Lead Java Developer Contracts in England

Lead Java Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in England is £554, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 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
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 478 587
Rank change year-on-year +25 +109 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 56 43 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.13% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.14% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 41 16
10th Percentile £475 £550 £519
25th Percentile £520 £650 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £825 £575
Median % change year-on-year -32.88% +43.48% -17.86%
75th Percentile £750 £888 £675
90th Percentile - - £863
UK median daily rate £545 £825 £575
% change year-on-year -33.99% +43.48% -13.21%

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 25,493 30,873 42,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 92.86% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,524 20,335 29,894
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,324 1,795 1,325
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.52 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 +22 43 £750 -9.09% 3
West Midlands -5 5 £475 +5.56%
Midlands -8 5 £475 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire -11 1 £590 -9.23% 2
North of England -18 1 £590 -9.23% 4
Lead Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 August 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 56 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (71.43%) Agile
3 32 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (57.14%) AWS
4 31 (55.36%) TDD
5 29 (51.79%) Kafka
5 29 (51.79%) DevOps
5 29 (51.79%) Microservices
6 27 (48.21%) Spring Boot
7 25 (44.64%) Spring
8 22 (39.29%) CI/CD
9 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
9 21 (37.50%) Azure
10 20 (35.71%) Banking
10 20 (35.71%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (35.71%) JUnit
11 19 (33.93%) SQL
12 17 (30.36%) Degree
12 17 (30.36%) Computer Science
12 17 (30.36%) Docker
12 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (30.36%) Architectural Design
13 16 (28.57%) Numerate Degree
13 16 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
13 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
13 16 (28.57%) Mathematics
13 16 (28.57%) Investment Banking
13 16 (28.57%) Economics
13 16 (28.57%) BDD

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 (10.71%) Tomcat
2 3 (5.36%) JBoss
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (57.14%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
3 16 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (8.93%) GCP
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.36%) Serverless
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (3.57%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.57%) Route 53
9 1 (1.79%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.79%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (28.57%) Redis
2 16 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.36%) Neo4j
6 2 (3.57%) MySQL
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (35.71%) JUnit
2 16 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 12 (21.43%) Mockito
4 9 (16.07%) Gradle
4 9 (16.07%) Liquibase
4 9 (16.07%) SonarQube
5 7 (12.50%) Git
6 5 (8.93%) Maven
7 3 (5.36%) JIRA
7 3 (5.36%) Selenium
8 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.79%) GitLab
9 1 (1.79%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.79%) ScalaTest
9 1 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.71%) Banking
3 16 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Front Office
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (51.79%) Kafka
2 27 (48.21%) Spring Boot
3 25 (44.64%) Spring
4 20 (35.71%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (25.00%) React
6 12 (21.43%) OpenAPI
6 12 (21.43%) REST
6 12 (21.43%) Swagger
7 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.93%) JPA
8 4 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 4 (7.14%) JSP
8 4 (7.14%) Node.js
8 4 (7.14%) Redux
8 4 (7.14%) RESTful
8 4 (7.14%) SOAP
9 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
9 3 (5.36%) HTML
9 3 (5.36%) Struts
9 3 (5.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Derivative
4 1 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
1 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) Agile
2 31 (55.36%) TDD
3 29 (51.79%) DevOps
3 29 (51.79%) Microservices
4 22 (39.29%) CI/CD
5 17 (30.36%) Architectural Design
5 17 (30.36%) Computer Science
5 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (28.57%) BDD
6 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 16 (28.57%) Economics
6 16 (28.57%) Mathematics
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
8 10 (17.86%) Migration
9 8 (14.29%) Scrum
10 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (5.36%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (33.93%) SQL
3 14 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) C#
5 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.36%) Python
6 2 (3.57%) Bash
6 2 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) Groovy
7 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Numerate Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) Grafana
2 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.79%) Control-M
4 1 (1.79%) Istio
4 1 (1.79%) Kiali
4 1 (1.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) Checkmarx
2 2 (3.57%) Splunk
2 2 (3.57%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.79%) xMatters