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 £525, 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 325 385 453
Rank change year-on-year +60 +68 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 11 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.067% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.073% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 4
10th Percentile £462 £495 £449
25th Percentile £505 £625 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £554 £675 £588
90th Percentile £617 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
North of England +18 5 £525 -19.23%
Yorkshire +8 4 £525 -19.23%
Midlands +19 3 £539 -17.06% 1
West Midlands +11 3 £539 -17.06% 1
North West +17 2 £563 -13.46%
Scotland +14 2 £468 +16.88%
South East - 1 £638 - 7
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 1 May 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
3 8 (72.73%) Microservices
3 8 (72.73%) Spring Boot
4 6 (54.55%) Docker
4 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) SOAP
5 5 (45.45%) BDD
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) RESTful
6 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (36.36%) SQL
7 3 (27.27%) Web Services
7 3 (27.27%) JUnit
7 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (27.27%) Maven
7 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) Node.js
7 3 (27.27%) REST
7 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
7 3 (27.27%) Jest
7 3 (27.27%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 2 (18.18%) Grafana
8 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
8 2 (18.18%) API Integration
8 2 (18.18%) React

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Solr
1 1 (9.09%) Camunda
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Route 53
2 1 (9.09%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) DbUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Jasmine
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) jMock
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Spring
2 8 (72.73%) Spring Boot
3 5 (45.45%) SOAP
4 4 (36.36%) RESTful
5 3 (27.27%) Jest
5 3 (27.27%) Node.js
5 3 (27.27%) REST
5 3 (27.27%) Web Services
6 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) JPA
6 2 (18.18%) React
6 2 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (9.09%) Ajax
7 1 (9.09%) JAX-WS
7 1 (9.09%) PowerMock
7 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
7 1 (9.09%) Spring Integration
7 1 (9.09%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 2 (18.18%) API Development
6 2 (18.18%) API Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 1 (9.09%) Kanban
7 1 (9.09%) OWASP
7 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
7 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Postfix
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media