Software Development Team Leader Jobs

Software Development Team Lead
UK

The median Software Development Team Lead salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 948 1159
Rank change year-on-year +144 +211 -301
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Team Leader 106 31 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.030% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.033% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 105 29 39
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £45,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £85,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -17.86% +19.15%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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%

Software Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Team Leader in the UK

Software Development Team Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Development Team Leader in the UK

Software Development Team Leader
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Software Development Team Leader in the UK

Software Development Team Leader
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +66 103 £72,500 +26.09% 7
England +176 100 £72,500 +3.57% 7
North of England +91 49 £70,000 +42.86% 5
Yorkshire +130 43 £70,000 +45.83% 2
South East +43 31 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Midlands +29 17 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East Midlands - 17 £70,000 - 1
Work from Home +66 9 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North West +19 5 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Wales - 5 £62,500 -
London +125 2 £93,750 +4.17%
South West -32 1 £50,000 -33.33%
North East - 1 £55,000 -

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

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

1 56 (52.83%) Agile
2 45 (42.45%) Git
2 45 (42.45%) JavaScript
3 44 (41.51%) React
4 35 (33.02%) Software Engineering
5 30 (28.30%) PHP
5 30 (28.30%) Mentoring
5 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
6 29 (27.36%) Propensity Modelling
7 28 (26.42%) .NET
8 26 (24.53%) Collaborative Culture
9 25 (23.58%) C#
9 25 (23.58%) AWS
10 24 (22.64%) Waterfall
10 24 (22.64%) Degree
10 24 (22.64%) Onboarding
11 23 (21.70%) Web Development
12 22 (20.75%) SQL
12 22 (20.75%) Kubernetes
13 21 (19.81%) Jest
13 21 (19.81%) TypeScript
13 21 (19.81%) Docker
13 21 (19.81%) SoapUI
13 21 (19.81%) Selenium
13 21 (19.81%) Machine Learning
13 21 (19.81%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (19.81%) NoSQL
13 21 (19.81%) Cypress.io
14 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 25 (23.58%) AWS
2 9 (8.49%) Azure
3 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.94%) GCP
4 1 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.81%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (42.45%) Git
2 21 (19.81%) Cypress.io
2 21 (19.81%) Selenium
2 21 (19.81%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
3 1 (0.94%) Finance
3 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (41.51%) React
2 28 (26.42%) .NET
3 21 (19.81%) Jest
4 2 (1.89%) CSS
4 2 (1.89%) EDI
5 1 (0.94%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.94%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.94%) HTML
5 1 (0.94%) Node.js
5 1 (0.94%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.94%) OpenID
5 1 (0.94%) SAML
5 1 (0.94%) Spring
5 1 (0.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.94%) Vaadin
5 1 (0.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.89%) IoT
3 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (52.83%) Agile
2 35 (33.02%) Software Engineering
3 30 (28.30%) Mentoring
4 29 (27.36%) Propensity Modelling
5 26 (24.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 24 (22.64%) Waterfall
7 23 (21.70%) Web Development
8 21 (19.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 21 (19.81%) Machine Learning
9 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.60%) DevOps
11 7 (6.60%) Line Management
12 5 (4.72%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (4.72%) Information Security
12 5 (4.72%) Migration
13 4 (3.77%) People Management
13 4 (3.77%) Scrum
13 4 (3.77%) SDLC
14 3 (2.83%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.45%) JavaScript
2 30 (28.30%) PHP
3 25 (23.58%) C#
4 22 (20.75%) SQL
5 21 (19.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.83%) C++
7 2 (1.89%) Java
8 1 (0.94%) C
8 1 (0.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (22.64%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (19.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Firmware
3 3 (2.83%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (20.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.94%) Google