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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 881 1070
Rank change year-on-year +119 +189 -280
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 160 64 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.069% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.075% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 145 58 129
10th Percentile £59,250 £45,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -17.86% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 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 +119 147 £72,500 +20.83% 25
UK excluding London +33 147 £72,500 +26.09% 22
North of England +58 58 £70,000 +19.15% 15
Yorkshire +104 53 £70,000 +42.86% 10
South East +29 41 £90,000 +71.43%
East Midlands -8 28 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Midlands -11 28 £70,000 +21.74% 7
Work from Home +40 25 £75,000 +30.43% 11
London +65 11 £112,500 +28.57% 2
Wales +20 9 £62,500 -13.79%
East of England -7 6 £75,000 -21.05%
North West -15 4 £75,000 +7.14% 5
South West -27 3 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland -62 2 £65,000 +4.00%
North East -15 1 £55,000 -4.35%

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 71 (44.38%) Agile
2 53 (33.13%) .NET
3 50 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 48 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 48 (30.00%) Git
4 48 (30.00%) React
5 45 (28.13%) C#
6 41 (25.63%) Mentoring
7 38 (23.75%) Propensity Modelling
7 38 (23.75%) PHP
8 36 (22.50%) Social Skills
9 33 (20.63%) Collaborative Culture
10 31 (19.38%) AWS
11 30 (18.75%) Degree
12 27 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence
12 27 (16.88%) TypeScript
12 27 (16.88%) SQL
13 24 (15.00%) Waterfall
13 24 (15.00%) Machine Learning
14 23 (14.38%) Web Development
14 23 (14.38%) Onboarding
15 22 (13.75%) Kubernetes
15 22 (13.75%) Jest
15 22 (13.75%) Selenium
15 22 (13.75%) Cypress.io
15 22 (13.75%) NoSQL
15 22 (13.75%) SoapUI
15 22 (13.75%) Docker
16 19 (11.88%) Azure
17 17 (10.63%) 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 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.38%) AWS
2 19 (11.88%) Azure
3 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.50%) GCP
5 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.88%) dbt
5 3 (1.88%) Serverless
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.25%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.63%) Datadog
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub
7 1 (0.63%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.63%) PaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.75%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Arrow
3 3 (1.88%) Dremio
4 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.25%) MySQL
5 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (30.00%) Git
2 22 (13.75%) Cypress.io
2 22 (13.75%) Selenium
2 22 (13.75%) SoapUI
3 7 (4.38%) JIRA
General
1 36 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.25%) Finance
3 7 (4.38%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.75%) Aerospace
4 6 (3.75%) Banking
5 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.13%) .NET
2 48 (30.00%) React
3 22 (13.75%) Jest
4 6 (3.75%) CSS
5 5 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 5 (3.13%) HTML
5 5 (3.13%) LAMP
6 3 (1.88%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (1.88%) gRPC
6 3 (1.88%) JSON
6 3 (1.88%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (1.88%) Redux
6 3 (1.88%) Vue
7 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.63%) Node.js
8 1 (0.63%) OpenID
8 1 (0.63%) Spring
8 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.63%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.38%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.50%) Derivative
3 3 (1.88%) Equities
3 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
3 3 (1.88%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.38%) Agile
2 48 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 41 (25.63%) Mentoring
4 38 (23.75%) Propensity Modelling
5 33 (20.63%) Collaborative Culture
6 27 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (15.00%) Machine Learning
7 24 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 23 (14.38%) Web Development
9 17 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.13%) Line Management
11 13 (8.13%) Scrum
12 12 (7.50%) SDLC
13 11 (6.88%) DevOps
13 11 (6.88%) People Management
14 9 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
16 6 (3.75%) Commercial Awareness
16 6 (3.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 45 (28.13%) C#
3 38 (23.75%) PHP
4 27 (16.88%) SQL
4 27 (16.88%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.38%) C++
6 6 (3.75%) Python
6 6 (3.75%) VB
6 6 (3.75%) VB6
7 5 (3.13%) Java
8 3 (1.88%) ABAP
9 2 (1.25%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (18.75%) Degree
2 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 22 (13.75%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.88%) SAP
3 1 (0.63%) Google