Lead Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Lead Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in Manchester is £571, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 80 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.32% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £570 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
North West median daily rate £571 £563 -
% change year-on-year +1.51% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,456 889 1,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 94.07% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 637 1,065
10th Percentile £313 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £460 £468 £498
% change year-on-year -1.66% -5.98% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 41 83
10th Percentile £19.34 £13.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £22.68 £16.06 £13.31
Median hourly rate £52.94 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.88% +20.37% -31.65%
75th Percentile £74.06 £60.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.78 £73.75 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.52 £26.39
% change year-on-year +42.77% +19.44% -14.17%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Lead Java Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Lead Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Docker
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (20.00%) GitLab

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Service Design
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media