Software Team Leader Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Software Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Team Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 510 465
Rank change year-on-year -79 -45 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 79 30 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.087% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.097% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 64 26 106
10th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,500 - £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -11.11% +24.14%

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 80,159 30,989 48,952
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 89.62% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 55,290 17,375 26,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -8.33%

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Software Team Leader job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Software Team Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Software Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Team Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software Team Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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 -34 31 £82,500 -17.50% 13
South West -58 19 £65,000 -21.21% 2
North of England -55 14 £77,500 +40.91% 4
East Midlands -24 13 £95,000 +46.15% 5
Midlands -30 13 £95,000 +46.15% 9
North East - 10 £77,500 -
North West -23 4 £65,000 -23.53% 4
East of England -38 1 - - 8
Wales -77 1 £72,500 +11.54%
Software Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, Software 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 Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 38 (48.10%) Software Engineering
2 21 (26.58%) C#
3 20 (25.32%) Mentoring
4 17 (21.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (21.52%) Firmware
5 16 (20.25%) Code Quality
6 15 (18.99%) Coaching
7 14 (17.72%) Mathematics
7 14 (17.72%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (16.46%) Project Delivery
8 13 (16.46%) Software Architecture
9 12 (15.19%) Decision-Making
10 11 (13.92%) Computer Science
10 11 (13.92%) Degree
10 11 (13.92%) Python
11 10 (12.66%) .NET
11 10 (12.66%) People Management
11 10 (12.66%) Performance Management
11 10 (12.66%) Project Management
11 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.66%) V-Model
12 9 (11.39%) Agile
12 9 (11.39%) AI
13 8 (10.13%) Assembly Language
13 8 (10.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (10.13%) C
13 8 (10.13%) C++
13 8 (10.13%) Physics
13 8 (10.13%) Rational DOORS
13 8 (10.13%) Siemens

Software 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 6 (7.59%) Azure
2 3 (3.80%) AWS
2 3 (3.80%) GCP
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.27%) GitHub
3 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.27%) SaaS
3 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) Big Data
2 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) GitLab
3 3 (3.80%) Subversion
4 2 (2.53%) JUnit
4 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.27%) Claude Code
General
1 26 (32.91%) Finance
2 22 (27.85%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Electronics
4 11 (13.92%) Aerospace
5 7 (8.86%) Music Industry
6 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) .NET
2 4 (5.06%) React
3 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.53%) Avalonia
3 2 (2.53%) Entity Framework
3 2 (2.53%) WPF
4 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) SOAP
4 1 (1.27%) Spring
4 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.27%) Vue
4 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.27%) Online Gambling
3 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Android
2 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.10%) Software Engineering
2 20 (25.32%) Mentoring
3 16 (20.25%) Code Quality
4 15 (18.99%) Coaching
5 14 (17.72%) Mathematics
5 14 (17.72%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (16.46%) Project Delivery
6 13 (16.46%) Software Architecture
7 12 (15.19%) Decision-Making
8 11 (13.92%) Computer Science
9 10 (12.66%) People Management
9 10 (12.66%) Performance Management
9 10 (12.66%) Project Management
9 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.66%) V-Model
10 9 (11.39%) Agile
10 9 (11.39%) AI
11 8 (10.13%) Physics
11 8 (10.13%) Systems Engineering
12 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) C#
2 11 (13.92%) Python
3 8 (10.13%) Assembly Language
3 8 (10.13%) C
3 8 (10.13%) C++
4 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.80%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) SQL
6 2 (2.53%) XAML
7 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) QA
System Software
1 17 (21.52%) Embedded Firmware
1 17 (21.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Grafana
1 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Siemens
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft