Lead Java Developer Contracts in London

Lead Java Developer
England > London

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in London is £750, 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 324 372 464
Rank change year-on-year +48 +92 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 29 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 20
10th Percentile £515 - £563
25th Percentile £594 £650 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £825 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £813 £888 £841
90th Percentile £834 - £925
England median daily rate £638 £650 £630
% change year-on-year -1.92% +3.17% -8.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in London

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in London

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in London

Lead Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +4 2 £638 -14.29%
Lead Java Developer
England

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

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 London region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (62.07%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (62.07%) TDD
3 17 (58.62%) BDD
3 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
4 16 (55.17%) Agile
5 15 (51.72%) AWS
6 12 (41.38%) Azure
6 12 (41.38%) Redis
6 12 (41.38%) Kafka
6 12 (41.38%) Microservices
6 12 (41.38%) Spring
6 12 (41.38%) JUnit
7 11 (37.93%) Degree
7 11 (37.93%) Computer Science
7 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (37.93%) DevOps
7 11 (37.93%) Spring Boot
7 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (34.48%) Architectural Design
8 10 (34.48%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (34.48%) Swagger
8 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (34.48%) OpenAPI
8 10 (34.48%) Mathematics
8 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
8 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
8 10 (34.48%) Banking
8 10 (34.48%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (34.48%) Investment Banking

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (17.24%) Confluence
2 4 (13.79%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.34%) JBoss
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Slack
5 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (41.38%) Redis
3 8 (27.59%) MySQL
4 7 (24.14%) MongoDB
5 5 (17.24%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (10.34%) Neo4j
6 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) JUnit
2 9 (31.03%) Git
3 8 (27.59%) JIRA
4 6 (20.69%) Cucumber
5 5 (17.24%) Jasmine
6 4 (13.79%) Maven
6 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
7 3 (10.34%) Gradle
7 3 (10.34%) IntelliJ
7 3 (10.34%) Selenium
8 2 (6.90%) Eclipse
8 2 (6.90%) Mockito
8 2 (6.90%) TestNG
9 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
9 1 (3.45%) ScalaTest
9 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 10 (34.48%) Investment Banking
4 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (17.24%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) Kafka
1 12 (41.38%) Spring
2 11 (37.93%) Spring Boot
3 10 (34.48%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (34.48%) OpenAPI
3 10 (34.48%) Swagger
4 7 (24.14%) RESTful
5 5 (17.24%) JSP
5 5 (17.24%) Spring Batch
5 5 (17.24%) Spring Security
6 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
6 4 (13.79%) REST
7 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.34%) Java Concurrency
7 3 (10.34%) LDAP
7 3 (10.34%) Struts
8 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (6.90%) HTML
8 2 (6.90%) JWT
8 2 (6.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.34%) Derivative
2 3 (10.34%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) TDD
2 17 (58.62%) BDD
3 16 (55.17%) Agile
4 12 (41.38%) Microservices
5 11 (37.93%) Computer Science
5 11 (37.93%) DevOps
5 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (34.48%) Architectural Design
6 10 (34.48%) Economics
6 10 (34.48%) Mathematics
7 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.69%) API Design
8 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (17.24%) OWASP
9 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
10 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Scala
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 10 (34.48%) Numerate Degree
2 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk