Lead Java Engineer Jobs in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
England > South East

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the South East is £87,500 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 372 - 481
Rank change year-on-year - - -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 14 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.084% - 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% - 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £71,125 - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - -
75th Percentile £91,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,697 13,541 19,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 90.51% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,361 8,490 12,618
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley - 9 £87,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 7 £87,500 - 1
Surrey - 3 £72,500 -
Hampshire - 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £75,000 -
Lead Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Lead Java Engineer 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 South East region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) Kafka
3 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) SQL
4 8 (57.14%) Gradle
4 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 8 (57.14%) Spring
4 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
6 6 (42.86%) PropTech
6 6 (42.86%) CouchDB
6 6 (42.86%) Microservices
6 6 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (42.86%) Docker
6 6 (42.86%) E-Commerce
6 6 (42.86%) Client/Server
6 6 (42.86%) MySQL
6 6 (42.86%) Hibernate
6 6 (42.86%) TDD
7 5 (35.71%) Linux
7 5 (35.71%) AWS
8 4 (28.57%) Python
8 4 (28.57%) Multithreading
8 4 (28.57%) Azure
9 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (21.43%) REST
9 3 (21.43%) User Stories

Lead Java Engineer 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 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) CouchDB
1 6 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (42.86%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) Impala
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Kafka
2 8 (57.14%) Spring
3 6 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
4 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (21.43%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
5 2 (14.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Client/Server
1 6 (42.86%) PropTech
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 6 (42.86%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) TDD
4 4 (28.57%) Multithreading
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) User Stories
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Biotechnology
7 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.14%) ETL
7 1 (7.14%) Migration
7 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica