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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 655 752
Rank change year-on-year -45 +97 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Technology Director 89 26 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.052% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.058% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 54 7 26
10th Percentile £82,367 £98,000 £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% -6.38%
75th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £144,375
90th Percentile £143,500 £127,000 £170,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -23.91%

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 101,876 44,986 79,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 89.87% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 69,841 26,672 51,908
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 £75,000 £75,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,292 £47,602 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.05% -4.80% -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 24 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 24 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 -39 75 £100,000 - 8
UK excluding London -47 58 £100,000 - 6
Work from Home -14 31 £100,000 -18.37% 4
London -19 29 £120,000 +9.09% 6
North of England - 19 £97,500 - 1
North West - 16 £100,000 - 1
South West - 13 £91,550 - 2
Scotland - 9 - - 2
East of England - 8 £121,283 -
Midlands -38 4 £100,775 +0.77%
Wales - 4 - -
South East -33 3 £100,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £83,210 -
West Midlands -19 2 £117,500 +17.50%
East Midlands - 2 £91,550 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 32 (35.96%) IT Strategy
1 32 (35.96%) Technology Strategy
2 21 (23.60%) Roadmaps
3 19 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (21.35%) Decision-Making
4 17 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (17.98%) ERP
5 16 (17.98%) Risk Management
6 14 (15.73%) AI
7 12 (13.48%) Data Strategy
8 11 (12.36%) Digital Strategy
8 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (11.24%) Analytics
10 9 (10.11%) Data Architecture
10 9 (10.11%) Digital Innovation
10 9 (10.11%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (10.11%) Service Management
11 8 (8.99%) Budget Management
11 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.99%) CRM
11 8 (8.99%) Data Governance
11 8 (8.99%) Strategic Roadmap
11 8 (8.99%) Strategic Thinking
12 7 (7.87%) Agile
12 7 (7.87%) Commercial Awareness
12 7 (7.87%) Data Engineering
12 7 (7.87%) Service Delivery
13 6 (6.74%) Business Strategy
13 6 (6.74%) Business Transformation
13 6 (6.74%) Data Protection

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%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.25%) Metadata
2 1 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 20 (22.47%) Finance
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.74%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Fire and Rescue
5 5 (5.62%) Local Government
6 4 (4.49%) Advertising
6 4 (4.49%) Law
6 4 (4.49%) Retail
7 3 (3.37%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Military
8 2 (2.25%) Police
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.12%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.49%) AI Agents
1 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.49%) EPoS
1 4 (4.49%) IoT
2 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
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%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.12%) NHS
4 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.96%) IT Strategy
1 32 (35.96%) Technology Strategy
2 21 (23.60%) Roadmaps
3 19 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (21.35%) Decision-Making
4 17 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (17.98%) ERP
5 16 (17.98%) Risk Management
6 14 (15.73%) AI
7 12 (13.48%) Data Strategy
8 11 (12.36%) Digital Strategy
8 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (11.24%) Analytics
10 9 (10.11%) Data Architecture
10 9 (10.11%) Digital Innovation
10 9 (10.11%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (10.11%) Service Management
11 8 (8.99%) Budget Management
11 8 (8.99%) Strategic Roadmap
11 8 (8.99%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (5.62%) 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