Software Team Leader Jobs

Software Team Lead
UK

The median Software Team Lead salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 616 594 841
Rank change year-on-year -22 +247 +264
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 105 334 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.31% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.33% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 92 288 74
10th Percentile - £59,250 £44,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £142,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £165,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 52,512 102,387 81,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 94.81% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,421 72,229 54,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Team Leader over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
UK excluding London +76 94 £65,000 -7.14% 111
England -56 88 £65,000 -21.21% 143
South East +79 53 £65,000 -18.75% 28
North of England +9 15 £75,000 +7.14% 28
Wales +52 12 £77,500 +24.00% 4
Work from Home -23 12 £70,000 -48.15% 89
North West +24 10 £77,500 +3.33% 20
London -9 10 £75,000 -44.44% 41
South West +96 7 £67,500 -3.57% 15
Yorkshire +21 5 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Scotland +89 4 £70,000 +16.67% 6
East of England +27 2 £82,500 +37.50% 13
Midlands +35 1 - - 15
East Midlands +24 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 featuring Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 64 (60.95%) Software Engineering
2 49 (46.67%) Agile
3 43 (40.95%) Social Skills
4 40 (38.10%) Test Automation
5 39 (37.14%) C#
6 37 (35.24%) Azure
7 36 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (30.48%) Java
9 29 (27.62%) Scrum
9 29 (27.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (26.67%) Customer Requirements
11 26 (24.76%) Line Management
12 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
13 21 (20.00%) Rust
13 21 (20.00%) Containerisation
14 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
15 18 (17.14%) Computer Science
15 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
15 18 (17.14%) SDLC
16 17 (16.19%) .NET
16 17 (16.19%) Degree
17 16 (15.24%) UML
17 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
18 15 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (14.29%) Ada
18 15 (14.29%) OOD
18 15 (14.29%) OO
18 15 (14.29%) XML
18 15 (14.29%) C
18 15 (14.29%) Software Testing

Software 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Eikon
1 1 (0.95%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.24%) Azure
2 7 (6.67%) AWS
3 5 (4.76%) Serverless
4 4 (3.81%) SaaS
5 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.95%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (0.95%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.57%) Network Security
2 1 (0.95%) HTTP
2 1 (0.95%) Internet
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.57%) RDBMS
1 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.90%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) Big Data
5 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.95%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.90%) Selenium
2 2 (1.90%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.95%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.48%) Electronics
3 6 (5.71%) Finance
4 5 (4.76%) Banking
4 5 (4.76%) Law
5 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.95%) Automotive
8 1 (0.95%) Aviation
8 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.95%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.19%) .NET
2 15 (14.29%) XML
3 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.81%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.81%) HTML
4 4 (3.81%) RESTful
5 3 (2.86%) CSS
5 3 (2.86%) Laravel
5 3 (2.86%) React
5 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.86%) Vue
6 2 (1.90%) Jest
7 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.95%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.95%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.95%) Kafka
7 1 (0.95%) Next.js
7 1 (0.95%) Spring
7 1 (0.95%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (8.57%) IoT
3 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.95%) Derivative
5 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.43%) Linux
1 12 (11.43%) Windows
2 9 (8.57%) Unix
3 4 (3.81%) Android
3 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.95%) Software Engineering
2 49 (46.67%) Agile
3 40 (38.10%) Test Automation
4 36 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (27.62%) Scrum
6 28 (26.67%) Customer Requirements
7 26 (24.76%) Line Management
8 21 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
10 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
10 18 (17.14%) Computer Science
10 18 (17.14%) SDLC
11 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (15.24%) UML
12 15 (14.29%) OO
12 15 (14.29%) OOD
12 15 (14.29%) Software Testing
13 14 (13.33%) Configuration Management
13 14 (13.33%) Quality Management
13 14 (13.33%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.14%) C#
2 32 (30.48%) Java
3 21 (20.00%) Rust
4 15 (14.29%) Ada
4 15 (14.29%) C
5 12 (11.43%) SQL
6 8 (7.62%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.76%) PHP
9 4 (3.81%) C++
9 4 (3.81%) Python
10 2 (1.90%) Elixir
10 2 (1.90%) F#
10 2 (1.90%) Go
10 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.90%) Ruby
10 2 (1.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (27.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (16.19%) Degree
3 15 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (13.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) IEC 62304
1 3 (2.86%) ISO 13485
1 3 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) Terraform
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle
2 1 (0.95%) Progress
2 1 (0.95%) Reuters