Lead Java Developer Contracts in the City of London

Lead Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £744 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 166 195
Rank change year-on-year +41 +29 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.090% 0.16% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.17% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £667 - £571
25th Percentile £692 £713 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 £800 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +25.49% +41.67%
75th Percentile £805 £888 £709
90th Percentile £836 £969 £734
Central London median daily rate £744 £800 £638
% change year-on-year -7.03% +25.49% +41.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

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

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the City of London

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the City of London

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 City of London region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Security
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker