Software Team Lead
UK

The median Software Team Lead salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 876 1058
Rank change year-on-year +204 +182 -270
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 236 83 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.082% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.089% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 222 69 88
10th Percentile £55,125 £44,400 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £115,000 £101,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +18.64%

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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
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 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Top 16 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 12 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
England +241 224 £72,500 +5.45% 36
UK excluding London +107 176 £70,000 +7.69% 36
Work from Home +128 87 £135,000 +100.00% 16
North of England +99 67 £70,000 +27.27% 8
London +163 55 £135,000 +22.73% 3
Yorkshire +120 48 £70,000 +45.83% 1
South East +46 48 £82,500 +17.86% 8
Midlands +15 27 £67,500 +17.39% 7
East Midlands +9 20 £70,000 +55.56% 5
South West -13 17 £60,000 -20.00% 7
North West +6 12 £73,750 +9.26% 7
East of England +22 10 £60,000 -7.69% 4
West Midlands +24 7 £67,500 +17.39% 2
North East - 7 £60,000 -
Wales - 5 £62,500 - 1
Scotland -61 2 £62,500 -13.79% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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.

1 120 (50.85%) Agile
2 113 (47.88%) Software Engineering
3 89 (37.71%) JavaScript
4 85 (36.02%) AWS
5 69 (29.24%) TypeScript
6 59 (25.00%) Java
7 58 (24.58%) Python
8 55 (23.31%) Finance
9 54 (22.88%) Line Management
10 52 (22.03%) Git
11 50 (21.19%) Mentoring
12 48 (20.34%) React
13 46 (19.49%) Front Office
14 45 (19.07%) Asset Management
14 45 (19.07%) GCP
15 44 (18.64%) Pandas
15 44 (18.64%) gRPC
15 44 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
15 44 (18.64%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (18.64%) Apache Ignite
15 44 (18.64%) dbt
15 44 (18.64%) Dremio
15 44 (18.64%) Apache Arrow
15 44 (18.64%) Protocol Buffers
15 44 (18.64%) Hedge funds
15 44 (18.64%) SciPy
15 44 (18.64%) NumPy
15 44 (18.64%) Banking
15 44 (18.64%) Investment Banking
15 44 (18.64%) Fixed Income

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:

Application Platforms
1 44 (18.64%) Apache
1 44 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.02%) AWS
2 45 (19.07%) GCP
3 44 (18.64%) dbt
4 40 (16.95%) Snowflake
5 12 (5.08%) Azure
6 7 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.27%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.27%) Serverless
8 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.85%) PaaS
9 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.54%) CTI
2 2 (0.85%) Multicast
2 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.42%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.42%) DSL
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.42%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.64%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (18.64%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (18.64%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (18.64%) Dremio
2 40 (16.95%) Data Lake
3 25 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.12%) SQLite
6 4 (1.69%) MySQL
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.27%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.27%) Redis
8 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (22.03%) Git
2 21 (8.90%) Cypress.io
2 21 (8.90%) Selenium
2 21 (8.90%) SoapUI
3 14 (5.93%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.54%) Subversion
4 6 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.12%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.69%) JIRA
6 4 (1.69%) LabVIEW
7 3 (1.27%) Gradle
7 3 (1.27%) Maven
8 2 (0.85%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.85%) JUnit
General
1 55 (23.31%) Finance
2 46 (19.49%) Front Office
3 44 (18.64%) Banking
3 44 (18.64%) Investment Banking
4 41 (17.37%) Social Skills
5 12 (5.08%) Electronics
6 10 (4.24%) Automotive
7 9 (3.81%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.39%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.54%) Police
10 5 (2.12%) Games
10 5 (2.12%) Marketing
10 5 (2.12%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.85%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) iGaming
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (20.34%) React
2 44 (18.64%) gRPC
2 44 (18.64%) NumPy
2 44 (18.64%) Pandas
2 44 (18.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 44 (18.64%) SciPy
3 42 (17.80%) .NET
4 21 (8.90%) Jest
5 9 (3.81%) HTML
6 4 (1.69%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.69%) CSS
7 3 (1.27%) Qt
7 3 (1.27%) Spring
8 2 (0.85%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.85%) EDI
8 2 (0.85%) Flask
8 2 (0.85%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.85%) Vue
9 1 (0.42%) SAML
9 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.64%) Derivative
1 44 (18.64%) Equities
1 44 (18.64%) Fixed Income
1 44 (18.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 44 (18.64%) Hedge funds
2 25 (10.59%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.54%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (0.85%) Hackathon
6 2 (0.85%) IoT
6 2 (0.85%) Media Streaming
6 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (0.85%) Social Media
7 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.42%) CMDB
7 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.20%) Linux
2 12 (5.08%) Windows
3 5 (2.12%) Android
3 5 (2.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.85%) Agile
2 113 (47.88%) Software Engineering
3 54 (22.88%) Line Management
4 50 (21.19%) Mentoring
5 45 (19.07%) Asset Management
6 35 (14.83%) Investment Management
7 30 (12.71%) Propensity Modelling
8 26 (11.02%) Collaborative Culture
9 24 (10.17%) Waterfall
10 23 (9.75%) Web Development
11 21 (8.90%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (8.90%) Machine Learning
12 19 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (5.08%) SDLC
14 11 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (4.66%) Software Testing
15 10 (4.24%) Business Intelligence
16 9 (3.81%) Decision-Making
16 9 (3.81%) DevOps
16 9 (3.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (37.71%) JavaScript
2 69 (29.24%) TypeScript
3 59 (25.00%) Java
4 58 (24.58%) Python
5 42 (17.80%) C#
6 35 (14.83%) PHP
6 35 (14.83%) SQL
7 22 (9.32%) C++
8 12 (5.08%) C
9 5 (2.12%) Bash
10 4 (1.69%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.69%) Ruby
10 4 (1.69%) Scala
11 3 (1.27%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 29 (12.29%) Degree
2 8 (3.39%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.85%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 22 (9.32%) Docker
2 13 (5.51%) Firmware
3 8 (3.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (9.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.12%) SAP
3 2 (0.85%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.42%) Google
4 1 (0.42%) Snow