Software Engineering Team Leader Jobs in England

Software Engineering Team Lead
UK > England

The median Software Engineering Team Lead salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 822 929
Rank change year-on-year +140 +107 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Team Leader 7 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.011% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £72,500 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -30.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 -
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,750 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -5.88% +19.30% -24.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Software Engineering Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Team Leader in England

Software Engineering Team Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Team Leader in England

Software Engineering Team Leader
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Team Leader in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Team Leader in England

Software Engineering Team Leader
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering Team Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
North of England +55 5 £75,000 - 3
North West +9 5 £75,000 -
East of England - 2 £82,500 - 2
Software Engineering Team Leader
UK

Software Engineering Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Software Engineering 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 England region featuring Software Engineering Team Leader in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Vue
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Laravel
3 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Market Research
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving

Software Engineering Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) Laravel
1 3 (42.86%) Vue
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Market Research
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) PHP
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet