Team Leader Jobs in the North West

Team Lead
England > North West

The median Team Lead salary in the North West is £54,793 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 183 228
Rank change year-on-year +24 +45 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 164 115 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.05% 1.17% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 1.24% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 142 108 64
10th Percentile £47,068 £32,500 £35,925
25th Percentile £47,863 £40,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,084 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -5.30% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £76,125 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £54,793 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.02% -1.74% +6.48%

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 7,314 9,309 7,031
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 94.56% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,013 7,154 4,104
10th Percentile £26,955 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,345 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the North West

Team Leader
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in the North West

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in the North West

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 Team Leader within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Lancashire -18 120 £54,793 +5.20% 11
Manchester +39 38 £75,000 +76.47% 27
Cumbria -73 3 - - 3
Cheshire +3 2 - - 6
Merseyside +24 1 - - 3
Team Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 North West region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 120 (73.17%) Coaching
2 118 (71.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 116 (70.73%) Systems Engineering
3 116 (70.73%) Aerospace
4 83 (50.61%) Degree
5 77 (46.95%) Physics
6 76 (46.34%) Mathematics
6 76 (46.34%) Performance Management
6 76 (46.34%) Cost Control
6 76 (46.34%) Aeronautics
7 67 (40.85%) Agile
8 59 (35.98%) Microsoft
8 59 (35.98%) Social Skills
9 51 (31.10%) Microsoft Office
10 50 (30.49%) MathWorks
10 50 (30.49%) Simulink
10 50 (30.49%) Project Management
10 50 (30.49%) System Testing
10 50 (30.49%) SysML
10 50 (30.49%) Safety Engineering
10 50 (30.49%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 41 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (24.39%) Software Delivery
13 25 (15.24%) Line Management
13 25 (15.24%) Business Continuity
14 20 (12.20%) Mentoring
14 20 (12.20%) Situational Awareness
15 11 (6.71%) Software Engineering
15 11 (6.71%) AWS
15 11 (6.71%) DevOps

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 51 (31.10%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (30.49%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Infor LN
1 2 (1.22%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.71%) AWS
2 9 (5.49%) Azure
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.83%) Pulumi
4 3 (1.83%) Serverless
5 2 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.22%) SaaS
6 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.61%) GitHub
6 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.83%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.22%) Tableau
5 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Git
2 3 (1.83%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.22%) JIRA
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
General
1 116 (70.73%) Aerospace
2 76 (46.34%) Aeronautics
3 59 (35.98%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.66%) Electronics
4 6 (3.66%) Finance
5 5 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.22%) Automotive
7 2 (1.22%) Law
7 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.22%) Police
8 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.44%) .NET
2 4 (2.44%) Laravel
2 4 (2.44%) Vue
3 3 (1.83%) CSS
3 3 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.83%) HTML
3 3 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.22%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.22%) Kafka
4 2 (1.22%) React
5 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.61%) Next.js
5 1 (0.61%) Node.js
5 1 (0.61%) React Native
5 1 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.83%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.22%) Low-Code
2 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.61%) Acoustics
3 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.61%) Life Science
3 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.27%) Android
2 6 (3.66%) Linux
3 3 (1.83%) Unix
3 3 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (73.17%) Coaching
2 116 (70.73%) Systems Engineering
3 77 (46.95%) Physics
4 76 (46.34%) Cost Control
4 76 (46.34%) Mathematics
4 76 (46.34%) Performance Management
5 67 (40.85%) Agile
6 50 (30.49%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 50 (30.49%) Project Management
6 50 (30.49%) Safety Engineering
6 50 (30.49%) SysML
6 50 (30.49%) System Testing
7 41 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 40 (24.39%) Software Delivery
9 25 (15.24%) Business Continuity
9 25 (15.24%) Line Management
10 20 (12.20%) Mentoring
10 20 (12.20%) Situational Awareness
11 11 (6.71%) DevOps
11 11 (6.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.10%) Java
1 10 (6.10%) JavaScript
2 9 (5.49%) Python
3 8 (4.88%) SQL
4 5 (3.05%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.44%) C#
5 4 (2.44%) PHP
6 3 (1.83%) Bash
6 3 (1.83%) Go
7 1 (0.61%) Ada
7 1 (0.61%) C
7 1 (0.61%) C++
7 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 118 (71.95%) BPSS Clearance
2 83 (50.61%) Degree
3 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.22%) ACCA
4 2 (1.22%) CIMA
4 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.22%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.61%) HNC
5 1 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.66%) IEC 62304
1 6 (3.66%) ISO 13485
2 2 (1.22%) GAAP
2 2 (1.22%) IFRS
2 2 (1.22%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.66%) Terraform
3 3 (1.83%) Ansible
3 3 (1.83%) Argo
3 3 (1.83%) Kustomize
3 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (35.98%) Microsoft
2 50 (30.49%) MathWorks
3 5 (3.05%) Oracle
4 3 (1.83%) Google
4 3 (1.83%) SAP
5 2 (1.22%) Cognos
5 2 (1.22%) Infor
6 1 (0.61%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.61%) IBM
6 1 (0.61%) Intel
6 1 (0.61%) VMware