Team Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Team Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £54,793 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 194 337
Rank change year-on-year -35 +143 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 517 1,072 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.31% 1.44% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.51% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 388 885 429
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -0.79% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -2.61% +4.55%

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -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% -

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

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 Team Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England -41 188 £54,793 -2.59% 193
North West +34 158 £54,793 +5.20% 102
South East -5 132 £60,000 - 220
East of England -12 56 £32,500 -31.58% 126
South West +17 51 £60,000 +9.09% 92
Midlands -23 45 £37,500 -25.00% 154
Scotland +114 30 £60,000 +20.00% 40
East Midlands -17 29 £35,000 -20.00% 67
Yorkshire -56 29 £34,500 -42.50% 72
West Midlands +6 16 £50,000 - 78
Wales +50 15 £77,500 +24.00% 21
North East -9 1 - - 20
Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 194 (37.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 179 (34.62%) Agile
3 164 (31.72%) Coaching
4 159 (30.75%) Social Skills
5 153 (29.59%) Mentoring
6 147 (28.43%) Degree
7 131 (25.34%) Microsoft
8 129 (24.95%) Aerospace
9 128 (24.76%) Systems Engineering
10 115 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (19.34%) Java
12 96 (18.57%) Roadmaps
12 96 (18.57%) AWS
13 91 (17.60%) Linux
14 90 (17.41%) Physics
15 89 (17.21%) Performance Management
16 88 (17.02%) Mathematics
16 88 (17.02%) Aeronautics
16 88 (17.02%) Cost Control
17 86 (16.63%) Containerisation
17 86 (16.63%) Broadband
18 85 (16.44%) JavaScript
18 85 (16.44%) Product Management
18 85 (16.44%) High Availability
19 80 (15.47%) Azure
20 79 (15.28%) DevOps
21 78 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 78 (15.09%) Unix
22 77 (14.89%) Python
23 76 (14.70%) Relational Database

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 59 (11.41%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (9.67%) Simulink
3 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 38 (7.35%) Infor LN
1 38 (7.35%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 96 (18.57%) AWS
2 80 (15.47%) Azure
3 65 (12.57%) Pulumi
4 55 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.29%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.51%) SaaS
7 7 (1.35%) GCP
7 7 (1.35%) PaaS
8 6 (1.16%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.77%) Serverless
10 3 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.19%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.19%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.19%) GitHub
12 1 (0.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (16.63%) Broadband
2 14 (2.71%) Firewall
3 13 (2.51%) VPN
4 12 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (2.13%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.55%) Network Security
7 7 (1.35%) 3G
7 7 (1.35%) 4G
7 7 (1.35%) ADSL
7 7 (1.35%) LAN
7 7 (1.35%) WAN
8 6 (1.16%) DNS
9 5 (0.97%) DHCP
9 5 (0.97%) DKIM
9 5 (0.97%) DMARC
10 4 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.39%) VLAN
12 2 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (14.70%) Relational Database
2 73 (14.12%) RDBMS
3 72 (13.93%) NoSQL
4 40 (7.74%) Tableau
5 17 (3.29%) SQL Server
6 16 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.16%) MySQL
7 6 (1.16%) Power BI
8 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.19%) Big Data
10 1 (0.19%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 65 (12.57%) Jaeger
2 38 (7.35%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (2.90%) Git
4 5 (0.97%) JIRA
5 4 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.77%) Selenium
5 4 (0.77%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.19%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) Xcode
General
1 159 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 129 (24.95%) Aerospace
3 88 (17.02%) Aeronautics
4 78 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (9.67%) Finance
6 38 (7.35%) Police
7 10 (1.93%) Electronics
7 10 (1.93%) Law
8 6 (1.16%) Games
9 5 (0.97%) Military
10 4 (0.77%) Automotive
10 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.58%) Publishing
12 2 (0.39%) Banking
12 2 (0.39%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.39%) Retail
12 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (12.57%) Elastic Stack
1 65 (12.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (3.87%) .NET
3 15 (2.90%) XML
4 10 (1.93%) HTML
4 10 (1.93%) SailPoint
5 9 (1.74%) CSS
5 9 (1.74%) Laravel
6 8 (1.55%) React
7 6 (1.16%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.97%) LAMP
8 5 (0.97%) RESTful
9 4 (0.77%) Jest
9 4 (0.77%) OAuth
9 4 (0.77%) OpenID
9 4 (0.77%) SAML
9 4 (0.77%) Vue
10 3 (0.58%) Kafka
10 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.39%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.28%) Management Information System
2 16 (3.09%) Driving Licence
3 14 (2.71%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (2.71%) IoT
4 11 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 5 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.77%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.58%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.58%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.58%) iPad
9 3 (0.58%) iPhone
9 3 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.39%) FMCG
10 2 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 91 (17.60%) Linux
2 78 (15.09%) Unix
3 54 (10.44%) Windows
4 19 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.93%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.55%) Android
7 5 (0.97%) VMS
8 3 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (34.62%) Agile
2 164 (31.72%) Coaching
3 153 (29.59%) Mentoring
4 128 (24.76%) Systems Engineering
5 115 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (18.57%) Roadmaps
7 90 (17.41%) Physics
8 89 (17.21%) Performance Management
9 88 (17.02%) Cost Control
9 88 (17.02%) Mathematics
10 86 (16.63%) Containerisation
11 85 (16.44%) High Availability
11 85 (16.44%) Product Management
12 79 (15.28%) DevOps
13 71 (13.73%) Resource Management
14 69 (13.35%) Software Engineering
15 67 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
15 67 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 65 (12.57%) Cost Optimisation
16 65 (12.57%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 100 (19.34%) Java
2 85 (16.44%) JavaScript
3 77 (14.89%) Python
4 67 (12.96%) Go
5 65 (12.57%) Bash
6 43 (8.32%) C#
7 32 (6.19%) SQL
8 21 (4.06%) Rust
9 15 (2.90%) C
10 14 (2.71%) Ada
11 13 (2.51%) TypeScript
12 12 (2.32%) PHP
13 5 (0.97%) C++
13 5 (0.97%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.39%) Elixir
14 2 (0.39%) F#
14 2 (0.39%) Ruby
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
15 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 194 (37.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 147 (28.43%) Degree
3 67 (12.96%) AWS Certification
4 38 (7.35%) ACCA
4 38 (7.35%) CIMA
5 35 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.71%) Chartered Engineer
7 9 (1.74%) MCSE
7 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.74%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.35%) CCNA
8 7 (1.35%) CCNP
8 7 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.35%) MCP
8 7 (1.35%) MCSA
9 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.39%) MCITP
11 2 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.35%) GAAP
1 38 (7.35%) IFRS
2 16 (3.09%) SLA
3 11 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.93%) NIST
5 6 (1.16%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.97%) IEC 62304
6 5 (0.97%) ISO 13485
7 4 (0.77%) QA
8 2 (0.39%) GDPR
9 1 (0.19%) COSHH
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (14.31%) Docker
2 22 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.32%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.77%) Firmware
6 3 (0.58%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 69 (13.35%) Terraform
3 66 (12.77%) Ansible
4 65 (12.57%) Argo
4 65 (12.57%) Kustomize
4 65 (12.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.35%) SCCM
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 131 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 65 (12.57%) Google
3 50 (9.67%) MathWorks
4 42 (8.12%) Oracle
5 40 (7.74%) SAP
6 38 (7.35%) Cognos
6 38 (7.35%) Infor
7 20 (3.87%) VMware
8 14 (2.71%) Cisco
9 12 (2.32%) Apple
10 10 (1.93%) NetApp
11 7 (1.35%) HP
12 6 (1.16%) Dell
13 4 (0.77%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.77%) Juniper
13 4 (0.77%) McAfee
13 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.58%) IBM
14 3 (0.58%) MobileIron
15 2 (0.39%) Veeam