Development Team Leader Jobs

Development Team Lead
UK

The median Development Team Lead salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 769 934 1056
Rank change year-on-year +165 +122 -311
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 138 61 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.060% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.066% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 129 55 120
10th Percentile £54,500 £45,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £90,025
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Development Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Team Leader.

Salary trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Team Leader over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London +70 128 £72,500 +20.83% 18
England +162 125 £72,500 +3.57% 20
North of England +79 56 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire +118 49 £70,000 +42.86% 5
South East +46 32 £90,000 +28.57% 2
Work from Home +55 21 £76,250 +27.08% 7
Midlands +15 20 £70,000 +21.74% 5
East Midlands +3 20 £70,000 +30.23% 4
Wales +19 9 £62,500 -13.79%
London +118 8 £110,000 +22.22% 2
East of England +20 6 £75,000 -21.05%
North West +11 6 £60,000 - 6
South West -28 3 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland -62 2 £65,000 +11.59%
North East - 1 £55,000 -

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Development Team 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 featuring Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 68 (49.28%) Agile
2 49 (35.51%) JavaScript
3 47 (34.06%) Git
3 47 (34.06%) React
4 44 (31.88%) .NET
5 39 (28.26%) Software Engineering
6 37 (26.81%) Mentoring
7 35 (25.36%) PHP
8 33 (23.91%) C#
8 33 (23.91%) Social Skills
9 32 (23.19%) Collaborative Culture
10 30 (21.74%) Propensity Modelling
11 29 (21.01%) AWS
12 26 (18.84%) TypeScript
13 25 (18.12%) Degree
13 25 (18.12%) Artificial Intelligence
14 24 (17.39%) Waterfall
14 24 (17.39%) Onboarding
15 23 (16.67%) Machine Learning
15 23 (16.67%) Web Development
15 23 (16.67%) SQL
16 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
17 21 (15.22%) Jest
17 21 (15.22%) SoapUI
17 21 (15.22%) Docker
17 21 (15.22%) NoSQL
17 21 (15.22%) Cypress.io
17 21 (15.22%) Selenium
18 16 (11.59%) Azure
19 15 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement

Development Team Leader 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.01%) AWS
2 16 (11.59%) Azure
3 7 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.90%) GCP
5 3 (2.17%) dbt
5 3 (2.17%) GitHub
6 2 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.72%) Datadog
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.72%) PaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
2 3 (2.17%) Dremio
2 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.45%) MySQL
4 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (34.06%) Git
2 21 (15.22%) Cypress.io
2 21 (15.22%) Selenium
2 21 (15.22%) SoapUI
3 7 (5.07%) JIRA
General
1 33 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.52%) Finance
3 6 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.17%) Banking
5 3 (2.17%) Front Office
5 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (34.06%) React
2 44 (31.88%) .NET
3 21 (15.22%) Jest
4 5 (3.62%) CSS
4 5 (3.62%) LAMP
5 4 (2.90%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.90%) HTML
6 3 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.17%) gRPC
6 3 (2.17%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (2.17%) Redux
6 3 (2.17%) Vue
7 2 (1.45%) EDI
7 2 (1.45%) JSON
8 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.72%) SAML
8 1 (0.72%) Spring
8 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.72%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.90%) IoT
3 3 (2.17%) Derivative
3 3 (2.17%) Equities
3 3 (2.17%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (49.28%) Agile
2 39 (28.26%) Software Engineering
3 37 (26.81%) Mentoring
4 32 (23.19%) Collaborative Culture
5 30 (21.74%) Propensity Modelling
6 25 (18.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (17.39%) Waterfall
8 23 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 23 (16.67%) Web Development
9 15 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (10.14%) Line Management
11 13 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.42%) SDLC
12 10 (7.25%) DevOps
12 10 (7.25%) People Management
12 10 (7.25%) Scrum
13 8 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 6 (4.35%) Commercial Awareness
14 6 (4.35%) Project Management
14 6 (4.35%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (35.51%) JavaScript
2 35 (25.36%) PHP
3 33 (23.91%) C#
4 26 (18.84%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.67%) SQL
6 8 (5.80%) Python
7 6 (4.35%) VB
7 6 (4.35%) VB6
8 5 (3.62%) C++
9 2 (1.45%) Java
10 1 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (18.12%) Degree
2 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 21 (15.22%) Docker
2 5 (3.62%) Firmware
3 3 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.72%) Google