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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 642 739
Rank change year-on-year -79 +97 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Technology Director 88 34 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.068% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.076% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 53 6 24
10th Percentile £87,213 £96,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £98,125 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £125,000 £113,750 £151,250
90th Percentile £144,000 £130,000 £170,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -26.09%

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 106,082 44,571 74,889
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 89.73% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,120 26,247 45,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -67 74 £100,000 -2.44% 86
UK excluding London -70 52 £100,000 - 30
London -33 35 £117,500 +9.30% 64
Work from Home -29 32 £100,000 -18.37% 23
South West - 15 £91,550 - 6
North of England - 10 £100,000 - 6
Scotland - 9 - - 4
North West - 9 £100,000 - 4
East of England - 8 £121,283 - 2
South East -42 5 £100,000 - 9
Midlands -44 4 £91,550 - 3
Wales - 4 - -
East Midlands - 3 £91,550 -
West Midlands -31 1 £110,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £112,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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 32 (36.36%) IT Strategy
1 32 (36.36%) Technology Strategy
2 18 (20.45%) Roadmaps
3 17 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 15 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (17.05%) ERP
5 15 (17.05%) Risk Management
6 11 (12.50%) AI
6 11 (12.50%) Data Strategy
6 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (11.36%) Data Architecture
8 9 (10.23%) Analytics
8 9 (10.23%) Data Governance
9 8 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 8 (9.09%) Digital Strategy
9 8 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
9 8 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (7.95%) Commercial Awareness
10 7 (7.95%) DevSecOps
10 7 (7.95%) Service Delivery
10 7 (7.95%) Service Management
11 6 (6.82%) Coaching
11 6 (6.82%) CRM
11 6 (6.82%) Data Protection
11 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (6.82%) Lakehouse
11 6 (6.82%) Matrix Organization
11 6 (6.82%) Migration
11 6 (6.82%) SAP

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 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.55%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.55%) AWS
1 4 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (1.14%) GCP
2 1 (1.14%) OCI
2 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.27%) Metadata
2 1 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 23 (26.14%) Finance
2 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (15.91%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.68%) Banking
7 4 (4.55%) Advertising
7 4 (4.55%) Law
7 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 3 (3.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Military
9 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.14%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.14%) Front Office
10 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.14%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.55%) EPoS
3 4 (4.55%) IoT
4 3 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.27%) Derivative
5 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.14%) Equities
6 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.14%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.36%) IT Strategy
1 32 (36.36%) Technology Strategy
2 18 (20.45%) Roadmaps
3 17 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 15 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (17.05%) ERP
5 15 (17.05%) Risk Management
6 11 (12.50%) AI
6 11 (12.50%) Data Strategy
6 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (11.36%) Data Architecture
8 9 (10.23%) Analytics
8 9 (10.23%) Data Governance
9 8 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 8 (9.09%) Digital Strategy
9 8 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
9 8 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (7.95%) Commercial Awareness
10 7 (7.95%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.14%) CCSK
4 1 (1.14%) CISA
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) GRC
2 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) HL7
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NCSC
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) SAP
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (1.14%) Cerner
3 1 (1.14%) Databricks
3 1 (1.14%) Google
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.14%) Salesforce