team leadership jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-30, team leadership appears in 209 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Engineering Manager has the most postings mentioning team leadership, with demand share down 8.3% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30
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Frequently asked questions about team leadership
+Is team leadership in demand in 2026?
Yes. team leadership appears in 209 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Engineering Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning team leadership (15.3% of all postings mentioning team leadership).
+What jobs require team leadership?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning team leadership are General Manager (25.0% of that role’s postings mention team leadership), Chief Executive Officer (5.0% of that role’s postings mention team leadership), Credit Risk Manager (4.5% of that role’s postings mention team leadership).
+What skills are commonly paired with team leadership?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), team leadership most often appears alongside Risk Management, mentoring, stakeholder management, program management, software engineering.
+Where is team leadership most in demand?
As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring team leadership are London, San Francisco, New York City, Dublin, Austin, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new team leadership content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning team leadership alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new team leadership content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after team leadership?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring team leadership — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around team leadership
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before team leadership
Skills after team leadership
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning | 1 |
| Before: C++17 (MSVC 2017) | 1 |
| Before: Marketing Strategy | 1 |
| Before: retrospectives | 1 |
| Before: Team coordination | 1 |
| Before: Virtual data room | 1 |
| Before: market application | 1 |
| Before: performance monitoring | 1 |
| After: agile methodologies | 2 |
| After: conceptual work | 1 |
| After: retrospectives | 1 |
| After: servant leadership | 1 |
| After: cross-functional coordination | 1 |
| After: security protocols | 1 |
| After: smart city IoT deployments | 1 |
| After: Quality Assurance | 1 |
Roles most likely to require team leadership
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| General Manager | 6 | 25.0% |
| Chief Executive Officer | 1 | 5.0% |
| Credit Risk Manager | 1 | 4.5% |
| Group Product Manager | 6 | 4.4% |
| Head of Information Security | 1 | 4.2% |
| AI Project Manager | 1 | 4.0% |
| ML Engineering Manager | 1 | 3.8% |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager | 2 | 3.4% |
| IT Cybersecurity Specialist | 1 | 3.0% |
| Electrical Engineering Manager | 1 | 2.3% |
Roles with the most team leadership postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager | 32 | 15.3% |
| Program Manager | 15 | 7.2% |
| Product Manager | 14 | 6.7% |
| Software Engineer | 9 | 4.3% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 7 | 3.3% |
| General Manager | 6 | 2.9% |
| Group Product Manager | 6 | 2.9% |
| Data Engineering Manager | 3 | 1.4% |
| Analytics Manager | 2 | 1.0% |
| Business Intelligence Manager | 2 | 1.0% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring team leadership
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Bjakcareer | 7 |
| 4 | |
| Stripe | 4 |
| Wise | 4 |
| Scale AI | 4 |
| Figma | 4 |
| Mastercard | 3 |
| Ursa Major | 3 |
| Quantum | 3 |
| Missionaustralia | 3 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for team leadership
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| London | 16 | 7.7% |
| San Francisco | 9 | 4.3% |
| New York City | 8 | 3.8% |
| Dublin | 5 | 2.4% |
| Austin | 3 | 1.4% |
| Berthoud | 3 | 1.4% |
| Paris | 3 | 1.4% |
| Singapore | 3 | 1.4% |
| Warsaw | 3 | 1.4% |
Skills commonly paired with team leadership
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- Head of Information Security
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning team leadership by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s team leadership postings by all team leadership postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.1% to 0.1%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,595 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 0565493b9051a701
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- 2026-09-30
- window_days
- 90
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