Lead Java Developer Contracts

Lead Java Developer
UK

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 667 777
Rank change year-on-year +107 +110 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 34 49 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.082% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.087% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 51
10th Percentile £593 £561 £550
25th Percentile £625 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £888 £738 £750
90th Percentile - £891 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +13.04% - +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +110 32 £650 +3.17% 11
London +96 18 £825 +22.22% 6
Work from Home +120 17 £825 +37.50% 6
UK excluding London +71 15 £650 +13.04% 6
Midlands +33 7 £650 +13.04%
West Midlands +36 6 £650 +13.04%
North of England +35 6 £650 +13.04% 2
Yorkshire +25 4 £650 +13.04%
North West +24 2 £650 - 2
Scotland +34 1 £400 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £625 -
East of England - 1 £600 -

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (73.53%) Agile
3 20 (58.82%) Software Engineering
4 17 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 16 (47.06%) AWS
6 15 (44.12%) Microservices
7 13 (38.24%) Finance
8 12 (35.29%) Spring
8 12 (35.29%) GCP
8 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
9 11 (32.35%) Coaching
9 11 (32.35%) DevOps
9 11 (32.35%) JavaScript
10 10 (29.41%) Banking
10 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
10 10 (29.41%) Docker
10 10 (29.41%) Spring Boot
11 9 (26.47%) gRPC
11 9 (26.47%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (26.47%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (26.47%) Apache Ignite
11 9 (26.47%) dbt
11 9 (26.47%) Dremio
11 9 (26.47%) Apache Arrow
11 9 (26.47%) Hedge funds
11 9 (26.47%) SciPy
11 9 (26.47%) NumPy
11 9 (26.47%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (26.47%) Pandas
11 9 (26.47%) Relational Database

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (26.47%) Apache
1 9 (26.47%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 12 (35.29%) GCP
3 9 (26.47%) dbt
4 8 (23.53%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.82%) Azure
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (26.47%) Apache Arrow
1 9 (26.47%) Apache Ignite
1 9 (26.47%) Dremio
1 9 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (26.47%) Relational Database
2 8 (23.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Git
2 8 (23.53%) JUnit
3 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Banking
3 9 (26.47%) Front Office
3 9 (26.47%) Investment Banking
4 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) Spring
2 10 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 9 (26.47%) gRPC
3 9 (26.47%) NumPy
3 9 (26.47%) Pandas
3 9 (26.47%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (26.47%) SciPy
4 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
4 8 (23.53%) JPA
4 8 (23.53%) REST
5 7 (20.59%) React
6 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.88%) Spring Security
7 1 (2.94%) CSS
7 1 (2.94%) HTML
7 1 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Derivative
1 9 (26.47%) Equities
1 9 (26.47%) Fixed Income
1 9 (26.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 9 (26.47%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) Agile
2 20 (58.82%) Software Engineering
3 15 (44.12%) Microservices
4 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
5 11 (32.35%) Coaching
5 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 9 (26.47%) Asset Management
6 9 (26.47%) Scrum
7 8 (23.53%) High Availability
7 8 (23.53%) Investment Management
7 8 (23.53%) Line Management
7 8 (23.53%) Unit Testing
8 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
9 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
9 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (8.82%) SOLID
10 3 (8.82%) TDD
10 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 11 (32.35%) JavaScript
4 9 (26.47%) Python
5 2 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Greenplum
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
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