Team Leader Jobs

Team Lead
UK

The median Team Lead salary in the UK is £56,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 381 399
Rank change year-on-year +167 +18 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 1,400 797 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 0.84% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.92% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 648 842
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,122 £41,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,084 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +187 1,287 £60,000 +4.35% 341
UK excluding London +148 1,109 £52,084 -0.79% 278
Work from Home +95 484 £65,000 +13.04% 85
North of England +152 343 £56,500 +13.00% 77
South East +80 255 £60,000 +4.35% 55
London +110 227 £78,750 -1.56% 72
Midlands +67 180 £50,000 -2.91% 64
Yorkshire +159 177 £60,000 +21.21% 28
South West +60 156 £60,000 +26.32% 37
East of England +62 124 £46,000 -8.00% 35
North West +33 108 £52,084 -7.82% 41
East Midlands +58 104 £43,750 -20.45% 34
West Midlands +3 76 £50,000 - 30
North East +31 58 £40,000 -11.11% 8
Scotland -69 37 £50,000 -28.57% 15
Wales +8 12 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Northern Ireland +5 2 £50,000 -11.11% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 298 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 236 (16.86%) Microsoft
3 229 (16.36%) Windows
4 218 (15.57%) ITIL
5 216 (15.43%) Agile
6 215 (15.36%) Mentoring
7 209 (14.93%) Finance
8 196 (14.00%) Degree
9 191 (13.64%) Azure
10 186 (13.29%) Software Engineering
11 174 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
12 172 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
13 163 (11.64%) AWS
14 157 (11.21%) Customer Service
15 156 (11.14%) Line Management
16 133 (9.50%) Python
17 130 (9.29%) Active Directory
18 125 (8.93%) SQL
19 116 (8.29%) Java
20 114 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
21 113 (8.07%) JavaScript
22 103 (7.36%) Coaching
23 102 (7.29%) Project Management
24 100 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
25 98 (7.00%) Asset Management
26 92 (6.57%) TypeScript
27 90 (6.43%) Windows Server
27 90 (6.43%) Service Management
27 90 (6.43%) Firewall
28 84 (6.00%) Banking

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 65 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 56 (4.00%) Apache
4 49 (3.50%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.21%) IIS
6 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.071%) Drupal
Applications
1 63 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.57%) Simulink
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.071%) InDesign
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.071%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.29%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 191 (13.64%) Azure
2 174 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
3 163 (11.64%) AWS
4 65 (4.64%) dbt
5 60 (4.29%) GCP
6 52 (3.71%) Snowflake
7 33 (2.36%) Entra ID
8 30 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.86%) Power Platform
10 23 (1.64%) SaaS
11 21 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 13 (0.93%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.86%) Serverless
14 10 (0.71%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 90 (6.43%) Firewall
2 37 (2.64%) DNS
3 31 (2.21%) WAN
4 30 (2.14%) LAN
5 29 (2.07%) Network Security
6 27 (1.93%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.79%) Wireless
8 23 (1.64%) DHCP
8 23 (1.64%) VPN
9 20 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 18 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.93%) SAN
12 11 (0.79%) VoIP
12 11 (0.79%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.71%) VLAN
14 9 (0.64%) Internet
15 7 (0.50%) IPsec
15 7 (0.50%) iSCSI
15 7 (0.50%) OSPF
16 6 (0.43%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (4.21%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (4.21%) Dremio
2 56 (4.00%) Apache Ignite
3 52 (3.71%) Data Lake
4 48 (3.43%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.79%) Power BI
7 18 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.93%) Tableau
9 11 (0.79%) GIS
10 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.71%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (0.64%) MS Access
11 9 (0.64%) MySQL
12 8 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 57 (4.07%) Git
2 27 (1.93%) JIRA
3 21 (1.50%) Cypress.io
3 21 (1.50%) Selenium
3 21 (1.50%) SoapUI
4 14 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.71%) JUnit
6 9 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.57%) Subversion
8 6 (0.43%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.36%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.21%) Gradle
10 3 (0.21%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.21%) Maven
11 2 (0.14%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.14%) Hudson
12 1 (0.071%) Dreamweaver
12 1 (0.071%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.071%) TeamCity
General
1 298 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 209 (14.93%) Finance
3 84 (6.00%) Banking
4 68 (4.86%) Telecoms
5 66 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (4.50%) Retail
7 61 (4.36%) Front Office
7 61 (4.36%) Investment Banking
8 40 (2.86%) Legal
9 38 (2.71%) Manufacturing
10 34 (2.43%) Law
11 32 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 29 (2.07%) Electronics
13 28 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 24 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.50%) Games
17 17 (1.21%) Local Government
18 13 (0.93%) Marketing
18 13 (0.93%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.86%) .NET
2 59 (4.21%) gRPC
2 59 (4.21%) Protocol Buffers
3 58 (4.14%) NumPy
3 58 (4.14%) Pandas
3 58 (4.14%) React
4 56 (4.00%) SciPy
5 21 (1.50%) Jest
6 20 (1.43%) HTML
7 15 (1.07%) CSS
7 15 (1.07%) Spring
8 8 (0.57%) Hibernate
9 7 (0.50%) Django
10 6 (0.43%) JSON
10 6 (0.43%) LAMP
10 6 (0.43%) RESTful
11 5 (0.36%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.36%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.36%) OAuth
11 5 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.29%) Derivative
2 59 (4.21%) Equities
2 59 (4.21%) Fixed Income
2 59 (4.21%) Hedge funds
3 56 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 51 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 40 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.43%) Algorithms
7 32 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.64%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
10 13 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.71%) Cloud Native
12 10 (0.71%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.64%) Life Science
14 8 (0.57%) IoT
14 8 (0.57%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 229 (16.36%) Windows
2 90 (6.43%) Windows Server
3 76 (5.43%) Linux
4 48 (3.43%) Windows 10
5 29 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (1.57%) Android
8 20 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (1.21%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.64%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.43%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.071%) Debian
13 1 (0.071%) Unix
13 1 (0.071%) VMS
13 1 (0.071%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (15.57%) ITIL
2 216 (15.43%) Agile
3 215 (15.36%) Mentoring
4 186 (13.29%) Software Engineering
5 172 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (11.21%) Customer Service
7 156 (11.14%) Line Management
8 114 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
9 103 (7.36%) Coaching
10 102 (7.29%) Project Management
11 100 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (7.00%) Asset Management
13 90 (6.43%) Service Management
14 78 (5.57%) Service Delivery
15 71 (5.07%) DevOps
16 60 (4.29%) Incident Management
17 57 (4.07%) SDLC
18 56 (4.00%) Process Improvement
19 54 (3.86%) Collaborative Culture
19 54 (3.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 133 (9.50%) Python
2 125 (8.93%) SQL
3 116 (8.29%) Java
4 113 (8.07%) JavaScript
5 92 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 77 (5.50%) C#
7 45 (3.21%) PHP
8 27 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.64%) C++
10 22 (1.57%) C
11 11 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.43%) R
12 6 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.43%) VB
12 6 (0.43%) VB6
13 5 (0.36%) Bash
13 5 (0.36%) Ruby
14 4 (0.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.21%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 196 (14.00%) Degree
2 64 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 40 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.86%) CHECK Team Leader
7 19 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 18 (1.29%) CREST Certified
9 14 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.86%) CEH
11 12 (0.86%) SSCP
12 11 (0.79%) CISSP
13 10 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (0.64%) CCSP
14 9 (0.64%) PhD
14 9 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.93%) SLA
2 70 (5.00%) QA
3 25 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.07%) GDPR
5 13 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.86%) NIST
7 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.43%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.29%) NCSC
9 4 (0.29%) PMO
10 3 (0.21%) ECSS
11 2 (0.14%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.14%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.071%) EMIR
12 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.071%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (9.29%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.43%) Hyper-V
3 40 (2.86%) Docker
4 34 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (2.14%) Firmware
6 17 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.57%) vSphere
10 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.071%) KVM
13 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.57%) SCCM
4 16 (1.14%) Ansible
5 13 (0.93%) Terraform
6 12 (0.86%) Puppet
6 12 (0.86%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.86%) ZABBIX
7 10 (0.71%) WSUS
8 9 (0.64%) Nmap
9 7 (0.50%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.50%) SCOM
10 6 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.29%) Icinga
12 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.21%) Grafana
14 2 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.14%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 236 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.71%) VMware
3 36 (2.57%) Citrix
4 35 (2.50%) Oracle
5 31 (2.21%) Cisco
6 16 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.00%) Civica
8 11 (0.79%) SAP
8 11 (0.79%) Splunk
9 10 (0.71%) Juniper
9 10 (0.71%) Qualys
10 9 (0.64%) Rapid7
10 9 (0.64%) Thycotic
11 8 (0.57%) McAfee
11 8 (0.57%) Meraki
11 8 (0.57%) Sophos
12 7 (0.50%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.50%) Veeam
13 6 (0.43%) Apple
13 6 (0.43%) Commvault