Software Team Leader Jobs in the North West

Software Team Lead
England > North West

The median Software Team Lead salary in the North West is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 279 287
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 11 12 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £67,493 £52,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 7,193 9,462 6,909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.63% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,847 7,265 4,026
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,069
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,260 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Team Leader in the North West

Software Team Leader
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Team Leader in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Team Leader in the North West

Software Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Team Leader in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Team Leader in the North West

Software Team Leader
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Team Leader within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Manchester +67 10 £77,500 +3.33% 15
Lancashire -80 1 £57,560 -23.25% 2
Software Team Leader
England

Software Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Software 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 North West region featuring Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Android
3 5 (45.45%) Electronics
3 5 (45.45%) Embedded Software Development
3 5 (45.45%) Android Development
3 5 (45.45%) ISO 13485
3 5 (45.45%) IEC 62304
4 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Git
5 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) PHP
5 3 (27.27%) Vue
5 3 (27.27%) Terraform
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
5 3 (27.27%) Laravel
5 3 (27.27%) Open Source
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda

Software Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) Laravel
1 3 (27.27%) Vue
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Android Development
2 5 (45.45%) Embedded Software Development
2 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Market Research
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
6 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) SDLC
6 1 (9.09%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) PHP
1 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Ada
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
3 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) HNC
2 1 (9.09%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) IEC 62304
1 5 (45.45%) ISO 13485
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Intel