Lead Java Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Java Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in London is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 485 573
Rank change year-on-year +106 +88 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 15 4 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.085% 0.015% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.016% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 25
10th Percentile £563 - £600
25th Percentile £663 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -33.33% +22.73%
75th Percentile £888 - £750
90th Percentile - - £753
England median daily rate £825 £538 £675
% change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +10.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in London

Lead Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Engineer in London

Lead Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Engineer in London

Lead Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
West London - 4 £575 -
Lead Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 London region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 11 (73.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 11 (73.33%) Apache Arrow
2 11 (73.33%) Pandas
2 11 (73.33%) GCP
2 11 (73.33%) gRPC
2 11 (73.33%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (73.33%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (73.33%) Apache Ignite
2 11 (73.33%) Dremio
2 11 (73.33%) dbt
2 11 (73.33%) Hedge funds
2 11 (73.33%) SciPy
2 11 (73.33%) NumPy
2 11 (73.33%) Investment Banking
2 11 (73.33%) Derivative
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Banking
2 11 (73.33%) Asset Management
2 11 (73.33%) Front Office
2 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 11 (73.33%) Fixed Income
2 11 (73.33%) Equities
2 11 (73.33%) Apache
2 11 (73.33%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Lead Java Engineer 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 11 (73.33%) Apache
1 11 (73.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (73.33%) dbt
2 11 (73.33%) GCP
3 10 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) Amazon Athena
1 11 (73.33%) Apache Arrow
1 11 (73.33%) Apache Ignite
1 11 (73.33%) Dremio
2 10 (66.67%) Data Lake
General
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
1 11 (73.33%) Front Office
1 11 (73.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) gRPC
1 11 (73.33%) NumPy
1 11 (73.33%) Pandas
1 11 (73.33%) Protocol Buffers
1 11 (73.33%) SciPy
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (26.67%) CSS
2 4 (26.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Derivative
1 11 (73.33%) Equities
1 11 (73.33%) Fixed Income
1 11 (73.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 11 (73.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Asset Management
3 10 (66.67%) Line Management
4 8 (53.33%) Investment Management
5 5 (33.33%) Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (26.67%) LLM
6 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 1 (6.67%) Data Architecture
7 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 1 (6.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 11 (73.33%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) Scala