Team Leader Jobs in London

Team Lead
England > London

The median Team Lead salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 303 396
Rank change year-on-year +66 +93 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 169 219 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.31% 0.93% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 0.98% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 41 201 197
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £54,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +4.58%
75th Percentile £105,000 £142,500 £98,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £165,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £54,793 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.02% -1.74% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,605 22,296 31,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,225 16,647 23,618
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,444
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +16 36 £90,000 +24.14% 4
South London - 30 £75,625 - 5
West London - 28 - - 5
East London - 14 £56,250 -
North London - 8 - - 2
Team Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 London region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 127 (75.15%) Mentoring
2 101 (59.76%) High Availability
3 94 (55.62%) Agile
3 94 (55.62%) Roadmaps
4 93 (55.03%) Broadband
4 93 (55.03%) Product Management
5 90 (53.25%) DevOps
6 79 (46.75%) AWS
7 78 (46.15%) Python
8 76 (44.97%) Cost Optimisation
9 72 (42.60%) Kubernetes
10 71 (42.01%) Terraform
10 71 (42.01%) Ansible
11 70 (41.42%) Docker
11 70 (41.42%) NoSQL
11 70 (41.42%) Performance Optimisation
11 70 (41.42%) Prometheus
11 70 (41.42%) Linux
11 70 (41.42%) JavaScript
11 70 (41.42%) Social Skills
11 70 (41.42%) GitOps
11 70 (41.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (41.42%) Containerisation
12 69 (40.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 68 (40.24%) Java
13 68 (40.24%) Task Automation
14 67 (39.64%) Elastic Stack
14 67 (39.64%) AWS Certification
14 67 (39.64%) Bash
14 67 (39.64%) Budget Control

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Eikon
1 2 (1.18%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.75%) AWS
2 67 (39.64%) Pulumi
3 30 (17.75%) Azure
4 8 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.55%) Serverless
6 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.37%) SaaS
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (1.78%) GitHub
7 3 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.18%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 93 (55.03%) Broadband
2 11 (6.51%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.73%) LAN
3 8 (4.73%) VPN
3 8 (4.73%) WAN
4 3 (1.78%) DHCP
4 3 (1.78%) DNS
5 1 (0.59%) Firewall
5 1 (0.59%) SAN
5 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (41.42%) NoSQL
2 67 (39.64%) RDBMS
2 67 (39.64%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (39.64%) Jaeger
2 4 (2.37%) JIRA
3 3 (1.78%) GitLab
4 2 (1.18%) JetBrains Rider
4 2 (1.18%) MSTest
4 2 (1.18%) NUnit
4 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) Xcode
General
1 70 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 69 (40.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (14.20%) Finance
4 15 (8.88%) Banking
5 13 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.78%) Front Office
6 3 (1.78%) Games
7 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (0.59%) Advertising
8 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.59%) Local Government
8 1 (0.59%) Marketing
8 1 (0.59%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (39.64%) Elastic Stack
1 67 (39.64%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (5.92%) .NET
2 10 (5.92%) React Native
3 9 (5.33%) Flutter
4 4 (2.37%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.37%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.78%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.78%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.78%) Kafka
5 3 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.78%) React
6 2 (1.18%) CSS
6 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.18%) HTML
6 2 (1.18%) WPF
7 1 (0.59%) Pandas
7 1 (0.59%) REST
7 1 (0.59%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.59%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.18%) CMDB
2 2 (1.18%) Derivative
2 2 (1.18%) Hedge funds
2 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.18%) Mobile Games
2 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.59%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 70 (41.42%) Linux
2 67 (39.64%) Unix
3 17 (10.06%) Windows
4 9 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.59%) Android
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (75.15%) Mentoring
2 101 (59.76%) High Availability
3 94 (55.62%) Agile
3 94 (55.62%) Roadmaps
4 93 (55.03%) Product Management
5 90 (53.25%) DevOps
6 76 (44.97%) Cost Optimisation
7 70 (41.42%) Containerisation
7 70 (41.42%) GitOps
7 70 (41.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (41.42%) Performance Optimisation
8 68 (40.24%) Task Automation
9 67 (39.64%) Budget Control
9 67 (39.64%) Continuous Integration
9 67 (39.64%) Resource Management
10 44 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (15.98%) Computer Science
13 26 (15.38%) Broadcast Engineering
14 18 (10.65%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 78 (46.15%) Python
2 70 (41.42%) JavaScript
3 68 (40.24%) Java
4 67 (39.64%) Bash
4 67 (39.64%) Go
5 10 (5.92%) SQL
6 9 (5.33%) C#
7 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.18%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.59%) R
10 1 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (39.64%) AWS Certification
2 27 (15.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (15.98%) Degree
3 15 (8.88%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.73%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.73%) CCNA
4 8 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (4.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.78%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.59%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.59%) CCSAS
6 1 (0.59%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.10%) SLA
2 3 (1.78%) QA
3 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 70 (41.42%) Docker
2 18 (10.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (42.60%) Kubernetes
2 71 (42.01%) Ansible
2 71 (42.01%) Terraform
3 70 (41.42%) Prometheus
4 67 (39.64%) Argo
4 67 (39.64%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.78%) Grafana
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (39.64%) Google
2 24 (14.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.96%) Databricks
4 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle
4 2 (1.18%) Reuters
4 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.18%) Sun
5 1 (0.59%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.59%) Citrix
5 1 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.59%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.59%) Murex
5 1 (0.59%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.59%) SAP
5 1 (0.59%) VMware