlands -29 2 £117,500 +17.50% 2
East Midlands - 1 £91,550 -

Technology Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 August 2026, Technology Director job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technology Director in the job title.

1 35 (39.33%) IT Strategy
1 35 (39.33%) Technology Strategy
2 23 (25.84%) Roadmaps
3 21 (23.60%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (23.60%) Decision-Making
4 17 (19.10%) ERP
4 17 (19.10%) Risk Management
4 17 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (17.98%) AI
6 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.48%) Data Strategy
6 12 (13.48%) Digital Innovation
6 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (12.36%) Analytics
7 11 (12.36%) Digital Strategy
8 10 (11.24%) Budget Management
8 10 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (11.24%) Service Management
9 9 (10.11%) Data Architecture
10 8 (8.99%) Agile
10 8 (8.99%) Business Transformation
10 8 (8.99%) CRM
10 8 (8.99%) Strategic Roadmap
11 7 (7.87%) Commercial Awareness
11 7 (7.87%) Data Governance
11 7 (7.87%) Service Delivery
11 7 (7.87%) Strategic Thinking
11 7 (7.87%) Technology Transformation
12 6 (6.74%) Business Strategy
12 6 (6.74%) Data Engineering

Technology Director Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.49%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.49%) AWS
1 4 (4.49%) Azure
2 1 (1.12%) GCP
2 1 (1.12%) OCI
2 1 (1.12%) SaaS
2 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.25%) Metadata
2 1 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 21 (23.60%) Finance
2 19 (21.35%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.87%) Fire and Rescue
6 6 (6.74%) Local Government
6 6 (6.74%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.62%) Banking
8 4 (4.49%) Advertising
8 4 (4.49%) Law
8 4 (4.49%) Legal
8 4 (4.49%) Retail
9 3 (3.37%) Police
10 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.25%) Military
10 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.12%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (1.12%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.12%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.49%) AI Agents
1 4 (4.49%) EPoS
1 4 (4.49%) IoT
2 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.37%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.25%) Derivative
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.12%) Equities
4 1 (1.12%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.12%) NHS
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.33%) IT Strategy
1 35 (39.33%) Technology Strategy
2 23 (25.84%) Roadmaps
3 21 (23.60%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (23.60%) Decision-Making
4 17 (19.10%) ERP
4 17 (19.10%) Risk Management
4 17 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (17.98%) AI
6 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.48%) Data Strategy
6 12 (13.48%) Digital Innovation
6 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (12.36%) Analytics
7 11 (12.36%) Digital Strategy
8 10 (11.24%) Budget Management
8 10 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (11.24%) Service Management
9 9 (10.11%) Data Architecture
10 8 (8.99%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (6.74%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.12%) CCSK
4 1 (1.12%) CISA
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) GRC
2 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) HL7
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) NCSC
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) SAP
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle
3 1 (1.12%) Cerner
3 1 (1.12%) Databricks
3 1 (1.12%) Google
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.12%) Salesforce