Lead Java Developer Contracts in the South East

Lead Java Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 - 259
Rank change year-on-year - - -49
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.018% - 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% - 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £650 £635 £675
% change year-on-year +2.36% -5.93% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,125 5,457 7,463
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 94.71% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,092 3,816 5,052
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year - +1.27% +9.72%
75th Percentile £619 £610 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 239 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £17.11 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.14 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.95
90th Percentile £76.99 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the South East

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the South East

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the South East

Lead Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Sussex - 1 £400 -
Lead Java Developer
England

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Lead Java Developer contract 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 contract job ads across the South East region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk