Lead Developer Jobs in Guildford

Lead Developer
Surrey > Guildford

The median Lead Developer salary in Guildford is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +32 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 4.81% 0.28% -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.15% 0.30% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 97 328 379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.39% 97.68%
Number of salaries quoted 82 304 247
10th Percentile £31,600 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £77,500
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Guildford

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Guildford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Guildford.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Guildford

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Guildford over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Guildford

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Lead Developer 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 across the Guildford region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) PhD
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) Physics
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Image Processing
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (20.00%) VHDL
4 1 (20.00%) Python

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (20.00%) FPGA
2 1 (20.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Image Processing
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Device Driver Development
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) PhD
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform