Team Leader Job Trends in Bristol

Team Lead
South West > Bristol

The median Team Lead salary in Bristol is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 59 93
Rank change year-on-year -27 +34 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 9 48 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.44% 3.39% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 3.57% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6 39 38
10th Percentile £50,116 - £39,550
25th Percentile £62,267 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile - - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% +16.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,896 1,344 1,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 94.92% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,370 791 1,356
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £36,813 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,945 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -2.70% +8.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £51,716
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.55% +3.43%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Team Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Team Leader job vacancy trend in Bristol

Team Leader
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for Team Leader job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for Team Leader job vacancies in Bristol

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in Bristol

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, Team Leader 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 across the Bristol region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) SailPoint
1 4 (44.44%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) B2C
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (11.11%) People Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Register

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) B2C
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) People Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Signal Processing
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Liquidlogic
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle