Lead Java Developer Jobs in England

Lead Java Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Developer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 639 733 844
Rank change year-on-year +94 +111 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 9 89 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 89 99
10th Percentile - £67,250 £50,000
25th Percentile - £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £95,625 £142,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £165,000 £125,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in England

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Java Developer in England

Lead Java Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +55 5 - - 9
South East +101 2 £90,000 +12.50% 7
North of England +81 2 £97,500 +8.33%
North West +27 1 £105,000 +16.67%
Yorkshire - 1 £90,000 -
Lead Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead Java Developer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) Docker
2 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (77.78%) AWS
4 5 (55.56%) REST
4 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
5 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) Microservices
6 3 (33.33%) Solace
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
6 3 (33.33%) MVC
6 3 (33.33%) JSON
6 3 (33.33%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
6 3 (33.33%) Spring
6 3 (33.33%) Mule
6 3 (33.33%) Git
6 3 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (33.33%) Oracle
6 3 (33.33%) SOAP
6 3 (33.33%) Web Services
6 3 (33.33%) XML
6 3 (33.33%) Tomcat

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (33.33%) Mule
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Coherence
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 3 (33.33%) JSON
2 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) Middleware
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) WebSockets
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
1 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Distributed Cache
3 2 (22.22%) Fintech
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (33.33%) XQuery
4 2 (22.22%) C
4 2 (22.22%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Solace