Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
UK
The median Chief Technology Officer (CTO) salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.
The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 5 Jul 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 731 | 855 | 852 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +124 | -3 | +306 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a Chief Technology Officer | 9 | 59 | 45 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.015% | 0.055% | 0.051% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.017% | 0.058% | 0.055% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 8 | 51 | 40 |
| 10th Percentile | £62,425 | £76,250 | £71,203 |
| 25th Percentile | £76,563 | £80,727 | £82,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £90,000 | £87,500 | £110,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +2.86% | -20.45% | -8.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £114,375 | £137,500 | £121,172 |
| 90th Percentile | £150,750 | £175,000 | £193,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £57,250 | £87,500 | £85,000 |
| % change year-on-year | -34.57% | +2.94% | -22.73% |
All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 | 53,510 | 101,343 | 81,087 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 89.90% | 94.83% | 91.24% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 29,131 | 71,360 | 54,483 |
| 10th Percentile | £27,500 | £28,740 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £38,500 | £38,750 | £44,186 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73,708 | £70,000 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £50,000 | £50,000 | £53,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -5.66% | +4.95% |
Chief Technology Officer
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Chief Technology Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Chief Technology Officer
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Chief Technology Officer.
Chief Technology Officer
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Chief Technology Officer over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.
Chief Technology Officer
Top 7 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chief Technology Officer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. 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 | +111 | 7 | £90,000 | +2.86% | 56 |
| London | +92 | 5 | £92,500 | -19.57% | 42 |
| Work from Home | +106 | 3 | £95,000 | -26.21% | 26 |
| UK excluding London | +127 | 2 | £57,250 | -34.57% | 15 |
| South West | +91 | 1 | £37,000 | -53.75% | |
| North of England | +43 | 1 | £77,500 | -14.93% | 1 |
| North West | -2 | 1 | £77,500 | -8.50% |
Chief Technology Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Chief Technology Officer 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 featuring Chief Technology Officer in the job title.
|
|
Chief Technology Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||