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 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 892 1056
Rank change year-on-year +146 +164 -280
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 159 64 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.068% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.075% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 144 58 132
10th Percentile £59,125 £45,500 £51,325
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,375
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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 6 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 6 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 +128 146 £72,500 +20.83% 22
UK excluding London +50 146 £72,500 +26.09% 19
North of England +51 58 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Yorkshire +109 53 £70,000 +42.86% 7
South East +32 40 £90,000 +46.94%
Midlands +10 28 £70,000 +21.74% 7
East Midlands +3 28 £70,000 +27.27% 6
Work from Home +22 25 £75,000 +30.43% 8
London +93 11 £112,500 +28.57% 2
Wales +17 9 £62,500 -13.79%
East of England -11 6 £75,000 -21.05%
North West -18 4 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -31 3 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland -73 2 £65,000 +4.00%
North East -17 1 £55,000 -4.35%

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 (44.65%) Agile
2 53 (33.33%) .NET
3 50 (31.45%) JavaScript
4 48 (30.19%) Git
4 48 (30.19%) React
5 47 (29.56%) Software Engineering
6 45 (28.30%) C#
7 41 (25.79%) Mentoring
8 38 (23.90%) PHP
9 37 (23.27%) Propensity Modelling
10 36 (22.64%) Social Skills
11 33 (20.75%) Collaborative Culture
12 31 (19.50%) AWS
13 30 (18.87%) Degree
14 27 (16.98%) Artificial Intelligence
14 27 (16.98%) TypeScript
14 27 (16.98%) SQL
15 24 (15.09%) Waterfall
15 24 (15.09%) Machine Learning
16 23 (14.47%) Web Development
16 23 (14.47%) Onboarding
17 22 (13.84%) Kubernetes
17 22 (13.84%) Jest
17 22 (13.84%) Selenium
17 22 (13.84%) Cypress.io
17 22 (13.84%) NoSQL
17 22 (13.84%) SoapUI
17 22 (13.84%) Docker
18 19 (11.95%) Azure
19 17 (10.69%) 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 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.50%) AWS
2 19 (11.95%) Azure
3 7 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.52%) GCP
5 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.89%) dbt
5 3 (1.89%) Serverless
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.26%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.26%) 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 (13.84%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
3 3 (1.89%) Dremio
4 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.26%) 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 (30.19%) Git
2 22 (13.84%) Cypress.io
2 22 (13.84%) Selenium
2 22 (13.84%) SoapUI
3 7 (4.40%) JIRA
General
1 36 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.29%) Finance
3 7 (4.40%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.77%) Aerospace
4 6 (3.77%) Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.89%) Front Office
7 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.33%) .NET
2 48 (30.19%) React
3 22 (13.84%) Jest
4 6 (3.77%) CSS
5 5 (3.14%) ASP.NET
5 5 (3.14%) HTML
5 5 (3.14%) LAMP
6 3 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (1.89%) gRPC
6 3 (1.89%) JSON
6 3 (1.89%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (1.89%) Redux
6 3 (1.89%) Vue
7 2 (1.26%) 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%) SAML
8 1 (0.63%) Spring
8 1 (0.63%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.47%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.52%) Derivative
3 3 (1.89%) Equities
3 3 (1.89%) Fixed Income
3 3 (1.89%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.26%) 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 (44.65%) Agile
2 47 (29.56%) Software Engineering
3 41 (25.79%) Mentoring
4 37 (23.27%) Propensity Modelling
5 33 (20.75%) Collaborative Culture
6 27 (16.98%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (15.09%) Machine Learning
7 24 (15.09%) Waterfall
8 23 (14.47%) Web Development
9 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.18%) Line Management
11 13 (8.18%) Scrum
12 12 (7.55%) SDLC
13 11 (6.92%) DevOps
13 11 (6.92%) People Management
14 9 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (5.03%) Full Stack Development
16 6 (3.77%) Commercial Awareness
16 6 (3.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (31.45%) JavaScript
2 45 (28.30%) C#
3 38 (23.90%) PHP
4 27 (16.98%) SQL
4 27 (16.98%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.40%) C++
6 6 (3.77%) Python
6 6 (3.77%) VB
6 6 (3.77%) VB6
7 5 (3.14%) Java
8 3 (1.89%) ABAP
9 2 (1.26%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (18.87%) Degree
2 6 (3.77%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 22 (13.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.89%) SAP
3 1 (0.63%) Google