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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 900 1036
Rank change year-on-year +223 +136 -260
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 219 89 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.085% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 207 74 86
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,650 £51,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,313 £56,563
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 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £111,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +20.17%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +243 208 £72,500 +9.43% 31
UK excluding London +104 167 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Work from Home +131 78 £135,000 +96.36% 14
North of England +85 65 £70,000 +27.27% 10
London +154 47 £135,000 +22.73% 3
Yorkshire +125 47 £70,000 +45.83% 2
South East +50 43 £82,500 +17.86% 7
Midlands +21 24 £67,500 +22.73% 6
East Midlands +2 18 £70,000 +55.56% 3
South West -9 18 £60,000 -20.00% 3
East of England +37 11 £62,500 -3.85% 2
North West +11 11 £73,750 +13.46% 6
North East - 7 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands +15 6 £67,500 +20.00% 3
Wales - 5 £62,500 - 4
Scotland -68 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 111 (50.68%) Agile
2 102 (46.58%) Software Engineering
3 81 (36.99%) JavaScript
4 76 (34.70%) AWS
5 59 (26.94%) TypeScript
6 52 (23.74%) Git
7 50 (22.83%) Python
8 49 (22.37%) Java
8 49 (22.37%) Mentoring
9 47 (21.46%) Line Management
9 47 (21.46%) Finance
10 46 (21.00%) React
11 43 (19.63%) C#
11 43 (19.63%) Social Skills
12 41 (18.72%) .NET
13 38 (17.35%) Front Office
14 37 (16.89%) Asset Management
14 37 (16.89%) GCP
15 36 (16.44%) Pandas
15 36 (16.44%) gRPC
15 36 (16.44%) Apache Airflow
15 36 (16.44%) dbt
15 36 (16.44%) Dremio
15 36 (16.44%) Amazon Athena
15 36 (16.44%) Apache Ignite
15 36 (16.44%) Protocol Buffers
15 36 (16.44%) Hedge funds
15 36 (16.44%) SciPy
15 36 (16.44%) NumPy
15 36 (16.44%) Banking

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 36 (16.44%) Apache
1 36 (16.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.37%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 76 (34.70%) AWS
2 37 (16.89%) GCP
3 36 (16.44%) dbt
4 32 (14.61%) Snowflake
5 12 (5.48%) Azure
6 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.37%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.37%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.37%) Serverless
8 2 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.91%) PaaS
9 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) CTI
2 2 (0.91%) Multicast
2 2 (0.91%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.46%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.46%) DSL
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Internet
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.44%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (16.44%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (16.44%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (16.44%) Dremio
2 32 (14.61%) Data Lake
3 24 (10.96%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.28%) SQLite
6 4 (1.83%) MySQL
6 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.37%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.37%) Redis
8 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (23.74%) Git
2 20 (9.13%) Cypress.io
2 20 (9.13%) Selenium
2 20 (9.13%) SoapUI
3 14 (6.39%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.20%) Subversion
5 6 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (2.28%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.28%) JIRA
6 5 (2.28%) LabVIEW
7 3 (1.37%) Gradle
7 3 (1.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.91%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 47 (21.46%) Finance
2 43 (19.63%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.35%) Front Office
4 36 (16.44%) Banking
4 36 (16.44%) Investment Banking
5 11 (5.02%) Electronics
6 9 (4.11%) Automotive
6 9 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.65%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.74%) Police
9 5 (2.28%) Games
9 5 (2.28%) Marketing
9 5 (2.28%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Aviation
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) iGaming
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.00%) React
2 41 (18.72%) .NET
3 36 (16.44%) gRPC
3 36 (16.44%) NumPy
3 36 (16.44%) Pandas
3 36 (16.44%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (16.44%) SciPy
4 20 (9.13%) Jest
5 8 (3.65%) HTML
6 4 (1.83%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.37%) CSS
7 3 (1.37%) Qt
8 2 (0.91%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.91%) EDI
8 2 (0.91%) Flask
8 2 (0.91%) Spring
8 2 (0.91%) Vue
9 1 (0.46%) Blazor
9 1 (0.46%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.46%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.44%) Derivative
1 36 (16.44%) Equities
1 36 (16.44%) Fixed Income
1 36 (16.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 36 (16.44%) Hedge funds
2 25 (11.42%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.74%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (0.91%) Hackathon
6 2 (0.91%) IoT
6 2 (0.91%) Media Streaming
6 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (0.91%) Social Media
7 1 (0.46%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.46%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.46%) CMDB
7 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.31%) Linux
2 13 (5.94%) Windows
3 5 (2.28%) Android
4 4 (1.83%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.68%) Agile
2 102 (46.58%) Software Engineering
3 49 (22.37%) Mentoring
4 47 (21.46%) Line Management
5 37 (16.89%) Asset Management
6 33 (15.07%) Investment Management
7 28 (12.79%) Propensity Modelling
8 26 (11.87%) Collaborative Culture
9 25 (11.42%) Waterfall
10 23 (10.50%) Web Development
11 20 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence
11 20 (9.13%) Machine Learning
12 18 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (5.02%) SDLC
14 11 (5.02%) Software Testing
15 10 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (4.57%) Scrum
16 9 (4.11%) Decision-Making
16 9 (4.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.99%) JavaScript
2 59 (26.94%) TypeScript
3 50 (22.83%) Python
4 49 (22.37%) Java
5 43 (19.63%) C#
6 34 (15.53%) PHP
6 34 (15.53%) SQL
7 21 (9.59%) C++
8 12 (5.48%) C
9 5 (2.28%) Bash
9 5 (2.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.83%) Ruby
10 4 (1.83%) Scala
11 3 (1.37%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.91%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 28 (12.79%) Degree
2 8 (3.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.91%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 21 (9.59%) Docker
2 12 (5.48%) Firmware
3 7 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.46%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.28%) SAP
3 2 (0.91%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.46%) Google
4 1 (0.46%) Snow