Lead Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 446 493
Rank change year-on-year +61 +47 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 13 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.037% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.039% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 12
10th Percentile £480 £449 £500
25th Percentile £613 £522 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +24.32%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £731
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Midlands +42 7 £650 +13.04%
West Midlands +42 6 £650 +13.04%
North of England +32 4 £650 +13.04% 1
Yorkshire +22 3 £650 +13.04%
Scotland +35 1 £400 - 1
North West +17 1 £650 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £625 -
East of England - 1 £600 -
Lead Java Developer
UK

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Lead Java Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Coaching
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) Spring
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
5 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
5 3 (23.08%) React
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
6 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Law
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
6 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (15.38%) JUnit
6 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
6 2 (15.38%) Git
6 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (15.38%) JPA
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Coaching
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
6 1 (7.69%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Greenplum
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft