Lead Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 464 601
Rank change year-on-year +137 +137 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 16 2 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.008% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.009% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 23
10th Percentile £500 - £615
25th Percentile £703 £519 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +22.73%
75th Percentile £888 £556 £750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £825 £538 £675
% change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +10.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Java Engineer.

Lead Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Java Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Lead Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 15 (93.75%) Software Engineering
3 13 (81.25%) AWS
4 12 (75.00%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (75.00%) Apache Ignite
4 12 (75.00%) Dremio
4 12 (75.00%) dbt
4 12 (75.00%) Hedge funds
4 12 (75.00%) SciPy
4 12 (75.00%) NumPy
4 12 (75.00%) Protocol Buffers
4 12 (75.00%) TypeScript
4 12 (75.00%) Pandas
4 12 (75.00%) GCP
4 12 (75.00%) gRPC
4 12 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (75.00%) Banking
4 12 (75.00%) Asset Management
4 12 (75.00%) Investment Banking
4 12 (75.00%) Apache
4 12 (75.00%) Python
4 12 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (75.00%) Front Office
4 12 (75.00%) Finance
4 12 (75.00%) Fixed Income
4 12 (75.00%) Equities
4 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (75.00%) Derivative

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (75.00%) Apache
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) dbt
2 12 (75.00%) GCP
3 11 (68.75%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Ignite
1 12 (75.00%) Dremio
2 11 (68.75%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Mockito
General
1 12 (75.00%) Banking
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
1 12 (75.00%) Front Office
1 12 (75.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) gRPC
1 12 (75.00%) NumPy
1 12 (75.00%) Pandas
1 12 (75.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 12 (75.00%) SciPy
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Derivative
1 12 (75.00%) Equities
1 12 (75.00%) Fixed Income
1 12 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 12 (75.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
1 15 (93.75%) Software Engineering
2 12 (75.00%) Asset Management
3 11 (68.75%) Line Management
4 8 (50.00%) Investment Management
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Community of Practice
5 3 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (75.00%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared