Lead Java Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in England is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 645 749
Rank change year-on-year +120 +104 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 17 6 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.012% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.013% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 30
10th Percentile - £464 £596
25th Percentile £563 £484 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +10.20%
75th Percentile £888 £622 £750
90th Percentile - £661 £751
UK median daily rate £825 £538 £675
% change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +10.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in England

Lead Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Engineer in England

Lead Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Engineer in England

Lead Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +104 15 £825 +83.33% 5
East of England +8 1 £600 -4.00%
North West - 1 £500 - 1
North of England - 1 £500 - 1
Lead Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Lead Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
3 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
3 15 (88.24%) AWS
3 15 (88.24%) TypeScript
4 12 (70.59%) Agile
4 12 (70.59%) Finance
5 11 (64.71%) Fixed Income
5 11 (64.71%) Equities
5 11 (64.71%) Banking
5 11 (64.71%) Asset Management
5 11 (64.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (64.71%) Apache
5 11 (64.71%) Python
5 11 (64.71%) Derivative
5 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
5 11 (64.71%) Front Office
5 11 (64.71%) Hedge funds
5 11 (64.71%) SciPy
5 11 (64.71%) NumPy
5 11 (64.71%) Protocol Buffers
5 11 (64.71%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (64.71%) Pandas
5 11 (64.71%) GCP
5 11 (64.71%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (64.71%) Dremio
5 11 (64.71%) dbt
5 11 (64.71%) gRPC
5 11 (64.71%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (64.71%) Apache Arrow

Lead Java Engineer 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 11 (64.71%) Apache
1 11 (64.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) dbt
2 11 (64.71%) GCP
3 10 (58.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Amazon Athena
1 11 (64.71%) Apache Arrow
1 11 (64.71%) Apache Ignite
1 11 (64.71%) Dremio
2 10 (58.82%) Data Lake
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 11 (64.71%) Front Office
2 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) gRPC
1 11 (64.71%) NumPy
1 11 (64.71%) Pandas
1 11 (64.71%) Protocol Buffers
1 11 (64.71%) SciPy
2 5 (29.41%) CSS
2 5 (29.41%) React
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
3 4 (23.53%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Derivative
1 11 (64.71%) Equities
1 11 (64.71%) Fixed Income
1 11 (64.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 11 (64.71%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Asset Management
4 10 (58.82%) Line Management
5 8 (47.06%) Investment Management
6 5 (29.41%) Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
7 4 (23.53%) LLM
7 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 1 (5.88%) Data Architecture
9 1 (5.88%) DevOps
9 1 (5.88%) Identity Management
9 1 (5.88%) Load Balancing
9 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
9 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.88%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
2 15 (88.24%) TypeScript
3 11 (64.71%) Python
4 4 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana