Lead Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Lead Java Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 245 163 205
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 93.14% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 138 157
10th Percentile £347 £262 £308
25th Percentile £393 £349 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £540 £483 £550
90th Percentile £588 £537 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £431 £410
% change year-on-year +7.25% +5.18% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 19
10th Percentile - £16.04 £10.90
25th Percentile £14.13 £19.48 £11.83
Median hourly rate £21.35 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +52.79% -26.37%
75th Percentile £25.50 £29.79 £35.00
90th Percentile £36.98 £44.92 £57.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £23.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -22.30% +31.43% -15.05%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Lead Java Developer job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Lead Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Northampton - 1 £402 -
Lead Java Developer
East Midlands

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes