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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 207 316
Rank change year-on-year -14 +109 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 527 991 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.40% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.47% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 399 838 456
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,625 £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 £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.35% +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 35,491 67,312 53,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.80% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,637 47,638 30,603
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 13 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 13 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 -33 193 £54,793 +5.20% 73
North West +31 165 £54,793 +5.20% 45
South East +28 137 £60,000 - 57
South West +44 54 £60,000 +9.09% 23
East of England -14 53 £47,500 - 32
Midlands -16 49 £35,000 -30.00% 26
East Midlands -11 30 £35,000 -6.67% 8
Yorkshire -43 27 £34,500 -42.50% 20
Scotland +118 25 £60,000 +26.32% 26
West Midlands +5 19 £50,000 - 18
Wales +42 15 £77,500 +24.00% 10
North East -9 1 - - 8
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 - 2
Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 (36.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 189 (35.86%) Agile
3 162 (30.74%) Social Skills
3 162 (30.74%) Coaching
4 156 (29.60%) Mentoring
5 151 (28.65%) Degree
6 133 (25.24%) Microsoft
7 131 (24.86%) Aerospace
8 128 (24.29%) Systems Engineering
9 113 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (19.54%) AWS
11 100 (18.98%) Java
12 98 (18.60%) Linux
12 98 (18.60%) Roadmaps
13 90 (17.08%) Physics
13 90 (17.08%) Performance Management
13 90 (17.08%) Azure
13 90 (17.08%) Containerisation
14 89 (16.89%) Mathematics
14 89 (16.89%) JavaScript
15 88 (16.70%) Cost Control
15 88 (16.70%) Aeronautics
16 86 (16.32%) Broadband
16 86 (16.32%) High Availability
16 86 (16.32%) DevOps
17 85 (16.13%) Product Management
18 79 (14.99%) Kubernetes
18 79 (14.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 78 (14.80%) Docker
19 78 (14.80%) Unix

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 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) nginx
3 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 59 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (9.49%) Simulink
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 38 (7.21%) Infor LN
1 38 (7.21%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.54%) AWS
2 90 (17.08%) Azure
3 65 (12.33%) Pulumi
4 59 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.42%) SaaS
6 12 (2.28%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.71%) GCP
8 7 (1.33%) PaaS
9 6 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.14%) Serverless
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.57%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.19%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.19%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 86 (16.32%) Broadband
2 17 (3.23%) Firewall
3 14 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (2.28%) VPN
5 10 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.71%) WAN
7 8 (1.52%) DNS
7 8 (1.52%) Network Security
8 7 (1.33%) 3G
8 7 (1.33%) 4G
8 7 (1.33%) ADSL
8 7 (1.33%) LAN
9 6 (1.14%) DHCP
9 6 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.95%) DKIM
10 5 (0.95%) DMARC
11 4 (0.76%) VLAN
12 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.38%) Converged Networks
13 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (14.23%) NoSQL
1 75 (14.23%) Relational Database
2 73 (13.85%) RDBMS
3 38 (7.21%) Tableau
4 18 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.33%) MySQL
7 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.57%) Big Data
8 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.38%) Power BI
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 65 (12.33%) Jaeger
2 38 (7.21%) Oracle Forms
3 20 (3.80%) Git
4 7 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.33%) Selenium
4 7 (1.33%) SoapUI
5 5 (0.95%) JIRA
6 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.38%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.19%) Xcode
General
1 162 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 131 (24.86%) Aerospace
3 88 (16.70%) Aeronautics
4 79 (14.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (9.49%) Finance
7 38 (7.21%) Police
8 10 (1.90%) Electronics
8 10 (1.90%) Law
9 6 (1.14%) Games
10 5 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.57%) Automotive
11 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.57%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.57%) Retail
12 2 (0.38%) Aviation
12 2 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.19%) Advertising
13 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (12.33%) Elastic Stack
1 65 (12.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 26 (4.93%) .NET
3 15 (2.85%) XML
4 13 (2.47%) HTML
4 13 (2.47%) React
5 12 (2.28%) CSS
6 11 (2.09%) Laravel
7 8 (1.52%) RESTful
8 7 (1.33%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.33%) Jest
9 6 (1.14%) SailPoint
9 6 (1.14%) Vue
10 5 (0.95%) LAMP
11 4 (0.76%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.76%) Kafka
11 4 (0.76%) Next.js
12 3 (0.57%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.57%) Spring Boot
13 2 (0.38%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.35%) Management Information System
2 16 (3.04%) Driving Licence
3 14 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
4 13 (2.47%) IoT
5 10 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 5 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.57%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.57%) iPad
9 3 (0.57%) iPhone
10 2 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) Robotics
10 2 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (18.60%) Linux
2 78 (14.80%) Unix
3 62 (11.76%) Windows
4 21 (3.98%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.09%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.71%) Android
7 7 (1.33%) VMS
8 5 (0.95%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (35.86%) Agile
2 162 (30.74%) Coaching
3 156 (29.60%) Mentoring
4 128 (24.29%) Systems Engineering
5 113 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (18.60%) Roadmaps
7 90 (17.08%) Containerisation
7 90 (17.08%) Performance Management
7 90 (17.08%) Physics
8 89 (16.89%) Mathematics
9 88 (16.70%) Cost Control
10 86 (16.32%) DevOps
10 86 (16.32%) High Availability
11 85 (16.13%) Product Management
12 73 (13.85%) Software Engineering
13 71 (13.47%) Resource Management
14 69 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
15 68 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
16 65 (12.33%) GitOps
16 65 (12.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (18.98%) Java
2 89 (16.89%) JavaScript
3 78 (14.80%) Python
4 67 (12.71%) Go
5 65 (12.33%) Bash
6 53 (10.06%) C#
7 37 (7.02%) SQL
8 21 (3.98%) Rust
9 17 (3.23%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.04%) C
11 15 (2.85%) Ada
12 13 (2.47%) PHP
13 6 (1.14%) C++
14 5 (0.95%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.57%) Scala
16 2 (0.38%) Elixir
16 2 (0.38%) F#
16 2 (0.38%) Ruby
17 1 (0.19%) Delphi
17 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 194 (36.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 151 (28.65%) Degree
3 70 (13.28%) AWS Certification
4 38 (7.21%) ACCA
4 38 (7.21%) CIMA
5 36 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.66%) Chartered Engineer
7 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.71%) MCSE
9 7 (1.33%) CCNA
9 7 (1.33%) CCNP
9 7 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.33%) MCP
9 7 (1.33%) MCSA
9 7 (1.33%) Security Cleared
10 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.21%) GAAP
1 38 (7.21%) IFRS
2 16 (3.04%) SLA
3 8 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.33%) QA
5 6 (1.14%) IEC 62304
5 6 (1.14%) ISO 13485
5 6 (1.14%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 78 (14.80%) Docker
2 26 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.66%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.76%) Firmware
6 3 (0.57%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.38%) pfSense
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (14.99%) Kubernetes
2 71 (13.47%) Terraform
3 69 (13.09%) Ansible
4 65 (12.33%) Argo
4 65 (12.33%) Kustomize
4 65 (12.33%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.71%) SCCM
7 4 (0.76%) Puppet
8 2 (0.38%) cPanel
8 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 65 (12.33%) Google
3 50 (9.49%) MathWorks
4 42 (7.97%) Oracle
5 41 (7.78%) SAP
6 38 (7.21%) Cognos
6 38 (7.21%) Infor
7 22 (4.17%) VMware
8 12 (2.28%) Apple
8 12 (2.28%) Cisco
9 7 (1.33%) HP
10 6 (1.14%) Dell
10 6 (1.14%) NetApp
11 5 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.57%) IBM
12 3 (0.57%) MobileIron
12 3 (0.57%) Veeam
13 2 (0.38%) Aruba
13 2 (0.38%) Draytek
13 2 (0.38%) Red Hat