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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 389 391
Rank change year-on-year +156 +2 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 1,257 873 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.94% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 693 801
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,548 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,250 £41,500
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 £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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 10 May 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 10 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 +167 1,160 £56,500 -1.74% 307
UK excluding London +106 990 £52,084 -0.79% 273
Work from Home +70 421 £65,000 +8.33% 144
North of England +160 335 £52,084 +2.13% 81
South East +59 217 £60,000 +4.35% 44
London +88 213 £77,500 -3.13% 59
Yorkshire +164 165 £60,000 +21.21% 28
Midlands +30 140 £50,000 - 56
South West +54 133 £55,000 +15.79% 47
East of England +60 120 £47,500 -20.83% 23
North West +44 115 £52,084 -5.30% 42
East Midlands +30 78 £37,500 -18.92% 29
West Midlands -2 62 £50,000 -0.99% 27
North East +34 55 £40,000 -11.11% 11
Scotland -75 31 £47,500 -32.14% 14
Wales +8 12 £62,500 +47.06% 7
Northern Ireland +5 2 £50,000 -8.68% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 314 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 229 (18.22%) Microsoft
3 224 (17.82%) Windows
4 206 (16.39%) Mentoring
5 201 (15.99%) Agile
6 190 (15.12%) ITIL
6 190 (15.12%) Degree
7 187 (14.88%) Finance
8 180 (14.32%) Azure
9 176 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
10 170 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
11 154 (12.25%) Customer Service
12 149 (11.85%) Software Engineering
13 148 (11.77%) Line Management
14 137 (10.90%) AWS
15 127 (10.10%) Active Directory
16 120 (9.55%) SQL
17 116 (9.23%) Python
18 106 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
19 101 (8.04%) Project Management
20 100 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
21 99 (7.88%) JavaScript
22 92 (7.32%) Service Management
23 88 (7.00%) Java
24 84 (6.68%) Firewall
24 84 (6.68%) Asset Management
25 82 (6.52%) Windows Server
26 81 (6.44%) SLA
27 80 (6.36%) TypeScript
28 79 (6.28%) VMware

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 59 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (3.74%) SharePoint
4 44 (3.50%) Apache
5 10 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.32%) IIS
7 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.080%) Drupal
Applications
1 67 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.64%) Simulink
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.080%) InDesign
7 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.080%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.080%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.080%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 180 (14.32%) Azure
2 176 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (10.90%) AWS
4 53 (4.22%) dbt
5 48 (3.82%) GCP
6 40 (3.18%) Snowflake
7 32 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 31 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.99%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (1.03%) OneDrive
11 13 (1.03%) SaaS
12 12 (0.95%) Amazon S3
13 11 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.80%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.72%) GitHub
15 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.68%) Firewall
2 31 (2.47%) DNS
3 29 (2.31%) Network Security
3 29 (2.31%) WAN
4 28 (2.23%) LAN
5 25 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.91%) Wireless
7 20 (1.59%) VPN
8 19 (1.51%) DHCP
9 18 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 12 (0.95%) SAN
10 12 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.80%) VoIP
13 8 (0.64%) Internet
13 8 (0.64%) VLAN
14 7 (0.56%) IPsec
14 7 (0.56%) iSCSI
14 7 (0.56%) OSPF
15 6 (0.48%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (3.74%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (3.74%) Dremio
2 46 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 44 (3.50%) Apache Ignite
4 40 (3.18%) Data Lake
5 35 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 28 (2.23%) Tableau
7 24 (1.91%) Power BI
8 18 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.88%) GIS
11 10 (0.80%) MySQL
12 9 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (0.72%) MS Access
12 9 (0.72%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.64%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 57 (4.53%) Git
2 26 (2.07%) JIRA
3 21 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 21 (1.67%) Selenium
3 21 (1.67%) SoapUI
4 14 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.56%) Subversion
7 6 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.40%) JUnit
9 4 (0.32%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.24%) Gradle
10 3 (0.24%) Maven
11 2 (0.16%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.16%) Hudson
12 1 (0.080%) Dreamweaver
12 1 (0.080%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.080%) TeamCity
General
1 314 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 187 (14.88%) Finance
3 75 (5.97%) Banking
4 68 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 64 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.90%) Front Office
7 48 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 45 (3.58%) Retail
9 37 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.39%) Law
10 30 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.23%) Aerospace
11 28 (2.23%) Electronics
12 24 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (1.67%) Games
15 20 (1.59%) Legal
16 17 (1.35%) Local Government
17 13 (1.03%) Marketing
17 13 (1.03%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.73%) .NET
2 58 (4.61%) React
3 47 (3.74%) gRPC
3 47 (3.74%) Protocol Buffers
4 46 (3.66%) NumPy
4 46 (3.66%) Pandas
5 44 (3.50%) SciPy
6 21 (1.67%) Jest
7 14 (1.11%) HTML
8 11 (0.88%) Spring
9 9 (0.72%) CSS
10 6 (0.48%) JSON
10 6 (0.48%) RESTful
11 5 (0.40%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.40%) LAMP
11 5 (0.40%) OAuth
11 5 (0.40%) REST
12 4 (0.32%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.32%) EDI
12 4 (0.32%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (3.98%) Fixed Income
1 50 (3.98%) Hedge funds
2 49 (3.90%) Derivative
3 47 (3.74%) Equities
4 46 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 45 (3.58%) Data Centre
6 40 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 34 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.67%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.27%) Fibre Optics
10 13 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
10 13 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.72%) Blackberry
12 9 (0.72%) BYOD
12 9 (0.72%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.72%) Life Science
13 8 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 224 (17.82%) Windows
2 82 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 73 (5.81%) Linux
4 52 (4.14%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.51%) Android
8 17 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (1.11%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.64%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.080%) Debian
13 1 (0.080%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (16.39%) Mentoring
2 201 (15.99%) Agile
3 190 (15.12%) ITIL
4 170 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
5 154 (12.25%) Customer Service
6 149 (11.85%) Software Engineering
7 148 (11.77%) Line Management
8 106 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
9 101 (8.04%) Project Management
10 100 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (7.32%) Service Management
12 84 (6.68%) Asset Management
13 73 (5.81%) Coaching
13 73 (5.81%) DevOps
14 72 (5.73%) Service Delivery
15 60 (4.77%) Incident Management
16 59 (4.69%) Stakeholder Management
17 55 (4.38%) Collaborative Culture
18 53 (4.22%) Analytics
18 53 (4.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 120 (9.55%) SQL
2 116 (9.23%) Python
3 99 (7.88%) JavaScript
4 88 (7.00%) Java
5 80 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 67 (5.33%) C#
7 42 (3.34%) PHP
8 27 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 25 (1.99%) C++
10 22 (1.75%) C
11 12 (0.95%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.48%) R
12 6 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.48%) VB
12 6 (0.48%) VB6
13 5 (0.40%) Bash
13 5 (0.40%) Ruby
14 4 (0.32%) Scala
15 3 (0.24%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 190 (15.12%) Degree
2 59 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 39 (3.10%) SC Cleared
4 36 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.51%) CREST Certified
6 19 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (1.11%) CHECK Team Leader
7 14 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (1.03%) CEH
8 13 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.03%) SSCP
9 11 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.88%) CISSP
10 10 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (0.72%) CCSP
11 9 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.44%) SLA
2 49 (3.90%) QA
3 23 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.19%) GDPR
5 13 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.95%) NIST
7 8 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.56%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.48%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.24%) ECSS
11 2 (0.16%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.080%) EMIR
12 1 (0.080%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.080%) MiFID
System Software
1 127 (10.10%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.58%) Hyper-V
3 41 (3.26%) Docker
4 36 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (2.47%) Firmware
6 16 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.56%) vSphere
10 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.080%) KVM
14 1 (0.080%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 52 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.18%) SCCM
4 16 (1.27%) Ansible
5 14 (1.11%) Terraform
6 12 (0.95%) Puppet
6 12 (0.95%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.95%) ZABBIX
7 9 (0.72%) Nmap
7 9 (0.72%) WSUS
8 7 (0.56%) NetBackup
8 7 (0.56%) SCOM
9 6 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.32%) Icinga
11 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.24%) Grafana
13 2 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 2 (0.16%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 229 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 79 (6.28%) VMware
3 35 (2.78%) Citrix
3 35 (2.78%) Oracle
4 30 (2.39%) Cisco
5 17 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.11%) Civica
7 11 (0.88%) SAP
7 11 (0.88%) Splunk
8 10 (0.80%) Juniper
8 10 (0.80%) Qualys
9 9 (0.72%) Rapid7
9 9 (0.72%) Thycotic
10 8 (0.64%) McAfee
10 8 (0.64%) Meraki
11 7 (0.56%) Apple
11 7 (0.56%) SolarWinds
11 7 (0.56%) Sophos
12 6 (0.48%) Commvault
12 6 (0.48%) Veeam