Lead Java Developer Contracts in England

Lead Java Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in England is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 510 614
Rank change year-on-year +69 +104 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 44 32 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.086% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.093% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 28
10th Percentile £513 £620 £563
25th Percentile £528 £625 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +3.17% -8.36%
75th Percentile £750 £888 £738
90th Percentile £834 - £899
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in England

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in England

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in England

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Java Developer in England

Lead Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +48 29 £750 -9.09% 9
North of England +18 5 £525 -19.23%
Yorkshire +8 4 £525 -19.23%
Midlands +19 3 £539 -17.06% 1
West Midlands +11 3 £539 -17.06% 1
North West +17 2 £563 -13.46%
South East - 1 £638 - 7
Lead Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 England region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (68.18%) TDD
3 28 (63.64%) Agile
4 27 (61.36%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (56.82%) Spring
6 24 (54.55%) Microservices
7 23 (52.27%) Spring Boot
8 22 (50.00%) BDD
9 21 (47.73%) JUnit
9 21 (47.73%) Docker
10 19 (43.18%) DevOps
10 19 (43.18%) SQL
10 19 (43.18%) SC Cleared
10 19 (43.18%) Security Cleared
11 18 (40.91%) Kafka
12 17 (38.64%) AWS
12 17 (38.64%) Swagger
12 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
13 16 (36.36%) Containerisation
13 16 (36.36%) OpenAPI
14 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
14 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (29.55%) Software Engineering
15 12 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
15 12 (27.27%) Azure
15 12 (27.27%) Redis
15 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (25.00%) Architectural Design
16 11 (25.00%) Public Sector

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (13.64%) Confluence
2 4 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.82%) JBoss
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) Camunda
4 1 (2.27%) nginx
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.27%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Slack
5 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.55%) GCP
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.27%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (61.36%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (27.27%) Redis
3 9 (20.45%) MySQL
3 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
4 8 (18.18%) MongoDB
5 6 (13.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.82%) Neo4j
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.27%) Big Data
8 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (47.73%) JUnit
2 10 (22.73%) Git
2 10 (22.73%) Mockito
3 9 (20.45%) Gradle
3 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.45%) JIRA
4 7 (15.91%) Cucumber
4 7 (15.91%) Maven
5 6 (13.64%) Jasmine
5 6 (13.64%) Liquibase
6 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
7 4 (9.09%) Selenium
8 3 (6.82%) IntelliJ
9 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (4.55%) Eclipse
9 2 (4.55%) TestNG
10 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (2.27%) GitLab
10 1 (2.27%) ScalaTest
10 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (22.73%) Banking
4 10 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.36%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Back Office
6 1 (2.27%) Front Office
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (56.82%) Spring
2 23 (52.27%) Spring Boot
3 18 (40.91%) Kafka
4 17 (38.64%) Swagger
5 16 (36.36%) OpenAPI
6 12 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (20.45%) React
7 9 (20.45%) RESTful
8 7 (15.91%) REST
9 6 (13.64%) Hibernate
9 6 (13.64%) Spring Batch
9 6 (13.64%) Spring Security
10 5 (11.36%) JSP
11 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
12 3 (6.82%) Jest
12 3 (6.82%) JPA
12 3 (6.82%) LDAP
12 3 (6.82%) SOAP
12 3 (6.82%) Struts
12 3 (6.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (6.82%) Derivative
2 3 (6.82%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.09%) Windows
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) TDD
2 28 (63.64%) Agile
3 24 (54.55%) Microservices
4 22 (50.00%) BDD
5 19 (43.18%) DevOps
6 16 (36.36%) Containerisation
7 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
7 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (29.55%) Software Engineering
8 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (25.00%) Architectural Design
9 11 (25.00%) Computer Science
10 10 (22.73%) Economics
10 10 (22.73%) Mathematics
11 7 (15.91%) API Design
11 7 (15.91%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.91%) Migration
12 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (13.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (43.18%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) Bash
3 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.82%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Python
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) SC Cleared
1 19 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) Degree
3 10 (22.73%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 21 (47.73%) Docker
2 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.55%) Postfix
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Grafana
2 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.27%) Kibana
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Virgin Media