Lead Jobs 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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 39 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 91 143 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 7.76% 5.59% 8.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.60% 6.11% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 40 89 143
10th Percentile £52,000 £40,100 £49,600
25th Percentile £55,790 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 948 2,340 2,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 80.89% 91.51% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 551 1,499 1,336
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 2025. 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 +40 19 £75,000 +7.14% 21
Redhill -6 6 - - 3
Camberley -1 4 £73,500 +22.50%
Epsom - 4 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames +22 3 - -
Egham +6 3 £82,500 -2.94% 1
Weybridge +2 3 £95,000 +26.67% 3
Cobham - 3 - -
Woking +19 2 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Esher +5 2 - -
Walton-on-Thames +5 2 - -
Dorking +4 2 £70,000 -12.50%
East Molesey +3 2 - -
Addlestone - 2 - - 1
Thames Ditton +3 1 - -
Staines -1 1 - - 1
Banstead -2 1 - -
Leatherhead - 1 £57,500 - 3
Warlingham - 1 - -
Whyteleafe - 1 - -
Lead
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Surrey region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 49 (53.85%) Mentoring
2 47 (51.65%) Degree
2 47 (51.65%) Roadmaps
3 46 (50.55%) Social Skills
4 43 (47.25%) High Availability
5 42 (46.15%) Product Management
5 42 (46.15%) Broadband
6 31 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (32.97%) AWS
8 27 (29.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (29.67%) Computer Science
9 26 (28.57%) DevOps
10 25 (27.47%) Broadcast Engineering
11 24 (26.37%) Java
12 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
13 21 (23.08%) Linux
13 21 (23.08%) Python
13 21 (23.08%) Agile
14 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
14 19 (20.88%) Terraform
14 19 (20.88%) Docker
15 18 (19.78%) Performance Optimisation
16 17 (18.68%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (18.68%) AWS Certification
16 17 (18.68%) Prometheus
16 17 (18.68%) Task Automation
16 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (18.68%) Ansible
16 17 (18.68%) Go
16 17 (18.68%) Relational Database

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (4.40%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.10%) OrCAD
2 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) SAP PP
1 2 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) AWS
2 17 (18.68%) Pulumi
3 14 (15.38%) Azure
4 11 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.59%) SaaS
7 1 (1.10%) Apigee
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.10%) Serverless
7 1 (1.10%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 42 (46.15%) Broadband
2 6 (6.59%) Firewall
2 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.59%) VPN
3 5 (5.49%) BGP
3 5 (5.49%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (5.49%) LAN
3 5 (5.49%) MPLS
3 5 (5.49%) OSPF
3 5 (5.49%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.49%) VLAN
3 5 (5.49%) WAN
4 1 (1.10%) Network Security
4 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) NoSQL
1 17 (18.68%) RDBMS
1 17 (18.68%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.69%) Power BI
2 7 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (18.68%) Jaeger
2 3 (3.30%) Git
3 2 (2.20%) Selenium
3 2 (2.20%) Subversion
4 1 (1.10%) CMake
4 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 46 (50.55%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.89%) Multimedia
5 7 (7.69%) Marketing
6 6 (6.59%) Publishing
7 5 (5.49%) Finance
7 5 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Electronics
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Local Government
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (18.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (7.69%) React
3 6 (6.59%) .NET
4 3 (3.30%) HTML
4 3 (3.30%) REST
5 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.10%) ADO.NET
6 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (1.10%) CSS
6 1 (1.10%) Kafka
6 1 (1.10%) Middleware
6 1 (1.10%) Vue
6 1 (1.10%) WCF
6 1 (1.10%) Web Services
6 1 (1.10%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Social Media
2 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.40%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.20%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.20%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.20%) FPGA
5 2 (2.20%) VHDL
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) PMI
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Linux
2 17 (18.68%) Unix
3 2 (2.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.85%) Mentoring
2 47 (51.65%) Roadmaps
3 43 (47.25%) High Availability
4 42 (46.15%) Product Management
5 31 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (29.67%) Computer Science
7 26 (28.57%) DevOps
8 25 (27.47%) Broadcast Engineering
9 21 (23.08%) Agile
10 18 (19.78%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (18.68%) Budget Control
11 17 (18.68%) Containerisation
11 17 (18.68%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (18.68%) Cost Optimisation
11 17 (18.68%) GitOps
11 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (18.68%) Resource Management
11 17 (18.68%) Task Automation
12 12 (13.19%) Digital Strategy
13 10 (10.99%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) Java
2 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
3 21 (23.08%) Python
4 17 (18.68%) Bash
4 17 (18.68%) Go
5 10 (10.99%) SQL
6 5 (5.49%) C
6 5 (5.49%) C++
7 3 (3.30%) Scala
7 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) C#
9 1 (1.10%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.10%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (51.65%) Degree
2 27 (29.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (18.68%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.40%) PhD
6 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) SLA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 19 (20.88%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Hyper-V
2 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.20%) Firmware
4 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
1 19 (20.88%) Terraform
2 17 (18.68%) Ansible
2 17 (18.68%) Argo
2 17 (18.68%) Kustomize
2 17 (18.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Google
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.49%) VMware
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 3 (3.30%) Guidewire
4 3 (3.30%) Informatica
5 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) Ariba
6 1 (1.10%) Progress