Software Team Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Team Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 577 697
Rank change year-on-year +94 +120 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 88 190 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 80 175 54
10th Percentile - £52,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,250 £95,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Software Team Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Team Leader in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Team Leader 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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
South East +92 52 £65,000 -21.21% 43
Wales +54 12 £77,500 +24.00% 9
North West -2 10 £77,500 +3.33% 27
North of England -20 10 £77,500 +10.71% 54
South West +104 7 £67,500 +5.88% 25
Scotland +125 5 £70,000 +16.67% 7
East of England +35 2 £82,500 +37.50% 30
Software Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Software 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 56 (63.64%) Software Engineering
2 47 (53.41%) Agile
3 43 (48.86%) Social Skills
4 41 (46.59%) Test Automation
5 39 (44.32%) C#
6 36 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (38.64%) Azure
8 32 (36.36%) Scrum
9 29 (32.95%) Java
10 28 (31.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (31.82%) Customer Requirements
11 24 (27.27%) Line Management
12 21 (23.86%) Rust
12 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
12 21 (23.86%) Containerisation
13 20 (22.73%) Degree
13 20 (22.73%) Computer Science
14 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
15 15 (17.05%) Software Testing
15 15 (17.05%) C
15 15 (17.05%) XML
15 15 (17.05%) OOD
15 15 (17.05%) UML
15 15 (17.05%) OO
15 15 (17.05%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (15.91%) Work Breakdown Structure
16 14 (15.91%) SDLC
16 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
16 14 (15.91%) Risk Register
16 14 (15.91%) Ada

Software Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) Azure
2 7 (7.95%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) SaaS
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.41%) Serverless
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) Internet
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 8 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.14%) Big Data
5 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.55%) Selenium
2 4 (4.55%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 43 (48.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.23%) Electronics
3 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.27%) Finance
4 2 (2.27%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.14%) Automotive
5 1 (1.14%) Law
5 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.05%) XML
2 14 (15.91%) .NET
3 6 (6.82%) React
4 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.55%) HTML
4 4 (4.55%) Jest
4 4 (4.55%) RESTful
5 3 (3.41%) CSS
5 3 (3.41%) Laravel
5 3 (3.41%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.41%) Vue
6 2 (2.27%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.14%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.14%) Kafka
7 1 (1.14%) Next.js
7 1 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (9.09%) IoT
3 6 (6.82%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Linux
1 12 (13.64%) Windows
2 8 (9.09%) Unix
3 6 (6.82%) Android
4 5 (5.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (63.64%) Software Engineering
2 47 (53.41%) Agile
3 41 (46.59%) Test Automation
4 36 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (36.36%) Scrum
6 28 (31.82%) Customer Requirements
7 24 (27.27%) Line Management
8 21 (23.86%) Containerisation
9 20 (22.73%) Computer Science
10 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
11 15 (17.05%) OO
11 15 (17.05%) OOD
11 15 (17.05%) Software Testing
11 15 (17.05%) UML
12 14 (15.91%) Configuration Management
12 14 (15.91%) Project Planning
12 14 (15.91%) Quality Management
12 14 (15.91%) SDLC
12 14 (15.91%) SysML
12 14 (15.91%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.32%) C#
2 29 (32.95%) Java
3 21 (23.86%) Rust
4 15 (17.05%) C
5 14 (15.91%) Ada
6 13 (14.77%) SQL
7 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 10 (11.36%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.68%) C++
8 5 (5.68%) PHP
8 5 (5.68%) Python
9 2 (2.27%) Elixir
9 2 (2.27%) F#
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) Ruby
9 2 (2.27%) Scala
10 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (22.73%) Degree
3 15 (17.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (15.91%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) IEC 62304
1 5 (5.68%) ISO 13485
2 4 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.14%) Intel
2 1 (1.14%) Progress