Development Team Leader Jobs

Development Team Lead
UK

The median Development Team Lead salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 897 1053
Rank change year-on-year +135 +156 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 145 63 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.064% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.070% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 135 57 126
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +1.96%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £58,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.40% -16.07% +16.67%

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 96,364 89,509 157,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,829 56,547 84,640
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,609
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Team Leader over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Team Leader in the UK

Development Team Leader
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +73 135 £72,500 +23.40% 17
England +128 132 £72,500 +3.57% 20
North of England +78 58 £70,000 +33.33% 3
Yorkshire +122 52 £70,000 +42.86%
South East +22 32 £90,000 +28.57% 5
Midlands +9 25 £70,000 +21.74% 8
East Midlands +6 25 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Work from Home +38 23 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Wales +19 9 £62,500 -13.79%
London +99 8 £98,750 +9.72% 4
East of England +18 6 £75,000 -21.05% 1
North West 0 5 £67,500 +12.50% 3
South West -25 3 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland -58 2 £65,000 +4.00%
North East - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Development 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 Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 68 (46.90%) Agile
2 48 (33.10%) JavaScript
3 47 (32.41%) .NET
4 46 (31.72%) Git
4 46 (31.72%) React
5 40 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 38 (26.21%) PHP
6 38 (26.21%) C#
6 38 (26.21%) Mentoring
7 35 (24.14%) Social Skills
8 32 (22.07%) Collaborative Culture
9 31 (21.38%) Propensity Modelling
9 31 (21.38%) AWS
10 26 (17.93%) Degree
11 25 (17.24%) TypeScript
12 24 (16.55%) Waterfall
12 24 (16.55%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (15.86%) Web Development
13 23 (15.86%) Onboarding
14 22 (15.17%) Machine Learning
14 22 (15.17%) SQL
15 20 (13.79%) NoSQL
15 20 (13.79%) SoapUI
15 20 (13.79%) Docker
15 20 (13.79%) Kubernetes
15 20 (13.79%) Selenium
15 20 (13.79%) Cypress.io
15 20 (13.79%) Jest
16 17 (11.72%) Azure
16 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement

Development 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 3 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.38%) AWS
2 17 (11.72%) Azure
3 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.76%) GCP
5 3 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.07%) dbt
5 3 (2.07%) Serverless
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.38%) GitHub
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.69%) Datadog
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.69%) PaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Arrow
3 3 (2.07%) Dremio
4 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.38%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (31.72%) Git
2 20 (13.79%) Cypress.io
2 20 (13.79%) Selenium
2 20 (13.79%) SoapUI
3 7 (4.83%) JIRA
General
1 35 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.52%) Finance
3 6 (4.14%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (2.76%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.07%) Banking
5 3 (2.07%) Front Office
6 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (32.41%) .NET
2 46 (31.72%) React
3 20 (13.79%) Jest
4 5 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.45%) CSS
4 5 (3.45%) LAMP
5 4 (2.76%) HTML
6 3 (2.07%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.07%) gRPC
6 3 (2.07%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (2.07%) Redux
6 3 (2.07%) Vue
7 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.38%) JSON
8 1 (0.69%) EDI
8 1 (0.69%) Node.js
8 1 (0.69%) OpenID
8 1 (0.69%) SAML
8 1 (0.69%) Spring
8 1 (0.69%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.86%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.07%) Derivative
2 3 (2.07%) Equities
2 3 (2.07%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.07%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.38%) IoT
4 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (46.90%) Agile
2 40 (27.59%) Software Engineering
3 38 (26.21%) Mentoring
4 32 (22.07%) Collaborative Culture
5 31 (21.38%) Propensity Modelling
6 24 (16.55%) Artificial Intelligence
6 24 (16.55%) Waterfall
7 23 (15.86%) Web Development
8 22 (15.17%) Machine Learning
9 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (8.28%) Scrum
11 12 (8.28%) SDLC
12 11 (7.59%) DevOps
12 11 (7.59%) Line Management
13 10 (6.90%) People Management
14 8 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 6 (4.14%) Commercial Awareness
15 6 (4.14%) Project Management
15 6 (4.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.10%) JavaScript
2 38 (26.21%) C#
2 38 (26.21%) PHP
3 25 (17.24%) TypeScript
4 22 (15.17%) SQL
5 7 (4.83%) Python
6 6 (4.14%) C++
6 6 (4.14%) VB
6 6 (4.14%) VB6
7 5 (3.45%) Java
8 1 (0.69%) ABAP
8 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (17.93%) Degree
2 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.14%) QA
System Software
1 20 (13.79%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.07%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.69%) Google
2 1 (0.69%) SAP