Team Leader Jobs in England

Team Lead
UK > England

The median Team Lead salary in England is £54,793 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 202 382
Rank change year-on-year -22 +180 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 750 1,250 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.53% 1.40% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 1.48% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 385 1,048 576
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,462
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -2.61% +4.55%

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 44,450 84,705 79,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.67% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 62,722 50,420
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,070 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,952 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in England

Team Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in England

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in England

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 Team Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 -41 188 £54,793 -2.59% 193
London +62 167 £90,000 +16.13% 91
North West +34 158 £54,793 +5.20% 102
South East -5 132 £60,000 - 220
East of England -12 56 £32,500 -31.58% 126
South West +17 51 £60,000 +9.09% 92
Midlands -23 45 £37,500 -25.00% 154
East Midlands -17 29 £35,000 -20.00% 67
Yorkshire -56 29 £34,500 -42.50% 72
West Midlands +6 16 £50,000 - 78
North East -9 1 - - 20
Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 England region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 369 (49.20%) Mentoring
2 342 (45.60%) Agile
3 299 (39.87%) Roadmaps
4 298 (39.73%) High Availability
5 287 (38.27%) Product Management
5 287 (38.27%) Broadband
6 258 (34.40%) AWS
7 251 (33.47%) Java
8 248 (33.07%) DevOps
9 239 (31.87%) Containerisation
10 238 (31.73%) Social Skills
11 235 (31.33%) JavaScript
12 233 (31.07%) Python
13 232 (30.93%) Linux
14 231 (30.80%) Kubernetes
15 230 (30.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 227 (30.27%) Docker
17 226 (30.13%) Cost Optimisation
18 223 (29.73%) Terraform
19 222 (29.60%) NoSQL
19 222 (29.60%) Resource Management
20 220 (29.33%) Ansible
20 220 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
21 218 (29.07%) GitOps
21 218 (29.07%) Relational Database
21 218 (29.07%) Performance Optimisation
21 218 (29.07%) Prometheus
22 217 (28.93%) AWS Certification
22 217 (28.93%) Continuous Integration
23 216 (28.80%) Task Automation

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.27%) nginx
3 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.13%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 59 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (6.67%) Simulink
3 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 28 (3.73%) Infor LN
1 28 (3.73%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.27%) Eikon
2 2 (0.27%) RMDS
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 258 (34.40%) AWS
2 215 (28.67%) Pulumi
3 90 (12.00%) Azure
4 57 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 13 (1.73%) SaaS
7 10 (1.33%) Serverless
8 8 (1.07%) Power Platform
9 7 (0.93%) PaaS
10 5 (0.67%) GCP
11 4 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.53%) GitHub
12 3 (0.40%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 287 (38.27%) Broadband
2 24 (3.20%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.40%) VPN
4 17 (2.27%) LAN
4 17 (2.27%) WAN
5 9 (1.20%) Firewall
6 7 (0.93%) 3G
6 7 (0.93%) 4G
6 7 (0.93%) ADSL
6 7 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.53%) DNS
7 4 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.40%) DHCP
8 3 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.27%) Internet
9 2 (0.27%) MPLS
9 2 (0.27%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (29.60%) NoSQL
2 218 (29.07%) Relational Database
3 215 (28.67%) RDBMS
4 31 (4.13%) Tableau
5 18 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.93%) Power BI
8 6 (0.80%) MySQL
9 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.13%) Big Data
12 1 (0.13%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 215 (28.67%) Jaeger
2 28 (3.73%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (2.00%) Git
4 9 (1.20%) JIRA
5 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.53%) GitLab
5 4 (0.53%) Selenium
5 4 (0.53%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.27%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.27%) JetBrains Rider
6 2 (0.27%) MSTest
6 2 (0.27%) NUnit
6 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.27%) Xcode
General
1 238 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 230 (30.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 129 (17.20%) Aerospace
4 88 (11.73%) Aeronautics
5 65 (8.67%) Finance
6 54 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (3.73%) Police
8 19 (2.53%) Banking
9 10 (1.33%) Electronics
10 9 (1.20%) Games
10 9 (1.20%) Law
11 5 (0.67%) Automotive
11 5 (0.67%) Front Office
11 5 (0.67%) Publishing
12 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.40%) Retail
14 2 (0.27%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (28.67%) Elastic Stack
1 215 (28.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 22 (2.93%) .NET
3 13 (1.73%) XML
4 12 (1.60%) React Native
5 11 (1.47%) HTML
5 11 (1.47%) SailPoint
6 10 (1.33%) CSS
7 9 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.20%) Flutter
7 9 (1.20%) Laravel
7 9 (1.20%) React
8 5 (0.67%) Kafka
8 5 (0.67%) LAMP
9 4 (0.53%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.53%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.53%) Jest
9 4 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.53%) Vue
10 3 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 15 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 12 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
4 9 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 6 (0.80%) IoT
6 5 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.53%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.40%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.40%) FMCG
8 3 (0.40%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.40%) iPad
8 3 (0.40%) iPhone
8 3 (0.40%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.40%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.27%) CMDB
9 2 (0.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 232 (30.93%) Linux
2 215 (28.67%) Unix
3 57 (7.60%) Windows
4 27 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.20%) Android
7 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (49.20%) Mentoring
2 342 (45.60%) Agile
3 299 (39.87%) Roadmaps
4 298 (39.73%) High Availability
5 287 (38.27%) Product Management
6 248 (33.07%) DevOps
7 239 (31.87%) Containerisation
8 226 (30.13%) Cost Optimisation
9 222 (29.60%) Resource Management
10 220 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 218 (29.07%) GitOps
11 218 (29.07%) Performance Optimisation
12 217 (28.93%) Continuous Integration
13 216 (28.80%) Task Automation
14 215 (28.67%) Budget Control
15 176 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
16 174 (23.20%) Coaching
17 131 (17.47%) Systems Engineering
18 95 (12.67%) Computer Science
19 90 (12.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 251 (33.47%) Java
2 235 (31.33%) JavaScript
3 233 (31.07%) Python
4 215 (28.67%) Bash
4 215 (28.67%) Go
5 44 (5.87%) C#
6 30 (4.00%) SQL
7 21 (2.80%) Rust
8 13 (1.73%) C
9 12 (1.60%) Ada
9 12 (1.60%) PHP
9 12 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.07%) C++
11 4 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.27%) Swift
14 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 217 (28.93%) AWS Certification
2 198 (26.40%) Degree
3 180 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 86 (11.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.73%) ACCA
5 28 (3.73%) CIMA
6 19 (2.53%) DBS Check
6 19 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.27%) CCNA
7 17 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.73%) Chartered Engineer
9 11 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (1.20%) MCSE
11 7 (0.93%) CCNP
11 7 (0.93%) MCP
11 7 (0.93%) MCSA
11 7 (0.93%) Security Cleared
12 4 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.00%) SLA
2 28 (3.73%) GAAP
2 28 (3.73%) IFRS
3 10 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.93%) NIST
5 6 (0.80%) QA
6 5 (0.67%) IEC 62304
6 5 (0.67%) ISO 13485
6 5 (0.67%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.27%) GDPR
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) COSHH
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 227 (30.27%) Docker
2 39 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.53%) Firmware
6 3 (0.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 231 (30.80%) Kubernetes
2 223 (29.73%) Terraform
3 220 (29.33%) Ansible
4 218 (29.07%) Prometheus
5 215 (28.67%) Argo
5 215 (28.67%) Kustomize
6 9 (1.20%) SCCM
7 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) Grafana
8 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 215 (28.67%) Google
2 143 (19.07%) Microsoft
3 50 (6.67%) MathWorks
4 35 (4.67%) Oracle
5 31 (4.13%) SAP
6 28 (3.73%) Cognos
6 28 (3.73%) Infor
7 14 (1.87%) VMware
8 10 (1.33%) Cisco
9 8 (1.07%) Apple
10 7 (0.93%) HP
11 6 (0.80%) Dell
11 6 (0.80%) NetApp
11 6 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.40%) Databricks
12 3 (0.40%) IBM
12 3 (0.40%) MobileIron
13 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.27%) Reuters
13 2 (0.27%) Salesforce