Lead Job Trends in Surrey

Leader
South East > Surrey

The median Leader salary in Surrey is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 155 78 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.17% 7.05% 5.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.51% 8.24% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 109 57 83
10th Percentile £44,500 £55,790 £31,345
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile - £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 2,063 947 2,248
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 85.55% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 661 1,468
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £84,125
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Lead job vacancy trend in Surrey

Lead
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Surrey

Lead
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Guildford -13 37 £100,000 +42.86% 11
Epsom - 19 £80,000 -
Woking -5 17 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Redhill +7 10 £70,000 -22.22% 1
Reigate -9 9 £100,000 - 6
Staines -1 7 £72,500 +16.00% 5
Leatherhead -3 6 - - 3
Sunbury-on-Thames - 5 - -
Oxted - 4 £40,000 -
Camberley -2 3 - - 4
Esher - 2 £62,500 -
Egham -4 1 £62,500 -24.24%
Banstead - 1 - -
Chertsey - 1 £95,000 -
Haslemere - 1 £45,000 -
Tadworth - 1 - -
Warlingham - 1 - -
Lead
South East

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 12 July 2026, Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 28 (18.06%) Agile
1 28 (18.06%) AI
2 27 (17.42%) .NET
2 27 (17.42%) C#
3 26 (16.77%) Azure
4 24 (15.48%) Roadmaps
5 23 (14.84%) Broadband
5 23 (14.84%) SaaS
6 22 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (14.19%) SQL
7 21 (13.55%) Adobe
7 21 (13.55%) Analytics
7 21 (13.55%) Customer Experience
7 21 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (13.55%) User Research
8 20 (12.90%) Accessibility
8 20 (12.90%) Adobe Analytics
8 20 (12.90%) Digital Customer Experience
8 20 (12.90%) Mentoring
8 20 (12.90%) Product Roadmap
8 20 (12.90%) Storytelling
8 20 (12.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 19 (12.26%) JavaScript
9 19 (12.26%) Node.js
9 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
9 19 (12.26%) Workshop Facilitation
10 18 (11.61%) AWS
10 18 (11.61%) Fintech
11 17 (10.97%) C++

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.45%) Confluence
2 8 (5.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.77%) Azure
2 23 (14.84%) SaaS
3 20 (12.90%) Adobe Analytics
4 18 (11.61%) AWS
5 17 (10.97%) Figma
6 12 (7.74%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.81%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (4.52%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.58%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.65%) Contentsquare
13 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.84%) Broadband
2 8 (5.16%) DHCP
2 8 (5.16%) DNS
3 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.58%) NAS
5 3 (1.94%) Firewall
5 3 (1.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.65%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.65%) BGP
6 1 (0.65%) IPsec
6 1 (0.65%) LAN
6 1 (0.65%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.65%) SNMP
6 1 (0.65%) SSL
6 1 (0.65%) VLAN
6 1 (0.65%) VoIP
6 1 (0.65%) WAN
6 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) Power BI
2 10 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.23%) Redis
4 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.29%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.29%) Metadata
5 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.65%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (9.03%) JIRA
2 5 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
General
1 42 (27.10%) Finance
2 26 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.13%) Games
4 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.23%) Local Government
5 5 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.23%) Marketing
6 3 (1.94%) General Ledger
6 3 (1.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Automotive
8 1 (0.65%) Front Office
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.42%) .NET
2 19 (12.26%) Node.js
3 5 (3.23%) .NET Core
3 5 (3.23%) ASP.NET
3 5 (3.23%) REST
3 5 (3.23%) Vue
4 4 (2.58%) Blazor
4 4 (2.58%) gRPC
4 4 (2.58%) Qt
5 3 (1.94%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.29%) Jest
6 2 (1.29%) React
6 2 (1.29%) RESTful
7 1 (0.65%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.65%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.65%) Next.js
7 1 (0.65%) pytest
7 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Social Media
2 5 (3.23%) Driving Licence
2 5 (3.23%) PKI
3 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.29%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.16%) Windows
2 7 (4.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Debian
3 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (18.06%) Agile
1 28 (18.06%) AI
2 24 (15.48%) Roadmaps
3 22 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (13.55%) Analytics
4 21 (13.55%) Customer Experience
4 21 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (13.55%) User Research
5 20 (12.90%) Digital Customer Experience
5 20 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 20 (12.90%) Product Roadmap
5 20 (12.90%) Storytelling
5 20 (12.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 19 (12.26%) Workshop Facilitation
7 18 (11.61%) Fintech
8 16 (10.32%) Customer Insight
8 16 (10.32%) Prototyping
8 16 (10.32%) Software Engineering
9 14 (9.03%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.42%) C#
2 22 (14.19%) SQL
3 19 (12.26%) JavaScript
3 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
4 17 (10.97%) C++
5 11 (7.10%) Python
6 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.65%) Bash
6 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.65%) Go
6 1 (0.65%) Groovy
6 1 (0.65%) PHP
6 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) Degree
2 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.65%) CCNP
4 1 (0.65%) CEH
4 1 (0.65%) CISM
4 1 (0.65%) CISSP
4 1 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.65%) CRISC
4 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.90%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.16%) QA
3 4 (2.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 4 (2.58%) GxP
4 3 (1.94%) GRC
4 3 (1.94%) ITGC
5 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (9.03%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.16%) Docker
3 4 (2.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.58%) Kibana
1 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 21 (13.55%) Adobe
2 17 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.16%) Informatica
4 5 (3.23%) Oracle
5 4 (2.58%) Citrix
5 4 (2.58%) QNAP
5 4 (2.58%) Synology
5 4 (2.58%) Veeam
6 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco
6 1 (0.65%) Databricks
6 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.65%) Okta
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk