Team Leader Jobs in the City of London

Team Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Team Lead salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 134 180
Rank change year-on-year +5 +46 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 19 46 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.92% 1.37% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.43% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12 39 42
10th Percentile £72,750 £49,400 £41,441
25th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +22.58%
75th Percentile £110,625 £87,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £184,125 £101,000 £119,750
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £72,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +24.14% -19.44% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,922 3,219 4,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 95.86% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 2,556 3,735
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,372
% change year-on-year - -2.52% +2.58%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the City of London

Team Leader
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Team Leader in the City of London.

Salary trend for Team Leader in the City of London

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in the City of London

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 across the City of London region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Finance
4 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
4 6 (31.58%) Coaching
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) DBS Check
5 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (26.32%) C#
5 5 (26.32%) .NET
5 5 (26.32%) Azure
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) AWS
6 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
6 4 (21.05%) Windows
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (15.79%) DHCP
7 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
7 3 (15.79%) DNS
7 3 (15.79%) Kanban
7 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
7 3 (15.79%) JIRA
7 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
7 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Innovative Thinking
7 3 (15.79%) Flutter

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Eikon
1 1 (5.26%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) MSTest
2 2 (10.53%) NUnit
3 1 (5.26%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Front Office
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) Flutter
2 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (15.79%) React Native
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Coaching
3 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
4 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (15.79%) Kanban
5 3 (15.79%) Mobile Development
5 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
6 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Low Latency
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) C#
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.26%) Citrix
2 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.26%) Murex
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.26%) Reuters