Software Development Team Leader Jobs

Software Development Team Lead
UK

The median Software Development Team Lead salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 953 1141
Rank change year-on-year +168 +188 -301
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Team Leader 109 28 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.028% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.030% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 108 26 40
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £45,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,688 £85,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £93,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £61,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.37% -12.50% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Software Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Team Leader in the UK

Software Development Team Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Team Leader.

Salary trend for Software Development Team Leader in the UK

Software Development Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Team Leader over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Team Leader in the UK

Software Development Team Leader
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +85 106 £72,500 +18.37% 8
England +158 103 £72,500 +3.57% 8
North of England +76 49 £70,000 +42.86% 3
Yorkshire +116 43 £70,000 +45.83% 1
South East +33 32 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Midlands +11 19 £70,000 +7.69% 4
East Midlands - 19 £70,000 - 3
Work from Home +70 9 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North West +7 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Wales - 5 £62,500 -
London +126 2 £93,750 +4.17%
South West -29 1 £50,000 -33.33%
North East - 1 £55,000 -

Software Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Software Development 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 featuring Software Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 56 (51.38%) Agile
2 45 (41.28%) Git
2 45 (41.28%) JavaScript
3 44 (40.37%) React
4 36 (33.03%) Software Engineering
5 30 (27.52%) PHP
5 30 (27.52%) Propensity Modelling
5 30 (27.52%) Mentoring
5 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
6 28 (25.69%) .NET
7 26 (23.85%) Collaborative Culture
8 25 (22.94%) C#
8 25 (22.94%) AWS
9 24 (22.02%) Waterfall
9 24 (22.02%) Degree
9 24 (22.02%) Onboarding
10 23 (21.10%) Web Development
11 22 (20.18%) SQL
11 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
12 21 (19.27%) Jest
12 21 (19.27%) Machine Learning
12 21 (19.27%) TypeScript
12 21 (19.27%) Docker
12 21 (19.27%) SoapUI
12 21 (19.27%) Selenium
12 21 (19.27%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (19.27%) NoSQL
12 21 (19.27%) Cypress.io
13 10 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement

Software Development Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (22.94%) AWS
2 9 (8.26%) Azure
3 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.92%) GCP
4 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.27%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (41.28%) Git
2 21 (19.27%) Cypress.io
2 21 (19.27%) Selenium
2 21 (19.27%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
3 1 (0.92%) Finance
3 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (40.37%) React
2 28 (25.69%) .NET
3 21 (19.27%) Jest
4 2 (1.83%) CSS
4 2 (1.83%) EDI
5 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.92%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.92%) HTML
5 1 (0.92%) Node.js
5 1 (0.92%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.92%) OpenID
5 1 (0.92%) SAML
5 1 (0.92%) Spring
5 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.92%) Vaadin
5 1 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.02%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.83%) IoT
3 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.38%) Agile
2 36 (33.03%) Software Engineering
3 30 (27.52%) Mentoring
3 30 (27.52%) Propensity Modelling
4 26 (23.85%) Collaborative Culture
5 24 (22.02%) Waterfall
6 23 (21.10%) Web Development
7 21 (19.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 21 (19.27%) Machine Learning
8 10 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (6.42%) DevOps
10 7 (6.42%) Line Management
11 5 (4.59%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (4.59%) Information Security
11 5 (4.59%) Migration
12 4 (3.67%) People Management
12 4 (3.67%) Scrum
12 4 (3.67%) SDLC
13 3 (2.75%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 45 (41.28%) JavaScript
2 30 (27.52%) PHP
3 25 (22.94%) C#
4 22 (20.18%) SQL
5 21 (19.27%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.59%) C++
7 2 (1.83%) Java
8 1 (0.92%) C
8 1 (0.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (19.27%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Firmware
3 3 (2.75%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.92%) Google