Lead Java Engineer Contracts

Lead Java Engineer
UK

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in the UK is £713 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 699 804
Rank change year-on-year +136 +105 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 20 6 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.010% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.011% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 32
10th Percentile £500 £464 £600
25th Percentile £553 £484 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +32.56% -20.37% +10.20%
75th Percentile £888 £622 £750
90th Percentile - £661 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £581 £623
% change year-on-year -13.98% -6.63% -10.30%

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 40,269 56,187 84,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,215 39,262 59,481
10th Percentile £276 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,567 2,094
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Top 8 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +128 16 £825 +53.49% 6
Work from Home +139 14 £825 +53.49% 5
London +117 14 £825 +83.33% 4
UK excluding London +60 5 £500 -13.98% 3
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England +15 1 £600 -4.00%
North West - 1 £500 - 1
North of England - 1 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Lead Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) Software Engineering
3 15 (75.00%) AWS
4 14 (70.00%) TypeScript
4 14 (70.00%) Agile
4 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (55.00%) Finance
6 10 (50.00%) gRPC
6 10 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (50.00%) Apache Ignite
6 10 (50.00%) Dremio
6 10 (50.00%) dbt
6 10 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
6 10 (50.00%) Pandas
6 10 (50.00%) GCP
6 10 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 10 (50.00%) Hedge funds
6 10 (50.00%) SciPy
6 10 (50.00%) NumPy
6 10 (50.00%) Derivative
6 10 (50.00%) Investment Banking
6 10 (50.00%) Front Office
6 10 (50.00%) Fixed Income
6 10 (50.00%) Equities
6 10 (50.00%) Banking
6 10 (50.00%) Asset Management
6 10 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (50.00%) Apache
6 10 (50.00%) Python

Lead Java Engineer 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 10 (50.00%) Apache
1 10 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) dbt
2 10 (50.00%) GCP
3 9 (45.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 10 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
1 10 (50.00%) Apache Ignite
1 10 (50.00%) Dremio
2 9 (45.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (15.00%) JUnit
1 3 (15.00%) Mockito
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Banking
2 10 (50.00%) Front Office
2 10 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) gRPC
1 10 (50.00%) NumPy
1 10 (50.00%) Pandas
1 10 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 10 (50.00%) SciPy
2 5 (25.00%) CSS
2 5 (25.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Derivative
1 10 (50.00%) Equities
1 10 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 10 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 10 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 9 (45.00%) Line Management
5 8 (40.00%) Investment Management
6 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (20.00%) LLM
7 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 3 (15.00%) Community of Practice
8 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
9 1 (5.00%) Data Architecture
9 1 (5.00%) DevOps
9 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
9 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (70.00%) TypeScript
3 10 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) C#
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana