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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 218 387
Rank change year-on-year +9 +169 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 770 1,162 769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.57% 1.35% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.43% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 405 995 610
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,740
25th Percentile £47,683 £40,000 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £56,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% -1.74% +6.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.35% +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 44,533 81,192 82,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 94.49% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,433 60,582 52,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,355 £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 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 13 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 13 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 -33 193 £54,793 +5.20% 73
London +71 173 £87,500 +12.90% 103
North West +31 165 £54,793 +5.20% 45
South East +28 137 £60,000 - 57
South West +44 54 £60,000 +9.09% 23
East of England -14 53 £47,500 - 32
Midlands -16 49 £35,000 -30.00% 26
East Midlands -11 30 £35,000 -6.67% 8
Yorkshire -43 27 £34,500 -42.50% 20
West Midlands +5 19 £50,000 - 18
North East -9 1 - - 8
Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 379 (49.22%) Mentoring
2 353 (45.84%) Agile
3 300 (38.96%) Roadmaps
4 295 (38.31%) High Availability
5 287 (37.27%) Product Management
5 287 (37.27%) Broadband
6 265 (34.42%) AWS
7 256 (33.25%) DevOps
8 251 (32.60%) Java
9 244 (31.69%) Social Skills
10 243 (31.56%) Containerisation
11 239 (31.04%) Linux
12 238 (30.91%) JavaScript
13 235 (30.52%) Python
14 234 (30.39%) Kubernetes
15 231 (30.00%) Docker
15 231 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 226 (29.35%) NoSQL
17 224 (29.09%) Terraform
17 224 (29.09%) Resource Management
18 223 (28.96%) Cost Optimisation
19 222 (28.83%) Ansible
20 221 (28.70%) Infrastructure as Code
21 220 (28.57%) AWS Certification
22 219 (28.44%) Continuous Integration
23 218 (28.31%) Performance Optimisation
23 218 (28.31%) GitOps
23 218 (28.31%) Prometheus
24 217 (28.18%) Relational Database
25 216 (28.05%) 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 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.13%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) nginx
3 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (6.49%) Simulink
3 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 28 (3.64%) Infor LN
1 28 (3.64%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.26%) Eikon
2 2 (0.26%) RMDS
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 265 (34.42%) AWS
2 215 (27.92%) Pulumi
3 104 (13.51%) Azure
4 63 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.34%) SaaS
6 13 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.56%) Serverless
8 8 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.91%) GCP
9 7 (0.91%) PaaS
10 6 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.65%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.52%) GitHub
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.39%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 287 (37.27%) Broadband
2 20 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.08%) WAN
4 14 (1.82%) Firewall
4 14 (1.82%) LAN
4 14 (1.82%) VPN
5 10 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.91%) 3G
6 7 (0.91%) 4G
6 7 (0.91%) ADSL
7 6 (0.78%) DNS
7 6 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.52%) DHCP
8 4 (0.52%) VLAN
9 3 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.26%) Converged Networks
10 2 (0.26%) MPLS
10 2 (0.26%) PBX
10 2 (0.26%) WLAN
10 2 (0.26%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (29.35%) NoSQL
2 217 (28.18%) Relational Database
3 215 (27.92%) RDBMS
4 28 (3.64%) Tableau
5 20 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.91%) MySQL
8 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.39%) Big Data
9 3 (0.39%) Power BI
9 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 215 (27.92%) Jaeger
2 28 (3.64%) Oracle Forms
3 20 (2.60%) Git
4 9 (1.17%) JIRA
5 7 (0.91%) Cypress.io
5 7 (0.91%) Selenium
5 7 (0.91%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.65%) GitLab
7 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.26%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.26%) JetBrains Rider
8 2 (0.26%) MSTest
8 2 (0.26%) NUnit
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.26%) Xcode
9 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 244 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 231 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 131 (17.01%) Aerospace
4 88 (11.43%) Aeronautics
5 62 (8.05%) Finance
6 55 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (3.64%) Police
8 14 (1.82%) Banking
9 11 (1.43%) Law
10 10 (1.30%) Electronics
11 9 (1.17%) Games
12 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.39%) Automotive
13 3 (0.39%) Front Office
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
13 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.39%) Retail
14 2 (0.26%) Aviation
14 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (27.92%) Elastic Stack
1 215 (27.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (3.51%) .NET
3 14 (1.82%) React
4 13 (1.69%) HTML
4 13 (1.69%) XML
5 12 (1.56%) CSS
5 12 (1.56%) React Native
6 11 (1.43%) Laravel
7 9 (1.17%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.17%) Flutter
7 9 (1.17%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.91%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.91%) Jest
9 6 (0.78%) Vue
10 5 (0.65%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.65%) Kafka
10 5 (0.65%) LAMP
11 4 (0.52%) Next.js
11 4 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 15 (1.95%) Driving Licence
3 12 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
4 11 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 5 (0.65%) Algorithms
6 5 (0.65%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.65%) IoT
7 4 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.39%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.39%) iPad
8 3 (0.39%) iPhone
9 2 (0.26%) CMDB
9 2 (0.26%) Derivative
9 2 (0.26%) Mobile Games
9 2 (0.26%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 239 (31.04%) Linux
2 215 (27.92%) Unix
3 66 (8.57%) Windows
4 30 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.30%) Android
7 7 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (49.22%) Mentoring
2 353 (45.84%) Agile
3 300 (38.96%) Roadmaps
4 295 (38.31%) High Availability
5 287 (37.27%) Product Management
6 256 (33.25%) DevOps
7 243 (31.56%) Containerisation
8 224 (29.09%) Resource Management
9 223 (28.96%) Cost Optimisation
10 221 (28.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 219 (28.44%) Continuous Integration
12 218 (28.31%) GitOps
12 218 (28.31%) Performance Optimisation
13 216 (28.05%) Task Automation
14 215 (27.92%) Budget Control
15 172 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
16 171 (22.21%) Coaching
17 131 (17.01%) Systems Engineering
18 98 (12.73%) Computer Science
19 90 (11.69%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 251 (32.60%) Java
2 238 (30.91%) JavaScript
3 235 (30.52%) Python
4 215 (27.92%) Bash
4 215 (27.92%) Go
5 53 (6.88%) C#
6 37 (4.81%) SQL
7 21 (2.73%) Rust
8 15 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.82%) C
10 13 (1.69%) Ada
10 13 (1.69%) PHP
11 8 (1.04%) C++
12 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.26%) R
14 2 (0.26%) Swift
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 220 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 202 (26.23%) Degree
3 180 (23.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 87 (11.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.64%) ACCA
5 28 (3.64%) CIMA
6 17 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.82%) CCNA
8 14 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
10 10 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.17%) MCSE
11 9 (1.17%) Security Cleared
12 8 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.91%) CCNP
13 7 (0.91%) MCP
13 7 (0.91%) MCSA
14 5 (0.65%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.64%) GAAP
1 28 (3.64%) IFRS
2 27 (3.51%) SLA
3 10 (1.30%) QA
4 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.78%) IEC 62304
5 6 (0.78%) ISO 13485
6 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.65%) NIST
7 3 (0.39%) GDPR
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 231 (30.00%) Docker
2 44 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) Firmware
6 3 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.26%) pfSense
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 234 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 224 (29.09%) Terraform
3 222 (28.83%) Ansible
4 218 (28.31%) Prometheus
5 215 (27.92%) Argo
5 215 (27.92%) Kustomize
6 11 (1.43%) SCCM
7 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.52%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) Grafana
11 2 (0.26%) cPanel
12 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 215 (27.92%) Google
2 151 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 50 (6.49%) MathWorks
4 34 (4.42%) Oracle
5 32 (4.16%) SAP
6 28 (3.64%) Cognos
6 28 (3.64%) Infor
7 18 (2.34%) VMware
8 12 (1.56%) Cisco
9 7 (0.91%) Apple
9 7 (0.91%) HP
9 7 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.78%) Databricks
10 6 (0.78%) Dell
10 6 (0.78%) NetApp
11 3 (0.39%) IBM
11 3 (0.39%) MobileIron
11 3 (0.39%) Veeam
12 2 (0.26%) Aruba
12 2 (0.26%) Zoho