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 24 May 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 354 380
Rank change year-on-year +55 +26 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 233 279 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.98% 0.84% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.89% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 195 212 312
10th Percentile £61,360 £58,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £83,750 £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 £132,500 £149,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +17.65%

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 22,395 31,505 68,143
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 23,241 34,616
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +24 25 £100,000 +5.26% 9
South London +3 4 - - 1
West London -2 1 £102,500 +35.76% 2
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 24 May 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.

1 118 (50.64%) AWS
2 110 (47.21%) Finance
3 106 (45.49%) Java
4 100 (42.92%) Agile
5 81 (34.76%) Banking
6 80 (34.33%) Software Engineering
7 71 (30.47%) Python
8 62 (26.61%) JavaScript
9 61 (26.18%) Azure
9 61 (26.18%) TypeScript
10 59 (25.32%) Data Lake
10 59 (25.32%) Snowflake
11 55 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
11 55 (23.61%) Pandas
11 55 (23.61%) NumPy
11 55 (23.61%) Data Quality
12 53 (22.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 53 (22.75%) Asset Management
12 53 (22.75%) dbt
13 52 (22.32%) Dremio
13 52 (22.32%) Apache Ignite
13 52 (22.32%) Apache Arrow
13 52 (22.32%) Amazon Athena
13 52 (22.32%) gRPC
13 52 (22.32%) Investment Banking
13 52 (22.32%) Equities
13 52 (22.32%) Front Office
13 52 (22.32%) Fixed Income
13 52 (22.32%) Apache
13 52 (22.32%) Protocol Buffers

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 55 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (22.32%) Apache
3 11 (4.72%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.00%) Apache Pig
4 7 (3.00%) Confluence
5 5 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.15%) WordPress
6 3 (1.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.86%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.86%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.43%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.72%) Primavera
3 3 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 118 (50.64%) AWS
2 61 (26.18%) Azure
3 59 (25.32%) Snowflake
4 53 (22.75%) dbt
5 20 (8.58%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.87%) Serverless
7 15 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.44%) SaaS
8 13 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (5.58%) GCP
9 10 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.29%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.29%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.86%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.43%) WhatsApp
12 6 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (0.43%) DHCP
1 1 (0.43%) DNS
1 1 (0.43%) Firewall
1 1 (0.43%) FTP
1 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (25.32%) Data Lake
2 52 (22.32%) Amazon Athena
2 52 (22.32%) Apache Arrow
2 52 (22.32%) Apache Ignite
2 52 (22.32%) Dremio
3 22 (9.44%) SQL Server
4 20 (8.58%) Power BI
5 14 (6.01%) Big Data
5 14 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.86%) MySQL
6 9 (3.86%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.00%) Apache Hive
7 7 (3.00%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.00%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.00%) Spark SQL
8 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (7.73%) Git
2 9 (3.86%) GitLab
3 8 (3.43%) JUnit
4 7 (3.00%) Checkstyle
4 7 (3.00%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.58%) JIRA
6 5 (2.15%) Postman
7 3 (1.29%) Maven
8 2 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.86%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.43%) Gatling
9 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (47.21%) Finance
2 81 (34.76%) Banking
3 52 (22.32%) Front Office
3 52 (22.32%) Investment Banking
4 49 (21.03%) Social Skills
5 10 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.29%) Retail Banking
6 9 (3.86%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.00%) Law
8 4 (1.72%) Local Government
9 3 (1.29%) Advertising
9 3 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) iGaming
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.61%) NumPy
1 55 (23.61%) Pandas
2 52 (22.32%) gRPC
2 52 (22.32%) Protocol Buffers
2 52 (22.32%) SciPy
3 36 (15.45%) Kafka
4 30 (12.88%) Spring Boot
5 26 (11.16%) .NET
6 21 (9.01%) Spring
7 19 (8.15%) React
8 13 (5.58%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.29%) J2EE
9 10 (4.29%) REST
10 7 (3.00%) Middleware
10 7 (3.00%) PySpark
11 6 (2.58%) JSON
12 5 (2.15%) FastAPI
12 5 (2.15%) Laravel
13 4 (1.72%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.72%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 53 (22.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 52 (22.32%) Derivative
2 52 (22.32%) Equities
2 52 (22.32%) Fixed Income
2 52 (22.32%) Hedge funds
3 13 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.72%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.29%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.43%) Cyberattack
7 8 (3.43%) Data Fabric
7 8 (3.43%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.00%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.72%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.73%) Linux
2 12 (5.15%) Windows
3 8 (3.43%) zOS
4 4 (1.72%) CentOS
4 4 (1.72%) Solaris
4 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.86%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (42.92%) Agile
2 80 (34.33%) Software Engineering
3 53 (22.75%) Asset Management
4 52 (22.32%) Greeks
4 52 (22.32%) Investment Management
5 51 (21.89%) DevOps
5 51 (21.89%) Mentoring
6 44 (18.88%) SDLC
7 41 (17.60%) CI/CD
8 33 (14.16%) Microservices
9 31 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (11.16%) Design Patterns
10 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (11.16%) Roadmaps
11 24 (10.30%) Computer Science
12 21 (9.01%) ETL
13 20 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (8.15%) Line Management
15 17 (7.30%) Machine Learning
15 17 (7.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 106 (45.49%) Java
2 71 (30.47%) Python
3 62 (26.61%) JavaScript
4 61 (26.18%) TypeScript
5 40 (17.17%) SQL
6 17 (7.30%) C#
7 10 (4.29%) Scala
8 9 (3.86%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.86%) PHP
9 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.58%) Go
11 5 (2.15%) C++
11 5 (2.15%) Rust
12 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.29%) C
14 2 (0.86%) Bash
14 2 (0.86%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.43%) Delphi
15 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (14.59%) Degree
2 13 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.43%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.72%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.72%) CIMA
5 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.72%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (23.61%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.01%) QA
3 2 (0.86%) HL7
3 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (9.87%) Docker
2 7 (3.00%) HDFS
3 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.29%) Ceph
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.44%) Terraform
3 4 (1.72%) Ansible
4 3 (1.29%) Knative
5 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.58%) Databricks
3 7 (3.00%) Oracle
3 7 (3.00%) SAP
4 5 (2.15%) Google
5 4 (1.72%) F5
5 4 (1.72%) IBM
6 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.86%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.43%) Apple
8 1 (0.43%) Aruba
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco
8 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.43%) Meraki
8 1 (0.43%) Okta
8 1 (0.43%) Progress
8 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds