Lead Jobs in Guildford

Leader
Surrey > Guildford

The median Leader salary in Guildford is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 42 59
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 25 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 24.27% 2.39% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 26.60% 2.58% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 5
10th Percentile £55,615 £54,250 -
25th Percentile £55,790 £63,125 £46,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £48,311
Median % change year-on-year - +44.89% -30.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £50,270
90th Percentile £81,000 £81,000 -
Surrey median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +3.85%

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 94 349 326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 92.82% 97.02%
Number of salaries quoted 74 309 223
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £34,875 £37,500 £46,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,395 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £69,375 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £79,500
Surrey median annual salary £54,625 £50,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +9.25% -14.89% +6.82%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Guildford

Lead
Salary Trend in Guildford

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

Salary trend for Lead in Guildford

Lead
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Guildford over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead in Guildford

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Lead 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 in the job title.

1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 9 (36.00%) Line Management
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (24.00%) Digital Strategy
4 6 (24.00%) Data Strategy
4 6 (24.00%) Data Development
4 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (24.00%) React
4 6 (24.00%) Power BI
4 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
4 6 (24.00%) Mathematics
4 6 (24.00%) Physics
4 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
4 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (24.00%) Project Management
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (24.00%) C
4 6 (24.00%) C++
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 6 (24.00%) Linux
4 6 (24.00%) PhD
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.00%) Local Government
5 5 (20.00%) AWS
5 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (20.00%) Onboarding

Lead 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.00%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) BGP
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (12.00%) LAN
1 3 (12.00%) MPLS
1 3 (12.00%) OSPF
1 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.00%) VLAN
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
1 3 (12.00%) WAN
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Power BI
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Subversion
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Local Government
4 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Finance
6 2 (8.00%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Acoustics
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Device Driver
2 3 (12.00%) FPGA
2 3 (12.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Line Management
2 6 (24.00%) Data Development
2 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (24.00%) Data Strategy
2 6 (24.00%) Digital Strategy
2 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (24.00%) Mathematics
2 6 (24.00%) Physics
2 6 (24.00%) Project Management
3 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (12.00%) Data Management
4 3 (12.00%) Device Driver Development
4 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (12.00%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) C
1 6 (24.00%) C++
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) Embedded C
4 2 (8.00%) Embedded C++
5 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) PhD
2 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Firmware
1 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Guidewire
1 3 (12.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.00%) Progress