Team Leader Jobs in Kent

Team Lead
South East > Kent

The median Team Lead salary in Kent is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 86 95
Rank change year-on-year +28 +9 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 15 21 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.83% 1.40% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 1.50% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £38,375 £38,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -25.00%
75th Percentile £57,188 £57,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £60,000 £86,250 £65,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 565 1,401 951
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 68.82% 93.21% 85.52%
Number of salaries quoted 324 1,038 521
10th Percentile £25,400 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,800
90th Percentile £69,625 £68,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in Kent

Team Leader
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in Kent

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in Kent over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in Kent

Team Leader
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the Kent region over the 6 months to 16 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
Maidstone +21 3 - - 1
Rochester - 2 £60,000 -
Canterbury - 1 £47,500 - 1
Team Leader
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Kent region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (33.33%) IoT
2 5 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 5 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) GitOps
3 3 (20.00%) Pulumi
3 3 (20.00%) Kustomize
3 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (20.00%) Jaeger
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Argo
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (20.00%) Benchmarking
3 3 (20.00%) Broadband
3 3 (20.00%) Unix

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Infor LN
1 2 (13.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Broadband
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
2 2 (13.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) IoT
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Budget Control
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) GitOps
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (20.00%) Product Management
3 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Bash
1 3 (20.00%) Go
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) ACCA
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GAAP
1 2 (13.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Argo
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Kustomize
1 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Aruba
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Cognos
3 2 (13.33%) Infor
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) SAP