Team Leader Jobs in the South East

Team Lead
England > South East

The median Team Lead salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 180 264
Rank change year-on-year -8 +84 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 132 249 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.36% 1.41% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.50% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 84 187 115
10th Percentile £37,000 £30,000 £34,350
25th Percentile - £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,425 16,577 12,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.99% 94.08% 90.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 11,781 7,967
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the South East

Team Leader
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Team Leader in the South East.

Salary trend for Team Leader in the South East

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in the South East

Team Leader
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Isle of Wight - 29 £65,000 - 1
Hampshire +23 28 £60,000 +71.43% 1
Surrey +65 27 £75,000 +59.57% 2
Thames Valley -19 22 £50,000 -31.97% 23
Kent +33 17 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Berkshire -14 13 £82,500 +3.13% 10
Buckinghamshire +33 9 £37,000 -44.15% 10
Middlesex -12 5 - -
West Sussex +21 3 £60,000 -7.69% 2
East Sussex +24 1 £65,000 -44.68%
Team Leader
England

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 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 South East region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 50 (37.88%) Agile
2 47 (35.61%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (34.85%) Social Skills
3 46 (34.85%) Containerisation
3 46 (34.85%) Java
4 37 (28.03%) Mentoring
5 36 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 35 (26.52%) Broadband
6 35 (26.52%) Product Management
6 35 (26.52%) High Availability
7 33 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 33 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 33 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (24.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (24.24%) Software Engineering
9 31 (23.48%) AWS
10 30 (22.73%) Azure
11 29 (21.97%) NoSQL
11 29 (21.97%) JavaScript
11 29 (21.97%) Docker
11 29 (21.97%) Kubernetes
12 28 (21.21%) Degree
13 27 (20.45%) C#
14 26 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (19.70%) DevOps
15 25 (18.94%) Relational Database
15 25 (18.94%) Ansible
15 25 (18.94%) AWS Certification
15 25 (18.94%) Performance Optimisation

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Infor LN
1 8 (6.06%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.48%) AWS
2 30 (22.73%) Azure
3 25 (18.94%) Pulumi
4 10 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (26.52%) Broadband
2 4 (3.03%) Firewall
2 4 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (3.03%) LAN
2 4 (3.03%) WAN
3 2 (1.52%) BGP
3 2 (1.52%) MPLS
3 2 (1.52%) OSPF
3 2 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.52%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.52%) VLAN
3 2 (1.52%) VPN
3 2 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.97%) NoSQL
2 25 (18.94%) RDBMS
2 25 (18.94%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (18.94%) Jaeger
2 8 (6.06%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.03%) Git
3 4 (3.03%) Selenium
3 4 (3.03%) SoapUI
General
1 46 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.82%) Finance
4 8 (6.06%) Police
5 2 (1.52%) Aviation
5 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.76%) Electronics
6 1 (0.76%) Local Government
6 1 (0.76%) Military
6 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (18.94%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (9.09%) XML
3 6 (4.55%) .NET
4 4 (3.03%) Jest
4 4 (3.03%) React
5 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.55%) IoT
4 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.52%) Robotics
6 1 (0.76%) CCTV
6 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.94%) Linux
1 25 (18.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.88%) Agile
2 47 (35.61%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (34.85%) Containerisation
4 37 (28.03%) Mentoring
5 36 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 35 (26.52%) High Availability
6 35 (26.52%) Product Management
7 33 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 32 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (24.24%) Software Engineering
9 26 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
9 26 (19.70%) DevOps
10 25 (18.94%) Budget Control
10 25 (18.94%) Cost Optimisation
10 25 (18.94%) GitOps
10 25 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (18.94%) Performance Optimisation
10 25 (18.94%) Resource Management
10 25 (18.94%) Task Automation
11 24 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.85%) Java
2 29 (21.97%) JavaScript
3 27 (20.45%) C#
4 25 (18.94%) Bash
4 25 (18.94%) Go
4 25 (18.94%) Python
5 21 (15.91%) Rust
6 12 (9.09%) Ada
6 12 (9.09%) C
7 6 (4.55%) SQL
8 4 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (24.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 28 (21.21%) Degree
3 25 (18.94%) AWS Certification
4 22 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.09%) Chartered Engineer
6 8 (6.06%) ACCA
6 8 (6.06%) CIMA
7 2 (1.52%) HNC
8 1 (0.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) GAAP
1 8 (6.06%) IFRS
2 6 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) COSHH
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (21.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.94%) Ansible
2 25 (18.94%) Argo
2 25 (18.94%) Kustomize
2 25 (18.94%) Prometheus
2 25 (18.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.94%) Google
3 9 (6.82%) Cisco
4 8 (6.06%) Cognos
4 8 (6.06%) Infor
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle
4 8 (6.06%) SAP
5 7 (5.30%) VMware
6 6 (4.55%) Dell
6 6 (4.55%) NetApp
7 2 (1.52%) Aruba
7 2 (1.52%) IBM
7 2 (1.52%) Veeam
8 1 (0.76%) Okta
8 1 (0.76%) Progress
8 1 (0.76%) Zscaler