Software Team Lead
UK

The median Software 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 641 888 1069
Rank change year-on-year +247 +181 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Team Leader 249 87 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.087% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.096% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 232 73 91
10th Percentile £57,500 £44,600 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +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%

Software Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Software Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Team Leader.

Salary trend for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Team Leader over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Team Leader in the UK

Software Team Leader
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software 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
England +248 235 £75,000 +7.14% 33
UK excluding London +108 180 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Work from Home +137 97 £135,000 +92.86% 14
North of England +86 69 £70,000 +27.27% 5
London +149 63 £135,000 +35.00% 3
Yorkshire +123 50 £70,000 +45.83% 1
South East +51 48 £82,500 +17.86% 9
Midlands +12 27 £67,500 +17.39% 6
East Midlands +1 20 £70,000 +55.56% 3
South West -13 18 £60,000 -20.00% 7
North West +1 12 £75,000 +11.11% 4
East of England +14 10 £60,000 -7.69% 3
West Midlands +13 7 £67,500 +17.39% 3
North East - 7 £60,000 -
Wales - 5 £62,500 -
Scotland -71 3 £60,000 -17.24% 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Software 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 Software Team Leader in the job title.

1 128 (51.41%) Agile
2 124 (49.80%) Software Engineering
3 97 (38.96%) JavaScript
4 94 (37.75%) AWS
5 77 (30.92%) TypeScript
6 71 (28.51%) Java
7 66 (26.51%) Python
8 63 (25.30%) Finance
9 61 (24.50%) Line Management
10 54 (21.69%) Front Office
11 53 (21.29%) Asset Management
11 53 (21.29%) GCP
12 52 (20.88%) Pandas
12 52 (20.88%) gRPC
12 52 (20.88%) Apache Airflow
12 52 (20.88%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (20.88%) Apache Ignite
12 52 (20.88%) Dremio
12 52 (20.88%) dbt
12 52 (20.88%) Apache Arrow
12 52 (20.88%) Git
12 52 (20.88%) Protocol Buffers
12 52 (20.88%) Hedge funds
12 52 (20.88%) SciPy
12 52 (20.88%) NumPy
12 52 (20.88%) Banking
12 52 (20.88%) Investment Banking
12 52 (20.88%) Fixed Income
12 52 (20.88%) Equities
12 52 (20.88%) Derivative

Software 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 52 (20.88%) Apache
1 52 (20.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 94 (37.75%) AWS
2 53 (21.29%) GCP
3 52 (20.88%) dbt
4 48 (19.28%) Snowflake
5 12 (4.82%) Azure
6 7 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.20%) Serverless
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.80%) PaaS
9 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.41%) CTI
2 2 (0.80%) Multicast
2 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.40%) DSL
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (20.88%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (20.88%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (20.88%) Apache Ignite
1 52 (20.88%) Dremio
2 48 (19.28%) Data Lake
3 25 (10.04%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.01%) SQLite
6 4 (1.61%) MySQL
6 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.20%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.20%) Redis
8 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (20.88%) Git
2 21 (8.43%) Cypress.io
2 21 (8.43%) Selenium
2 21 (8.43%) SoapUI
3 14 (5.62%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.41%) Subversion
4 6 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.01%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.61%) JIRA
6 4 (1.61%) LabVIEW
7 3 (1.20%) Gradle
7 3 (1.20%) JUnit
7 3 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (0.80%) Android Studio
General
1 63 (25.30%) Finance
2 54 (21.69%) Front Office
3 52 (20.88%) Banking
3 52 (20.88%) Investment Banking
4 41 (16.47%) Social Skills
5 12 (4.82%) Electronics
6 10 (4.02%) Automotive
7 9 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.21%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.41%) Police
10 5 (2.01%) Games
10 5 (2.01%) Marketing
10 5 (2.01%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.80%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) iGaming
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (20.88%) gRPC
1 52 (20.88%) NumPy
1 52 (20.88%) Pandas
1 52 (20.88%) Protocol Buffers
1 52 (20.88%) SciPy
2 48 (19.28%) React
3 42 (16.87%) .NET
4 21 (8.43%) Jest
5 10 (4.02%) HTML
6 5 (2.01%) CSS
7 4 (1.61%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.61%) Spring
8 3 (1.20%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.20%) Qt
9 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.80%) Flask
9 2 (0.80%) Vue
10 1 (0.40%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.40%) RESTful
10 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.88%) Derivative
1 52 (20.88%) Equities
1 52 (20.88%) Fixed Income
1 52 (20.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 52 (20.88%) Hedge funds
2 25 (10.04%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.41%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.61%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (0.80%) Hackathon
6 2 (0.80%) Media Streaming
6 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.80%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (0.80%) Social Media
7 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.40%) CMDB
7 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.40%) IoT
7 1 (0.40%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.83%) Linux
2 12 (4.82%) Windows
3 5 (2.01%) Android
3 5 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (51.41%) Agile
2 124 (49.80%) Software Engineering
3 61 (24.50%) Line Management
4 53 (21.29%) Asset Management
5 50 (20.08%) Mentoring
6 37 (14.86%) Investment Management
7 30 (12.05%) Propensity Modelling
8 26 (10.44%) Collaborative Culture
9 24 (9.64%) Waterfall
10 23 (9.24%) Web Development
11 21 (8.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (8.43%) Machine Learning
12 19 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (4.42%) SDLC
14 10 (4.02%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (4.02%) Software Testing
15 9 (3.61%) Decision-Making
15 9 (3.61%) DevOps
15 9 (3.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (38.96%) JavaScript
2 77 (30.92%) TypeScript
3 71 (28.51%) Java
4 66 (26.51%) Python
5 42 (16.87%) C#
6 37 (14.86%) PHP
7 35 (14.06%) SQL
8 22 (8.84%) C++
9 12 (4.82%) C
10 5 (2.01%) Bash
11 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.61%) Ruby
11 4 (1.61%) Scala
12 3 (1.20%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.80%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 29 (11.65%) Degree
2 9 (3.61%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.80%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 22 (8.84%) Docker
2 12 (4.82%) Firmware
3 8 (3.21%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (4.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.01%) SAP
3 2 (0.80%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.40%) Google
4 1 (0.40%) Snow