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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 388 396
Rank change year-on-year +150 +8 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Team Leader 1,289 844 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 0.85% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.93% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 673 825
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,162 £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 £51,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.83% +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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +171 1,188 £56,500 -1.74% 332
UK excluding London +117 1,014 £51,500 -2.83% 287
Work from Home +84 437 £65,000 +13.04% 111
North of England +166 339 £52,084 +2.13% 79
South East +63 221 £60,000 +4.35% 60
London +93 219 £77,500 -3.13% 66
Yorkshire +167 170 £60,000 +20.00% 30
Midlands +43 148 £48,750 -2.50% 53
South West +50 141 £55,000 +15.79% 38
East of England +53 118 £47,500 -13.64% 39
North West +46 113 £52,084 -5.30% 44
East Midlands +44 83 £37,500 -30.23% 22
West Midlands +14 65 £50,000 - 31
North East +35 56 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Scotland -74 33 £50,000 -28.57% 17
Wales +6 12 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Northern Ireland +5 2 £50,000 -9.09% 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 312 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 234 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 231 (17.92%) Windows
4 209 (16.21%) Mentoring
5 205 (15.90%) Agile
6 195 (15.13%) ITIL
7 194 (15.05%) Finance
8 187 (14.51%) Degree
9 183 (14.20%) Azure
10 177 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
11 172 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
12 157 (12.18%) Software Engineering
13 156 (12.10%) Customer Service
14 149 (11.56%) Line Management
15 142 (11.02%) AWS
16 130 (10.09%) Active Directory
17 119 (9.23%) SQL
17 119 (9.23%) Python
18 107 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
19 102 (7.91%) JavaScript
20 101 (7.84%) Project Management
21 100 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
22 98 (7.60%) Java
23 92 (7.14%) Service Management
24 89 (6.90%) Asset Management
25 87 (6.75%) Firewall
26 86 (6.67%) Windows Server
27 83 (6.44%) TypeScript
28 82 (6.36%) SLA
29 81 (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 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (3.72%) Apache
3 48 (3.72%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.31%) IIS
6 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.078%) Drupal
8 1 (0.078%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 66 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.62%) Simulink
4 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.078%) InDesign
7 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.078%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.078%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.078%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 183 (14.20%) Azure
2 177 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
3 142 (11.02%) AWS
4 57 (4.42%) dbt
5 52 (4.03%) GCP
6 44 (3.41%) Snowflake
7 32 (2.48%) Entra ID
8 30 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (1.09%) SaaS
12 13 (1.01%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.93%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (0.78%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (0.70%) Serverless
17 8 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (0.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 87 (6.75%) Firewall
2 35 (2.72%) DNS
3 31 (2.40%) WAN
4 30 (2.33%) LAN
5 29 (2.25%) Network Security
6 27 (2.09%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.94%) Wireless
8 22 (1.71%) VPN
9 21 (1.63%) DHCP
10 18 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.93%) SAN
13 11 (0.85%) Wireshark
14 10 (0.78%) VoIP
15 9 (0.70%) VLAN
16 8 (0.62%) Internet
17 7 (0.54%) IPsec
17 7 (0.54%) iSCSI
17 7 (0.54%) OSPF
18 6 (0.47%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
1 51 (3.96%) Apache Arrow
1 51 (3.96%) Dremio
2 48 (3.72%) Apache Ignite
3 46 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 44 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 33 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 24 (1.86%) Power BI
6 24 (1.86%) Tableau
7 18 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.85%) GIS
10 9 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (0.70%) MS Access
10 9 (0.70%) MySQL
10 9 (0.70%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 56 (4.34%) Git
2 27 (2.09%) JIRA
3 20 (1.55%) Cypress.io
3 20 (1.55%) Selenium
3 20 (1.55%) SoapUI
4 14 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.54%) JUnit
6 7 (0.54%) Subversion
7 6 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.31%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.23%) Gradle
10 3 (0.23%) Maven
11 2 (0.16%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.16%) Hudson
12 1 (0.078%) GitLab
12 1 (0.078%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.078%) Phabricator
General
1 312 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 194 (15.05%) Finance
3 78 (6.05%) Banking
4 68 (5.28%) Telecoms
5 64 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (4.11%) Front Office
7 52 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 46 (3.57%) Retail
9 37 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.33%) Law
12 28 (2.17%) Aerospace
12 28 (2.17%) Electronics
13 24 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (1.63%) Games
15 21 (1.63%) Legal
16 17 (1.32%) Local Government
17 13 (1.01%) Marketing
17 13 (1.01%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.59%) .NET
2 57 (4.42%) React
3 51 (3.96%) gRPC
3 51 (3.96%) Protocol Buffers
4 50 (3.88%) NumPy
4 50 (3.88%) Pandas
5 48 (3.72%) SciPy
6 20 (1.55%) Jest
7 16 (1.24%) HTML
8 13 (1.01%) Spring
9 11 (0.85%) CSS
10 6 (0.47%) JSON
10 6 (0.47%) RESTful
11 5 (0.39%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.39%) Hibernate
11 5 (0.39%) LAMP
11 5 (0.39%) OAuth
11 5 (0.39%) REST
12 4 (0.31%) Flask
12 4 (0.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.11%) Fixed Income
1 53 (4.11%) Hedge funds
2 52 (4.03%) Derivative
3 51 (3.96%) Equities
4 49 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 40 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 34 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.71%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.24%) Fibre Optics
10 13 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
11 12 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.78%) Cloud Native
12 10 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.70%) Life Science
14 8 (0.62%) Blackberry
14 8 (0.62%) BYOD
14 8 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 231 (17.92%) Windows
2 86 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 74 (5.74%) Linux
4 51 (3.96%) Windows 10
5 27 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (1.63%) Android
8 20 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.24%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.70%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.47%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.16%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.078%) Debian
14 1 (0.078%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (16.21%) Mentoring
2 205 (15.90%) Agile
3 195 (15.13%) ITIL
4 172 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (12.18%) Software Engineering
6 156 (12.10%) Customer Service
7 149 (11.56%) Line Management
8 107 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
9 101 (7.84%) Project Management
10 100 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (7.14%) Service Management
12 89 (6.90%) Asset Management
13 77 (5.97%) Coaching
14 74 (5.74%) Service Delivery
15 72 (5.59%) DevOps
16 60 (4.65%) Incident Management
17 57 (4.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (4.27%) Collaborative Culture
19 53 (4.11%) Project Delivery
20 52 (4.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 119 (9.23%) Python
1 119 (9.23%) SQL
2 102 (7.91%) JavaScript
3 98 (7.60%) Java
4 83 (6.44%) TypeScript
5 68 (5.28%) C#
6 44 (3.41%) PHP
7 27 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 24 (1.86%) C++
9 22 (1.71%) C
10 12 (0.93%) MATLAB
11 6 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.47%) VB
11 6 (0.47%) VB6
12 5 (0.39%) Bash
12 5 (0.39%) R
12 5 (0.39%) Ruby
13 4 (0.31%) Scala
14 3 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.23%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 187 (14.51%) Degree
2 60 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 39 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 37 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.47%) CREST Certified
6 19 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (1.32%) CHECK Team Leader
8 14 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.01%) CEH
9 13 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.01%) SSCP
10 12 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.85%) CISSP
12 10 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.70%) OSCP
13 9 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.36%) SLA
2 51 (3.96%) QA
3 24 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.16%) GDPR
5 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.93%) NIST
7 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.47%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) ECSS
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.16%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.078%) EMIR
12 1 (0.078%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.078%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (10.09%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 40 (3.10%) Docker
4 36 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (2.33%) Firmware
6 17 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.54%) vSphere
10 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.078%) KVM
13 1 (0.078%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.03%) SCCM
4 16 (1.24%) Ansible
5 13 (1.01%) Terraform
6 12 (0.93%) Puppet
6 12 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.93%) ZABBIX
7 9 (0.70%) Nmap
7 9 (0.70%) WSUS
8 7 (0.54%) NetBackup
8 7 (0.54%) SCOM
9 6 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.31%) Icinga
11 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.23%) Grafana
13 2 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 2 (0.16%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 234 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.28%) VMware
3 36 (2.79%) Citrix
4 35 (2.72%) Oracle
5 31 (2.40%) Cisco
6 17 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.09%) Civica
8 11 (0.85%) SAP
8 11 (0.85%) Splunk
9 10 (0.78%) Juniper
9 10 (0.78%) Qualys
10 9 (0.70%) Rapid7
10 9 (0.70%) Thycotic
11 8 (0.62%) McAfee
11 8 (0.62%) Meraki
11 8 (0.62%) Sophos
12 7 (0.54%) Apple
12 7 (0.54%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.54%) Veeam
13 6 (0.47%) Sun