Lead Java Developer Jobs in London

Lead Java Developer
England > London

The median Lead Java Developer salary in London is £122,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 560 711
Rank change year-on-year +113 +151 -211
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 60 70 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 60 65 88
10th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £110,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +17.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £146,250 £122,500 £123,125
90th Percentile £165,000 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +24.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,214 33,631 64,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.05% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,714 24,683 34,818
10th Percentile £38,110 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in London

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Java Developer in London

Lead Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Developer in London

Lead Java Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +50 3 £92,500 -21.28% 1
Lead Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Lead Java 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 London region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (75.00%) AWS
3 29 (48.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (43.33%) Software Engineering
5 25 (41.67%) GCP
6 24 (40.00%) Agile
7 23 (38.33%) JavaScript
7 23 (38.33%) Python
8 22 (36.67%) Banking
8 22 (36.67%) Finance
9 21 (35.00%) Front Office
10 20 (33.33%) Asset Management
10 20 (33.33%) Apache
10 20 (33.33%) Fixed Income
10 20 (33.33%) Equities
10 20 (33.33%) Derivative
10 20 (33.33%) Hedge funds
10 20 (33.33%) SciPy
10 20 (33.33%) NumPy
10 20 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
10 20 (33.33%) TypeScript
10 20 (33.33%) Investment Banking
10 20 (33.33%) Pandas
10 20 (33.33%) dbt
10 20 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (33.33%) gRPC
10 20 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
10 20 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
10 20 (33.33%) Dremio

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 20 (33.33%) Apache
1 20 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) AWS
2 25 (41.67%) GCP
3 20 (33.33%) dbt
4 18 (30.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
1 20 (33.33%) Dremio
2 18 (30.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Gradle
General
1 22 (36.67%) Banking
1 22 (36.67%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) Front Office
3 20 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.33%) gRPC
1 20 (33.33%) NumPy
1 20 (33.33%) Pandas
1 20 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
1 20 (33.33%) SciPy
2 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (10.00%) REST
3 6 (10.00%) Spring
4 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.00%) JPA
4 3 (5.00%) React
5 2 (3.33%) Micronaut
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.67%) SOAP
6 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (48.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (33.33%) Derivative
2 20 (33.33%) Equities
2 20 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 20 (33.33%) Hedge funds
3 8 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 5 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (6.67%) Client/Server
6 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (40.00%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 18 (30.00%) Investment Management
4 18 (30.00%) Line Management
5 12 (20.00%) Fintech
5 12 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.33%) DevOps
7 9 (15.00%) Low Latency
7 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.33%) Microservices
8 8 (13.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
8 8 (13.33%) User Stories
9 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
9 7 (11.67%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (10.00%) Code Quality
10 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
11 5 (8.33%) Pair Programming
12 4 (6.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (38.33%) JavaScript
2 23 (38.33%) Python
3 20 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 8 (13.33%) C#
5 5 (8.33%) Scala
6 4 (6.67%) SQL
7 3 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform