Team Leader Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Team Lead
South East > Thames Valley

The median Team Lead salary in the Thames Valley is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 138 159
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 53 45 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.33% 1.29% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.47% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 31 28 15
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,688 £56,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £80,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £90,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +25.00% +44.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £95,000
South East median annual salary £56,270 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.97% +15.38% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,670 3,061 3,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.07% 87.76% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,099 1,564 2,383
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,911 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +11.61% -2.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Team Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Team Leader job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Team Leader
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Team Leader job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Team Leader job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in the Thames Valley

Team Leader
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Berkshire -5 31 £60,000 -33.33% 18
Buckinghamshire +22 20 £75,000 +27.12% 8
Oxfordshire +25 2 £65,000 -21.21% 1
Team Leader
South East

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Team Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 21 (39.62%) Degree
2 20 (37.74%) Business Continuity
2 20 (37.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 20 (37.74%) Enterprise Architecture
2 20 (37.74%) GxP
2 20 (37.74%) Validation
2 20 (37.74%) VMware
2 20 (37.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.98%) SaaS
5 7 (13.21%) Cloud Operations
5 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
5 7 (13.21%) Terraform
6 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
7 5 (9.43%) Client Onboarding
7 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.43%) Propensity Modelling
7 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
7 5 (9.43%) SQL
8 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (3.77%) AI
9 2 (3.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.77%) DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) Generative AI
9 2 (3.77%) Visualisation
10 1 (1.89%) .NET
10 1 (1.89%) Ansible
10 1 (1.89%) Budget Management

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) AWS
2 9 (16.98%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
General
1 20 (37.74%) Law
2 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Retail
4 2 (3.77%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.74%) Life Science
1 20 (37.74%) Management Information System
1 20 (37.74%) Operational Technology
2 5 (9.43%) EPoS
2 5 (9.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Business Continuity
1 20 (37.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 20 (37.74%) Enterprise Architecture
1 20 (37.74%) Validation
2 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
3 7 (13.21%) Cloud Operations
3 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
4 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
5 5 (9.43%) Client Onboarding
5 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.43%) Propensity Modelling
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.77%) AI
7 2 (3.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (3.77%) DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Generative AI
7 2 (3.77%) Visualisation
8 1 (1.89%) Budget Management
8 1 (1.89%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.43%) SQL
2 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.74%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) VMware
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft