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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 913 1050
Rank change year-on-year +173 +137 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 144 62 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.062% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.068% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 135 56 124
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £55,000
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 £80,313 £80,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £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%

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 20 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 20 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 +76 132 £72,500 +20.83% 21
England +162 131 £72,500 +3.57% 25
North of England +71 57 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire +120 51 £70,000 +42.86% 4
South East +36 31 £90,000 +28.57% 2
Work from Home +68 24 £77,500 +29.17% 7
Midlands +9 24 £70,000 +21.74% 8
East Midlands +3 24 £70,000 +27.27% 7
London +107 10 £105,000 +16.67% 3
Wales +16 9 £62,500 -13.79%
East of England +10 6 £75,000 -21.05%
North West -5 5 £67,500 +12.50% 7
South West -20 3 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland -64 2 £65,000 +11.59%
North East - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 70 (48.61%) Agile
2 49 (34.03%) JavaScript
3 48 (33.33%) .NET
4 47 (32.64%) Git
4 47 (32.64%) React
5 39 (27.08%) Mentoring
5 39 (27.08%) Software Engineering
6 38 (26.39%) C#
7 37 (25.69%) PHP
8 35 (24.31%) Social Skills
9 32 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
10 31 (21.53%) AWS
11 30 (20.83%) Propensity Modelling
12 27 (18.75%) Degree
13 26 (18.06%) TypeScript
14 25 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (16.67%) Waterfall
15 24 (16.67%) Onboarding
16 23 (15.97%) Machine Learning
16 23 (15.97%) Web Development
16 23 (15.97%) SQL
17 22 (15.28%) Kubernetes
18 21 (14.58%) Docker
18 21 (14.58%) NoSQL
18 21 (14.58%) SoapUI
18 21 (14.58%) Selenium
18 21 (14.58%) Cypress.io
18 21 (14.58%) Jest
19 18 (12.50%) Azure
20 17 (11.81%) 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 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.53%) AWS
2 18 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.78%) GCP
5 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.08%) dbt
5 3 (2.08%) GitHub
5 3 (2.08%) Serverless
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
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 21 (14.58%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Arrow
3 3 (2.08%) Dremio
4 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.39%) 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 47 (32.64%) Git
2 21 (14.58%) Cypress.io
2 21 (14.58%) Selenium
2 21 (14.58%) SoapUI
3 7 (4.86%) JIRA
General
1 35 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.25%) Finance
3 6 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.08%) Banking
5 3 (2.08%) Front Office
5 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (33.33%) .NET
2 47 (32.64%) React
3 21 (14.58%) Jest
4 5 (3.47%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.47%) CSS
4 5 (3.47%) LAMP
5 4 (2.78%) HTML
6 3 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.08%) gRPC
6 3 (2.08%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (2.08%) Redux
6 3 (2.08%) Vue
7 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.39%) JSON
8 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.69%) EDI
8 1 (0.69%) Node.js
8 1 (0.69%) OpenID
8 1 (0.69%) Spring
8 1 (0.69%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.08%) Derivative
2 3 (2.08%) Equities
2 3 (2.08%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.08%) Hedge funds
2 3 (2.08%) IoT
3 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
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 70 (48.61%) Agile
2 39 (27.08%) Mentoring
2 39 (27.08%) Software Engineering
3 32 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 30 (20.83%) Propensity Modelling
5 25 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 24 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 23 (15.97%) Machine Learning
7 23 (15.97%) Web Development
8 17 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (9.03%) Line Management
9 13 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.33%) Scrum
10 12 (8.33%) SDLC
11 11 (7.64%) DevOps
12 10 (6.94%) People Management
13 8 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 6 (4.17%) Commercial Awareness
14 6 (4.17%) Project Management
14 6 (4.17%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.03%) JavaScript
2 38 (26.39%) C#
3 37 (25.69%) PHP
4 26 (18.06%) TypeScript
5 23 (15.97%) SQL
6 8 (5.56%) Python
7 6 (4.17%) C++
7 6 (4.17%) VB
7 6 (4.17%) VB6
8 4 (2.78%) Java
9 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (18.75%) Degree
2 6 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 21 (14.58%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Firmware
3 3 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (15.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.69%) Google