Team Lead
UK

The median Team Lead salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 376 387
Rank change year-on-year +144 +11 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 1,229 914 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.95% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 726 806
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,950 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.87% +6.00% -4.76%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 +158 1,125 £56,500 -1.74% 271
UK excluding London +108 972 £50,950 -3.87% 238
Work from Home +82 410 £65,000 +8.33% 133
North of England +159 329 £52,084 +0.96% 76
South East +68 213 £60,000 +4.35% 38
London +92 207 £77,500 -6.06% 58
Yorkshire +164 161 £60,000 +20.00% 25
Midlands +36 131 £47,500 -9.52% 48
South West +60 124 £55,000 +15.79% 31
East of England +56 119 £48,500 -19.17% 24
North West +50 116 £52,084 -5.30% 39
East Midlands +25 72 £37,500 -13.45% 20
West Midlands +18 59 £50,000 -7.41% 28
North East +35 52 £43,750 -2.78% 12
Scotland -67 42 £47,500 -32.14% 16
Wales +13 12 £62,500 +47.06% 6
Northern Ireland +10 2 £50,000 -8.26%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Team Leader in the job title.

1 313 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 227 (18.47%) Windows
3 223 (18.14%) Microsoft
4 202 (16.44%) Mentoring
5 191 (15.54%) Degree
6 189 (15.38%) Agile
7 184 (14.97%) ITIL
8 178 (14.48%) Finance
9 175 (14.24%) Azure
10 171 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
11 166 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
12 155 (12.61%) Customer Service
13 140 (11.39%) Line Management
14 137 (11.15%) Software Engineering
15 129 (10.50%) AWS
16 126 (10.25%) Active Directory
17 120 (9.76%) SQL
18 111 (9.03%) Python
19 106 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
20 104 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
20 104 (8.46%) Project Management
21 92 (7.49%) JavaScript
22 89 (7.24%) Service Management
23 84 (6.83%) Firewall
23 84 (6.83%) Windows Server
24 82 (6.67%) SLA
25 81 (6.59%) VMware
26 78 (6.35%) Java
27 77 (6.27%) Asset Management
28 74 (6.02%) Linux

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 57 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.93%) Apache
4 10 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.33%) IIS
6 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Drupal
Applications
1 65 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.55%) Simulink
3 17 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.90%) Stateflow
5 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.081%) InDesign
8 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.24%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.24%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.16%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 175 (14.24%) Azure
2 171 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (10.50%) AWS
4 45 (3.66%) dbt
5 41 (3.34%) GCP
6 32 (2.60%) Snowflake
7 31 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 25 (2.03%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.22%) SaaS
12 13 (1.06%) OneDrive
13 11 (0.90%) Amazon S3
13 11 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.90%) GitHub
14 10 (0.81%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (0.49%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.83%) Firewall
2 30 (2.44%) DNS
3 29 (2.36%) Network Security
4 28 (2.28%) LAN
4 28 (2.28%) WAN
5 25 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.79%) Wireless
7 19 (1.55%) DHCP
7 19 (1.55%) VPN
8 18 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
9 14 (1.14%) SAN
10 12 (0.98%) VoIP
11 11 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.90%) Wireshark
12 8 (0.65%) Internet
13 7 (0.57%) OSPF
14 6 (0.49%) CTI
14 6 (0.49%) IPsec
14 6 (0.49%) iSCSI
14 6 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 39 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
2 39 (3.17%) Apache Arrow
2 39 (3.17%) Dremio
3 36 (2.93%) Apache Ignite
4 35 (2.85%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 28 (2.28%) Tableau
7 24 (1.95%) Power BI
8 18 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.98%) MySQL
11 11 (0.90%) GIS
12 9 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (0.73%) MS Access
12 9 (0.73%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.65%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 61 (4.96%) Git
2 27 (2.20%) JIRA
3 20 (1.63%) Cypress.io
3 20 (1.63%) Selenium
3 20 (1.63%) SoapUI
4 14 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.65%) Subversion
7 6 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.41%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.33%) Maven
10 3 (0.24%) Gradle
10 3 (0.24%) JUnit
11 2 (0.16%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.16%) GitLab
11 2 (0.16%) Hudson
11 2 (0.16%) LSMW
12 1 (0.081%) GCC
General
1 313 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 178 (14.48%) Finance
3 67 (5.45%) Telecoms
4 65 (5.29%) Banking
5 63 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.42%) Retail
7 41 (3.34%) Front Office
8 39 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 36 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.36%) Law
11 28 (2.28%) Aerospace
12 27 (2.20%) Electronics
12 27 (2.20%) Public Sector
13 24 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.79%) Games
15 19 (1.55%) Legal
16 15 (1.22%) Local Government
17 13 (1.06%) Marketing
18 12 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.45%) .NET
2 56 (4.56%) React
3 39 (3.17%) gRPC
3 39 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
4 38 (3.09%) NumPy
4 38 (3.09%) Pandas
5 36 (2.93%) SciPy
6 20 (1.63%) Jest
7 10 (0.81%) HTML
7 10 (0.81%) Spring
8 6 (0.49%) RESTful
9 5 (0.41%) CSS
9 5 (0.41%) LAMP
9 5 (0.41%) OAuth
9 5 (0.41%) REST
9 5 (0.41%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.33%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.33%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.33%) Flask
10 4 (0.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (3.66%) Algorithms
1 45 (3.66%) Fixed Income
1 45 (3.66%) Hedge funds
2 44 (3.58%) Data Centre
2 44 (3.58%) Management Information System
3 42 (3.42%) Derivative
4 40 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 39 (3.17%) Equities
6 36 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.71%) Client/Server
8 15 (1.22%) Fibre Optics
9 13 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (0.81%) Life Science
11 10 (0.81%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.73%) Blackberry
12 9 (0.73%) BYOD
13 8 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 227 (18.47%) Windows
2 84 (6.83%) Windows Server
3 74 (6.02%) Linux
4 51 (4.15%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.55%) Android
8 18 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (1.14%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.65%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.16%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.081%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (16.44%) Mentoring
2 189 (15.38%) Agile
3 184 (14.97%) ITIL
4 166 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 155 (12.61%) Customer Service
6 140 (11.39%) Line Management
7 137 (11.15%) Software Engineering
8 106 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
9 104 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (8.46%) Project Management
10 89 (7.24%) Service Management
11 77 (6.27%) Asset Management
12 73 (5.94%) DevOps
12 73 (5.94%) Service Delivery
13 66 (5.37%) Coaching
14 57 (4.64%) Analytics
14 57 (4.64%) Incident Management
15 56 (4.56%) Project Delivery
15 56 (4.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 55 (4.48%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 120 (9.76%) SQL
2 111 (9.03%) Python
3 92 (7.49%) JavaScript
4 78 (6.35%) Java
5 71 (5.78%) TypeScript
6 64 (5.21%) C#
7 41 (3.34%) PHP
8 27 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 26 (2.12%) C++
10 24 (1.95%) MATLAB
11 22 (1.79%) C
12 6 (0.49%) R
12 6 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.49%) VB
12 6 (0.49%) VB6
13 5 (0.41%) Bash
13 5 (0.41%) Ruby
14 4 (0.33%) Scala
15 3 (0.24%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 191 (15.54%) Degree
2 62 (5.04%) Security Cleared
3 39 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (1.63%) CREST Certified
7 18 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (1.22%) CHECK Team Leader
9 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.06%) CEH
10 13 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.06%) SSCP
11 12 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.90%) CISSP
12 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.73%) OSCP
14 9 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.67%) SLA
2 47 (3.82%) QA
3 24 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.30%) GDPR
5 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.98%) NIST
7 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.24%) ECSS
11 2 (0.16%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.16%) IFRS
11 2 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.081%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.081%) PMO
System Software
1 126 (10.25%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.66%) Hyper-V
3 41 (3.34%) Docker
4 39 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (2.44%) Firmware
6 16 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.57%) vSphere
10 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.081%) KVM
13 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.25%) SCCM
4 16 (1.30%) Ansible
5 14 (1.14%) Terraform
6 12 (0.98%) Puppet
6 12 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.98%) ZABBIX
7 9 (0.73%) Nmap
7 9 (0.73%) WSUS
8 7 (0.57%) NetBackup
8 7 (0.57%) SCOM
9 6 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.33%) Icinga
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.24%) Grafana
13 2 (0.16%) Autotask
13 2 (0.16%) CASB
13 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 223 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.59%) VMware
3 35 (2.85%) Oracle
4 33 (2.69%) Citrix
5 30 (2.44%) Cisco
6 18 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.38%) SAP
8 14 (1.14%) Civica
9 11 (0.90%) Splunk
10 10 (0.81%) Juniper
10 10 (0.81%) Qualys
11 9 (0.73%) Rapid7
11 9 (0.73%) Thycotic
12 8 (0.65%) McAfee
12 8 (0.65%) Meraki
13 7 (0.57%) Apple
13 7 (0.57%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.57%) Sophos
14 6 (0.49%) Commvault
14 6 (0.49%) Google