Lead Java Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Java Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in London is £800, 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 350 378 489
Rank change year-on-year +28 +111 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 3 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.073% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.078% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 1
10th Percentile £565 £563 -
25th Percentile £644 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £825 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +83.33% -34.55%
75th Percentile £825 £888 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £663 £825 £538
% change year-on-year -19.70% +53.49% -20.37%

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 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Batch
2 2 (66.67%) Jasmine
2 2 (66.67%) Kernel Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) Slack
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Security
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability

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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Slack
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jasmine
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Batch
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Security
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
3 1 (33.33%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Kernel Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google