Development Team Leader Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Development Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Team Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 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 498 510 500
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +209
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 17 57 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 42 41
10th Percentile £57,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £86,250
UK median annual salary £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% +14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 37,904 34,869 29,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 93.17% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22,945 17,378 22,098
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Development Team Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Development Team Leader job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Development Team Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Development Team Leader job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Development Team Leader job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Development Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Team Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Development Team Leader
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Team Leader within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 7 £100,000 +11.11% 7
North of England +15 6 £53,750 -17.94% 23
North West +29 4 - - 14
East of England +18 2 £65,000 +44.44%
Yorkshire -4 2 £53,750 -15.35% 9
Midlands +18 1 £65,000 +18.18%
East Midlands -14 1 £65,000 +18.18%
South West - 1 £70,000 -
Development Team Leader
UK

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Development 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 UK excluding London region featuring Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) .NET
3 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
3 5 (29.41%) Propensity Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) React
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) SDLC
5 3 (17.65%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (11.76%) PHP
6 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Product Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 2 (11.76%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) React
3 2 (11.76%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Laravel
4 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
1 5 (29.41%) Propensity Modelling
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) Microservices
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) SDLC
3 3 (17.65%) TDD
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Product Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) User Experience
5 1 (5.88%) Data Development
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) PHP
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Progress
2 1 (5.88%) Sage