Lead Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Lead Java Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 152 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.038% 0.060% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
England median daily rate £575 £538 £630
% change year-on-year +6.98% -14.68% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,857 3,057 4,584
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.22% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,140 1,880 2,945
10th Percentile £223 £230 £259
25th Percentile £375 £360 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £476
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.73% -4.90%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £581
90th Percentile £650 £650 £668
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 130 361
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.35 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.26 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -27.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.33 £57.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -12.50%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Lead Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lead Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Java Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Java Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Lead Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire -57 1 £500 -4.76% 1
North West - 1 - - 2
Lead Java Engineer
England

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 February 2026, Lead Java Engineer 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 North of England region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Release Train
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Release Train
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker